Our database provider, Postgresql, has released a security update which requires that we raise our maintenance page for a period of time.
If you require any assistance during this time, please email us at support@camayak.com.
Thank you for your patience.
Update: Thursday, April 4th 14:50 PM GMT
The security upgrade has been installed, happy writing!
March 16th, 8:00 AM Central:
Scheduled maintenance has been completed successfully. Our nginx webserver software has been upgraded to the latest version, and we are now supporting websocket connections between the Camayak app and the server. This provides better performance and uses less resources on the server.
Thank you for your patience!
March 12th:
We’re going to be running a routine server maintenance session this Saturday (March 16th) at 7 a.m. CDT. The session will last one hour, during which time anyone with a Camayak account will be unable to log in. If you have any questions on this or any other issue, please contact us at support@camayak.com.
One of the things we notice when newsrooms start using Camayak is that they gravitate towards a more rapid (and daily) ‘digital-first‘ production cycle. Whether you’re assessing your print runs with next year’s budget in mind, or simply working towards having a more active website: streamlining your content production will help you position your newsroom for the challenges ahead (and it doesn’t have to spell the demise of your CMYK product, either).
Re-imagining your newsroom. According to Peter Crooke – faculty adviser at Harriton High School in Pennsylvania – “Camayak was the answer to our organizational prayers when we switched from a monthly paper edition to a daily online edition. It allows us to schedule, assign, write, edit and publish all in one place. It is the perfect tool that has actually taught us how one might envision the organizational patterns of an online newspaper“. Here’s a peek at the functionality that Peter and his students have enjoyed since they started using Camayak five months ago:
Is your website a CMS? A website-generating framework is often referred to as a ‘Content Management System’. In reality, the vast majority of websites are focused on how to display your content; leaving the management component of your editorial process to a fragmented assortment of tools (e.g. Word, email, server folders, etc.). Earlier this month, WordPress announced that they were dropping plans to improve ‘editorial flow’ within their 3.6 release, despite strong interest in plugins such as Edit Flow suggesting that publishers are increasingly looking for more powerful staff and content management tools to help them maintain their online properties.
Future features. We’re working with dozens of newsrooms that are helping us evolve our tools to better fit their needs. Over the coming months, we’ll be finalizing our development priorities for the Summer and looking forward to releasing more useful features for our existing clients. If you’d like to join our feedback discussions you can reach us on Twitter,Facebook or by emailing us for a free trial.
Coming up next month: a review of our latest new features, including activity feeds.
Camayak is currently experiencing high levels of traffic, please accept our apologies, we are upsizing our servers to resolve this issue.
If you do not have a print deadline, we please ask that you wait a little longer until our service has been fully restored before logging in.
Thank you for your patience.
We were excited last year to announce our partnership with School Newspapers Online: a WordPress hosting & support company with nearly one thousand educational institution clients in the US. After a phenomenal response from newsrooms all over the country who are looking to organize their workflow, we thought we’d re-post the details of the partnership.
School Newspapers Online (SNO) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Camayak, a new way for publications to organize their contributors and control who approves the content that they publish on their SNO-powered site.
Camayak is a user-friendly, cloud-based service that allows editors to create and edit assignments for their staff, track their changes, manage deadlines and set-up their own editorial workflows. Once editors are happy with their content, they can publish assignments directly to their SNO site thanks to a seamless integration between Camayak and the SNO platform.
SNO and Camayak have worked together on dozens of college news sites and Roman Heindorff, Camayak’s CEO and co-founder, is excited about the prospect of helping younger journalists make the most of their staff resources, too. “We’re offering large discounts to high-schools, because that’s where the most talented editors start to emerge and we want to help support them,” he says. “Our priority is to enable our clients to focus on their content and contributor engagement first, before deciding on the platform that they want to publish to. We’re delighted to be partnering with SNO – anyone who works with them quickly finds out what a valuable service they provide”. It takes approximately 24 hours for a new Camayak account to be created and plugged into an existing SNO site.
Camayak’s appeal already extends to journalism schools, study abroad programs, professional media organizations and editorial service companies. “Camayak has been instrumental in increasing student retention”, says Erin Hiro, a journalism professor at Palomar College in California. “With software like this, students don’t get overwhelmed learning the program and can instead focus on learning journalism”. Nicole Brydson, founder of Brooklyn The Borough – a non-profit media hub in New York – also relies on Camayak’s powerful user-management features: “Camayak have made room for tens of thousands of new contributors for us. It’s very easy to use and allows us to be so much more dynamic in producing new content”.
According to SNO co-founder Tom Hutchinson, the partnership with Camayak is a natural fit. “From day one, our goal has been to remove all technology challenges so that advisers and student staff can focus on creating and publishing compelling content,” Hutchinson said. “By integrating the Camayak tools into the SNO platform, we’ve made it easier than ever to manage the entire editorial process.”
About Camayak
Camayak – whose name originates from CMYK, the four colors used to print newspapers – is widely used by state, community and private colleges, professional publications and media agencies. For all inquiries and to set up a free trial, please visit www.camayak.com and email roman@camayak.com or call 323.401.4658.
About School Newspapers Online
School Newspapers Online (SNO), was established in 2008 by a high-school newspaper advisor and teacher, and an expert in content management systems. Based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, SNO focuses specifically on the needs of college and high-school newspapers looking to create—or enhance—their presence online. With nearly 1000 educational institution customers nationwide, SNO continues to meet or exceed the needs of newspaper advisers and their staffs in an era of tight school funding and in the face of the ever-increasing costs associated with print. The company aims to keep its websites affordable while offering all the functionality and design flexibility found on major newspaper sites. For more information, please visit www.schoolnewspapersonline.com or call 888.649.7784.
Camayak is down for maintenance whilst we investigate an issue with our notification system, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please send us an email at support@camayak.com if you require any assistance.
This page will be updated as we learn more.
Update: Sunday, March 3rd 15:15 PM GMT
The issue has been resolved, thank you for your patience!
Wednesday, February 27th 6:00 AM GMT
Camayak’s hosting provider will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday February 27th at 6:00 AM, this should last no longer than 30 minutes.
Thank you!
Update: Wednesday, February 27th 6:43 AM GMT
Our hosting provider is still performing their maintenance, we will update this post as soon as they’ve completed their work. Thank you for your patience!
Update: Wednesday, February 27th 7:03 AM GMT
Maintenance has been completed, happy writing!
Scheduled maintenance has been completed, ending at 4:45AM Pacific Time, 12:45 GMT.
Thank you!
Camayak will be undergoing scheduled downtime Sunday, Feb. 10th at 4AM Pacific Time, 12PM GMT.
The downtime is expected to last about 1 hour.
Thank you!
Wednesday, January 23rd 10:20 AM Pacific time, 18:20 UTC
As of about 10:20 AM Pacific time, the network issues were resolved at our hosting provider.
Testing and monitoring shows that Camayak is fully available again.
We apologize for any difficulties the outage may have caused. If there are any specific issues as a result of the outage, or otherwise, please contact us at support@camayak.com with details.
Thank you,
Camayak Support
Wednesday, January 23rd 10 AM Pacific time, 18:00 UTC
Camayak is experiencing significant packet loss and network slowness at our hosting provider.
We are in contact with our hosting provider and are working towards a solution
We will update this entry with more information as it becomes available.
We apologize for these issues and are working to resolve them as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Update: Saturday, December 8th 5:35 AM pacific time
The maintenance has been completed, and Camayak is available again for use.
Thank you!
Saturday, December 8th 5:00 AM pacific time
Camayak will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on Saturday December 8th. We will be upgrading a few of our servers, and doing other general maintenance
Maintenance will start at 5AM pacific time, and will take approximately one hour.
Thank you!
