On 07/27/2012 01:18 PM, Chris Joslyn wrote:
Hi, folks.
Has anyone set up a publishing system that smoothly publishes the same
periodical to website and print? I am helping a non-profit fix their
publishing workflow, virgin territory for me.
To get going, I assume you would:
* Train the editors to input incoming content (images, documents, text
files, emails) into a CMS
* Set up a transition plan get writers and contributors to submit
directly to the CMS
* Most importantly, adapt the CMS to export elegantly to InDesign for
easy transition to print publishing
I want to know about what technologies you recommend, but far more
importantly I want to know:
How do you convince a resource starved non-profit that this is
/less/ work for them, and not more?
... by getting rid of the print manual layout
My experience doing a related thing for the PFP was the fact that you
have to pick a lead medium and have the rest be second class citizens.
If print is going to remain the lead medium, then the rest isn't going
to ever work.
Given the rest of the drupal website, I started using epublish module to
build news letter editions which can be emailed out. Nothing can go in
there unless it's on the website first, which means it forces content
refreshes on the website regularly. Those also flow to facebook via RSS,
which people seem to like.
There is a print style sheet on it so it's printable, but it's not the
prettiest thing in print. It looks basically like the HTML email you
would get. And the print comes out after the email.
Converting to this model was a substantial savings on volunteers. We
went from 2 barter share positions covering the newsletter to 1 (and
that person has more time for other things). Manual layout is time
consuming, and getting out of desktop publishing is the only way I found
to actually save volunteer time.
-Sean
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Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley
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