Press Release
Olive Software Helps Manatee High School Swim Into The Digital Age
Company Sponsors High School Journalism Contest, Provides Winner With Electronic Edition, Enhancing Web 2.0-style Collaboration
Santa Clara, California, June 7, 2007 – Olive Software – along with the Newspaper In Education program at the Bradenton Herald – today announced that Manatee High School has won the Bradenton Herald School Newspaper Competition. As a sponsor of the competition, Olive Software will provide the newspaper with a digital edition using its popular ActivePaper Daily. The contest recognizes outstanding journalism among high school students.
“Competitions such as these can help reinforce the important role newspapers play in our society and promote awareness of journalism careers among a new generation of students,” said Peter Spielvogel, Director of Product Marketing of Olive Software. “Olive is proud to continue our tradition of support for student journalists, as well as excellence in reporting and writing.”
Olive will use ActivePaper Daily, its digital publishing solution, to transform future issues of the Manatee High School paper into an easy-to-use online format. The paper will be available over the Web to anyone, anywhere, at any time through a standard Web browser. ActivePaper Daily preserves the complete newspaper, in its original print format, and enables users to search and access all components, including articles, photos, and ads.
“Young people – with their adoption of social networking, blogging, and bookmarking – have led the Web 2.0 revolution. A fully-searchable, online newspaper is a natural component to their digital lives,” continued Spielvogel. “Student journalists at Manatee High will now be able to use the web as a platform for participation and collaboration, sharing their work with friends and family, as well as their college applications.”
“Support for high school newspapers is essential both for aspiring journalists and to promote readership of newspapers among high school students. Students have so many options regarding where to put their energies and how to spend their time. It is critical to give support to high school newspaper programs,” says Brandy Braver, Newspaper In Education Coordinator at the Bradenton Herald.
Digital Editions Evolve Around The Globe
Olive Software has created electronic editions and digital archives of
newspapers for customers around the world. Papers such as the Irish Times,
The Financial Times, The Denver Post, the Times of India, and The Scotsman
rely on Olive Software to monetize their content, making it accessible
to wide audiences ranging from corporate users to web readers to students.
“The newspaper industry is continually evolving – from moveable
type to paste-up to computer layout to fully digital editions and digital
archives,” said Spielvogel. “At Olive, we believe that the
digital revolution presents unique opportunities to reach young readers,
and our work with the winners of the Bradenton Herald competition underscores
this point.”
About Olive Software
Olive Software (www.olivesoftware.com) transforms unstructured content
into intelligent knowledge assets, enabling information discovery, effective
search and future-proof preservation. Hundreds of companies rely on Olive
to unlock the information in their content and publish it through a browser,
customized web application or portal, or knowledge management application.
Olive’s end-to-end electronic publishing platform understands the
structure and semantics of electronic, paper, microfilm, and microfiche
documents and automatically converts them to XML with highly searchable
metadata. Olive Software is based in Santa Clara, California, with sales
offices in New York, Washington DC, Denver, and Los Angeles, and R&D
facilities in Israel.
Media Contacts:
Sasha Frey
Marketing Director, Olive Software
+1 720.747.1220
sashaf@olivesoftware.com
www.olivesoftware.com