For the sixth consecutive year, Newstex has been recognized as a digital content industry leader having been named to the 2011 EContent list of 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.

The 100 companies that made it on the 2011 list were chosen by a panel of judges that included editors from Information Today, Inc and EContent magazine as well as experts from the digital content industry. You can read the full press release here.

The release of the 2011 list of 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry marks the eleventh time the list has been compiled, but for the first time this year, the judges focused more on the world of digital publishing and media and less on enterprise content companies. As such, many new companies made it on the list for the first time this year, while others that have been on the list multiple times, such as Newstex, held their spots.

Newstex President Larry Scwhartz explains how the company has managed to get on the EContent 100 list for six years running.

“Since Newstex debuted in 2004, we’ve focused on finding new ways to collect, enhance, and distribute quality content to people who need it. In 2011, Newstex expanded its mobile, video, Twitter, online magazine, and blog syndication content offerings, giving thousands of content publishers broader exposure for their hard work and giving end-users new ways to engage with that content. Being named to the EContent 100 list for the sixth year in a row is an honor that validates the work we’ve been doing to get Authoritative Content in front of audiences who need it to do their jobs but might not find it otherwise.”

Congratulations to Newstex and all of the companies that were named on of the 100 content companies that matter most in 2011! You can see the full EContent 100 list here.

In addition to giving away an iPad2 to an attendee at BlogWorld & New Media Expo East in New York City this week, which was awarded to Shel Horowitz of GreenAndProfitable.com, Newstex held a second exclusive raffle for publishers who currently syndicate their content through Newstex Authoritative Content and visited the Newstex booth at the conference.

Just 4 Newstex publishers took time from their busy conference schedules to visit the Newstex booth, which meant they had a 1 in 4 chance to win a new iPad2! If you attend the next BlogWorld event where Newstex is exhibiting and giving away more iPads or other great prizes exclusively to Newstex Authoritative Content publishers, make sure you stop by the Newstex booth to enter the contest. Your odds of winning are very, very good!

Congratulations to Newstex Authoritative Content publisher Jon L. Gelman who won the iPad2 from Newstex which was raffled off in the contest open exclusively to current Newstex publishers!

Jon is an attorney and author of Worker’s Compensation, a blog about the analysis and trends and developments in worker’s compensation law throughout the United States. In a career spanning more than three decades, Jon is nationally recognized as an author, lecturer and skilled trial attorney in the field of workers’ compensation law as well as occupational and environmental disease litigation. He truly is an authority in his field!

Jon’s son was on hand at BlogWorld & New Media Expo East in New York City to accept the new iPad2 on his father’s behalf from Newstex Director of Publisher Relations, Aura Sujaritchan Novembre.

Congratulations, Jon!

Congratulations to Shel Horowitz who won an iPad from Newstex at our exhibit booth during the BlogWorld & New Media Expo East Conference this week in New York City.

Shel writes GreenAndProfitable.com where he provides information about running a profitable green business. He is also the author of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (co-written with Jay Conrad Levinson).

Newstex Director of Publisher Relations, Aura Sujaritchan Novembre presented Shel with his new iPad2 during the BlogWorld & New Media Expo East in New York City.

Congratulations, Shel!

Newstex Vice President of Technology and expert cloud developer Chris Moyer’s new book, Building Applications in the Cloud: Concepts, Patterns, and Projects, is now available through online and offline book sellers.

In his book, Chris introduces proven patterns for cloud platforms from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and other providers. He demonstrates these patterns at work through extensive example code and case study applications for Python and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether you’re building new solutions or adapting existing code, Building Applications in the Cloud teaches readers how to use cloud architectural patterns that deliver superior performance, scalability, and availability.

The book covers topics such as:

• Principles of successful cloud solutions
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Services that cloud service providers offer
• Image design that gives your cloud application a strong foundation
• Patterns for interacting with external systems
• Executing code segments against your data
• Clustered multiserver deployments

From the Preface of Building Applications in the Cloud:

This book isn’t designed as a tutorial to be read through from cover-to-cover. It’s not a guide for how to build an application for the cloud, but instead it’s designed as a reference point for when you have specific questions. When your boss hands you a new project and tells you to make it scale, check the patterns discussed in this book to see what fits. When you work on a project and you find a specific problem that you don’t know how to handle, pick this book up. If you’re trying to start on a new project, and you have a perfect idea, but you don’t know how to scale it, pick this book up. If you’re trying to modify an existing project to scale in the cloud, pick this book up. If you don’t know what kinds of applications you can build with cloud computing, pick this book up.

This book doesn’t invent many new patterns but simply shows you the tricks and new techniques that you need to consider while running them in the cloud. Although you can use any patterns discussed in this book in any sort of clustering environment, they’re designed to take full advantage of the services provided by cloud computing.

If you’re interested in learning more about building cloud applications and want to learn how to maximize the value of your cloud applications while avoiding potential problems, then pick up a copy of Building Applications in the Cloud.

In April 2010, PR Newswire and Newstex launched a new iPhone and iPod Touch mobile app and a month later, the PR Newswire and Newstex iPad app debuted.  Today, a new and enhanced PR Newswire and Newstex mobile app is available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices.

The new (and still free) PR Newswire mobile app offers new features like push alerts, offline reading and a Spanish interface.  The new app also offers enhanced search features of all press releases, photos and images by company name, ticker symbol or via a list of topic categories.  Users of the new app can also save searches based on multiple keywords or stock market tickers.

The alerts feature enables users to be automatically notified by email or notification on their mobile device when a new press release is issued related to the company or keywords chosen for the alert or when the @prnewswire or @profnet Twitter feeds include those keywords.

The new and improved PR Newswire mobile apps offer more ways for users to find and share the press releases, images, video and other content that matters to them when they’re on the go.  A new PR Newswire mobile website adds even more ways for people to access and share content.

Check out the video about the new PR Newswire mobile app and mobile site.

Learn more about the PR Newswire mobile apps.

The team at Newstex is excited to share the news of a new content syndication opportunity for companies that have corporate Facebook pages.  Newstex now licenses content published on Facebook company pages for syndication as news feeds to information providers and enterprise customers.  You can follow the link to read the complete Newstex press release.

As Newstex President Larry Schwartz explains:

“For companies, syndicating Facebook page content enables them to position their brands and news in front of audiences that need it to do their jobs such as journalists, academics, government officials, and more.  It’s one more communications tool that companies can use to generate publicity and build brands.  And don’t forget.  Those audiences are consumers, too, and Facebook page content syndication offers a valuable form of content marketing.”

Adding Facebook company page content syndication to Newstex’s existing blog, Twitter, and video content syndication services is just one more way that online publishers and Newstex provide Authoritative Content to people who need access to credible information they can trust in order to do their jobs every day.

Did you know that Newstex is the only content provider to offer editorially-selected Twitter feeds from, news, business, political, and independent Twitter publishers, including all Twitter feeds from the members of the U.S. Congress and Senate, U.S. Federal Agencies, and Canadian Parliament.

Now, the Twitter feeds of over 200 British Members of Parliament are available through Newstex Authoritative Content syndication, too!  These Twitter feeds include members from the Labour Party, Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and other parties.

Twitter has become an essential tool to communicate with people locally and around the world with the immediacy and reach of the platform attracting people from all walks of life.  By adding the Twitter feeds of British Members of Parliament to Newstex Authoritative Content, Newstex offers another way that people can get quick and easy access to reliable information they need to do their jobs rather than continually weeding through the clutter and falsehoods that can be found on Twitter.

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2010 marks the fifth year in a row that Newstex has been named to the EContent 100 Content Companies that Matter Most in the digital content industry.  You can view the complete list here.

The 2010 list was determined by a panel of judges, including EContent Magazine editors, Information Today, Inc. colleagues, and industry experts.  Categories include:

• Collaboration
• Content commerce
• Content creation, production and digital publishing
• Content management
• Fee-based information services
• Mobile content
• Search technologies

Michelle Manafy, Editor-in-chief of EContent, describes the judging process this year as tougher than ever, explaining:

“Every company was held up to scrutiny in terms of innovation and meeting customer needs. It was a challenging year in the voting–as it has been for the companies that made this list through their hard work, customer focus, and continued responsiveness to the changing digital content landscape. The need to leverage tools to effectively maximize the value of digital content has never been greater. Like the creation of this list, the processes is tough one, but well worth it.”

This is the tenth year that the EContent 100 Companies that Matter Most in the digital content industry list has been released.  You can view the complete 2010 EContent 100 list online or in the December 2010 issue of EContent Magazine.

We’re very excited to announce the launch of a new iPhone and iPad app that Newstex developed with marketing speaker and author David Meerman Scott.  David’s free mobile application is available from the iTunes store.

The new iPhone and iPad app gives users mobile access to David’s blog posts, Twitter updates, videos and online Amazon bookstore, so they can read his Authoritative Content anywhere and anytime. You can see some screenshots of the new app in action below.

David worked with Newstex to develop his mobile app in an effort to demonstrate the need for public relations, analyst relations and investor relations departments of companies that they need to create such applications to reach their audiences.  As David explains on his blog, Web Ink Now:

“I think companies need to extend the content delivery ideas of the online media room to include development of mobile applications specifically designed to provide information for the media, bloggers, industry analysts, and financial analysts who cover the company.  An added benefit is that the applications can double as a tool to reach employees and partners as well as existing and potential customers.  The application should include such things as a real-time press release feed, links to real-time updates on appropriate corporate blogs, videos, a Twitter feed, event signups (such as press conferences), and contact information.”

The new David Meerman Scott iPhone and iPad app is the most recent mobile application that Newstex has developed for content publishers and more are on the way!  You can learn more about Newstex-developed mobile applications for PR Newswire, SIIA, and Newsonomics.

Following the successful launch of the Newstex and PR Newswire mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch devices last month comes the debut of the Newstex and PR Newswire iPad app!

The new Newstex and PR Newswire iPad app is optimized for Apple’s iPad device allowing users to view higher resolution video and images and leverage the dual-pane feature of the iPad to view content.  In its press release announcing the availability of the feature-rich iPad app, PR Newswire explains:

The launch of the iPad-optimized Mobile App solidifies PR Newswire’s position as the only commercial news distribution service offering text, photos and a distinct video channel through its own iPhone, iPod Touch, and optimized iPad application. Key to its success, the Mobile App provides direct access to breaking news from many of the world’s leading brands while enabling users to search PR Newswire’s extensive database of press releases and multimedia content. The PR Newswire Mobile App also lets users interact with PR Newswire’s @ProfNet and @PRNewswire Twitter feeds, and subscribers of PR Newswire’s expert network, ProfNet, can use the PR Newswire Mobile App to access fast-breaking queries from reporters seeking article sources and expert commentary.

You can download the Newstex and PR Newswire mobile app for iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices through Apple’s iTunes App Store.

Read more about Newstex mobile apps

Images: PR Newswire