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Highlights of the Week

• #jboye09 Web Content Management: Inconvenient Truths and Industry Challenges. There is no best web content management system. But there is probably a good Web CMS for what you’re trying to do. With that, we kicked-off a heated debate on Inconvenient truths and unsolved WCM industry challenges at the J.Boye 2009 conference in chilly Aarhus, DK.
• #jboye09 Persuasion: How to Make Your Media More Persuasive. I'm here in sunny Denmark attending the 2009 J Boye conference where the presenters dig into many subjects, but one of my personal standouts is psychologist BJ Fogg of Stanford University's Persuasive Technology lab.
• Gartner Calls Drupal a Visionary in Social Software Magic Quadrant. Reportedly thanks to Acquia and the Drupal team's endless efforts to maintain healthy relationships with analysts, Dries Buytaert's CMS baby was added to the 'Visionaries' section of Gartner's Magic Quadrant last month.
• The Scoop: SharePoint 2010 Records Management. The session began with a brief description of what records management is and what constitutes a record. Wikipedia defines records management as “the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal.
• Microsoft Not So Secret New Open Source CMS. Microsoft has a secret, although it's not completely secret. They are getting ready to offer a new open source content management application code named Orchard.
• Social Media Minute: MSN Gets A Makeover, Twitter's Heavy Cost To Businesses. Microsoft unveiled a new version of MSN.com recently, making changes to the existing design and adding some new bits as well.
• Clearwell's Top 5 eDiscovery Trends of 2010. So this year, we turn once again to Clearwell to outline the eDiscovery trends of 2010. The fact that there are only five may indicate the growth and awareness of eDiscovery in the enterprise. As well, they touch on the functionality and technology of eDiscovery more than anything.

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And these are the articles you couldn't get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? Drupal v. Joomla, Web Content Management and SharePoint.

• #jboye09 8 Key Trends in Web Content Management Architecture and Standards. David Nüscheler, the CTO of Day Software, presented his take on the top WCM trends for 2010 from the architecture and standards standpoint.
• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management. One of the immediate values SharePoint can deliver to an organization is the ability to address project management challenges, such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor information management practices and undefined project collaboration standards that compromises project success.
• #jboye09: Selecting a CMS - Pitfalls and Best Practices. We’re live from the City of Smiles, where the J. Boye conference kicked off today in Aarhus, Denmark. The first day is the Tutorial Day with topics ranging from content strategy and governance to persuading people with digital content.One of the tutorials — CMS selection: the process, the pitfalls and the best practices —was presented by analysts Jarrod Gingras of CMS Watch and Peter Sejersen of J. Boye.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What's surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla.
• #jboy09 Pre Web Idol Competition Consternation. Here at J Boye 2009 the Web Idol competition is about to start. In the line-up we have 23 Video, e-Spirit, Kapow Technologies, Microsoft, Sitecore and TERMINAL Four.
• Ektron Releases Version 8 of CMS400.NET, Unapologetic About Innovation. The long-awaited and rather-delayed release was prematurely leaked a little while ago, but now it’s all official. Ektron CMS400.NET version 8 is live and brings a slew of new features, including usability enhancements, integrated web analytics, API changes, first attempts at CMIS support and new social media capabilities.
• #e2conf Andrew McAfee's Top Enterprise 2.0 No-No's. McAfee explained that while he used to see potential customers approach enterprise tools with skepticism, he's recently noticed a significant shift in attitude.

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Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what's happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Workshop with Lou Rosenfeld: Site Search Analytics — Nov 9 (Washington D.C)
• WordCamp New York City — Nov 14-15 (New York City)
• Legal IT Asia 2009 — Nov 18-19 (Beijing, China)
• Technology Transfer — Nov 25-26 (Rome, Italy)
• Gilbane Boston — Dec 1-3 (Boston)
• Online Information 2009 — Dec 13 (London)
• Intelligent Content 2010 — Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)

It's been a busy week at the J Boye 2009 conference in Aarhus, Denmark. We've covered a few of the highlights here, and there are reams of tweets you can review here.

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While they may seem quiet lately considering the rush of social computing announcements coming out almost daily, Telligent (news, site) does not appear to be sitting on their laurels.

As a provider of a newly revamped social software platform, Telligent is in one of the most competitive markets today. So they need to be on their game.

To help them reach their goals they have appointed Kelly Brashear as director of services, reporting directly to the VP of Operations. His responsibilities? To oversee Telligent's professional services team.

Brashear has a sales and service background, working for companies like CDC Software, Skywire Software and Electronic Data Systems. Interesting to note that Patrick Brandt, Telligent's new (since May) CEO was the founder and CEO of Skywire Software.

Telligent's professional services team specializes in strategy and online communications, helping clients understand their needs and requirements for community software.

For those of you who run a Microsoft web environment built on IIS (Internet Information Server), but still would like to run some open source applications and/or websites, there's good news for you.

Helicon Tech, a provider of web server enhancement tools, has released an Apache emulator for IIS 7. Called Helicon APE, it implements .htaccess configurations within the IIS web server. This includes almost all of the major Apache modules (35+ to be exact).

The Helicon APE offers modification-free transition of Apache websites to IIS, simple configuration of PHP and Apache compatible URL rewriting syntax.

Helicon APE
 

The Helicon APE is installed on IIS 7 as a managed module, but can also work for other versions of IIS that support ASP.NET when installed as an ASP.NET module.

APE costs start at US$ 25 for a website and US$ 95 for a server license. There's also a free version for up to 3 websites on a single server.

Now this one isn't from Microsoft, but is another step towards interoperability between Microsoft and open source. There are likely many who would love to have this product.

Advanced search technology developer Coveo (news, site) has just announced that it is making a beta version of its new Coveo Expresso search solution available for free in a move that is sure to please the small business market.

Coveo Expresso Beta gives up to 50 users the ability to search up to one million desktop and email files as well as up to 100,000 intranet documents and can be installed by a company’s IT department — says Coveo — within an hour.

Zoho's (news, site) online office editing is a very popular tool these days as another service bags it to boost its own portfolio.

The lovely Tony Byrne from over at CMS Watch hung around the Enterprise 2.0 conference this year to talk about the viability of social software in the Enterprise. The verdict? We're still. Not. Sure.

Early last month IBM (news, site) began the process of articulating its Smart Archive Strategy. Began, we say, because at the time of the announcement the company released IBM Information Archive, a disk-and-tape information infrastructure solution that offered a "unified storage” approach to archiving company information.

But they weren’t finished with that and only recently unveiled a number of other solutions that are designed to provide analytics and data discovery to companies looking to determine what information they should keep and what information they should bin.

AvePoint (news, site), is a well known provider of SharePoint administration and management solutions. Their flagship product line, DocAve, has recently been updated to include the beta release of a new suite to support storage, intelligent archiving and migration-free content attachments for both SharePoint 2007 and the upcoming SharePoint 2010.

Halogy's CMS (news, site) is now out of beta, but remains free to use for the rest of the year. So, what's new in version 1.0?

Czech-based Kentico Software (news, site), who continues to expand despite increasingly difficult trading conditions in Europe, recently made the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for central Europe. They are listed as the fifth highest ranked company in the ‘Rising Stars’ category.

On the last day of the J. Boye 2009 Conference, Aarhus heard its mayor’s plea and slightly warmed/dried up. The event folk exclaimed, “It’s almost summer!”

The rather standard for this time of the year weather was followed by the web content management standards talk. David Nüscheler, the CTO of Day Software, presented his take on the top WCM trends for 2010 from the architecture and standards standpoint.

Is Enterprise 2.0 a sham? Dennis Holwett sure thinks so. Back in August of this year the blogger wrote an article for ZDNet that criticized the entire two-dot-oh approach, citing limited evidence that ruling out hierarchies has actually helped businesses. Needless to say, it stirred up a ton of bat-youknowwhat-crazy conversation.

David Berlind, Content Officer, TechWeb, brought the article to the table at the Enterprise 2.0 conference this week. And though he admitted there might not be many case studies of success, he also pointed out that we certainly have enough cases of failure to get people engaged in helpful conversation about where the Enterprise is headed.

First Microsoft's Interoperability Team announced a PHP Toolkit, then we saw Microsoft throw their support behind the CodePlex.org Foundation, and we hear rumors of a new open source content management system. So now what?

Well the Microsoft Interoperability Team has announced support for the open source IDE Eclipse. At the Eclipse Summit Europe, they offered up a few new solutions in partnership with open source companies Tasktop Technologies and Soyatec:

• An Enhanced Developer Experience for Eclipse on Windows 7
• Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
• Windows Azure Software Developer Kit (SDK) for Java
• Eclipse Tools for Silverlight

Microsoft provides funding and architectural guidance on the projects.

According to Microsoft, the goal here is to "help developers using the Eclipse platform take advantage of the new features in Windows 7 and Window Server 2008 R2, and reinforce Java and PHP interoperability with Windows Azure and Microsoft Silverlight."

You can get all the details on these four projects on Microsoft's Interoperability blog.

And while these projects sound interesting, there's another one underway that caught our attention: Microsoft has joined up with IBM, Zend Technologies, and others to work on a new open source, cloud interoperability project.

Called Simple API for Cloud Application Services, this project is designed to help create basic cloud applications that will run in all of the major cloud platforms. This would include the Amazon Web Services, even though Amazon is not part of the project. 

Microsoft has a secret, although it's not completely secret. They are getting ready to offer a new open source content management application code named Orchard.

The project, which will be discussed at next week's TechEd Europe, is a "new effort to produce free, open source, reusable components and a full-featured CMS application built on these components to produce a variety of different types of web sites."

It's hard to tell from the session description if this project is already well underway or just getting kicked off at the conference. The session includes an interactive discussion that allows developers to get "in on the ground floor".

ZDNet's Mary Joe Foley tried to get more details from Microsoft, but they remain mum on the subject, even ignoring the question of whether Orchard is just a new name for Oxite, the open source Web CMS Microsoft announced back in December last year.

As Foley suggests, the timing is just right for Orchard as it could become one of the first projects announced for the new CodePlex Foundation. The Foundation, which has been established to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities", has released the first working draft of its Project Acceptance and Operation Guidelines.

Microsoft is fairly good at keeping secrets, so we may just have to wait until November 11, when the TechEd Europe Session happens, to get all the details on Project Orchard. As soon as we get the goods, we'll pass them on to you.

As the season approaches turkey and mistletoe, predictions for the new year are inevitable. Last year we outlined ten trends for eDiscovery in 2009 as described by Clearwell Systems. Their outlook mostly proved true as corporations did indeed take matters into the own hands and implement in-house ediscovery platforms, and the global economic downturn drove global eDiscovery initiatives.

And though we might not have seen as many companies figure out how to manage the new media of business communication, it has definitely been on their minds.

So this year, we turn once again to Clearwell to outline the eDiscovery trends of 2010. The fact that there are only five may indicate the growth and awareness of eDiscovery in the enterprise. As well, they touch on the functionality and technology of eDiscovery more than anything.

So without further adieu, CMSWire presents Clearwell's Top Five eDiscovery Trends of 2010.

Competition to provide document management in the cloud is always fairly stiff, but with the addition of CyanGate’s S-Dive to Salesforce.com’s (news, site) AppExchange, it’s likely to get even stiffer.

What this new partnership will do is to give companies that sign up for a single company account with AppExchange unlimited space in the Amazon cloud to store content of any kind and share it by simply downloading it from within the Salesforce.com platform.

Beta 2 is now out for Visual Studio 2010 and along with it comes the announcement of a new product lineup designed to make purchasing decisions just a little bit easier.

eZ Systems (news, site), the self-proclaimed leader in commercial open source content management, has a new head honcho to guide the company through the fierce waters ahead.

For most of us, a good day is being able to go about our business without any annoyances getting in our way. Unfortunately, when your business involves the Internet, mere annoyances rate much higher on the "good" scale than, say, discovering your Web CMS was hacked at least six months ago and you've been leaking critical user data like a sieve.

If that user data involves sensitive information such as medical data, credit card numbers, bank account information or anything else that is subject to either regulations or sleepless nights over losing your shirt, you should at least investigate security add-ons.