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By Steve Horton
iProduction

ST. PAUL, MN – August 3, 2005 – iProduction has now added iPro Forums to its stable of plug-in modules for the iPro IPS™. iPro Forums provides high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable forum and bulletin board capabilities that integrate fully with the iPro IPS™. iPro Forums provides a user-friendly interface along with simple and straightforward administration.

This module enables unlimited areas and posts, private or public forum areas, powerful forum content searching, private messaging, and, like all iPro modules, the application is fully branded through your site templates. iPro Forums is the affordable, manageable reader interaction solution for online publishers operating on the iPro IPS™.

“Many audiences demand forums from their Internet media outlets because they desire opportunities to interact directly with like-minded peers and subject-matter experts on the Web,” said iProduction president Stephen M. Laliberte. “There’s no more effective online community-builder than operating a forum in association with your online title.

Other iPro Forums capabilities include:

• Powerful user and group permission, authorization management, and ban management
• Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like
• Private forums and those only for specified user groups
• Robust searching
• Polls can be added to forums or posts
• E-mail notification of replies to topics
• Original emoticons to portray emotions
• IP tracking of posts and posters
• Personal profile creation

More About iPro IPS Modules The iPro IPS™ was designed to suit the needs of most online publishers. However, every publication is different; some business models may call for a more customized approach. When that’s the case, iPro Modules offer a “plug-in” alternative to costly and time-consuming custom application development.

Other iPro IPS modules include:

• iPro Circulator FX – Bridges the gap between content management and fulfillment
• iPro Catalog – Gives your publication a powerful online storefront
• iPro Events – Yours can be the go-to URL to register for conferences, trade shows, expos, and other events that are critical to your audience
• iPro Directories – Create online yellow page-style directories of the product and service providers your readers care about most
• iPro Classifieds – Bring buyers and sellers together and profit from the activity
• iPro Employment Classifieds – Makes it easy to run a powerful online employment section on your site

More About iProduction

iProduction is a privately held publishing software company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. Publishing companies of all sizes rely on iProduction’s flagship product, the iPro IPS™, to manage publication online content, sell online subscriptions, process payments, deploy e-mail publications, manage site advertising, search content archives, conduct electronic fulfillment, and much, much more. Many iProduction clients choose to pay monthly application service fees to avoid hiring programmers or purchasing host computer systems. Larger publishers with many online titles may choose to license iProduction software to reduce per-site costs. iProduction clients include magazines, newsletters, business journals, newspapers, and corporate marketing departments. iProduction celebrates 11 years of operation in 2005.