Emojo extends Affino NX eBusiness Suite with Social Content Management
Markus Karlsson, CEO of Emojo, sent CMS Report an e-mail regarding extending social content management features into their "eBusiness Suite", Affino. In the e-mail he says:
We’re launching the Social Content Management edition of the Affino eBusiness Suite (please see details below). It has a number of tailored social content management, social media, social networking and social promotions elements essential for managing socially lead sites. These are quite different from traditional web and enterprise CM capabilities so may be of interest to you.
If you could give us feedback or a mention then that would be greatly appreciated.
I'm short on time for doing any type of review or give any meaningful feedback on this CMS. However, I have posted below the press release he sent attached to the e-mail. Also, you can check out the new features in the latest release of Affino at Emojo.com. Finally, if you have used Affino before, I would be interested in hearing what you have to say about it via the comments section.
Emojo announces the next chapter in Social Content
Management
Emojo has extended the Affino NX eBusiness Suite with Social Content Management, Social Networking, Social Promotion and Social Media. The Affino Social Content Management Platform allows for content peer review, automated content quality management and effective community workflows; it allows members to evaluate content contributions, network with their peers, rate the content and promote it to the wider community.
Websites and online businesses / eBusinesses are becoming ever more social. Several of the leading web properties gain their competitive advantage from their community members and User Generated Content (UGC), with entire industries being reshaped by the social phenomenon online. There is a real need for an integrated solution suite which combines the key Social and Web 2.0 elements with traditional content management and commerce to produce a proper business platform with multiple revenue streams.
With an Affino solution, all community members can have their own personal content and media, and can easily manage their own pages, including articles, profiles, FAQs, links, events, locations, directory listings, blogs, videos, photos and music. Super-users can be empowered to act as moderators / supervisors, and in effect run the community for the community provider. Affino’s content management elements give site owners greater control and direction over User Generated Content and Affino eCommerce ensures that maximum value is derived from the community.
“This is the most significant release since the launch of the Affino NX platform. By embracing the social dimension we have made it easy for companies to launch social networking campaigns which fully engage and motivate the consumer. We are thrilled to be at the forefront of this social evolution and are excited to be working with the many companies that have chosen Affino to run their social networks.” said Markus Karlsson, CEO of Emojo.
Affino is an ideal solution for start-up social networks and social marketplaces, as well as being perfect for existing organisation that wish to foster brand loyalty and build their own online communities – either as long term propositions, or short term campaign executions. There are already several great examples of social networks being used to recruit personnel for TV shows and art and cultural events, as well as vehicles for a variety of media formats.
Emojo is working with a number of companies and organisations who have chosen to roll out their social networks and marketplaces on the Affino platform. The current projects encompass a number of different sectors, including – music, events, fashion, boxing, schools, film, television journalism, wine and travel.
For more information on Affino Social Content Management download the white paper at:
To see Affino SCM in action go to Emojo Rated at:
Or come and see us at the Information Management Systems show at Olympia, London on the 4th to 6th December.
About Emojo
Emojo is the eBusiness Specialist, delivering online business solutions to companies worldwide. Emojo deploys eBusiness solutions via the Affino eBusiness Suite. Emojo and Affino combine to empower companies and organisations to take their key business activities online in order to fully engage their customers. Affino solutions are at the heart of the next generation in social sites, including social networks, media sharing portals and social marketplaces. Emojo offers end-to-end services from analysing business processes to translating them to an online model, implementing the solution and providing long term support and change management.
For further information please contact:
Stefan Karlsson
Emojo
Phone: +44 (0)20 7291 1070
Fax: +44 (0)20 7734 9640
Email: stefan@emojo.com
SecondsOut and Affino
I have been using affino since version 2, and have to say it's the easiest CMS and community management system I have used, having used espensive systems (e.g. ATEX Media Solutions) through to actually building my own bespoke (before I cam accross Affino!).
Affino is purely browser based, therefore you can add content and administer the site from any internet connected interface, including from your mobile. It is cross browser compliant, so you don't have to worry about testing, and includes many clever features to make running a website easy, e.g automatically building navigation, security rights, reporting, settings to control styling, etc.
What this means in reality is that you do not have to be a programmer or web developer to use the system - you just need to be able to read a web page and configure the options presented to you. Once you have implemented your design, Affino can intelligently build and display your content through this design.
On SecondsOut we have editors all over the world contributing through the system, some live and some on a moderated basis. We have used the system to successfully deliver our own pay per view from the US, and are currently selling programs for the Ricky Hatton v Floyd Mayweather fight on December 8th, 2007 through the system.
We are rolling out the community features to launch in the New Year and are already testing them internally. As with most things Affino, the community side of the website is straight forward to roll out, only requiring a review of the settings and tweaking of design options where applicable. It is remarcable that you can have a better version of My Space rolled out within a week!
The system also easily integrates with Content Delivery Networks, so that if you want your users to be able to add audio, video and large image files, you can deliver these in the most economical way possibe through the likes of LimeLight.
I would challange anyone who is waiting for their web development team to update their site and/or add functionality to do a cost analysis of what this is actually costing them, and compare that to rolling out Affino - I have yet to find anyone who is actually saving money and generating more buisiness than if they were in control of their website through Affino. It's surely worth a call.
Affino user
I have been using Affino for 5 months now, for the next stage of development of our website, and I have to say, Affino is very powerful and Emojo's team is very professional.
I have a background in film and business administration, instead of a usual for Internet enterpreneurs (i.e. web developers, software engineers...), and Affino is allowing me to do many, many things, including structure, security... and design implementation. A lot more is coming in the next months, and I am very excited, because we hope that the platform and Emojo's team will allow us to grow even faster.
We will be re-launching our website very soon, and I will let you know then, so you can have a look at what any person without previous experience can build with Affino.
Another good experience
At risk of sounding repetitive, I have also had very positive experience of Affino NX.
As a non-tekkie web-development team of one, I found it a steep learning curve - mostly due to the very comprehensive feature set - and rapid sequence of new feature releases. However, the support from Markus and the team at Emojo has been superb. With 12 flight-booking websites now published, with rapidly growing visitor numbers and sales - I think I would have struggled to find a better alternative CMS - at any price!