CommunityNews Overview

 

Introduction

CommunityNews is a content management platform that leverages proven, extensible, and comprehensive technology to enable small media outlets to deliver digital content with minimal technological expertise. Utilizing an intuitive, user-centric interface, CommunityNews allows these organizations to deliver an experience on par with large news corporations, without the financial, technological, or managerial overhead. A feature rich, extensible and scalable application, CommunityNews opens small media to the power of the web.

Benefits

CommunityNews brings many benefits to media organizations by automating or simplifying repetitious and mundane tasks such as advertisement management, content archiving, as well as image sizing and optimization. In addition to providing an interface for managing and displaying digital content, CommunityNews can streamline operations through proven work-flow logic and technological efficiency, reducing the time spent coordinating logistics and leaving writers and editors to produce and refine content.

Feature List

  • XHTML 1.1 Compliance
  • RSS Feeds
  • XML & SOAP Web Services, Public API
  • "Hackable" URL's
  • Intuitive, Simple Administration
  • Single-Click Public/Private Registration/Membership Option
  • Inline Editing of Content
  • Comprehensive Security, Permissions & Auditing
  • Full Newspaper Functionality (Categories, Articles, Blogs, Polls)
  • Event Management & Registration
  • Comprehensive Sports Functionality & Integration with News (Teams, Players, Statistics)
  • Media Integration with News, Sports, Events (Images, Videos, Podcasts)
  • User Registration & Personalization
  • Moderated User Comments, Image Gallery, Soapbox ("Letters" to the Editor)
  • Online Discussion Forums
  • Automatic Image Sizing, Scaling, Watermarking and Optimization

Implementations

News/Media

  • Hebronian.com (In Development)

Organizations & Businesses

  • HebronMedia (Planned)
  • The Game Fort (Planned)

Personal

  • Element-94.com (Planned)