We like to track metrics as we grow the Appingo business. One of the most important metrics that we track is the number of projects started in Appingo. Since we started offering the Appingo system to publishers earlier this year, we are very pleased to see the number of projects running in Appingo grow every [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Appingo clients’
October 15, 2009
For tangled hair: A good brush is a good start…
We’ve recently recognized a significant growth area for Appingo’s business. It happened by accident, but it makes perfect sense. I’m actually embarrassed that we didn’t think about it earlier. Here’s how it happened:
When we decided to build the Appingo software system, we wanted to build a tool to UNTANGLE the process of making a book [...]
October 8, 2009
Appingo Welcomes Velo Press to the family!
We are very happy to welcome the publishers of one of the best biking books every produced — Zinn and the Art of Road Bike Maintenance — to the Appingo family this week. Velo Press — a smaller, but highly efficient publisher of a series of endurance sport titles has started to implement the Appingo [...]
September 22, 2009
Disk Space in the Cloud
When we started creating Appingo, we knew that a SaaS environment was the right thing.
We were right.
We picked open-source tools and found libraries that delivered functionality that would have taken a long time and a lot of effort to create.
Our system changed and grew. We added functionality as our users asked for it. We questioned [...]
August 19, 2009
Power Users — what should we call them?
Every system has “Power Users.” These are users that are more experienced and skilled at using the system than most others. These are people who wield the tool like a In most cases, they probably represent the top 2-3% of all users.
Most systems refer to them as Power Users.
We have an existing group of Appingo [...]
August 17, 2009
Appingo Welcomes Bottom Line Publishing Services to the family.
We are very happy to welcome Bottom Line publishing services as the newest member of the Appingo family. Bottom Line is a fun group of folks with a TON of experience in the publishing world — specifically in the publishing services world. They are experts in delivering huge publishing projects on time and under budget. [...]
July 30, 2009
New Feature!
Does your schedule need more tasks? Thanks to the suggestion of a new customer, Appingo has added a new feature! “Add 5 More Tasks”!
When creating a new schedule you can now add an unlimited amount of tasks for your schedule. If you need to add more than the default of 35 tasks, simply click “Add [...]
July 23, 2009
Appingo welcomes School Specialty Science to the family!
We are proud to welcome School Specialty Science as the latest publishing organization to start using the Appingo system to manage their publishing projects.
School Specialty Science is a smaller, creative, crafty division of the larger, School Specialty organization. SS Science is based in Nashua, NH and produces a bunch of fun science curriculum packages for [...]
July 20, 2009
Production Best Practice tip #6
Ship to Printer.
Even in the world of digitial, XML, and On-Demand publishing, Ship-to-Printer is a favorite task to check off as done.
At Appingo, all the classic print production schedules end this way. In a visit to a client a couple of years ago, the white board just inside the front door had a list of [...]
July 15, 2009
ASTD chooses Appingo
ASTD, The world’s leading association of workplace learning and performance professionals, forming a world-class community of practice, is using Appingo to streamline project management.
“ASTD needs to to more with less. Our team includes freelancers across the country and the world, as well as staffers here in Washington DC. Appingo helps us to manage all phases [...]
