Front & Finish is the leading magazine for those competing in obedience competitions worldwide. This WordPress based online magazine replaces a flip-book style online version as well as Front and Finish’s print version. It features a membership subscription model with automatic subscribe and unsubscribe (Phttp://onlinemagazinepublishing.com/wp-admin/edit.phpayPal) and membership gateway. A new visitor typically sees teaser text [...]
How your magazine looks on an iPad with the free Pulse app
If you publish a magazine online and want your readers to be able to read it on an ipad along with their other news, magazine, and blog stories… encourage them to install the free Pulse iPad app. It makes reading on the iPad a joy and your magazine will look state of the art.
YouTube removes 15 minute time limit on videos
This is big. If you publish video content to your readership you don’t have to worry about uploading long presentations, interviews, etc. Do you have any CD or DVD content that might be great in your magazine? Also, remember YouTube gives you some decent editing ability right online. Find out more at YouTube.com
We are sending out invitations to the closed beta
It’s here and the invitations are going out. Closed beta means IssueManager™ is being released to a smaller group to use and (hopefully) provide feedback. If you are interested in putting your issuebased magazine or newsletter online, now is the time to request an invitation to jump in and play, use, and leverage your publication [...]
Adding teaser text and crediting your author
IssueManager offers the ability to add some teaser text to each article in the navigation. This encourages the reader to click your story link and pull up the entire story. You also have the ability to credit each author with a byline. Have a look at the 2 images to see how it works.
The Washington Post is going iPad crazy
Entertaining and telling, the Washington Post has come up with perhaps the best promo we have seen for an iPad app. Looks like the future of publishing is clear?
Pay walls are coming back?
News Corp. said Tuesday that it had attracted 105,000 paying customers to the digital versions of The Times and The Sunday Times of London since it started charging for access to their Web sites in June. Read the full article… This is good news for publishers especially if you are catering to a niche audience. [...]
Turnkey publishing solution in alpha
What’s an alpha? It means we are internally testing our new WordPress based instant online magazine/newsletter solution (IssueManager™). We are creating new publications and adding all sort of fake content to find and squash bugs, and improve the experience for the new user. It’s going well now and we are very close to beta but [...]
See how a magazine promotes their archives
We thought this was a pretty cool way to show off the new AtlantisRisingMagazine.com archives! This image (below) was part of the pdf teaser for their online magazine. It features: all the archives available the ability to easily browse each archive issue the ability to quickly search through ALL the old issues and the ability to leave [...]
More info on the IssueManager™ cloud service
ontrackmedia asked me for some more info on our IssueManager launch so here is some perspective on what we are doing: A couple of years ago we started up DartmouthEngineer.com which needed a way to put their print magazine online in an issue based format. DartmouthAlumniMagazine.com came next with more refinements to handle their issues… [...]
