Alfresco 4 Delivers Cloud-Scale Performance, Social Publishing & A Consumer-Like UI

London, UK (PRWEB) October 05, 2011

Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced the release of Alfresco Community 4, the most significant release of the platform to date. Alfresco 4 features a wealth of new user features and UI enhancements that enable faster user adoption, along with improved tools to allow developers to create social and cloud-scale, content-rich applications.

Alfresco 4 is the result of a collaboration with our 2,200+ enterprise customers and 250+ global SI partners to create the most robust and extensible platform for a new generation of cloud-scale content apps, said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. We have made dramatic improvements in Alfrescos ability to scale and perform, while making it easier for developers to customize and extend the platform.

Alfresco Community 4 can be downloaded now for development and testing here.

The announcement is being made in conjunction with Alfrescos exhibit at JavaOne, the annual Java developer conference in San Francisco on October 2nd through 6th.

Cloud-Scale Performance

Alfresco Community 4 significantly increases overall system performance. New features that enable cloud-scale deployments include:

Mariner Expands Its Reach Into the Creative Writing Market by Forming a Partnership With the Online Publishing Company _trekden

Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) November 02, 2011

Were not sure how Ernest Hemingway would react today. With the availability of a wide variety of creative writing software, anyone who has a story to tell, can write one. Mariners own popular novel writing software, StoryMill, has a numerous and impressive following of both first-time and published professional writers. Established professional writers have a number of options at their disposal to get their writings published. For the rest of the world, whose works remain unpublished, who helps them?

Mariner has teamed up with _trekden, a one-of-a-kind, online publisher, specializing in getting those unpublished stories published using mediums like Apples iBook Store and Amazons Kindle Store. Both companies share a common interest in the creative writing community. Mariner plays a role in the writing process by providing innovative software, like StoryMill, designed to inspire writers to produce their best work. Trekden represents that second step in a writers journey by helping them overcome the administrative and financial hurdles of publishing. Together, Mariner and _trekden will form the complete experience for writers. When using Mariners StoryMill, writers will be able to bring their story from conception to completion. With _trekden, StoryMill users will have the advantage of their stories being expedited through the _trekden publishing process as premium clients.

"The partnership between Mariner Software and _trekden is important for just one reason it creates the turnkey solution for authors to write and publish their books," said T.K. Dennis, President of _trekden. "Becoming a published author is one of the most popular "bucket list" items throughout the world. Thats why _trekden and Mariner Software have teamed up. Our goal is to eliminate as many barriers as we can from the writing and publishing process."

With this collaboration, StoryMill now has a new Publish feature. When the user selects Publish, they will be connected to _trekdens full publishing services which includes general editing, cover design, ISBN assignment, and then, out to the marketplace. This new feature in StoryMill, and _trekdens services, are completely free to the user.

"This integration of publishing through _trekden in StoryMill adds incredible value," said Michael Wray, President of Mariner. "Youre not just buying an app that makes the writing process fun and easy, youre also investing in a means of publishing that will make the dream of becoming a published author a reality."

StoryMill is available as a full working demo from the Mariner Software website. Free review copies of StoryMill are available to the press.

About Mariner Software

Mariner Software Inc, is a developer and republisher of industry recognized Mac OS, iOS and Windows products. Founded in 1990, Mariner has established itself as a leader in the consumer, business and education markets with such products as MacJournal, Mariner Write, Mariner Calc, MacGourmet Deluxe, StoryMill, WinJournal, MacJournal for iPad and iPhone, Mariner Calc for iPad and iPhone and Paperless for Mac and Windows. For a complete listing of all products visit Mariner Software. With customers worldwide, Mariner Software is committed to delivering the highest quality software with an emphasis on total customer satisfaction.

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Free Spirit Publishing Releases Tenth Book in the Award-Winning Toddler Tools Series

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) November 02, 2011

Free Spirit Publishing presents ON-THE-GO TIME ($ 7.95), the tenth book in the award-winning Toddler Tools series of board books by author Elizabeth Verdick and illustrator Marieka Heinlen. ON-THE-GO TIME was written to help take the hassle out of shopping and running errands with little ones. In the book, toddlers learn simple tools and encouragement to keep moving, cope with the changing scenes, and be super helpers in the car, at the store or library, and on the road. What do they do when theyre on-the-go? Listen, follow along, and even lend a hand. If theyre struggling with transition times, or feeling disappointed or overstimulated along the way, they can take deep breaths to calm down.

The Toddler Tools series offers a fresh look at the times and transitions all toddlers face daily, giving young children coping skills to ease transition times and handle everyday routines with confidence and cooperation. In ON-THE-GO TIME, MEALTIME, BEDTIME, CALM-DOWN TIME, MANNERS TIME, SHARING TIME, NAPTIME, LISTENING TIME, BYE-BYE TIME, and CLEAN-UP TIME (Free Spirit Publishing, $ 7.95 each), Heinlens signature illustrationsvibrant color interwoven with vintage fabricsare the perfect complement to Verdicks rhythmic text.

Each book also contains a section of tips for parents and caregivers. Here are few tips from ON-THE-GO TIME to keep toddlers moving:

EBSCO Publishing Partners with the Canadian Medical Association to Provide Continuing Medical Education Credits via DynaMed

Ipswich, MA (PRWEB) May 05, 2011

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has partnered with the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) to provide institutional access to Mainpro MI educational credits via DynaMed, an evidence-based reference resource. The integration of DynaMed with the Canadian Medical Association system enables physicians to use DynaMed for research and quickly and easily earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits.

Representing more than 74,000 of Canadas physicians, the Canadian Medical Association is the only association that offers automatic transfer of credits to The College of Family Physicians Canada (CFPC). DynaMed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other healthcare professionals for use primarily at the point-of-care. DynaMed contains clinically-organized summaries for more than 3,200 topics; the database is updated daily and can be integrated into electronic health records.

The new partnership with DynaMed enables the CMA to help physicians work towards obtaining their credits through a self-reflective look at their practice while earning continuing medical education credits. Institutional access provides a direct link from clinical summaries within DynaMed to their CMA account to submit searches and receive Mainpro MI educational credits

Stratton Lloyd, vice president of medical market development at EBSCO Publishing, says incorporating CME credits into DynaMed is an essential part of DynaMeds goal to provide clinicians with the best available evidence. DynaMed was created to serve the needs of healthcare professionals. Allowing users to incorporate education into their practice on a daily basis is a natural extension of the DynaMed mission. Institutional access to DynaMed provides clinicians in Canada with a streamlined way to access continuing medical education within the clinical workflow.

CMA members may access DynaMed at http://www.cma.ca/clinicalresources/dynamed. Institutions currently subscribing to DynaMed may have the new CMA CME feature turned on within their subscription at no additional charge. Additional information about DynaMed is available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the worlds premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The companys product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL