Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is responsible for all creative, technical, and financial aspects of these multiplatform brands. As senior member of the editorial team, he provides structural guidance, sets standards, and coordinates activities with the technology and business teams. Don is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. He and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches. Don is also the Founder of Mequoda Systems, LLC, which operates and supports numerous online communities including I Like Crochet, I Like Knitting, and We Like Sewing.
We still believe strongly in tablet content. Like any other part of a multiplatform publishing strategy, it's not something you should invest your entire portfolio in, but tablet usage statistics
Some folks like to talk about the decline of magazines. And yet, the digital magazine surge shows that not only are magazines surviving, but they're alive and well, with still
Association magazines have potential for B2B publishing success; plus, Facebook Instant Articles, the latest personnel moves, and more
Can association magazines transcend membership readers to engage in some serious audience development?
Periodical publishers have historically considered content to be disposable – generated once for use in a periodical or book and then discarded.
Multi-platform publishers who recycle, reuse, and re-publish information in
Does your advertising revenue model include content that delights and informs users, while similarly rewarding your advertisers?
As the digital publishing market has grown and changed, selling ad space has only become
Lots of news on the ad tech side of the industry, which really shouldn't come as news, given all of the advancements happening on what seems like a weekly basis
Publishers, especially in the B2B space, have always helped their audience by providing career development advice, and by promoting opportunities in need of qualified professionals. Often, publications will provide expert
Times, Adobe, others making online magazine content news
Online magazine content doesn't end with an article being posted online. Rather, that's where it begins.
There are innumerable ways of repurposing content, and
Digital media publishing is a challenge, but it's a worthy challenge, because it will make you money when it's done right.
Print media publishing is a challenge, too, and it still
Advertising for publishers is also well known as an adventure for publishers, or better yet, a "choose your own adventure" for publishers, rife with peril but also the possibility for
Three years ago, Nielsen published an article that predicted "multi-screen [advertising] campaigns will be very important in three years." Multi-screen advertising, which a more common term in television advertising,
At Mequoda, we talk a lot about individual pieces of the Mequoda System in our Daily posts. But the Mequoda System, known in full as the Mequoda Multiplatform Media Management
Here at Mequoda, we will make you into a digital magazine publisher, and if you're already a digital magazine publisher, we'll make you into a better one.
All of what you're
Most legacy publishers have years and years of content that sits on their website and can still be extremely useful for their audience. In addition, they create new content all
Social publishing, or preparing and posting content to platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and others, is no longer just an option up for discussion. Today, when it comes to
Is there anything more mercurial than online publishing trends? Not many industries have a more evolving mindset, technologies, or revenue models.
On some days, this is a great thing, and on
Mastering what the Internet of Things offers can go a long way for B2B magazines when it comes to driving revenue; plus, publishers' archives, Facebook Instant Articles, and more
There's a
What if you want to learn a little more about your magazine competition? You can't just go up to them and ask. I mean, maybe you'll bump into their marketing
If you came to this website for help on how to create a magazine online, congratulations: You couldn't have picked a better place. That's just one goal the Mequoda System
So you've launched your subscription website. You've determined the right price, and how you want to offer your subscription to customers, and you’re ready to think about ways to entice,
The push behind publishing video or perishing is reaching a fever pitch now, and we must admit – it is in your best interests to start doing it. But do
Who are the companies and what are the trends making the latest media news relevant to digital publishers like you?
The latest media news this week includes news from the earliest
Magazine platforms mean everything to your business model, which means they mean everything to ours, too. We've built our business on multiplatform publishing, which includes everything from a portal to
When we set out more than a decade ago to construct the most profitable niche publishing strategy for magazines, we took a big risk on how the new media industry
Understanding the new model for digital content publishing via niche and multiplatform principles
Digital content publishing is greater than the sum of its parts; grasping this concept makes a successful multiplatform
In recent news from the world of publisher analytics, we see Google share the top factors for search, the IAB's latest pronouncement on ad viewability, the efficacy of data monetization,
Blendle, pay per article service, launched in beta recently, with top digital publishers onboard in a bid to battle ad blocking programs
Will readers pay per article to access quality content?
Since the printing press was invented, the best way to deliver readable content was always on the page. Until the advent of the web, consumers hadn't even considered other ways
Looking for the latest in native advertising news? PubExec.com has been a bonanza lately for industry activity when it comes to sponsored content, not least because of its recent Native
How to leverage multi-channel marketing both internally and also to sell out your advertising packages
The human race doesn't all live in one house, or all work at one business. We
Recent news from the Guardian, Economist, and DMS 2016 show the evolution of important digital publishing tools
Developing digital publishing tools and assembling a formidable tool box that can handle "everyday
What to look for in a classified ad system, from Haven Nexus, to yClas, Classipress and ClassifiedEngine
Classified ads have a long tradition of providing service to readers. For newspapers, classifieds were a major
Hey, how about some online publishing news that doesn't include ad blocking or Facebook Instant Articles? Well, you've come to the right place.
What we like best about this batch of
Most publishers – at least most niche and regional publishers – cannot live on online magazine ads alone, but of course they're still a key component of any media operation.
The
Pick your favorite online publishing platform, and there's probably news; plus, when does a digital paywall become pay as you go?
The idea of the perfect online publishing platform continues to
It's no secret that Mequoda is the leading strategy-centric content management system provider for magazine and newsletter publishers looking to lock in on a multi-platform system. If it is news
What do you focus on while attempting to hire a new employee? What tools do you have at your disposal for the process?
Most hiring managers would cite a resume as
Checking in on the magazine strategy fueling digital publishers' latest efforts
There are core tenets to magazine strategy, but it's also mutable, malleable, and always evolving. We make it our business
The latest news on magazine publishing online from Hearst, News Republic, and more
We read trade sites about magazine publishing online for fun. We also read them to stay sharp. And
Good news and bad news about mobile advertising for publishers; plus, learning more from high-level players
Mobile advertising for publishers is among the most important issues facing the digital magazine business,
Publishers have had it up to here with major sources of their revenue being cut off, and are confronting readers with requests to disable ad block apps or risk losing
Publishers sometimes forget that they, themselves, are retailers; publishers sell subscriptions, memberships, books, ancillary products, events, etc. It’s smart for a publisher to think like a retailer: Get people into
Multiplatform publishing is the key to publishing success, and audience development is the job that gets you there
Sixteen years later, I can still remember the day a large publishing company,
Taking a closer look at Instagram publishing; plus, magazines on Twitter, data-driven publishing, and other social media strategies
Regardless of whether you plan on participating in Facebook Instant Articles or other
What to look for in community management systems from Haven Thread, to Simple:Press to Kunena
Forums really leverage some of the best things about the Internet. Sometimes called message boards, forums
For magazines publishing on Facebook Instant Articles, a primer on how media companies are using it, how the social media giant is tweaking it, and how holdouts are responding; plus,
The sphere of publishing events is expanding every week, and we're happy to see it, since they're a crucial component of the Mequoda Method for multiplatform strategy. But few events
Among all of the challenges facing digital publishers, international expansion is understandably on the back burner, but don't sleep on the possible new revenue stream. Social media has shown that
Helping companies maximize the vast potential of publishing magazines is not something we do for fun, although we definitely enjoy our work.
It's our lifeblood.
When we set out more than a
