SharedBook: On Demand

CarePages Keepsake Book

We thought Maura Welch of the The Boston Globe Business Filter might be interested in hearing about the CarePages Keepsake Book, and were thrilled that she mentioned it last week.

CarePages are free Web pages that anyone can start to communicate with family and friends when someone is hospitalized or receiving care. Their #1 member request has been the ability to capture the content contained on an individual's CarePage in a more lasting, tangible form.

Using SharedBook's Reverse Publishing Platform, CarePages.com members can now automatically flow the content contained on a patient's site -- message board comments, updates regarding care and prognosis and photographs -- into a unique, personalized CarePages Keepsake Book that can be purchased immediately, or edited further.

More information is available here.

With Appreciation

It is hard to believe that Friday is almost here again -- this has been another very busy week around SharedBook! We're in the process of introducing the CarePages Keepsake Book and the SharedBook Open API Challenge, our first developer contest. We also relaunched SharedBook.com which produced some late nights and strained eyes for Andrew, Gokce and Tracey, as well as several others. Check it out if you get the chance. The new features include an enhanced developer section for anyone that is interested in working with our API.

Before the week gets away from us, we would like to acknowledge a few individuals that have mentioned SharedBook recently. Kristen Nicole of Mashable, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks and John Musser of Programmable Web have posted information regarding the SharedBook Open API Challenge. Blog2Print was featured on the BizIII podcast by Les Bain and Mike Hughes and Taeho Lim mentioned the widget on Databazaar's PrinTips blog. Thank you for noticing how much Blog2Print simplifies the book making process -- that is the basis for everything SharedBook offers! Thank you to all.

Introducing the CarePages Keepsake Book

I would like to take a moment to mention our new partner offering today!

We launched the CarePages Keepsake Book this morning. CarePages.com offers free, personal, private Web pages that help family and friends communicate when someone is hospitalized or receiving care. Together with our friends at CarePages, Inc. we’ve created a way for CarePages members to publish the health updates, photographs and encouraging and supportive messages posted in their online communities.

We hope this new venture will further support the wonderful work of our partner in providing an environment of caring and hope for its members.  We’re proud to be a part of it.

If you would like to learn more, you can read the full announcement here, or go to http://carepages.sharedbook.com.