Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night?
Maybe the cat was scratching, or the baby needed to be fed, or somthing went bump.
Does your mind start to race? Do you wonder if your remote teams did their work? Do you dread the commute and the stuffed full in-box. Big files attached… takes [...]
It’s not all that new.
My first boss ever, Lenny Higgins of Higgins Ice Cream, always said ‘Take and Fill a #10 tin with hot soapy water and clean the…”
Lenny had it almost right. The task is very clear, “Clean the…” all the rest are ‘To-Do’s’ which are part of the task. There was no question [...]
A few weeks ago, we sent out an AppingoJim news story entitled Publisher Fires Landlord (and also wrote a blog post). It was a fun, tongue-in-cheek article that was based on an Appingo client that wanted to dump their expensive office space and bring the company fully virtual. They were excited that Appingo that was [...]
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. [...]
By AppingoJim, staff
LONG ISLAND, NY— Yesterday, a high-profile production executive was spotted managing the production of several major book projects while enjoying the sun and sipping what appeared to be a frozen cocktail on an East Hampton beach.
Armed only with an iPhone 3G and cooler full of Daiquiri mix, the executive spent the first hour [...]
By Appingo Jim, staff
Publishers and their production staffs have joined together this week to celebrate the launch of the Appingo Production Management Suite.
“Finally, I’ll be able to see my kids before bedtime,” one particularly enthusiastic Production Manager exclaimed.
The breakthrough Appingo web-based software brings clarity and efficiency to the process of making books. A simultaneous, [...]
Seth Godin had a good post today about the difference between solving problems and just creating solutions. Too many times, companies create and try to sell solutions that aren’t really solving any problems. Reading this post made me feel good about the way in which we built the Appingo system. We wrote more about our [...]
And you may ask yourself-well…how did I get here?
—Talking Heads
We’ve all had those moments.
I worked for a children’s book publisher, I went early so I could shuffle pages in 20 inboxes of editors and designers alike. I’d prioritize their day based on tracking/ circulation sheet deadlines. I printed “circ sheets” on colored paper to determine [...]
Content Management Systems. They’re all over this publishing world. 75% of the vendor booths at any publishing conference are occupied by CMS suppliers. It’s all the rage. In publishing, if you are a software provider, there is a very good chance you are a CMS vendor.
We face this all the time. When we talk to [...]
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 [...]
