Right now if you go the home page of bgviews.com (CP5) or the home page of bgviewsnetwork.com (MT) you will see a Flash-based widget from Issuu showing the latest issue. This is completely automated, which is something that CP5 could not do - College Publisher even suggested Issuu as the solution to the shortcommings of CP5. In CP4, it would auto thumnail, and automatically place the latest PDF in the sidebar for us, we just had to tell the tool which PDF to use. And now we are back to being just as much, if not more, automated.

Now I need to build out a PDF Archive section in our MT site, something else that CP4 did for us, and now we need to do ourselves. The PDF will be officially launching the PDF Archive in the fall, and likely have a soft launch sometime this summer.

Thanks to a suggestion from Chris at College Publisher, I am looking into using Issuu for BG News and other Student Publications publications. If it works well, we may even pay for the Pro version. Here is an embed for a test.

Sadly this widget only embeds the current document. I need to work on that. Hey, I just started using Issuu. Thanks to this blog post, it is easy to change document-id to folder-id. I have updated the embed code, and now it displays the most recent in my "2009 Summer" folder in my Issuu account. Sweet!