Web content management vendor further reinforces foothold in education market
Blacksburg, VA, June 11, 2003 – PaperThin, Inc., a leading mid-market content management system (CMS) vendor, today announced several new education customers at the New Media Consortium summer conference, being held June 11-14 in Blacksburg, Va. New CommonSpot™ Content Server customers include higher education institutions Arizona State University, Santa Clara University, and the United Nations University, as well as the school districts in Parma City, Ohio and Richmond, Va.
CommonSpot Content Server enables private and public colleges and universities, school districts, and other education institutions to rapidly build and efficiently maintain their Web sites. Staff member, teachers, professors and students are able to easily create and update their Web sites without any special technical knowledge or extensive training. CommonSpot’s out-of-the-box features allow users to publish Web content faster, more efficiently and more accurately, while maintaining a unified look and feel across department sites.
According to Lin Danes, Web coordinator at Kent State University, “Key features that have been particularly helpful to Kent State include CommonSpot’s ability to allow editors to schedule content activation and expiration dates, receive content freshness reminders and generate text-only versions of Web sites (to ensure ADA compliance). Implementing flexible workflows in CommonSpot has ensured that all content authored by university staff, regardless of campus location, department or college, can receive an overall review by University Communications and Marketing for Associated Press style and consistency prior to publication.”
New Media Consortium attendees can learn more about the benefits realized by Kent State in a case study being presented at the conference by Dr. Joe Murray, director of new media at the University. Murray is discussing the University’s deployment of CommonSpot Content Server to manage the university’s Web sites.
CommonSpot’s flexible framework is also appealing to educational institutions of all sizes because it can be deployed quickly, and is easily customized. Parma City School District, which includes 21 schools and 13,000 students, recently built and deployed its Web site in CommonSpot in just two weeks. “CommonSpot has enabled our school district to distribute the responsibility for maintaining all of the district's sub-sites, while ensuring both a consistent look and feel and a customizable approval process. The program is simple enough for authors to learn the basics in only a few hours. At the same time, the administrators have an amazing amount of flexibility in terms of controlling who can do what with each page,” noted Bob Gulick, DBA/technology trainer for Parma City School District.
About PaperThin: PaperThin, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts-based company. Since 1993, PaperThin has helped education institutions, corporations, associations and government agencies of all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing Web content. PaperThin’s flagship product, CommonSpot Content Server, powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations like AFL-CIO, Babson College, Biogen, Bell & Howell, Gillette, Kent State University, Ohio University, Northrop Grumman and Rhodes College. CMSWatch recently recognized CommonSpot Content Server for Overall Value in a review of leading content management solutions.
PaperThin’s select group of partners includes industry leading Web design and development firms, high-tech consultants, software manufacturers, and training firms, worldwide. As a Macromedia partner, PaperThin is an active member of the ColdFusion community. For more information about PaperThin, Inc., please visit http://www.paperthin.com and for additional details about CommonSpot Content Server 3.2, visit
http://www.paperthin.com/Products/Index.cfm.
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