January 15, 2010, Beirut – Lebanon: KnowledgeView, a leading multi-publishing solutions provider in Europe and the MENA region, is holding its 7th User Group Meeting “Beyond Boundaries: Online & Mobile Success Stories” from 16 till 18 February 2010, Beirut, Lebanon. An industry seminar is scheduled for 17 of February 2010 during which leading international and regional experts and speakers will discuss industry issues and exchange experiences and insights.

Among the key speakers on the 17th of February, Reiner Mittelbach, Joint CEO of WAN-IFRA, will give a presentation about tomorrow’s news publishing company entitled “Consumer Centric Communication”, Allan Marshall, Joint principal at iMedia advisory services Ltd, will be talking about the publishing strategies for online and mobile, as well as success stories from Japan and elsewhere and Niko Ruokosuo, COO of Saudi Research and Marketing Group will speak on commercial exploitation of news content in the Arab World.

“KnowledgeView is keen to hold such meetings with its clients and partners in order to exchange views and experiences, meet their needs and monitor the market requirements and latest trends. This meeting will also give KnowledgeView an important opportunity to reveal its last technical innovation and best practices in the multi-publishing field. This year, we wanted to widen the scope of our annual gathering and organize an industrial seminar where distinguished figures from the publishing and media industry will be giving presentations and case studies about the business newest technologies and techniques to increase revenues”, Dr. Ali Al-Assam, CEO of KnowledgeView said.

KnowledgeView holds its User Group Meeting (UGM) twice a year to update its clients about the products new features and upgrades and to hold bilateral discussion meetings to improve services and strengthen the bond with clients and partners in the Arab world.

 

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About KnowledgeView

 

KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and offices in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems. Users of KnowledgeView’s Publish live solutions included the Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, News Corporation and the Washington Post. In the Middle East, KnowledgeView is a leading newspaper integrator, with over 40 media companies, providing consultancy as well as technology, acting as a marketing and technology bridge between Europe and the Arab World.

KnowledgeView’s Publish live suite of products and services enables publishers to extend their reach and increase revenues, through easy multi-publishing to paper, Web, mobile and now TV & radio.

KnowledgeView’s RAPID Browser is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of news and media content and creating packages for cross-media publishing, designed to streamline production and create additional revenues.

RAPID Browser has set the standard for the next generation of news management systems, with its ability to gather content from a wide variety of sources such as news agencies, correspondents’ reports, RSS and Web harvested feeds, and the power it puts in the hands of users to define their own ways of filtering and acting on items that match their interests.

RAPID Archive, integrated with RAPID Browser, provides strategic rich-media archiving for publishers.