This month we've spoken to a number of large college daily newspapers that are using K-4 - a 'cross-media publishing platform' that manages their assignment-editing workflow. To one extent or another, these dailies are evaluating whether a solution like Camayak (annual cost: $2-6,000) can replace or work alongside K-4 (annual cost: $10,000+) - a system they've used for years and...

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As newsrooms start deciding how to spend their budgets next year, a number of publications have asked us: 'how does Camayak differ from our CMS?'. Put simply, Camayak doesn't compete with your existing CMS, as much as it does with the tools you use for organizing and editing your content before it reaches your CMS: for Google Docs, spreadsheets, email,...

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This week we're excited to announce two new features that will dramatically improve how teams communicate within Camayak. Dashboard activity feed. Each staff member will now be able to see a constantly updated feed of all the important activity happening in the desks they belong to. This will include: comments on assignments, new pitches, photos that are being uploaded to...

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Here's a presentation Roman Heindorff (our CEO) just gave at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference in Fort Worth, Texas, covering: Creative content - how to monetize the web Staff recruitment - engaging your ca...

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March 16th, 8:00 AM Central: Scheduled maintenance has been completed successfully. Our nginx webserver software has been upgraded to the latest version, and we are now supporting websocket connections between the Camayak app and the server. This provides better performance and uses less resources on the server. Thank you for your patience! March 12th: We're going to be running a...

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One of the things we notice when newsrooms start using Camayak is that they gravitate towards a more rapid (and daily) 'digital-first' production cycle. Whether you're assessing your print runs with next year's budget in mind, or simply working towards having a more active website: streamlining your content production will help you position your newsroom for the challenges ahead (and...

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We were excited last year to announce our partnership with School Newspapers Online: a WordPress hosting & support company with nearly one thousand educational institution clients in the US. After a phenomenal response from newsrooms all over the country who are looking to organize their workflow, we thought we'd re-post the details of the partnership. School Newspapers Online (SNO) is...

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It's been another fantastic month for the Camayak team. After presenting to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism alongside Mark Luckie - Manager of Journalism & News at Twitter - last month, we've been spending most of our time planning features and working with new clients: from college newsrooms to non-traditional publishers like hospitals and editorial agencies. One of the...

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Revision-tracking. Over the Summer we received fantastic feedback on our revisions feature, which allows you to quickly scan everyone's input into an assignment and gauge who's been involved in working on it (and to what extent). One thing that editors (particularly copy editors!) were desperate to see though, was a more obvious 'track changes'-type way of highlighting, from one revision...

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