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Printcasting is a user-friendly niche publishing platform that requires no software or design skills. Easily create magazines by pulling in content from blogs and use the self-serve ad platform for small businesses. Watch a video on how it works and join the community for more information.
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Dan Pacheco, Founder ASNE Annual Conference April 2010
What is Printcasting? • The simple niche publishing solution for the rest of us • No software or design skills required. • Easy way to pull in citizen content from blogs. 1 2 • Self-serve ad platform for small businesses • Build ads as you type, then target your niche. • N need to “sell ads.” Instead, we promote the tool.
Drag-and-drop “Edition Builder” Video: http://vimeo.com/10899005
Self-serve ad tool Advertisers click a button, fill out a form and enter credit card. Done! Ads start at $10 per edition. Publisher can mark up rate.
Local Tests Around the World Bakersfield, Philadelphia are up. Puerto Rico and Perú launching soon. Fifth partner needed. Maybe in your town?
HP Print App in Development Selected as one of a handful of developers to create a “Print App” for new HP Web-connected printers.
What’s Next? Your digital content barista. Coming soon!
Publish once, distribute everywhere Print Mobile Tablets & eReaders Web
You feed in content, we feed out design Instead of “Printcasting,” think “Everycasting.” Feed in content from ANY content management system. Chooses design style and output. The rest just happens. Running News Site Name: Publisher name: Joe Runner RSS URL: http://joesrunningworld.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/ Brew up a … Site design Printcast Mobile site eBook
Mobile sites are automatic • We’ll sniff out which device you’re using to visit a site and optimize the interface for that device. • We’re already doing some of this with Printcasting, and that work will be open sourced in June.
iPad • Web sites will be 100% iPad compliant (and Printcasts already are). • Additional outputs to ePub format used by Apple’s iBooks.
Custom services • Beginning in June, we’ll be building customized, branded services on top of open source tools.
Thank you! Want to know more? Please contact me: • dan@printcasting.com / 303-465-5560 Or, join our public community: • http://community.printcasting.com Try Printcasting yourself: • http://www.printcasting.com