At Bookmark Awards 2013: WoodWing client Mail & Guardian wins 3 categories
Best Publisher, Best Editorial Team, Best Tablet Publication – The Mail & Guardian (http://mg.co.za/), a South African publisher, has won three categories at the 2013 Bookmarks Awards. The award, presented for the past six years by the Digital Media and Marketing Association (DMMA) in South Africa, recognizes "excellence in digital". The Mail & Guardian is a long-time user of WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing system Enterprise and also leverages WoodWing´s Digital Publishing Tools for Adobe InDesign. Automated Publishing Services, WoodWing´s partner for Southern Africa, sponsored the Best Tablet Publication category of the Bookmark Awards 2013.
Zaandam, The Netherlands (December 5, 2013) – The Mail & Guardian Online was launched in 1994 as the first online newspaper in Africa, and one of the first online newspapers in the world. Today, the M&G is a quality news source available across multiple platforms, offering breaking news and in-depth, analytical features from South Africa, Africa and around the world.
“We’re very proud to be the only winner in the Tablet Publication category at this year’s Bookmark awards,” said Alistair Fairweather, Chief Technology Officer of the Mail & Guardian “The team at M&G Digital has been working hard to bring the same level of excellence for which the Mail & Guardian is famous to our iPad and Android editions. WoodWing has played a key part in our success. Its tools have allowed us to adapt our existing skills for the digital future. Using WoodWing across all our publication platforms allows us to streamline the workflow and to reduce double work significantly. And thanks to the integration with Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite, we can now publish to a wide range of devices and app stores without additional overhead.”
“We are very pleased to be associated with the Mail & Guardian and delighted that they have chosen APS and WoodWing as their technology partners,” said Charles Parrington, CEO of Automated Publishing Services. “We have worked closely with M&G for the past four years and it is wonderful so see how they have progressed during this period. Their recent awards at the DMMA event are proof of their efforts and commitment to delivering top-class editorial content on many different platforms.”
Quality online journalism – awarded several times
The M&G has received numerous accolades and awards for its online work, sweeping the inaugural digital awards in various competitions. The team won the multi-platform award at the 2013 Sikuvile awards, recognizing the highest standard in journalistic experience. The website has also won the CNN Multichoice Africa Journalism Award for digital journalism in 2012 as well as the online multimedia award at the 2012 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards. The M&G website has also won three IBookmarks awards in 2010 and 2011, one of which was a gold award for its Nelson Mandela tribute site. It received three Webby honorable mentions in 2008 for its Thought Leader platform site. In 2001, the site was voted one of the world's top 175 websites by Forbes.com.
About Automated Publishing Services
Automated Publishing Services, APS, is a digital publishing and workflow software company providing the latest publishing solutions to help publishers, corporates and businesses to adopt innovative technologies early. APS sells both WoodWing´s multi-channel publishing solution Enterprise as well as WoodWing´s digital asset management system Elvis DAM. APS is an Adobe Silver Technology Partner and represents the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in the region. APS has happy clients in Media24 (Naspers), Mail and Guardian, Deloitte and more.
About WoodWing Software
WoodWing Software develops and markets a premier, cost-efficient multi-channel publishing system, Enterprise, and the next generation digital asset management system, Elvis DAM. WoodWing’s solutions are aimed at magazine and newspaper publishers, corporate publishers, agencies and marketing departments to reach their goals for quality, economy and time-to-market.
WoodWing’s publishing system Enterprise – including the editorial management application Content Station – coordinates and streamlines the process of creating, managing and publishing static, dynamic and interactive content for all media channels – print, Web, social, smartphones and tablets. Elvis DAM enables users to securely store and efficiently manage the increasing collection of rich-media files.
WoodWing Software, founded in the year 2000, has its headquarters in Zaandam, The Netherlands, and has regional sales offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Customers are served locally by over 90 selected partners in more than 100 countries. WoodWing’s long-standing relationship with Adobe as a Technology Partner and its close cooperation with a large number of other technology vendors worldwide, confirm WoodWing’s position as one of the leading suppliers of publishing software. WoodWing is a privately owned company, with all founders actively engaged. Additional information regarding WoodWing's products and services can be found at www.woodwing.com.
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