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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.

eMedia Professional Certification Program Raffle

Don't let anyone tell you there is no such thing as a free lunch...(in fact, we have them once a month at the office but I digress) or in this case...a free eMedia Professional Certification.

IDEAlliance just launched its eMedia Professional Certification (EMPC) program. This program is offered in four distinct blocks of courses. Each block comprises a series of webinars that covers a range of topics related to eMedia Publishing, including

• eMedia Workflows’ Impact on Organizational Structure and Partner Relationships
• Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies and Ontologies
• XML Under the Hood: What Everyone Should Know
• Which XML Workflow Really Works?
• Integrating DAM and Content Management

This program runs from March through November. All classes will be recorded so publishing professionals can join at any time. 

The entire session costs $1800 but Really Strategies is raffling off one free pass to any individual who provides the most compelling reason why he/she should win. Yes this is not at all scientific but that means you can be as creative as you want to be.

Either submit a comment below, including a valid email address so I can contact you OR send me an email with your contact information.

More info on the program is located here.

Three Webinars Publishers Should Attend

We are excited to announce the Really Strategies' Wednesday Webinar Series....

How to Make the Business Case for a CMS in Your Organization
February 17, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST
Publishers understand that content management is a pivotal piece in today's publishing environment. Yet budgeting for a CMS initiative can quickly scale to the point where executives question why they should stray from the status quo. In this free webinar, Barry Bealer, CEO of Really Strategies, will lead a panel of publishing professionals who will discuss how they made their business case and got executive buy-in for content management in their organizations.

Panelists include

• Anthony Barrera, Head of Internal Systems Development, Nature Publishing Group
• Allison Risko, VP, Learning Services, Kaplan EduNeering
• Mark Hoeber, Documentation Manager, Unica Corporation

>> Click here to register

DITA for Publishers: How Publishers Can Really Do XML
March 10, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST
DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering information. Publishers are starting to take DITA seriously. And if they aren’t, they should be. This panel session will introduce DITA for publishers, the basic publishing-specific DITA components that are completely generic, and how DITA can really be the tool-set that launches publishers into the XML world.

In this free webinar DITA guru and contributor to the DITA specification, Eliot Kimber, senior solutions architect at Really Strategies, will present DITA for Publishers and provide details about his new community-based, open-source project: DITA For Publishers (dita4publishers.sourceforge.net).
>> Click here to register

How RSuite Helped The MIT Press Transform Its Publishing Operation
April 7, 2010 | 2:00 to 3:00 PM EST
The MIT Press publishes approximately 200 new books a year and over 40 journals. MIT Press has a major publishing presence in fields as diverse as architecture, social theory, economics, cognitive science, and computational science, as well as a long-term commitment to both design excellence and the efficient and creative use of new technologies. To maximize content re-use and to overhaul its entire publishing division, the MIT Press outlined a CMS strategy to lead its books and journals division into the new decade. RSuite along with complementary technologies were selected as the solution at MIT Press.
>> Click here to register

2009 RSuite User Conference: In the books

By all accounts the 2009 RSuite User Conference held last week in Philly was a success. We were fortunate to have over 125 guests attend this year which included three tracks (business, technical, and DocZone).

Opening Keynote (After You Implement a CMS). Howard Ratner, CTO Nature Publishing Group is a great keynote speaker. Not only does he provoke thought around content management, but he definitely challenges the status quo. Many thanks to Howard for starting the day with a stimulating presentation.

Technically Speaking. The RSuite technical track highlighted the open architecture, workflow, transformation utilities, user interface extensions, reports, and custom searches. I’m sure by the end of the day the folks in the technical track were raising their hands saying “can I leave now, my brain if full!” The engineering team mixed up the presentations with live demonstrations which I think helped solidify the concepts being presented.

Honest Client Presentations. Presentations that puff up vendors drive me crazy. I am happy to report that the client presentations in the business track were straight forward and did not beat around the bush. Some of our RSuite projects were hard, very hard, but we successfully completed them and our clients would not be in front of the audience if they did not believe in the product or our company. Many thanks to Cengage Learning, Kaplan Eduneering, MIT Press, CQ Press, and The American Society for Training & Development for sharing their success stories.

So much to see, so little time. I was pleasantly surprised to see a number of people jump between different client case studies, technical sessions and DocZone sessions.

DocZone’s First Meeting. Our DocZone team pulled off a great first user conference meeting. The client case studies from Unica Corporation, Kyocera, and Epson were very well received, and the roundtable discussion on DocZone DITA provided a look under the hood of how DocZone manages content.

Closing Keynote (The New Speed of Publishing). Jason Monberg, VP of Product Management for Mark Logic provided the audience with one large dilemma: The gap between content contributor and content consumer is shrinking very fast – so what are you going to do as a publisher? Talk about feeling the pressure? Jason was spot on with his presentation and I think provided some good topics for the cocktail hour. A big thank you to Jason.

Thanks to all of those who attended and we’ll see everyone in 2010!

Jason Monberg, VP, Product Management from Mark Logic to give closing keynote at RSuite User Conference

Jason Monberg, Vice President of Product Management, from Mark Logic will be the closing keynote speaker at our upcoming RSuite User Conference on Tuesday, October 6^th in Philadelphia.  Jason is well known in the software industry as an innovator and strategic thinker.  The title of his presentation is The New Speed of Publishing - description here.  I think Jason’s topic is timely in our current climate and he will definitely stimulate conversation going into the cocktail reception.  I hope you can join us and enjoy Jason's presentation.  To register, go here.