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Campusuite returns to HighEdWeb Conference

Innersync unveils new features of SaaS content management system for higher education

09/17/09

Newport, KY – Innersync Studio will be unveiling its latest version of web content management system designed specifically for schools and higher education at the HighEdWeb 2009 Conference, October 4-7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Featuring simple, browser-based tools to control web site content, Campusuite features a wide range of new and improved functionality in three major areas: extended tools and social networking features, application security and enhanced usability. 

"This product evolution ensures that our clients are positioned to accommodate the upcoming trends and allow faculty and staff to keep up with an increasingly web-savvy audience," said Steve Williams, Campusuite's co-founder. "Mindful of the emerging prevalence of Web 2.0 technologies, we're continuously engineering in ease and access for content administrators, publishers and end-users."

The timing of the new launch coincides nicely with this gathering of key web site decision makers at the college and university level. "This is a very savvy group of web administrators who come together at this important conference to gather the tools and share ideas that make them better administrators," said Williams. "The HighEdWeb members are knowledgeable and thirsty for more knowledge, so we're happy to be returning to share with them our latest."

A summary of Campusuite enhancements:

Galleries – Easier and more effective ways to organize images

• Apply tags to a selected gallery, and place a gallery on –  or a link to a gallery to – a page
• Enhanced gallery view for users that allows more images to be viewed in a single gallery

Dashboard – Customized dashboard to suit your own editing styles

• Personalize your profile with an avatar. Your online associates will come to recognize you distinctly and quickly.
• Access your drafts directly from the main dash board page

Tagging – Label content to enable grouping of information

• Easily link related content: news, photos, events, and calendar items

Editing – Easier page editing and template options

• Create templates by simply defining a page as a template and create new pages based off the template
• Choose from additional page layouts

Blogging – New blog module allows you to easily create and manage blogs and user-generated comments

• Easily update your online journal to encourage communications with and among staffers, faculty members, and students

Social networking – Stay in touch and get in touch with your colleagues and students

• Add Facebook, and integrate Twitter and other social networking feeds to keep current with your network of associates

Components

• Aggregators: Automatically group similar information together to easily find related information such as calendars, news items, galleries and more
• Syndication: Embed RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds onto pages to bring together news, blogs, podcasts and other syndicated content into a centralized page
• Media guide: Allows you to display faculty and staff by tags of expertise
• Media: Embed photo and video galleries and podcasts on your page or add links to pop-up windows of the galleries

Sitebuilder

• Build out your web site in a site map form and publish the web site
• Display sitemaps to create, adjust or simply view site navigation
   

Already implemented at select colleges and universities, Campusuite software enables web site administrators to keep fresh such frequently updated information as news, blogs, events, calendars, photos, faculty and staff directories, videos and FAQs. Ready-made, easy-to-use content modules plug into existing web site designs, eliminating the mystery and technical prerequisites for keeping web content current.

Campusuite simplifies the growingly unwieldy process of overall web site management by providing simple web-based tools to content authors, publishers and administrators, who can easily create, share and publish content in a decentralized workflow environment. Employees closest to the content are afforded greater control of the content with permission-authorized access.

"What makes Campusuite different from other off-the-shelf CMS products is that we've created easy-to-use modules that address the specific needs of college web administrators," said Jay Cooper, Marketing Director at Innersync. "Many of the larger, more horizontal CMS packages have functionality and data fields that a school or college would never use."

A practical solution for many departments within a college or university where content is constantly changing – admissions, student activities, sports information, alumni affairs, faculty and staff – Campusuite enables content authors to easily create and edit their respective pages of their web site.

"A school's web site is becoming increasingly important to many facets of their operations," said Cooper. "Recruiting, athletics, development – it's their primary public face. Campusuite gives them tools to make their sites more effective, easily. We've found a great deal of interest on the part of many administrators at this conference," added Cooper. "They are hungry for web content solutions that not only improve their whole process, but are easy to implement, as well.

About HighEdWeb Association

HighEdWeb is a strategic alliance of Web professionals in New York state higher education designed to facilitate communication and professional development and using the Web as a medium to advance their institutions. The conference is for all higher education Web professionals – from programmers to marketers to designers to all team members in-between – who want to explore the unique Web issues facing colleges and universities. www.highedweb.org

About Campusuite:

Campusuite is a Web 2.0 content management system that simplifies web site management by providing web-based tools so content authors, publishers and administrators can easily publish and manage content from any web browser. Campusuite, Imagespace, a digital asset management, and Innersuite, the corporate CMS solution, are part of the family of web-based solutions from Innersync that help people create, share and connect like never before.