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Newsroom CMS

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As you may recall from a previous post (I'm In The News), I have a client that has asked for a fairly simple CMS to publish their daily news. Currently, they have no CMS and more importantly, they have no archiving and the website is built by hand two times a day. In addition to there not being a CMS, there is also no way to publish the next days edition unless someone is sitting at the controls and does it manually.

In a day and age of many open source CMSs, it baffled my mind to no end why a very large company didn't have a system in place that would provide this functionality. After working with the developers and content editors for a while, it dawned on me why there has never been a good solution. The products on the market today simply aren't customizable enough.

This lead me to create something that the client is absolutely in love with, and I had a great deal of fun creating. Although this isn't as much of a product as it is a service offering, I've created Newsroom CMS. I'm sure your shocked at the cleverness of the name, but regardless it hits on the one point I was trying to make. There is a CMS designed specifically for newsrooms that have to deal with deadlines.

Here are some of the initial features that I wanted the offering to have.

• Multiple authors can contribute

• Customizable data fields

• Ability for comments to be received and the ability to turn them on or off

• Built in archiving

• Easy navigation

• Intuitive user interface

• WYSIWYG integration

• RSS Generation

• Polling (Live Feedback)

• Clean separation of content from presentation

• etc...

Well I'm proud to announce that Newsroom CMS not only accomplished all of those, but it even added some features. In addition to the above we have:

• Image management (ability to auto generate thumbnails and galleries)

• Breaking News module

• Customizable User Profiles

• Multiple Blog and User Management

• Client Branding

• Support

Yes, you read that right, we are now offering support the customizations, but we are also offering user training. In the next few days I will post the url for the new offering, which I am very excited about. The feedback we have gotten so far is incredible, and we hope you find the offering something worthwhile.

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