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Monday, Oct 31 2005

At some point, someone will ask you to justify your Web content management system (Web CMS) project. Fortunately, there is a business case to be made for a Web CMS on both the cost and revenue sides of the ledger.

If no one is requesting a business rationale and the project is proceeding regardless, reconsider your bearings. All major technology efforts beget tough decisions and difficult trade-offs, so it is best to have a business plan in place as a touchstone to keep the team focused-especially if your CFO will be writing big checks to outside vendors.

…read Tony Byrne’s full article in this month’s AIIM E-Doc magazine.

Microsoft has release service pack two (SP2) for Office Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). There’s no big excitement here save for sys admins who might be tired of SPS/WSS stability and performance issues.

Friday, Oct 28 2005

RSS is everywhere, but nobody gives a damn. Or rather, according to Yahoo! and Ipsos outside of the geeky blogger/web content crowds the awareness of RSS by Internet users is low and those who consume RSS are likely to be doing so, quite unawares.

A recent and flattering white paper by Yahoo’s Joshua Grossnickle and some folks from Ipsos Insight, a marketing research group, reports on and summarizes what they’ve learned from Yahoo’s usage data and Ipsos’ surveys.

Friday, Oct 28 2005

Hey we’re four weeks off the next Gilbane CMS conference. This one runs November 29th through December 1st at the Westin Copley Place, Boston. The agenda covers new technologies and of course blogging, RSS, wiki’s, and then some good old staple around Enterprise Content Management (ECM) best practices and implementation lessons.

Thursday, Oct 27 2005

The full and true story about what has happened to the well-known Mambo Open Source CMS is not known to me, nor am I that interested in investigating it. A simpler bit of information is that a significant number of the Mambo core dev team have now created the Open Source Matters (OSM) foundation, have rebranded Mambo as Joomla and are now developing and making releases based on a stable Mambo code snapshot.

Wednesday, Oct 26 2005

Canadian-based Simian Systems produce the Sitellite CMS in both open-source and commercial flavors. Sitellite is a PHP based Web CMS, built on the Sitellite Application Framework (SAF) and increasingly sprouting some enterprise features.

Recently announced, Simian has launched Sitellite Forge a Sitellite community website geared to increase collaboration and code sharing in the community. To get things started a Sitellite add-on contest is spinning the wheels up, with prizes ranging from iPods to commercial Sitellite licenses.

Monday, Oct 24 2005

Our like minded chums at Packt publishing have put out another very practical Content Management book.

This one is entitled “TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management”.

Its a cross between a tech book and a parable that in the end serves a number of audiences well and manifests a dream longstanding in the TYPO3 community.

Wednesday, Oct 19 2005

There has never been more information. And that’s exactly the problem. Too much information too quickly published is just as bad as too little.

PaperThin, a mid-market Web Content Management (CMS) vendor has announced advanced content classification and discovery capabilities in their CommonSpot Content Server version 4.6. The product’s taxonomy module now provides out-of-the-box taxonomy management for Web content administrators and contributors. New features include a taxonomy term editor and a taxonomy API, along with a facet-based navigation element.

Thursday, Oct 13 2005

BEA and Day Software, a provider of content management and content infrastructure software, today announced that they have entered into an alliance to deliver a JSR 170-compliant connector for BEA WebLogic Portal.

The Day repository connector is designed to enable BEA WebLogic Portal to interact with enterprise content repositories, such as Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX), that are compliant with the new JSR 170 industry standard.

Tuesday, Oct 11 2005

The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars today announced that the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies Boston (November 29th - December 1st), will host CM Professionals third summit on Monday, November 28th at The Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts.

In a move rumored to be worth between $25 and 30 mil, Verisign has announced the acquisition of London-based Moreover Technologies. This follows closely on the heels of Verisign’s $2.3 mil acquisition of Dave Weiner’s weblogs.com and the related ping server.