We’re sending you this email - the first Zapnito newsletter - as you’re someone who has expressed an interest in Zapnito, or who we think might like to hear from us.
We’ll be sending an email like this just once a month to keep you up-to-date with all things Zapnito, and to share insights from the team and others that we think will be of help and interest.
Product updates: performance improvements, ad positions and hidden profiles
Our expertise round-up: must-reads from team Zapnito and others on issues affecting your business
Enjoy! And if you have feedback to share, please contact me at charles@zapnito.com.
Charles Thiede CEO, Zapnito
Customer Highlights
Every month, our customers provide invaluable expertise, launch innovative new products, and realise impressive commercial success. Here’s some highlights from this month...
Springer Nature’s Nature Ecology & Evolution Community gave fascinating behind-the-scenes insight into a research paper that captured the attention of the mainstream press as it revealed what probably killed the Aztecs. This post is part of the popular ‘Behind the Paper’ series that runs across Springer Nature’s Zapnito-powered communities, in which research scientists tell the real-life stories related to their published research, enabling deeper understanding of their methodology.
J.P. Morgan’s Timothy Lewis summarised, on Zapnito-powered The UK Edge, the investing styles that worked in the UK equity market in 2017. A must-read for investors navigating the uncertain markets in 2018 and a great example of how the firm is showcasing its expertise.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) annual forum is a key event on the political and business calendar. The OECD has invited members of its Zapnito-powered Forum Network to directly inform the agenda of its 2018 event and thereby help find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges.
Product Updates
Zapnito Knowledge Networks is the platform for quickly and easily creating branded hubs of experts and content, in order to create, share and promote expertise.
The new hidden profiles feature for networks that require enhanced security. Let users hide their profile from site directories and on- and off-site search
Plus: check out this guide to GoSquared’s great new Prompts feature available to all Zapnito customers to help acquire more leads and users and deliver targeted marketing messages
At Zapnito, our raison d'être is to enable the creation and sharing of expertise. That’s why we have rounded-up some of the month’s best expert commentary on issues affecting our customers.
Our Chief Product Officer, Jen Thoroughgood, discusses how emphasising their people could help publishers fight back against the technology that threatens their industry.
Our Chief Technology Officer, Jon Beer, explains blockchain and wonders whether it could pose a solution to the problem of finding authentic knowledge in our post-truth world.
Given this is EXACTLY what Zapnito helps our publishing customers to do, we agree 100% with the words of Brian Morrissey, Editor-in-Chief at Digiday who says:
"The focus in 2018 will return to the importance of differentiated brands and direct connections to audiences… Zero in on something people care deeply about, give them what they want on that subject in a unique way, and build a diverse business model predicated on directly knowing the audience versus allowing a third party like Facebook mediate that relationship... Maybe it’s time for publishers to return to the basics of building brands and sustainable business models."
"No other industry has better connections to the world’s best writers and storytellers than the publishing industry. Leverage this competitive advantage and reinvent. "
Digiday’s summary of "The global state of trust in media, in 5 charts" explain that it’s not just the media firms themselves that are falling out of love with the platforms and social media. Data from global communications marketing firm Edelman shows that globally consumers’ trust in social platforms has fallen since last year, creating great opportunity for those who provide trusted expertise (not least publishers) to win back their audience.
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