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 ‘Publishing software’
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 16, 2009
We took our own advice…and fired the landlord this week
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 [...]
September 4, 2009
AppingoJim: Publisher Fires Landlord. Staff Rejoices.
Publisher Fires Landlord. Staff Rejoices.
By AppingoJim, staff
BOSTON, MA — A trade publisher fired her landlord today.
In a move to save jobs and re-invigorate a 47-year old division of a larger trade publisher, the division leader made the bold decision to fire her landlord, save some jobs, and set her staff [...]
August 24, 2009
AppingoJim: Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
Publisher Admits that Internet “Ain’t All Bad.”
By AppingoJim, staff
NEW YORK, NY — Publishing executives are showing signs of warming up to this whole “Internet thing.”
“Up until now, the Internet has proven to be nothing but one big thorn in my side,” said one high-ranking publishing [...]
August 7, 2009
Publishers Rejoice! Appingo Saves Production.
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, [...]
August 4, 2009
Is Appingo a Content Management System for publishing?
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 [...]
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 29, 2009
Errors:
Errors, mistakes, bugs. They always happen at the worst possible time.
We were feeling pretty good about ourselves, we had just implemented a change based on a customer’s request. Cool. That’s the beauty of agile development, and web based SaaS delivered software.
But wait! That’s not all you get in this brave new world.
Along with all this [...]
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 [...]
