Here you find news about zensario.ImagePool and the zensario GmbH.
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We are proud to announce a cooperation with Digital Portrait Lab (DPL). DPL is a vendor of high-quality print products such as portraits, canvases, and lifestyle products.
We integrated DPL's offering into zensario.ImagePool giving you the opportunity to sell high-quality print products using zensario.ImagePool.
This means that you can offer an even more professional and complete service and increase your sales volume. Possible use cases:
- As an event photographer you can offer a wide variety of print products
- You can sell print products immediately after an event.
- You provide your customers with real photo paper images and high quality canvases as well as many trendy lifestyle products.
You can start to sell print products easily by activating them in your platform configuration. In your administration center , you can choose which products you want to sell and set retail prices at "Sales" → "Print products".
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Today, we published our second series of screencasts. The topics in a nutshell:
- Add users
- Grant access to private categories
- Share assets with customers and partners
We are looking forward to further topics that we will present in the future.
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One of the major German journals for professional photographers, ProfiFoto, dedicates a report about zensario in its June 2010 issue.
The title of the report is "Market images online on your own" and describes how zensario.ImagePool can be leveraged to start your own online agency as well as improve customer service and put a secure archive in place. We hope you enjoy reading this report...
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The trailer of the 2nd Lumix Festival for young foto journalism presents the most important facts about the festival: images of the reportages, an outline of the program, and the philosophy of this event.
zensario is part of the Lumix Festival as an exibitor and with workshops.
For more information about the festival visit www.fotofestival-hannover.de.
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Videos are becoming more and more important and common in our lives. Digital photography offered various new use cases, e.g. in handys or cameras that become day-to-day consumer goods. The same happens now again, as modern SRLs offer HD video capabilities including slow-motion capturing with 60fps. Now, each and every photographer can record high-quality videos and expand his field of activity.
How do I organize this data volume? How do I keep track of what I capture? How I show my movies to prospects? We dealt with exactly these questions. With our online archive, you can archive, organize, present and sell your videos as you can do it with your images. The archive automatically creates preview videos in Internet quality as known from Youtube. Of course, the original video remains untouched. To capture the content of the video efficiently, the system creates several images from different scenes of the video. Thus, the visitor of your archiv is able to get an overview without having to watch the complete video.
How could my video archive look like?
In this example, you see a preview video with a water sign, which protects your content. The water sign is as customizable as the quality when your customers downloads the video. You can offer different resolutions of your video content. Your archive is resampling the original video on its own.
You can see a live example of the video archiving functionality at the agency Minkusimages.
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zensario joins the PCP tour in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, and Frankfurt. Visit our booth and have a look at zensario.ImagePool. We show you how to improve your customer relationship and how to present yourself online professionally! See you ...
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Further informations can be found on the PCP-Tour pages.
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Right away, we provide you with a brilliant zoom for previewing images. Using the zoom function, visitors can zoom into preview images until its original resolution. Furthermore, the zoom allows you to pan images within the preview window. In doing so, the shown parts of the image are always watermarked to protect the copyright of the author. To activate the image zoom in zensario.ImagePool simply go to the configuration in your administration area and activate the related checkbox.
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Today, we published our first series of screencasts. In 7 episodes, you e.g. see how to setup your zensario.ImagePool in just 2 minutes and how to upload and manage new images. The topics in a nutshell:
- Setup your own zensario.ImagePool in just 2 minutes
- Category management
- Upload new images
- Change a category image
- Search
- Add images to favorites
- Manage and sort your favorites
We are looking forward to further topics that we will present in the future.
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Today the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique announced the photo database www.fig-photos.com using zensario.ImagePool M. Checkout the article at www.fig-gymnastics.com about their philosophy of image distribution and their role as an image agency.
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We published an article about image distribution at the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). Checkout worldwide cross-linked image management.
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We are looking for a student to write a thesis about Platform independent applications using Jruby and RESTful APIs. If you are interested, you will find more information in the pdf.
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Upcoming features in 2010 - three topics to look forward to
Direct online payment on your website
One of our goals is to provide you with online payment directly on your website. Currently, we are focusing on payment via credit card. Therewith, your customers will be staying on your website during the whole order process. No third party service is required.
zensario.ImagePool live demonstration
Shortly, we will offer a test platform of zensario.ImagePool.
Screencasts
An easy introduction to zensario.ImagePool will be given with a new series of short clips dealing with search function, categories, adding images, and placing an order. The already integrated manual inside the administration remains.
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An exciting and eventful year 2009 is coming to an end: let´s resume
May 2009: Start of the pilot phase at the German Gymnastics Festival in Frankfurt
At the end of may, we started the pilot phase of zensario.ImagePool at the German Gymnastics Festival. We were right on the place at the exhibition area Frankfurt and gained fruitful impressions, constructive feedback with the team of Minkusimages and the editorial team of the German Gymnastics Federation. Zensario.ImagePool worked well. The event was a very successful, for the organizers as well as for us. During peaktimes, we counted more than 100 clicks per minute on www.turnfestfotos.de. Read more about it in our success story
After the German Gymnastics Festival, even more pilot users started testing our software live. Consequently, we received a lot of helpful feedback in face-to-face communication, emails, and phone calls.
October 2009: Foundation of zensario GmbH
In October 2009 we rebranded our company to zensario GmbH. Get to learn more about our new website, blog, and improved online service.
November 2009: zensario.ImagePool is available
The official release of zensario.ImagePool was also the end of the successful pilot phase.
With zensario.ImagePool, you can decide between different packages, according to your individual needs.
December 2009: Business Breakfasts started
Our first business breakfast took place at the studio of Minkusimages in Hannover. The get-together provided the opportunity to exchange experiences and to discuss current topics for entrepreneurs, agencies and photographers. Zensario consideres this meeting as a kick-off event for further get-togethers with the aim to assemble professionals dealing with the organization of image data.
zensario.ImagePool facts for 2009
- Your own domain
- Unique proactive search
- Several supported file types (JPG, TIFF, RAW, AI)
- Real category management including protected categories
- Sales module including shopping cart, licenses, quality settings, individual pricing, billing, and subscriptions
- Online tagging
- User and group management
- Blog, individual pages
- Available in 5 languages
- Search engine optimization
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zensario.ImagePool is now available in Chinese and Turkish. We would to say thank you to our translation team for their quick response. We are looking forward to provide you zensario.ImagePool in your native language. If you have special request, feel free to contact us!
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We like to invite you to a photographers business breakfast at Hannover, GER. Host is Volker Minkus of MINKUSIMAGES who is successfully working with zensario.imagePool. Topics of the agenda:
- Which requirements and needs do our customers have in these days?
- Which opportunities does the internet have for professionals?
- How can we use this potential?
- How can zensario.ImagePool answer these questions?
- Which scope covers our software?
- Which requirements are necessary?
For further information about this event, please have a look at the flyer (German only) 
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Today we updated all accounts with the blog module which enables you to write your own articles. Tell everybody about your events and projects your are working on. Refer about your everyday life and give an insight of your business.
You can find the blog module within the administration "content menu" of your zensario.ImagePool.
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We are proud to announce the first public release of zensario.ImagePool. zensario.ImagePool breaks new ground for web-centric business models related to photo management. You can choose between different plans, come and see for yourself. zensario.ImagePool is already in use at several customers. Read more about these successful examples.
Look and see! We like to hear from you and receive feedback.
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Christoph Koch met Philippe Silacci, Media Operation Officer of FIG, for an interview at the 41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in London. Read more about background intentions of the FIG by using zensario.ImagePool. Silacci talks about the self-image of FIG, trying to enable equaled public relations and progressive communications.
10.10.2009 - London, GBR, Interview with Philippe Silacci, Media Operations Officer FIG
CK: What is the FIG aiming at with the new photo portal?
FS: Basically, we consider this new photo portal as a service performance for our federations worldwide. We provide a specific amount of free pictures for the federations and therefore, are supporting professional PR of our sports even in countries with low financial capacities.
CK: What is the general intention of the FIG with this new offer?
FS: The platform attempts to achieve equality and a broad coverage in public. We can now show gymnasts who usually would not be published, since they are not among the best. Gymnasts from Namibia and Thailand will be published online now. So to speak, the platform is going to extend democracy in our sport.
CK: How does the FIG use the software within the framework of 41st artistic gymnastics world championships?
FS: Fans are free to purchase any picture for 2 Euro. For FIG, this means to move with the times and to communicate progressively. Breaking new ground and using new media is essentially for our success. With respect to communication, we have 3 innovations here at 41st artistic gymnastics world championships: Public live results, live comments of decisions and an ongoing media coverage and documentation with the new photo portal www.fig-photos.com of the FIG.
CK: Thank you very much for this interview.
Left to right: Christoph Koch, Philippe Silacci and Meike Behrensen
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Yes, we finally made it. Our website is online. We hope you like it.
We are very pleased to announce our pilot stage has started today. This gives you the opportunity to get a free trial of our image pool. Pilot users can also profit from our user-ranked requirements section. If you are interested feel free to sign up for your trial version. A trial login will convince you, too.
