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Today, Dream Local took another big step toward providing local media companies with the best, most comprehensive solutions for growing audience and revenue. We are proud to announce a partnership with FeedBrewer, Inc. (http://feedbrewer.com), a startup founded by media innovator Dan Pacheco, to provide flexible, multi-platform content management solutions for markets of every size.

Since founding FeedBrewer in June, Pacheco has assembled a team of developers who specialize in creating customized, flexible solutions on top of Drupal framework that can publish into the increasing array of platforms and devices. Drupal is an open publishing platform that is being used by a growing number of organizations, including Popular Science, Examiner and even the White House.

Why are we focusing on Drupal? Because of its modular and flexible infrastructure. The social Web has irrevocably changed publishing and news gathering, and local media companies are scrambling to adapt. Meanwhile, sites like AOL’s Patch are quickly gaining prominence in neighborhoods across the United States. Local media companies can no longer afford to be locked into proprietary CMS’s that take months or years to respond to these tectonic changes. With Drupal, new competitive features can be added in days or weeks without needing to change back-ends. You simply create and install new modules.

However, tools alone won’t win the battle. Pacheco and his FeedBrewer team have 50 years of combined experience working on the cutting edge of change at companies such as AOL, The Washington Post and the Bakersfield Californian. Combined with our own experience at Dream Local, we feel that partnering with FeedBrewer gives us the ideal portfolio to help local media companies move back into a dominant role.

Our experience is just a piece of the puzzle. We will also spend hours consulting with your team and reviewing the media landscape to provide the best publishing system and strategy for success. With FeedBrewer’s help, our multi-platform solutions will allow you  to publish to the iPhone, iPad and Android platforms — and even let you turn those great multi-day series created by your newsrooms  into eBooks that can be sold on Amazon, Apple’s iBooks or directly from your site.

We’ll be sharing more details about our partnership with FeedBrewer in the coming weeks.