ICELE unveils integrated eDemocracy blog service using 21Publish
The International Centre of Excellence for Local eDemocracy (ICELE) recently unveiled their integrated eDemocracy blog service, running on technology by 21Publish. The new service, called Bloginabox, is targeted at civic leaders and offers a full range of services around blogging. Being the successor of the already hugely successful Readmyday platform, the new service shows various improvements such as easier registration workflows and basic marketing services around blogging. In addition, Bloginabox integrates a domain registration service to have politicians get their own domain and map it onto their blog.
Another major feature is the open directory for local authorities already running a blog. Such users can add their blog and appear in the already comprehensive directory of local authority blogs. ICELE here aims to provide an extensive directory of civic leaders and being the address to go to when looking for your local authority.
Fraser Henderson, ICELE Centre Manager commented “It is great to see so many civic leaders blogging and that popularity and interest in their online presence is on the rise. We have developed Bloginbox to build-on the success of Readmyday and feel that we can now offer a one- stop, bespoke solution that builds-in good blogging practice. We are also expanding our new blog directory on a daily basis and hope to have the most comprehensive list of local authority blogs in the UK”.
As technical partner, ICELE chose to stay with 21Publish, who are already running Readmyday. Leif Koch, Managing director at 21Publish, believes that “Providing an easy-to-use yet comprehensive blogging service is pivotal when targeting civil leaders. By adding domain registration and opening the platform to existing blogs, local authorities with packed schedules now have an even easier way of promoting their blogs and reaching out to their citizens. Being a powerhouse for Web 2.0 services, we are glad ICELE again has confidence in our expertise and experience for running eDemocracy services.”
21Publish Inc. ends beta test phase of its classroom blogging service, 21Classes
November 14, 2007 - 21Classes Ends Beta Test Phase of its Educational Blogging Platform and Introduces New Features.
Launched in March 2007, 21Publish Inc. is announcing the end of the beta test phase of its classroom blogging service, 21Classes. The service has been received well by educators and continues to experience high, double digit growth rates each month. The service has been reliable since the beginning, but 21Publish decided to stay in the beta stage while introducing minor improvements and collecting customer feedback. Listening to 21Classes users has been a priority since the service was launched. The company’s CEO, Stefan Wiskemann, believes that "Keeping in touch with our customers is of utmost importance to us.” The company also collaborated with educational blogging experts such as Will Richardson and Konrad Glogowski. 21Classes believes in using technology to support rich pedagogical uses: "Our goal is to support pedagogical concepts with our platform. We do not just want to provide technology that teachers need to tweak in order to get some use out of it.”
In addition, 21Classes is now available as a dedicated solution that institutions can run on their own servers. Furthermore, in order to address the growing demand, the company now offers volume discounts for multiple teacher accounts. To celebrate the end of the beta period, the company has introduced more powerful fulltext search capabilities and improved management options for the 2.5 gigabyte web space provided with every teacher account.
About 21Publish Inc.
21Publish is a turnkey software solution for creating a private label blog service. 21Classes, a product of 21Publish Inc., is targeted directly at the educational sector.
21Classes allows educators to set up online classrooms with individual student blogs connected into a classroom portal, represented by a single home page. 21Classes is designed to ensure ease of use for teachers and students. Its customization, privacy, and security features provide teachers with maximum flexibility. The platform allows teachers to easily administer their online classrooms and select from a wide variety of moderation and user access options, including the ability to password-protect the entire site.
21Publish is located in the United States and Europe. Its customers include Amnesty International, McGraw-Hill, and Emap.
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If you’d like more information or are interested in scheduling an interview, please contact Marcel Dembach, +1 (718) 395-2192, EST; marcel.dembach at 21publish dot com.
21Publish launches new classroom blogging product
21Publish Inc. has launched 21Classes, a multi-user blogging application specifically designed to create Classroom BlogPortals.
21Publish provides a hosted application that enables teachers to easily set up a private-label blogging community for their students. Key features of the new product include a class homepage to communicate with students and independent yet inter-connected blog accounts for students. A central console allows the teacher to manage students’ accounts with control over accounts and content including review capabilities of student entries. Will Richardson, a leading educational blogger and author, has been a consultant on this project.
"Classroom BlogPortals can bring today's students into the world of web publishing at anytime and almost from anywhere" said Stefan Wiskemann, President. "Over the last year we have seen more and more teachers setting up Classroom BlogPortals for their students on 21Publish. So we felt it was high time to create a product that reflects the specific needs of teachers and students."
About 21Publish Inc.
21Publish is a turnkey software solution for creating your own private label blog service.
The 21Publish solution has fully customizable templates to support your design needs. It provides a centralized hub from which to build, manage, and deploy your group blogging service. As an on-demand solution you can easily scale the service according to your needs.
21Publish is located in the United States and Europe serving customers like Amnesty International, McGraw-Hill, and Emap. 21Publish is a spin-off of 20six/Myblog, a leading European blog service.
For more information:
Marcel Dembach, +1 (718) 395-2192, EST; marcel.dembach at 21publish dot com
BusinessWeek Retains 21Publish To Launch Blog Targeted to MBA Community
With 21Publish expertise, BusinessWeek has customized a fully-hosted, no-software blog portal that is fully integrated with the magazine's front-end website presence and backend customer management and content management systems. The initial deployment of the blogging community is to help prospective students connect with current students, current students to connect with one another, and prospective graduates to connect with alumni.
“We believe that customer loyalty blogs built around conversations happening within natural communities will be the next wave of blogging. We will be able to provide blogs to thousands of business school related bloggers” said Peggy White, General Manager, BusinessWeek. “Of the vendors we looked at, 21Publish provided the best turnkey, and scalable solution for a blogging community that was consistent with the BusinessWeek brand and vision.”
“We are proud to have BusinessWeek as a lighthouse customer for an innovative and valuable blogging community comprised of end-user generated content,” said Stefan Wiskemann, CEO of 21Publish. “21Publish's relationship with BusinessWeek as both a customer and partner will enable 21Publish to demonstrate both the power and ease of use of its product. BusinessWeek and 21Publish's pioneering work in blogging will be rewarded handsomely down the road.”
About BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek is a leading global business media organization, providing unparalleled insight, news and analysis to a worldwide audience of business leaders. Founded in 1929, BusinessWeek magazine is the market leader, with more than 5.6 million readers each week in 140 countries. Launched in 1994, BusinessWeek Online is the preeminent provider of daily, essential business news, information and services to business decision-makers. Reaching 80% of the national's households, the syndicated TV show BusinessWeek Weekend delivers important business consumer and financial news to television viewers every week.
About 21Publish:
21Publish provides a hosted blogging solution that enables organizations to easily set up a private-label blog communities. The company is a spin-off of 20six a leading provider of weblogs in Europe, with active communities in Germany, Netherlands, France and the UK. 21Publish recently announced expansion efforts in the US markets, and the company hosts points of presence in both US and European markets.
amnesty international selects 21Publish for white-label blogging service
amnesty international Germany has chosen 21Publish to build a fully customized blogging community where the local amnesty chapters can set up and run their individual blogs. Local groups of the human rights organization will enjoy the benefits of easy web publishing and communication while all blogs have a standardized design, so that they can easily be recognized as being part of ai.
“The participation of our local groups is an extremely important part of our battle for human rights. With 21publish we will be able to provide a voice on the Internet to all of our local groups and to strengthen amnesty’s presence on the Internet” said Klaus H. Walter, amnesty international. “We selected 21Publish because it allows to conveniently manage a service for hundreds of weblogs with no programming, no installation and no maintenance cost on our side.”
“We are thrilled that amnesty international Germany has selected us to provide a solution for their web publishing needs,” said Wiskemann. “21Publish will allow amnesty international to benefit from a distributed content management that enables independent blog sites and additional fund raising”
About amnesty international Germany:
amnesty international (ai) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. It has a varied network of almost 2 million members and supporters. The funding is primarily supplied by the local volunteer groups and national sections.
ai believes that everyone should enjoy human rights and fights to achieve this mission with campaigns all over the world.
About 21Publish:
21Publish provides a hosted application that enables organizations to easily set up a private-label blog service. The company is a spin-off of 20six the leading provider of Weblogs in Europe, with active communities in Germany, Netherlands, France and the UK . 21Publish provides services in the U.S. and Germany.
For further information, please visit www.21publish.com
