'Geopolitical Information Service' Goes Live With 'Publish live'

LONDON, October 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Digital Newsletter publishing from KnowledgeView

Geopolitical Information Service GIS (http://www.geopolitical-info.com and on Apple App store) publishes unbiased and well-researched information from around the world about geopolitics, the economy, defense, security and energy. Developed for easy publishing, the system allows a small team of editors to publish high value reports for multiple platforms in three languages, a task that would have needed much more effort in the past.  

At the heart of KnowledgeView's Publish live Newsroom is the web based software RAPID Browser that allows GIS's team of experts, editors and publishers to publish rich-media reports and briefings to several platforms in English, German and French. Another component is the Syndigital software that provides subscriptions management, reporting and marketing tools, as well as a B-T-B syndication environment.  The combination of the two modules, sharing one CMS, provides a powerful platform for digital newsletter publishing and syndication.

"The idea behind GIS is to allow niche multi-lingual audiences to access reports drafted by world-renowned experts in the most critical fields via online subscription. The success of this model relied also on a powerful integrated digital platform that made the content initiation, display and distribution to multi-media channels very easy thanks to KnowledgeView's Publish live Newsroom and Syndigital," Reiner Mittelbach said, CEO, GIS.

"It was a great pleasure for KnowledgeView to have been awarded the contract for a turn-key hosted solution by such a prestigious specialized newsletter publisher as Geopolitical Information Service, and a great pleasure for our technical and consulting teams to work on it and complete in record time." Ali Al-Assam, Managing Director, KnowledgeView.

GIS Online Channels:

Web and mobile URL: http://www.geopolitical-info.com

GIS iPad: can be downloaded from the Apple store: Search for 'Geopolitical info'

Key features of the Publish live system for GIS:

• Web-based editorial workflow linking contributors, the experts, with editors, publishers and the translators, allowing a virtual newsroom spanning several continents.
• Rich media reports are easily built with simple to use web-based tools and published after approval and review on the GIS website, iPad and mobile as well as social networks with few steps, greatly improving multi-publishing efficiency.
• Integration with Adobe InDesign to generate PDF newsletters, uniquely allowing complex documents authored in RAPID Browser with photos, fact boxes, time-lines and other components to be dragged onto InDesign newsletter templates, with auto-formatting and tagging, and linking authors' profiles to articles they've written, completing the content creation in few minutes.
• Digital subscriptions and payment system, supporting group company subscriptions and management, with one single subscription for all platforms, Web, mobile and iPad.
• Powerful reporting tool starting with the editorial process and ending with subscribers' downloads, greatly helping with monitoring activities and marketing analysis.
• Robust technology based on Java and XML and latest tools for SEO, providing high ranking with search engines.
• Syndication management tools as well as newsletters emailing and promotions tools.
• Control over which content to display fully to guest users and which content should be paid-for, with ability to easily toggle that option back and forth per article at any time.
• Allowing the user to subscribe to teaser newsletters as well as full PDF ones. Coupled with a strong syndication backend allowing mass sending of newsletters and reports to those who opt-in.

About KnowledgeView

KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and offices in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems. Users of KnowledgeView's Publish live solutions included the Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, News Corporation and the Washington Post. In the Middle East, KnowledgeView is a leading newspaper integrator, with over 40 media companies, providing consultancy as well as technology, acting as a marketing and technology bridge between Europe and the Arab World.

KnowledgeView's Publish live suite of products and services enables publishers to extend their reach and increase revenues, through easy multi-publishing to paper, Web, mobile iPhone and iPad.

KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of news and media content and creating packages for cross-media publishing, designed to streamline production and create additional revenues.

RAPID Browser has set the standard for the next generation of news management systems, with its ability to gather content from a wide variety of sources such as news agencies, correspondents' reports, RSS and Web harvested feeds, and the power it puts in the hands of users to define their own ways of filtering and acting on items that match their interests. By integrating RAPID Browser with Adobe publishing software and with third-party publishing systems.

RAPID Archive, integrated with RAPID Browser, provides strategic rich-media archiving for publishers who want to syndicate or share editorial content.

For more information please contact:
Hoda Kara
Mobile: +961-71-49-88-99
Email: hoda@knowledgeview.co.uk