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Tuesday, Apr 26 2005

Announced today is version 2.0 of the MCMS Manager, a third party, open-source effort from an enterprising Sri Lankan MCMS geek by the name of Chester Ragel.

Managing Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) is not as simple as it sounds. It can be difficult to diagnose issues at times and the provided tools just might have a tendency to leave you high and dry.

If you play or depend on MCMS, this MCMS swiss army knife is not to be missed.

Here's a little lunch break humor. John Gruber of Daring Fireball has translated bits of the Adobe FAQ on the Macromedia acquisition, from mindless dribble into near plain english, California style.

A sample:
"Have we mentioned that PDF is an excellent format for distributing résumés?"

Dude, where's my MACR.

BrowserMedia announced today the official release of BrowserCMS 2.0, the latest version of their Web Content Management System (CMS).

The BrowserCMS 2.0 product is targeted for corporate, government, and association clients.

Monday, Apr 25 2005

Come to Amsterdam and get a whiff of the latest in browser technologies. As Mozilla, Google, Flickr, Microsoft and Others Redefine Web Interfaces, the XTech conference will feature insights and perspective from the field's thought leaders.

XTech 2005 (formerly XML Europe) and the Gilbane Conference on Content Management are being held 24-27 May, 2005, at the Amsterdam RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

50 leading technology and systems integrator partners will be showcasing cutting-edge products and solutions in the Interwoven PartnerNetwork Pavilion at its upcoming annual user event, GearUp '05, "The ECM Solutions Conference".

The conference will be held at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, May 11-13, 2005. The gala event will feature Jay Leno, who is reportedly a huge fan of enterprise content management. Yep.

Open Text Corp one of Enterprise Content Management's (ECM) heavyweight vendors has announced the Livelink ECM Platform (note the word "platform").

The the new offering is described as a secure, integrated framework that combines a shared content repository with user, content, and process services in a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

As ECM365 recently editor James Brown recently noted, Open Text is all about "bigness". The platform, touts a shared repository and shared services. It provides the full range of ECM services: Collaboration, Documents, Web Content, E-mail Management, and ERP.

Bigness it may be. The vision is one of SOA as the lion tamer.

IBM announces release v2.5 of the Workplace Collaboration Services (WCS) offering. WCS is an integrated collaboration environment leveraging both Lotus and WebSphere technologies, each previously available as separate products.

Workplace Collaboration Services includes email, calendaring, instant messaging, electronic learning, Web conferencing, document management, and web content management (CMS).

The product targets micro business, SMB, and the enterprise and is licensed on a processor based model.

Monday, Apr 25 2005

Google's ramping-up AdWords features, adding website targeting, new animated ad formats, and CPM (cost per 1000 impression) purchasing options. These features are typical of larger advertising networks and something that Google has been under pressure to develop or allow. The changes are a clear signal that Google is targeting the larger "brand advertisers" and moving into a broader field of competition.

Google's AdWords program is used to populate both the search results ads one finds in the right-hand column and to populate Google's network of publishers (like CMSWire).

Having a deep understanding of the gut instinct of your customer is the number one skill of managing a website. That involves getting face to face with them.

Friday, Apr 22 2005

AIIM, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) standards and research organization announces a plan to develop a service oriented architecture (SOA) framework for Interoperable Enterprise Content Management (iECM).

The project, currently referred to as iECM, intends to address the growing need for a common integration layer between different Enterprise Content Management systems and multiple business applications.

Oracle announces a preview release of Oracle Drive. A Windows WebDAV interface on steroids, Oracle Drive combines and surfaces features from both the Windows file system and the Oracle Portal 10g.

Monday, Apr 18 2005

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