Prezly now supports multiple languages
This post is about: features, prezly
Many of our clients publish press releases in multiple languages. After a while now their press rooms got very large having many releases in two or three languages. That’s why we’re introducing multiple language functionality. Users can now enable this feature and neatly group their press releases per language in their press rooms.
How to go about it:
- Enable multilanguage in your account settings
You can find it under the ‘language settings’ tab.
Choose the default language that you’d like your press room to be in.
- Choose a language
When you are creating a press release you can choose the language of the release.
- Translate a press release
On your dashboard and press release overview you can press the ‘translate’ button to translate an existing press release. For your convenience all texts and media assets of the original press release will be copied to the translated press release.
In your press room you’ll now have tabs on the top right to display press releases in the available languages. On press releases that have translations you’ll now also have a link to the translations of that press release.
For now there are three languages available in the system: English, French and Dutch. If you’d like us to add languages feel free to contact us via the support section.
These new features bring us one step closer to a mature version of Prezly without the beta tag. In a few weeks we’ll release the pricing options and turn on the payment gateway. Stay tuned.
by Frederik Vincx
on September 6th, 2010
New WYSIWYG editor
This post is about: features, prezly
We just updated the WYSISWYG editor in the Prezly backend. It’s still a simple editor with basic functionalities, but now you’ll be able to:
- Paste content in directly from Microsoft Word (the editor will automatically clean up the HTML code)
- Undo and Redo edits.
- View and edit the source as clean HTML code.
As always if you experience problems or have feedback: mail us at support@prezly.com
PS: for those who are interested, we switched from TinyMCE to the open source version of CKEditor.
by Jesse Wynants
on July 13th, 2010
Please allow me to introduce ourselves
This post is about: prezly, team
Those aren’t good manners. We’ve been publishing here for a while now without thoroughly introducing ourselves.
Prezly is a team of three young and healthy men hailing from Leuven and Brussels in Belgium.
Jesse and I, Frederik, are longtime friends and partners in crime. We studied Communication & Multimedia Design together. Gijs we found recently via Google. Really. We were in need of a kickass coder and system admin. Adding Gijs to the team has pushed the code of Prezly to a whole new level.
This service is a side project of ours. We all have very rewarding daytime jobs. Jesse and I in an ad agency, and Gijs with his own webdesign and development firm. We love what we do there but we also want to do more: learn new skills and try out different approaches. So we spend many of our evenings and weekends building and refining Prezly.
So, who are we?
Frederik Vincx, that’s me
I designed this blog. And all of the other pages on the site. I create the general flow, make the wireframes and push all the pixels around in Photoshop. I also do most of the frontend development.
I started working in advertising after graduating as a Master in Audiovisual Arts in 2006. Have been a frontend developer briefly before moving over to design and art direction. Currently I work as interaction designer at advertising agency ContentCowboys.com.
Gijs Nelissen
Gijs is the left brainer of the team. Our logic. After graduating as a computer engineer in 2002 he has spent the last decade honing his development skills creating web applications on open-source platforms.
Gijs is a natural entrepreneur running his own development firm DigitalBase and is co-founder of a start-up named TrackMyPeople. He is a code perfectionist that takes great pleasure in mocking the rest of the team that our code is so 2008.
Recently Gijs has also become the proud dad of Robbert, a little burping critter that luckily takes more after his mother.
Jesse Wynants
Jesse is the one who came up with the actual idea for Prezly (it came to him in Zanzibar, no shit). He is the product man, the one who’s awake at night pondering about which would be the best route to take for Prezly. Because ideas aren’t worth much without being executed Jesse is also an avid programmer that brings to life new features in record tempo.
During the day he is a strategist at Boondoggle and participates in Boondoggle LifeLabs, where he dreams up other digital products.
You can find out a bit more on our new about page on the site. There’s an overview of our blogs, sites and social media profiles.
by Frederik Vincx
on June 27th, 2010
What’s coming up
This post is about: features, prezly, roadmap
Our beta testers have been requesting a lot of features, we note down every single feature request. But we can”t implement everything, this is a quick update to let you know what’s in the pipeline:
- Multilangual support for press releases
You will be able to select a language for each press release as well as the default language for your account. This way your pressroom won’t contain press releases from different languages.
- Better Press Contact handling
Currently a contact can only belong to one group, we know this is wrong. That’s why we’re completely rethinking the press contacts, you’ll be able to add tags to contacts and select them when you’re creating a campaign. Much more logical, much easier.
- CSV importer for contacts
We heard ya’ !
- Secret URLs
You don’t want to publish your press release, but want to email it to a colleague for a spell check? Well this will be possible using secret URLs.
We can’t give an exact ETA but expect these features soon. We’ll keep you posted.
If you have feature requests, don’t hesitate to contact us via support@prezly.com or here in the comments.
by Jesse Wynants
on June 19th, 2010
Create press releases for the masses
This post is about: pressrelease, prezly, social media press release
We’ve always built Prezly with the intent to take the concept of a press release, which originated purely as a medium to communicate with journalists, and take it one step further. Prezly releases are meant for influencers, influencers in the broad sense of the word. Everyone who has Twitter followers, everyone who has a Facebook account has the potential to be an influencer. This is the core of our vision and this is why we put a lot of time in features related to this vision:
- We think it is important that press releases look good, are branded and are able to bring a story visually.
- We think it is important that you get to know your press contacts. We want to be able to track which influencers are valuable for what kind of story. (We’re not there yet, we know)
- The medium where you want to reach your influencers depends on where your influencers spend their time and have their followers. Integration with social networks is key!
- Creating a feedback loop: show what people are saying about your news.
- Our press releases are easy to share : share buttons, short url, … (more coming)
We’re really excited to see what our first users are currently doing with Prezly. And since the beginning of this week everyone can register and we hope to see a lot more companies who start to experiment with our press release format. Since this journey is just starting, please help us out: try Prezly out, tell us what you think.
In the next couple of days we’re going to publish our feature roadmap. People have been requesting lots of features, we’re going to be open and tell you which ones are in the pipeline, so you know when to expect them.
by Jesse Wynants
on June 4th, 2010
Harder, better, faster, stronger
This post is about: prezly, roadmap, team
The past few weeks a lot of changes have been going on behind the scenes. Frankly, you won’t notice them very much. Prezly will mostly run a lot smoother and faster thanks to the efforts of Gijs Nelissen. Jesse and I have engaged Gijs, the founder and chief of web development firm Digital Base to reinforce the Prezly team. Gijs is our code Jedi. He makes sure everything runs fast as can be an is solid as a rock.
We are very happy to welcome Gijs to the team as a partner. He will make sure that Prezly scales well and will keep on running smoothly. He has been reworking all our code for the past few weeks with great results. Some pages, especially your public press rooms and press releases now load up to five times faster.
The past few weeks in private beta we have been closely following all of the feedback of our brave beta testers and we have updated Prezly accordingly. We feel that Prezly is stable now and is a full fledged solution for creating social media press releases. So as from today we are no longer in a private beta and everyone can register for the public beta to join us in creating a killer next generation press release service.
There still are some extra uses we’re developing now before we can move on the become a completely open service. In the next few weeks we will streamline the current workflow (especially the contact section) and we’ll launch publicly soon. So stay posted. Follow us on Twitter or keep track of this blog to get the latest info.
by Frederik Vincx
on June 2nd, 2010
How and when do journalists want to receive press releases?
This post is about: knowledge, pressrelease
Bart Van Belle journalist for the Belgian paper De Standaard Online gave an interesting presentation in Dutch about press releases, journalists and PR at the don’t push event.
by Jesse Wynants
on May 7th, 2010
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