Monday, May 04, 2009

New Media

On Thursday, April 30, the Department of Communications (that is, PR and Publications) at the Georgia Museum of Art attended a "Lunch and Learn" session organized by the Webmaster Developers Group on the UGA Campus that focused on Nxtbook Media, a digital publishing service that creates embeddable, emailable, archivable Flash versions of publications from PDFs. Nxtbook is a snazzier version of Issuu, which we've been using already, as with our newsletter below.



Issuu doesn't have as many features as Nxtbook, but it's free, at least for the moment, and it's allowing us to put up more publications online. We've embedded the newsletter on our homepage, and we'd like to keep pushing forward into digital publishing. It's not the approach we'd like to take for our catalogues, but for smaller brochures, newsletters, and possibly out-of-print books, we'd like to keep making use of it. Let us know if there's anything else you'd like us to use Issuu for and if you've enjoyed what we've posted so far.
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2 comments:

  1. Unknown1:18 PM

    Thanks for attending the Nxtbook presentation and more supporting the digital publication industry as a whole. Your newsletter looks great!

    Marcus Grimm
    Marketing Director
    Nxtbook Media

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  2. Martin Ferro-Thomsen5:04 AM

    Great post, and what a great newsletter! I'm pleased to see you've found use for Issuu; the embedding looks really beautiful.

    Issuu will always be free, and we'll keep adding more features along the way. Feel free to contact us with a list of features you would like to add (feedback at issuu dot com).

    Issuu publications get additional traffic from Google (Issuu has PageRank 8/10) and our publishing community (millions of visitors each month), so feel free to upload your any number of publications to get that extra exposure.

    Sincerely,
    Martin, Issuu.

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