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KnowledgeView Makes Multi-Publishing Easy
Tuesday 05. August 2008 - - We Help Publishers Extend Their Reach and Circulation - We Cater for the Needs of the Millions of Publishers-Consumers, the Pubsumers!
RAPID Browser, used by more than 40 media groups and 4000 journalists, now allows for:
– One-click rich-media publishing to Web, Mobile and TV
– Powerful Web-based news Playlists authoring and publishing
– Super-fast and super-easy news filter creation and searching
– Custom editorial and archive news types
– Laying the foundations for cross-media editorial planning
KnowledgeView announces significant upgrades of RAPID Browser and RAPID Archive, tailored for multi-publishing by media groups wanting to extend their reach, increase circulation and consolidate their editorial.
RAPID Browser, and its various modules, starting with the new RAPID Editor, provides the foundations for an easy to use editorial planning system for multi-publishing. Being built from the ground up on open system Web foundations, it allows for distributed editorial work across several editorial centers and for editorial sharing across different production systems.
What is new in RAPID Browser 1.6.2
RAPID Browser 1.6.2, released in July, has significant new features asked for by our publishing customers, which include:
1. We have introduced a new module, RAPID Editor, an easy to use Web-based authoring tool of RAPID Browser, designed for convergent Newsrooms. RAPID Editor allows journalists to multi-publish individual items or news packages to paper, Web, mobile and TV & Radio. The packaged items can be text, photo, audio and video, or even Playlists of items and packages.
The ability to create custom editorial items opens a whole new dimension for RAPID Browser to be used for editing different media story and content types.
2. Navigating and narrowing filters with search. Searching within news filters is now super fast and easy to do, thanks to two new features in RAPID Browser: On any filter page, you may enter a keyword or search expression into the new input box next to the filter name. This filter-narrowing facility makes it easy for users to make many more searches, and you are able now to navigate within any filter, whatever the number of items for that filter.
3. Workflow stage and actions made easily visible. A new icon has been added to the filters view, next to each item in the workflow to make it much easier to find out about the work done on a story, Clicking on this icon shows you the key information about the story:
1. Current collection
2. Stage (the Group of the owner of the collection,
e.g. economy, layout, proofing)
3. Status (e.g. placed, complete)
Followed by time-stamped detail of the two most recent actions, and of the first editorial action that triggered creation of the story.
4. Powerful RAPID Browser plug-in for Adobe InDesign. Major enhancements on the InDesign plug-in greatly improve productivity and allow for easy archive back of page elements, with page PDF files and jpeg preview files, for validation by librarians into RAPID Archive.
5. News Playlists authoring and management. Designed for TV and radio work, journalists can now create a Playlists and programme lists of items to be broadcast or streamed to mobile and Web. Being Web-based a journalist can create Playlists of a news programme in one city, allowing his colleagues to broadcast from another.
6. Notification and alerts. A FireFox Web browser extension has been developed that will give a desktop notification whenever an item is created or updated matching such an alert.
Like a “You have mail” notification this can be used to set alerts on important items – e.g. those arriving in ‘My Items’ with a status “Change requested”. If the My Items filter is active, the alert will appear even if you are not watching the filter.
Further, an icon in the toolbar of FireFox will show the number of items that have appeared since the icon was last clicked to clear the count. Useful if you are in a meeting or otherwise engaged.
Another use of this is for personal messaging: messages can be written simply as text items and sent to the recipient’s collection, or a common group message box. Users can be given alerts to match the messages sent to them – and can now receive notifications of incoming messages.
7. Handling Word and html as text. RAPID Browser can now display in the body of stories text extracted from indexed Word, RTF and HTML documents which are acquired and loaded from emails and can be viewed and edited as text.