been using prosepoint site for making magazine

When Beng introduced the Workflow module for ProsePoint, I decided it was time to move my magazine over from using this wierd Korean online drive service (www.webhard.co.kr) to using our ProsePoint installation (www.koreaittimes.com) to coordinate our work for the print magazine, and so far everyone is extremely happy, most of all me.  It works beautifully to reduce confusion, increase efficiency, and smooth things along as fast as possible.

I added a few new workflow states, so that our current workflow state looks like this right now:

(creation) > Draft > Ready for review > Edited Once > Edited Twice > Ready for Design > Designed > Published , Private , Archived

I added a new role, Designer, and customized the permissions so that roughly, a story author and Staff can advance a story workflow to ready for review, and also take back a story from any state to ready for review if they see a mistake.  Editors can push a story along from draft all the way to Ready for Design, and move them back and forth.  The Designer role alone can move a story from Ready for Design to Designed, when she is finished putting the text and images into the print design.  And finally, when its all done the admin can push everything to Published.  The admin can also move everything between all states in case there are any problems.

There has been one slight grumble that I'm acting as a father figure by not allowing the reporters to cheat the system by not giving them the ability to publish things immediately, but they got over it.

Archived stories are stories imported from the old web site, and as they are formatted and adjusted for the new system they can be moved over to Published.

Unauthenticated visitors can see everything from ready for design onwards.  That means they get to see news as soon as its edited and has photos, earlier than the print magazine.  This has the full support of the rest of the staff.  Some day we may just give up on the print magazine altogether, I think.

This is the most excellent addition to prosepoint since I discovered it, and I'm really thankful to Beng for adding this.  I've commissioned him to make a special editor's view of the prosepoint editor, with large text and a good font.  After that I can happily do my work on the web site from anywhere in the world.  Currently I copy and paste into Word and do editing there, but it becomes a bit more problematic to do that if the story already has photos.

But all in all, this is great.  I love the workflow module addition!