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RSuite, Google, and 150 Publishing Executives

The 2010 RSuite user conference by all accounts was a success.  If the barometer for success was having standing room only sessions, thought provoking technical sessions, and client case studies that made several people mumur "I wish we could do that", then I think we had a successful conference.

Special thanks goes out to our clients ASTD (Anthony Allen), Wolters Kluwer (Mike Rosiak),  Oxford University Press (Jess Lawson), and Upper Room Ministries (Terrie Thompson)  who provided in-depth overviews of their RSuite solutions and for fielding great questions from the audience. 

We also need to acknowledge Andrew Littell from the Google Books who provided a good overview of the Google Books and Editions programs.  The keynote by Andrew was enlightening and provided the opportunity for the audience to ask some tough questions.  The banter between Andrew and the audience was entertaining as both sides recognized that Google could only discuss the Editions program up to a point since it has not launched.

Conference Coverage:

For those of you who missed the conference, you can review the Twitter coverage here.  Another special thanks to Jill O'Neil from NFAIS who was the official Tweeter of the event.

Well known industry analyst John Blossom captured some thoughts on two user conference sessions:

1. Upper Room Ministries
2. Google Keynote

 Thanks to everyone who attended! See you next year.

RSuite User Conference: How is Google Editions going to impact your publishing organization?

The Google Books Partner Program and Google Editions is growing and evolving at an astounding rate. Come hear keynote speaker Andrew Littell, strategic partner development manager for Google, share his insights and vision of Google Books Partner Program and Google Editions. He'll detail what publishers need to understand now and plan for the future.

Come join over 100 publishing executives at the RSuite CMS User Conference on October 20, 2010 in Philadelphia to hear more RSuite success stories and network with industry leaders - http://www.rsuitecms.com/2010userconf.htm

RSuite User Conference: Multi-Channel Publishing at the American Society for Training and Development

ASTD is making remarkable strides at improving its internal publishing workflow and content management with RSuite. In this spotlight session, Anthony Allen, director of digital media at ASTD, presents the workflow expansion framework he has developed to publish content for print outlets, the iPad, Kindle, Nook, and websites. He’ll show how RSuite enables ASTD to produce custom training material for sales staff within 1 hour.

Come join over 100 publishing executives at the RSuite CMS User Conference on October 20, 2010 in Philadelphia to hear more RSuite success stories and network with industry leaders - http://www.rsuitecms.com/2010userconf.htm

RSuite User Conference: How a medical publisher convinced 1,000 authors to work in XML

Medical publishing giant Wolters Kluwer Health required a content management system for its highly profitable 5-Minute Clinical Consult series to streamline delivery of content to multiple output channels, facilitate re-use, automate workflow, etc. But here’s the rub---Wolters Kluwer Health actually has more than 1,000 authors and reviewers working in XML. Yes, that’s right! In this client spotlight, Mike Rosiak, lead content architect at Wolters Kluwer Health, details how subject matter experts stay focused on the content while kicking off an XML-first workflow. 

Come join over 100 publishing executives at the RSuite CMS User Conference on October 20, 2010 in Philadelphia to hear more RSuite success stories and network with industry leaders - http://www.rsuitecms.com/2010userconf.htm

Chris Palma from Google Books To Keynote RSuite User Conference

Chris Palma is Strategic Partner Development Manager for Google, where he is responsible for Google Books partnerships in the Western U.S., India, Australia, and New Zealand. The Google Books Partner Program now has over 30,000 publisher partners world-wide, representing over 2 million full-text books discoverable from the Google index in over 70 international domains.

At the RSuite User Conference, Mr. Palma will share his insights and vision of Google Books Partner Program and Google Editions, detailing what publishers need to understand now and plan for the future and how this impacts content management at publishing organizations of all sizes.

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Two new webinars announced - Pay-Per-Page Publishing Service & Semantic Enrichment

Start > Automate > Create!
Pay-Per-Page^TM push-button publishing
September 22, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST

Are offshore conversion services unreliable?   Can you deliver content to the iPad without additional time and conversion costs? Want to re-use your content without paying your vendor to do it?

Join us for this free webinar and learn how some of the industry’s leading publishers are using Really Strategies, Pay-Per-Page Publishing Service to automate workflow from authoring through production. 

Starting with Word manuscripts and importing into the XML-based Pay-Per-Page Publishing System, we’ll see how publishers like Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group and the National Book Network are using this service to achieve

• Push-button publishing to print, iPad, and the web
• A streamlined and automated production workflow
• Multi-output formats from a single source
• Auto-indexing from tagged entries
• And more...

“It’s not rocket science!”
Applying CMS and semantic enrichment to transform book publishing
September 29, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST

As published in Gilbane’s recent Blueprint for Book Publishing Transformation report, “ebooks are real, Virginia.” But it’s not simply ebooks that publishers must consider to transform book publishing processes, it’s the entire digital publishing landscape and the tools, processes, and people that support this dynamic landscape.  No matter the output (there are many) and no matter the reading device (there are many of those too), publishers require the proper ground work to achieve digital production and publication. Content management and semantic enrichment are two of the most important places for publishers to lay the foundation.

In this free webinar, Jabin White, Director of Strategic Content at Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education, shares his approach to building the proper infrastructure to achieve a digital workflow and transform book publishing to provide readers the content they want, when they need it, and in whatever format on whatever device. Hint: “It’s not rocket science.”

Additional panelists include Mike Sherlock, Program Manager at Really Strategies, Inc. who provides insights on best practices and approach and Jake Zarnegar from Silverchair who will discuss leveraging semantically-enriched content in product and application development.

RSuite User Conference registration is open

Registration is now open for the RSuite User Conference this fall.

We'll kick off the conference with a publishers' reception on October 19th from 6 to 8 pm followed by a full day of exciting conference events.

Click here for more information and to register.

Save the date > > October 19 & 20 > > RSuite User Conference 2010

The 2010 RSuite User Conference is scheduled for October 19 and 20 at The Hub Cira Centre in Philadelphia, PA.

More details to come...

Where publishers, librarians, and the counter culture meet content management...

SSP 2010 > Booth 218 | June 2 to 4

RSuite by Really Strategies, Inc. is going to California for the Society for Scholarly Publishing's 32nd Annual Meeting. 

Come see a demo of our award-winning software for publishers and enter our raffle.

We're giving away some unusual booth prizes this year and will have copies of our new white paper, "DITA for Publishers: How Publishers Can Really Do XML."

Click here to schedule your demo.

Free webinar highlighting DocZone DITA

How DocZone is helping Unica Corporation to achieve new production milestones and single-source publishing
May 12, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST

With more than 1000 customers worldwide, Unica selected DocZone for authoring, managing, translating, and publishing DITA content. Unica used XML/DITA during content production and needed an efficient, scalable solution to facilitate productivity and adherence to these standards.

Learn more and register here.