Publishing

The Technology

There are several options in the market for content management systems; each can be customized to the specific routines of your newsroom, but all will require experienced web staff to operate. While CP5 is a system that brings accessibility to the newsroom to publish and provides flexibility for dynamic presentation of content, it provides the baseline features such as email edition delivery, RSS feeds, native blog engine, and comment moderation.

The ability in the college newsroom to publish in a 24 hour news cycle with daily customization of your site in an easy to use graphical interface is second to the benefits of year-over-year reliability of hosting, continuous site security and state-of-the-art database management.

The Support and Maintenance

Every software offering must be continually tweaked and debugged. The internet is an increasingly evolving animal with both great innovation and an increasing number of predatory programs ready to hack your site. College Media Network offers 24 hour support throughout the year. Our server farms are best in breed and we continually improve the integrity of the system so your site doesn’t get spammed or hacked.

From the newspaper staff perspective, CP5 is simply a top of the line CMS. From the reader perspective, the code base powering CP5 sites run highly sophisticated caching mechanisms so that any work or support done to the back end of the sites is invisible to the reader. On top of that, mtvU’s relationship with Akamai, the leader in content distribution on the web, allows for your content to get to where it must go faster than it could otherwise.

The Syndication

College Media Network is among a suite of college focused sites for mtvU that garner over 300million page views in a semester. That means there are many opportunities to bubble your content up to places with a wider audience. While CP5 allows that process to flourish at much faster pace, it is the assets of this suite of sites that allows for much broader syndication than sites outside College Media Network.