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Helsinki, Finland (PRWEB) January 23, 2014

Macecraft Software has announced the release of its crowdfunding campaign. The company wants to do what no one has done before use crowdfunding as the means to convert a popular, commercial software product to free, open source software.

Basically, we are giving our user community the possibility to buy the software from us. We looked into many different options for finding the best way to improve the quality of the product and how it is being developed. But all the traditional options, such as joining forces with another vendor, had too many uncertainties for our current user community, said Jouni Flemming, lead developer at Macecraft software.

Using Thunderclap, a leading crowdspeaking service, Macecraft Software already achieved considerable success in gaining momentum for the crowdfunding campaign. The Thunderclap social media promotion generated a reach of over one million people around the world. The promotion was featured as one of the most popular campaigns in the entire Thunderclap platform and it also received the esteemed Featured status as a result of the platforms editorial review.

The two main options for converting jv16 PowerTools to open source software are the GPL and the BSD models. If the initial target of the crowd funding campaign is reached, Macecraft Software will release jv16 PowerTools as open source with the GPL license. If the secondary target is also reached, the software will be released using the even more permissive BSD license.

We aim to prove that crowdfunding is a viable option for commercial software to be converted as open source. Using social media as the way to communicate, we have already taken the first steps in making history. Macecraft Software has an already established product and a user community based on years of product development. Now it is time for Macecraft's users to take action to show everyone that they want to see jv16 PowerTools and its source code made available for free for both personal and commercial use, said Mihai Barbulescu, crowdfunding campaign coordinator at Macecraft Software.

The crowdfunding campaign is now live at: http://www.macecraft.com/indiegogo/

For more information on the release of jv6 PowerTools as open source as well as current crowdfunding campaign goals, visit the official Macecraft Software company website at: http://www.macecraft.com/lets-go-open-source/.

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Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Annual tax season is almost upon us, and that means the IRS has made its Free File products to make the process a little less stressful.

Taxpayers making less than $58,000 a year -- some 70 percent of filers -- can take advantage of the no-cost filing software provided by a partnership between the Internal Revenue Service and the Free File Alliance, a coalition of tax software companies.

But even as the software becomes available, Free File forms, where a taxpayer can prepare and submit federal tax forms online, will be held until January 31.

As announced by the IRS in December, the government shutdown last fall forced a delay of about two weeks before the official start of tax season.

"The government closure came during the peak period for preparing IRS systems for the 2014 filing season," the IRS said in a statement last month. "Programming, testing and deployment of more than 50 IRS systems is needed to handle processing of nearly 150 million tax returns. Updating these core systems is a complex, year-round process with the majority of the work beginning in the fall of each year."

When taxpayers log on to the IRS Free File site, they will be directed to choose a brand-name filing company where they can prepare and e-file their federal returns. The company will then hold the returns until January 31, when the IRS will begin accepting them.

There is absolutely no advantage to filing by paper, said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. If you want to save money and time, just use Free File to prepare and e-file your federal return at no charge."

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Allen, TX (PRWEB) January 23, 2014

Lead Liaison takes the lead in innovation once again. The marketing automation company announced today the launch of their new Automatic Publishing feature, which enables users to automatically publish content through the automated marketing platform. The new feature allows access to over 2,000 content developers, so marketers can request content and manage distribution with ease.

Recent studies show that companies using a marketing automation platform have a 53% higher conversion rate than non-users (Aberdeen Group). Also, the use of marketing automation technology is expected to grow 50% by 2015 (SiriusDecisions). Thats why Lead Liaison goes a step further, and integrates content creation with marketing automation, to reduce the marketers stress of having to create content in-house.

The growth of automated marketing platforms is inevitable, said Alva Cardona, VP of Corporate Communications for Lead Liaison. And, because we know that the use of marketing automation platforms will increase, we decided to add content creation and automatic publishing features, which provides the marketer with more resources to nurture leads," added.

Research shows that, when leads are nurtured, a 20% increase in sales is reported, compared to non-nurtured leads (DemandGen Report). With this new feature, users can create more than ten types of marketing content to nurture leads, such as tweets, Facebook posts, blog posts, press releases, articles, video scripts, and more, which can be requested to a team of writers, who work to satisfy your specific content needs. Also, feedback (and edits) can be provided as the content is being developed.

When requesting content through Lead Liaisons automated marketing platform, users can designate specific topics, industries, keywords, and references. In addition, users can track progress of content requests using multiple filters as well. After content is ready, it can be published automatically using the Lead Liaison Social Post feature, pushed to the most popular Content Management Systems (CMS) on the web, such as WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal or it can be saved to your companys cloud drive, such as Google Drive or DropBox.

It is a fact that 71% of marketers already use content marketing for lead generation, and it is expected that the marketing automation market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $4.8 billion in 2015 (International Data Corporation). Thats why of all B2B Fortune 500 companies are already using automared marketing platforms. Marketers will discover Lead Liaisons Content Creation and Automatic Publishing feature will immensely help their content (and marketing) strategies.

To learn more about Lead Liaison's innovative automatic publishing feature, request a 10-minute demo of this content creation solution.

Lead Liaison provides cloud-based marketing and sales automation solutions that help businesses worldwide attract, convert and close leads. The company markets to businesses of all sizes and focuses on creating the broadest and most user-friendly Revenue Generation Software platform. Our innovative and robust software combines lead capture, real-time lead tracking, lead qualification, lead distribution, database segmentation, lead nurturing, content creation, social media engagement and ROI reporting into a single platform.

For more information: Alva Cardona VP, Corporate Communications alvacar(at)leadliaison(dot)com 888.895.3237 (888 89 LEADS) KEYWORD: Lead Liaison

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