Following on from our Apps We Love post on Issuu all the way back in October last year (2014), updates to the Issuu system mean that a new post is warranted to tell you about the developments they have made and the impact that is possible.

Glossy publications on your website are a great thing for certain marketing purposes. If you have a brochure or prospectus that you would like to make available to a wide audience, creating an online flip-book is a great way to do it and nobody does it better than Issuu. They are trusted globally by small, single-person startups through to multinationals looking for high-end online publications that are feature rich and beautiful.

Brilliant Features

Unlimited Publications - for FREE!

You can add as many documents as you like, benefit from an unlimited package of storage and downloads and upload in any format - Issuu cleverly takes care of all conversion practicalities. If you're using the Schudio School Website CMS you can upload the files directly into your website admin and embed straight into any page so there is no need to leave your school website because we released an integration with Issuu back in December 2013.

Download and Print

Within the last few months Issuu made it possible to download and print documents, something that was missing in action for a LONG time and something we, amongst many others, had been crying out for. It is a brilliant addition and means that users can more easily be actively engaged with your publications.

Automatic Links

How about this for cool? Any links in your publications are automatically converted to online links and, should you opt for the Premium package, these links are tracked fully. Brilliant and it doesn't cost a bean.

Mobile HTML5 Reader / Native Android & iOS Apps

Issuu has everything in place to make sure that all your documents are accessible and readable within every type of device and on any screen size. Your readers can choose from accessing your content directly within your website (see above re the Schudio School Website CMS integration) or within the Apps that are available both on iOS and Android. The features within the App are brilliant, offering a truly immersive experience with options for users to effectively subscribe to your content, research thousands of educational resources, personalise their feed, Stack collections of their favourites and read content offline.

Analytics (premium)

If you decide to splash a small amount of cash as a school or college (most certainly will never need to), you can access detailed analytics of your publications. You'll get key insights into how much time a reader spends on each page, how many shares each publication / page receives and comments for your entire publications history.

Social Sharing

Of course, there is a very nice, easy to use module built into Issuu so that your content can be quickly, easily and naturally shared by your readers with their friends through all the usual social networks. A recent addition, with Clip "readers can share any piece of your publication to all their favourite social media sites, driving new readers directly into your document."

We're sure you can see a benefit to using Issuu for your school or college. Don't forget that if you use the Schudio School Website CMS for your school website we have a full integration with Issuu so that you simply upload a file into your website so you can put it anywhere with a single copy & paste action. Another great integration with a brilliant product to keep our marketing leading CMS at the very forefront of school website technology.