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in© BTM Innovation Blog Publisher information for users of Chordata, HLMSW, Zinfonia, the UIC and in© Blog about BTMI about HLMSW about the UIC about in© about Zinfonia about Chordata ← Older posts Zinfonia at MOLA Cleveland Posted on May 14, 2024 by btmi Zinfonia will be represented at the 42nd Annual M ajor O rchestra L ibrarians’ A ssociation hosted by the Cleveland Orchestra commencing on May 24th. For this event, Zinfonia will be promoting the new Zinfonia Publisher News Feed and so if you have content that you think would be valuable to orchestral music librarians across the globe, please make sure your news items are visible BEFORE May 24th, 2024. It may also be a good opportunity to review and update your Zinfonia banner as well. Both of these can be maintained in the Promotion/Marketing section of your InCopyright portal – please contact us if you need assistance with access or use of these features. Ulrich Steffen Eck , the operations manager of Zinfonia and curator of the Zinfonia databases will be at the Tech Fair and subsequent sessions and he would love to see you if you are in attendance. Posted in Zinfonia | Comments Off on Zinfonia at MOLA Cleveland In© New Features Posted on April 28, 2024 by btmi Here is a summary of the many new features now available at the incopyright.com publisher portal. Statistics and Reports You can now view and download a range of important facts and figures in the new \Tools\Reports section of In© where you can view OR download (in csv format): Statistics is a graphic overview of the transactions and clicks with a comparison to the previous year to see how you are tracking. Transaction Report is a list of all transactions that have been submitted by users in the given period for all of your catalogues Click/Link Report is a list of all clicks on your banners, news items or with links you have provided by users in the given period Top 100 Works Report will provide you with a list of the MOST performed titles in your catalogues Hidden Works Report is a list of all works not available to Zinfonia users for a variety of reasons (it is recommended you check this from time to time to make sure something is not visible when it should be) Zinfonia Subscription Details and Invoices You can now view and keep track in real-time all details of your existing subscription and invoices by selecting the option Invoices/Payments – Zinfonia Invoices Managing your Zinfonia catalogue with In© For publishers that upload content directly into Zinfonia, we have a number of new features and resources available to you to keep you Zinfonia catalogue up to date. Uploading Content from a File Using the same tab-delimited Unicode file formats for data and links as the old Zinfonia, you can upload your content into Zinfonia using the new \Zinfonia Catalog\Upload menu option. To upload a file. just use the Upload Items button and follow the prompts. After a file has been uploaded and processed by us, title will be marked as Ready with a green background, and these can inserted into Zinfonia using the Process Items button. If there are any items you do not want to process, select them using the check box, and press the Remove Items button. Editing Existing Content To edit any existing content, use the new Edit button you will find located next to all of your works in the Zinfonia Catalog/ALL Zinfonia search. Here you can edit all Zinfonia information and links, with the new option of adding a UIC. The UIC makes for a much better user experience for your customers because they can see precisely what parts make up a set and is a recommended inclusion for all items on Zinfonia. Changes to Visibility rules for Banners and News Items To keep the publisher banners and news items fresh for our regular users, we are now applying some weighting algorithms to feature more recent content. Global Publisher News We recommend you update your content every month because content that has been updated in the last month with be featured ahead of older content. We are also testing a RSS feed for news items you can subscribe to with your favourite news reader at https://rss.zinfonia.com/ZinfoniaWS.asmx/publisherNews Banners You should aim to updated them at least once a year to keep give them most chance of being seen. We also have the facility to boost certain banner ads for a limited time if you have something special you want people to see (there is a small additional fee for boosting banner content). You can use the new Click/Link report mentioned above to track the success of your Zinfonia marketing campaigns. Posted in in© , Zinfonia | Comments Off on In© New Features Zinfonia Global Publisher News Feed is Live Posted on April 9, 2024 by btmi The Global Publisher News Feed with content provided by our publisher partners is now visible on Zinfonia ( click here to view the entire feed ). All Zinfonia publishers now can promote their catalogues and activities DIRECTLY to all active Zinfonia users by uploading banners and articles through the Marketing option of In©. As Zinfonia reaches more than 4k unique users every week, your posts will bee seen by librarians, musicians, educators and artistic personnel from all over the world. This feature is FREE for all Zinfonia Connect publishers with an active subscription (with the number of concurrent news items being based on the level of your subscription). When a user logs into Zinfonia, they are presented with a random selection of News Feed articles, the number of which is dependant on the platform they are using to view Zinfonia. All news articles may be posted in several languages, and all clicks (to non-Zinfonia sites) are logged and charged at your usual rate. Links to searches in Zinfonia are not charged, and the easiest way to create Zinfonia links is via Zinfonia Catalogue option in In©. Locate an example of a work you want to feature, and click the purple action button and use the LINKS tab and drop down to create a variety of links for this work. Note: Make sure you test all links to make sure they are OK before publishing. Posts are promoted for a month after their release, and so if you want your posts to remain in high rotation, we recommend you update the content every month. If you need help with this, please do not hesitate to contact us. Posted in Zinfonia | Comments Off on Zinfonia Global Publisher News Feed is Live Zinfonia Global Publisher News Feed Launches in April Posted on March 4, 2024 by btmi The global publisher newsfeed, a key new feature of Zinfonia 2.0 will be visible to all Zinfonia users from April 1st, 2024. The global publisher news feed is a unique and free opportunity for all Zinfonia publishers to promote new composers, first performances, important anniversaries or any information that you think will be of interest to the 81k of Zinfonia users world-wide. Every piece of news can be delivered in multiple languages and includes a clickable link that you can take your users to titles in Zinfonia for free, or to pages on your websites for a small fee. To start creating your news feed, please head to https://www.incopyright.com/news (you will need Marketing permissions to view this page). All you will need is a headline, some text, a link to provide more information and a square image no smaller than 100 x 100 pixels. The number news items you can submit at any time is related to the level of your Zinfonia subscription, with additional slots available for a small fee but you can can update the news items any time you like. A preview of the news feed is available here https://www.zinfonia.com/newsfeed Don’t Forget your Banner Ad While you are updating this information, don’t forget to review your Zinfonia Banner ad which may be updated here: https://www.incopyright.com/banners. Zinfonia Banners are a highly visible promotional opportunity available to all Zinfonia publishers as part of your subscription. Posted in in© , Zinfonia | Comments Off on Zinfonia Global...