Boston, February 9, 2003 -- PaperThin, Inc., a leading mid-market content management system vendor, announced today that several non-profit organizations and associations have recently selected CommonSpot Content Server to manage their Internet, intranet and extranet sites. With CommonSpot, non-technical staff can now take control of the process for creating and publishing Web content. The timeliness and relevance of content on the Web site is increased, while the costs to maintain it are reduced.
New customers in the non-profit and association sectors include Academy for Education Development (Washington, D.C.), American Academy of Pediatrics (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), American Society for Engineering Education (Washington, D.C.), Association of Public Television Stations (Washington, D.C.), Memphis Arts Council (Memphis, Tenn.) and United Way of the MidSouth (Memphis, Tenn.). These organizations join a long list of associations and non-profits that have successfully deployed CommonSpot to manage their Web sites.
The Web is critical to the advocacy, outreach, education and member relations efforts of non-profit organizations and associations of all sizes. These organizations share a need for updating information on their Web sites quickly and easily, and maintaining the sites affordably, without reliance on expensive, external consultants for simple edits and updates.
In developing their new Web initiatives, several of these organizations have engaged PaperThin partners including Beaconfire Consulting (Washington, D.C.), Edgewater Technology (Wakefield, Mass.), Fig Leaf Software (Washington, D.C.), Fusion Productions (Webster, N.Y.) and Ringger (Memphis, Tenn.) to redesign and build their new sites, which the organizations will then maintain themselves.
"When we first introduced CommonSpot to the association community in 1999, we knew it would become a leading mid-market content management system because of its cost effectiveness and the array of features that give our association clients the tools to control their own content in real time," says Don Dea, co-founder of Fusion Productions and a board member of the American Society of Association Executives. "Through the years, our faith in PaperThin as a partner and CommonSpot as a product continue to prove to us that we made the right choice."
Using CommonSpot’s extensive out-of-the-box features, PaperThin partners are able to build dynamic Web sites quickly. Deploying standard features like templates and style sheets allows a designer to maintain a consistent look and feel throughout the site. Once the site built, content owners, rather than in-house web developers or outside consultants, can easily and cost-effectively create and publish dynamic, personalized Web content within a controlled environment. No special technical knowledge is required, and authors can publish documents, images, PDFs, video clips and other content using a wizards-based interface.
"We recommend CommonSpot to our association clients because we believe that it represents tremendous value in content management, and provides a rich feature set that matches most associations’ needs closely. CommonSpot can be easily integrated with association management systems to provide members with personalized Web site content. Association staff members like CommonSpot because it is easy to implement and simple for non-technical content owners to learn, while association executives appreciate CommonSpot's flexible pricing models that fit a wide range of budgets," noted Steve Drucker, CEO of Fig Leaf Software.
About PaperThin: PaperThin, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts-based company. Since 1993, PaperThin has helped organizations of all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing Web content. PaperThin’s flagship product, CommonSpotÔ Content Server, powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations of all sizes, including the AFL-CIO, Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority, Biogen, Bell & Howell, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Gillette, Kent State University, and Turner Sports. PaperThin’s select group of partners includes industry leading Web design and development firms, high-tech consultants, software manufacturers, and training firms, worldwide. For more information about PaperThin, Inc., please visit http://www.paperthin.com and for additional details about CommonSpot Content Server, visit http://www.paperthin.com/Products/Index.cfm.
