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Academic journals require more effort to manage properly than many people outside the academic and research worlds realize.  Managing the process of peer reviews, organizing all submitted research, designing the layout of the journal and finding a means of publication are all very time-consuming activities.  To further complicate the matter, most academic and research journal editors work full time jobs at universities on top of their editorial duties.  Now, cool person in technology Brian Cody has founded a company that wants to help journal editors manage their duties more efficiently.  Scholastica is Cody’s platform for creating and maintaining academic journals online.  With Scholastica, editors can keep track of all works submitted to their journal, manage the peer review process in real time, and publish approved papers quickly and efficiently.  Cody’s goal is to provide professional academics with the tools to maintain a high quality journal online easily.  He also wants academics to be able to do so without needing extensive technical expertise.  Any academics who have difficulty publishing with the platform should make sure to contact a remote computer support service. Read more »

Fundraising is a major concern for anyone running a nonprofit, school or community organization.  Large networks of regular donors are essential to keeping any of these organizations both alive and accomplishing goals that are part of their stated missions.  However, fundraising is also a complex and draining process.  Building a network, maintaining contacts, hosting events and converting new donors are all difficult tasks.  Even more problematic for many of these organizations, they are not selling a product or service that directly benefits the people paying them and therefore, converting people into donors becomes far more difficult.  Fortunately, there is a cool product called Kimbia that provides a web platform that nonprofits, schools and other fundraisers can use to both manage and optimize their efforts.  Read more »