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Monday, Feb 28 2005

IT Hit have announced the latest version of the Microsoft CMS (MCMS) Web Authoring Enhancements (WAE) toolkit. WAE 2.0 is a commercial, third party product which adds features and usability improvements to the Microsoft CMS authoring tools.

Three cheers for the MCMS partner community.

Wednesday, Feb 23 2005

Percussion announces that KMWorld has named the company in its 2005 listing of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management.

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announces the Gilbane Conference on Content Management (CMS) Technologies will take place in Amsterdam at the RAI Centre, 24-26 May 2005. The conference brings together an unprecedented number of international experts in content management technologies.

Monday, Feb 21 2005

The information technology (IT) industry fundamentally doesn't understand the true value of web content. This lack of understanding is just one more reason why IT will continue to decline in influence over the next five years.

Friday, Feb 18 2005

CM Professionals (CM Pros), a rapidly growing content management (CMS) organization with members engaged in a wide spectrum of content management activities, industries, and geographies, has announced its second semiannual member Summit to be held in San Francisco on April 11, 2005.

Thursday, Feb 17 2005

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has recently reclassified the Lucene search engine project from a Jakarta sub-project to a top-level ASF effort.

Lucene is a full text search engine that provides an API and a set of libraries enabling powerful search functionality to be included in all types of Java applications. Doug Cutting is the project's primary developer.

Announced officially today, the latest version of the popular WordPress blogging tool hits the streets.

The new release, focused on practical features, adds better comment management, themes, and even branches out to manage more than just blog content.

Tuesday, Feb 1 2005

In a not so shocking recent announcement Telerik has unveiled their first out of the box product, the Sitefinity Web Content Management System (CMS).

Like all Web CMS products, Sitefinity is geared towards enabling business users and content authors via non-technical, user-friendly publishing interfaces.

The difference, as one would expect from an ASP.NET component vendor, is that Telerik strikes a unique balance with developer friendliness.

Every year since 1993 the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) holds the Codie Awards. These awards do hold some water, as they are the software industry's only peer-recognition awards program.

The categories of software reviewed include databases, CRM, collaboration, business intelligence, asset management, and yes, you guessed it, content management.

The winners are not announced until late May of 2005, but the finalists for each category have been decided.

Stellent, a provider of web and enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announces the release of version 7.5 of the Stellent Sarbanes-Oxley Solution

The Sarbanes-Oxley ECM product is designed to simplify the process of achieving compliance status with regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).

If you've enjoyed the posts in CMSWire's tips 'n tricks section, here's a pointer. Check out the latest blog launched by Denton's Gawker Media publishing group.

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