RMS MEDIA SYSTEMS OFFERS NEWSPAPER WEB PRODUCTS

RMS Media Systems Offers Newspaper Web Products

By E&P Staff

Published: May 13, 2008 12:59 PM ET

NEW YORK RMS Media Systems LLC in Canton, Ohio, a provider of new media and prepress systems, as well as outsourced development services for the publishing industry, now offers products and services to the newspaper Industry.

SportsPage 2.0, the engine behind Hudson Valley Media Group's Varsity845.com, which brings hyper-local content of sports to readers, combines a calendar with schedules and results, statistics, and box scores for all sports and athletes within a publisher's area of interest. SportsPage 2.0 is offered as a hosted solution or as a standalone product.

Also a hosted solution or as a standalone product, with full integration with editorial and Web content-management systems, the Newsplotter 2.0 map-publishing system enables publication of dynamic and original interactive maps with minimal effort, according to RMS. Ottaway Newspaper Group uses Newsplotter to map local community information and points of interest in special reports and breaking news.

RMS Media Systems' outsourced development services are used by United Communications' Kenosha News and The Attleboro Sun Chronicle and by The Times Herald-Record, Ottaway's daily in Middletown, N.Y.

The company also reports it has provided several custom RSS feeds. With its RSS Generator, RMS Media Systems "can create RSS feeds, or parse information to expound on [its] usefulness to customers," according to a company announcement.

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