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PubForge is an open space for collaborating on solutions and best practices for public broadcasting on the web. We've got lots of smart people throughout the system who can figure things out on their own, but why reinvent things? The spirit of this space is collaboration and the sharing of ideas, solutions, and code. If you're into that, welcome aboard PubForge!

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PubForge is looking for open-source software projects focused on the needs of public broadcasters to feature and distribute. What have you built lately? Project Inquiry.

Use Public Media Manager CMS

PubForge contains a fully functioning version of Public Media Manager 1.3. Any visitor can see the features in operation on pages created by demo users. To access the CMS and post your own stories, Request Login privileges.

Upcoming Project

PMM Community Calendar: A full-featured events manager that integrates with Public Media Manager. Includes venue management, outside posting, PSAs, syndication tools for distributing event information by community, region and category, plus more. See it live at ncpr.org.

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PubForge Blog

How-to: track behavior of ?loyal? visitors in Google Analytics

Most public media sites, even those with a strong news focus, show relatively poor overall loyalty stats, with the average visitor coming twice a month or less. The standard report segments in Google Analytics don’t give a very clear picture of what differentiates the...
Published: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:13:49 +0000

How to: Get your content on the map via geoRSS

Bill Haenel of Haenel Communications Technologies has added geotagging functions to the main content modules of North Country Public Radio’s custom implementation of his open-source CMS, Public Media Manager. These features operate within both the news module and the...
Published: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:09:36 +0000