A blog is a Web page, or type of website usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentaries, opinion and other content such as videos. 'Blog' can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

CMS or Content Management System.

CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation. The content managed may include electronic documents such as blogs and citizen journalism, newspaper articles, images, audio and video files, and Web content.

Convergent Newsroom

Convergent Newsroom is the term used to describe a newspaper's news gathering and publishing operation when all journalists and editors involved operate together, usually in the same room, to publish multimedia content to all relevant channels. The channels can include print, websites, SMS, and mobile devices. Integrated Newsrooms are more efficient when using one single integrated computer system (CMS) to publish to all channels. A Convergent Newsroom is sometimes also described as an Integrated Newsroom or a Multimedia Newsroom.

Cross-Media Publishing

Cross-media is the term used when publishers publish articles and advertisements across different media platforms such as websites, print, broadcast, SMS and mobile devices.

Newspaper Editorial System

A newspaper editorial system is a computer system used mainly within the newspaper and magazine publishing industry for the capturing of text, writing of stories, text editing, and production of pages complete with images, for printing. Newspaper editorial systems should be able to publish to any media channel, and also provide storing, archiving and retrieval capabilities either of individual stories and photos, or complete pages.

Multimedia Newsroom or Integrated Newsroom

Another term used for a convergent newsroom (see above) is an 'integrated' or 'multimedia' newsroom.

PDF or Portable Document Format

PDF is an abbreviation of Portable Document Format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system, and is today used extensively in newspaper publishing.

PostScript

Postscript is a page description language (PDL) that describes a page's text and graphical content. It can be used to define the appearance of graphics and text for both screen and print. The language was developed by Adobe Systems in 1984 and has since gone through many revisions and updates.

Newspaper Publishing Solution

A newspaper publishing solution is a computer system that enables the design, creation, editing, and publishing of editorial and advertising content. Professional publishing solutions, sometimes known as Content Management Systems, or CMS, should be able to publish any media form to any media channel, to include websites, print, SMS and hand-held mobile devices.

Social Media

Social media is information content, comment, or opinion, created by individual people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies such as Twitter, YouTube. Social Media can take many forms including Web blogs, Internet forums, podcasts, pictures and videos. It is intended to facilitate communications, influence interaction between peers and with public audiences. This is typically done via the Internet and mobile communications networks.

Web Publishing

Web publishing is creating a website and placing or publishing it on a Web server. A website is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Distributing the site requires copying the resulting HTML pages and graphic elements into the appropriate directories on the server.

Web Publishing Engine

A Web publishing engine is software technology, usually in a database, that manages Web pages. For use in today's multimedia world websites use a post-relational object database to achieve optimal performance and scalability.

Web Publishing Software

Web publishing software is computer software that enables the design and creation of Web pages, and the publication of the pages on the World Wide Web

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of Web development and design that aims to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability and collaboration on the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 concepts have lead to the development and evolution of Web-based communities, hosted services, and applications such as social-networking and video-sharing sites, Wikis and blogs.