Share Local News on Bluesky with TideCast
Reach a Growing Audience from Inside Surf CMS
As more readers explore new social media platforms, Bluesky has become an important place for discovering news and engaging with local communities.
With TideCast's Bluesky integration, community newspapers can publish stories directly from Surf CMS without copying headlines, rewriting posts, or switching between applications.
Whether you're covering breaking news, local government, sports, or community events, TideCast helps your stories reach readers wherever they choose to follow the news.
AI-Written Posts for Bluesky
Surf Article AI automatically creates social posts optimized for Bluesky while preserving your publication's voice.
Each post can include:
AI-generated headlines
Reader-…
Publish Breaking News to X in Seconds
Keep Your Community Informed in Real Time
When news breaks, speed matters. With TideCast's X integration, community newspapers can publish stories directly from Surf CMS to X without copying text, switching applications, or manually creating posts.
From breaking news and election results to Friday night football scores and weather alerts, TideCast helps your newsroom reach readers instantly while driving traffic back to your website.
AI-Optimized Posts for X
Not every social platform communicates the same way. That's why Surf Article AI automatically creates concise, engaging posts specifically designed for X.
Each post can include:
AI-generated headlines
Short, attention-grabbing summaries
Links back to your website
Relevant hashtags…
Publish to Instagram Without Leaving Your Newsroom
Bring Your Stories to Life on Instagram
Visual storytelling has become an essential part of community journalism. With Instagram integration in TideCast, publishers can automatically share news stories, community events, sports coverage, and feature articles directly from Surf CMS.
Instead of downloading images, opening Instagram, copying captions, and manually posting, TideCast streamlines the entire process into your normal publishing workflow.
AI-Powered Captions
Surf Article AI automatically creates Instagram-ready captions designed to encourage engagement while maintaining your newspaper's voice.
Each post can include:
AI-generated Instagram captions
Featured article image
Community-focused messaging
Relevant hashtags…
TideCast: Publish Once. Reach Every Platform.
Every newsroom faces the same challenge. The story may be finished, edited, and published to the website—but the work isn't over.
Someone still needs to post it to Facebook. Another editor may copy it into a newsletter. Someone else remembers to share it on Threads or Bluesky. Before long, valuable time has been spent repeating the same task across multiple platforms.
TideCast changes that.
Built exclusively for Surf CMS, TideCast is an intelligent publishing system that allows your newsroom to publish a story once and automatically distribute it wherever your audience is waiting. Instead of manually copying headlines, links, and images between websites and social media accounts, TideCast handles the distribution for you.
One Story. Every…
Accept online payments through Square while managing your publication from a single platform. Surf CMS integrates with Square to provide secure payment processing for subscriptions, memberships, advertising, events, donations, and other digital transactions.
Many community newspapers already use Square for in-person sales, office payments, or event transactions. With Surf CMS, you can extend that same payment platform to your website, creating a consistent experience for both staff and readers.
One Payment System
Using the same Square account for both online and in-person transactions can simplify payment management and reporting. Whether readers subscribe online or purchase tickets at your office, your payment activity stays within the Square ecosystem.
This reduces the need to…
Continue using the payment processor your publication already trusts. Surf CMS integrates with Authorize.net, allowing newspapers and media organizations to securely process subscriptions, memberships, donations, classifieds, event registrations, and other online payments without changing merchant accounts.
For many newspapers, Authorize.net has been a reliable payment solution for years. Rather than requiring a new payment provider, Surf CMS works alongside your existing Authorize.net account, making migration easier while helping preserve your established payment workflow.
Secure Payment Processing
Whether readers are purchasing a digital subscription, renewing their membership, placing a classified advertisement, or registering for an event, payments are processed securely through…
Help your journalism reach more readers through Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover. Surf CMS is designed with the technical features news organizations need to improve content visibility while allowing editors to focus on reporting—not search engine optimization.
Rather than requiring staff to manually submit every article, Surf CMS automatically prepares your content using industry best practices. From structured data and news sitemaps to optimized metadata and fast-loading pages, the platform provides the foundation Google uses to discover, understand, and rank news content.
Built for News Publishers
Unlike general-purpose website platforms, Surf CMS is built specifically for newspapers and digital publishers. Every article is published with search engine optimization in…
Reach more readers by publishing your content to Apple News directly from Surf CMS. The Apple News integration gives publications another powerful distribution channel while allowing editors to continue managing stories from the same familiar newsroom workflow.
Once the integration is configured, eligible articles can be prepared and delivered to your publication’s Apple News channel without requiring staff to recreate content in a separate system. Headlines, story text, images, and other supported article information can move from Surf CMS into Apple News, helping your newsroom expand its audience while reducing repetitive publishing work.
Publish Beyond Your Website
Apple News gives newspapers and media organizations an opportunity to place their journalism in front of readers who…
Many newspapers rely on Interlink to manage subscriber records, renewals, billing, and circulation. With Surf New Media's Interlink integration, your website and circulation system work together to keep subscriber access synchronized automatically, eliminating duplicate data entry and reducing administrative work.
When subscriber information changes in Interlink—whether it's a new subscription, a renewal, an expiration, or an account update—those changes can be reflected on your website automatically. Subscribers receive the appropriate level of digital access based on their circulation status, helping ensure a seamless experience while reducing support requests related to login or subscription issues.
Our flexible integration supports multiple synchronization methods depending on your…
Keeping your publication active across today's social platforms shouldn't require additional manual work. Surf CMS integrates with Threads, allowing publishers to extend the reach of their journalism directly from the CMS.
Editors can choose which stories to share, making it easy to publish breaking news, community updates, feature stories, sports coverage, opinion pieces, and other important content to their publication's Threads account. Posts can include the article headline, summary, featured image, and a direct link back to the original story, encouraging readers to visit your website for the full article.
By integrating Threads into the publishing workflow, Surf CMS helps reduce the need to copy and paste content between multiple platforms. Newsrooms can manage their website and…