Targeted outcomes

• Gather and review editorial ideas
• Track editorial progress
• Assign editorial to specific writers/researchers
• Store resource material along with finished editorial
• Create a fully searchable database of previous editorial
• Keep a track of which articles are lagging behind publishing deadlines.

How IdeasTracker works for you

One of the key challenges for magazines and periodicals is finding enough material to fill the pages, and ensuring that material is submitted, subedited and proofed on time.

IdeasTracker allows you (and your editorial staff) to enter article ideas. These ideas can be peer reviewed, then assigned to the relevant writer (in some cases this may not be the person who came up with the article idea). Statuses can be assigned to track, for example, collection of media, photography, booking travel, interview transcription, subediting, proofing, etc - the statuses are completely customisable.

Each journalist/writer will be able to see which articles are open and in progress, and whether they're assigned to any articles.

Resource material (including audio files, images, web links and links to existing articles) and the final article can be incorporated into the article idea until it's finally published. At this time it becomes fully searchable across your organisation so if someone suggests a similar article in a couple of years' time you can easily see what was written before.

IdeasTracker is geared to allow editors to save time, and keep a track of a multitude of articles at any one time. Writers can easily see their responsibilities, and the whole organisation develops a resource of intellectual property.

To see a presentation of IdeasTracker in action click here To purchase and download IdeasTracker, click here.

IdeasTracker is so reasonably priced that the first idea might return your investment several-fold.

If you have a writer who submits an article idea, but doesn't end up writing the final article, you could split the payment equitably between the two.