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 Workflow Management’
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 [...]
August 18, 2009
Jane Friedman: It takes too long to make a book…
Last week, we blogged about a great interview with Publishing titans Jane Friedman and Larry Kirshbaum. Click on the video to the right to watch it…
There were a lot of great comments and discussions about the publishing world in this interview, but we especially liked the discussion about how long it takes to make a [...]
August 4, 2009
More Life, More Projects, Less Hassle
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 [...]
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 [...]
