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Anygraaf debuts new ePlanner features
Wednesday 02. January 2008 - Web Content Management System now includes forums, polls, community tools and more
Improving the users experience is the goal of the latest version of Anygraafs ePlanner web content management system, recently premiered at IFRA Expo.
The newest version of ePlanner enhances both a publishers experience managing the site and its readers experience using it, particularly in areas supporting community journalism and other outreach and reader participation activities.
Among the newest features to the system, which integrates with Anygraafs Doris32 asset management and publishing production system, are enhanced polls and results reporting, automatic news-feed posting, site archiving, banner ad management, statistics tracking, image and video galleries, and the inclusion of forums for discussions, comments and blogs. Also announced is enhanced support for citizen and community journalism, outreach and reader participation activities where groups and or individuals can post and manage content including allowing readers to push back to the newsroom content including articles, images and video and audio clips for use on the website and print products.
Several new maintenance features are also included in the latest version of ePlanner. Among these are online maintenance of discussion forums, ability to maintain multiple site versions, maintenance of content archives and management of content for online-only products. In addition, Anygraafs eSales module integrates with ePlanner to provide subscription-based access control to a sites features.
Karjalainen, a daily newspaper in Eastern Finland, has been managing their website live with ePlanner since June 2007. Additionally, the Finnish newspapers Länsi-Savo and Ita-Savo recently selected ePlanner to manage their websites. ePlanner will be integrated with other Anygraaf tools including the Doris32 asset management and publishing production system and ePaper. Implementation is planned to take place during the first quarter of 2008.