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SpringCM, like many other content management providers, makes a lot of promises about how their software will help businesses become more efficient. KMWorld is acknowledging that SpingCM is making good on one of those promises. Privia, SpringCM's bid and proposal lifecycle management software, is a finalist in the KMWorld Promise Awards.

DotNetNuke is on the move. Not only have they picked up some serious cash through some Series A Funding -- the amount of which they don't seem to want to disclose -- but they have also brought in a new CEO, Navin Nagiah, to run the show.

With over 10 years experience in the role of CEO or General Manager of various software/technology companies and the expectation is that he will help drive the market expansion of DotNetNuke.

Sitecore has been around for awhile now. And during that time they have established themselves as a quality option for web CMS and intranet portal software. Now they have made the news in a way that even further solidifies their place in the industry.

It must be interesting working over at Six Apart these days. They reported a 16 employee layoff and a management pay cut a few weeks ago. But things can't be all that bad. They just announced the purchase of the micro-blogging platform Pownce -- keeping several key people and the technology.

With the holiday officially upon us now -- did someone say Advent Calendar? -- you may be saving all your money to buy an Xbox or a WII. But if you aren't, or you are one of the fortunate few to have tons of money to spend, we have a few conferences that might be tempting.

Kentico, the ASP.Net-based Web CMS out of Europe is expanding. Providing a strong CMS that offers structured content management, Kentico is thriving in this global economic situation plaguing much more than just the U.S. and Europe.

Here's an interesting conference happening on December 11, 2008 in Mountain View, California. Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are joining forces to bring you a conference all about creating Add-ons for the browser.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Yahoo Glue Comes to the US
• Using Tarpipe to Unclog the Social Media Pipe
• Google's Getting a SearchWiki
• Get Yer Free Blog on TypePad

Six Apart knows there's nothing worse than an out of work journalist. That's why the company who makes the major commercial blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type is offering pro-level blog memberships for free to out-of-work media types.

These days many in the publishing are just trying to stay afloat from one week to the next. This week is no exception.

Just over a week after Alfresco Surf 3.0 Code Camp in NYC, they have announced that Boston is now next on the list. Coming next month and hot on the heels of the success of the NYC camp, Boston will be a Code Camp you don’t want to miss.

On November 3, 2008, the W3C published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These guidelines include a number of recommendations that developers can use to make content more accessible to people with disabilities and to everyone in general.