Today's publishing demands a flexibility that monolithic content management systems were simply not designed to deal with. We no longer publish documents; instead we maintain a living information flow and a modular approach to software means newsrooms can cherry-pick the best-of-breed solutions to do that.
The headless CMS Livingdocs and the editorial calendar tool Kordiam share that approach and together give publishers the freedom to let their messages flow to wherever users choose to consume them.
Livingdocs – Much more than a CMS; a whole new way of publishing
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In today's publishing a document is not a document. It is never a finished thing. Social media has helped create an expectation of constant update and enrichment of content and in the process publishers find themselves running to stay still. Too often we battle to create a living flow of information with tools intended for a time when content was created, saved, and finished.
The headless CMS Livingdocs is all about the fact that today's documents are living, growing, evolving elements of content. To do that it has eliminated forms or previews. Instead editors see exactly what their content looks like as they work on it.
Working on it is dramatically different too. Instead of working in pre-set text or graphic areas Livingdocs supports drag and drop of elements to instantly reposition and resize. Page elements can be swiped into place, and one element replaced with another – whether with images, citations, typographic styles, or rich media.
The approach is component based making it easy to roll out and customise for widespread teams to collaborate on, and for immediate consumption on the web, phones.... or watches.
Gabriel's background is the intersection of both software development and social networks. Before Livingdocs Gabriel was co-founder and Managing Director of Politnetz, the first political social network in Switzerland where the majority of Swiss national politicians can be found writing and discussing.
Livingdocs is a natural development from that and sees him handling client needs while still getting hands on with software development. Which makes him ideally placed to explain the next generation of content tools for a world in which the ink never dries.
