Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Crowdsourcing is not new, but people are using it in innovative ways. We’ve heard of using crowdsourcing platforms to facilitate logo design, the value of emerging technologies and translation services. We can now add slogans and taglines to the list.

Need to kick-start how you analyze and manage your website governance? A new modeling tool puts the power in your hands to process through your Web work and strategies.

Despite turnover in top management at Yahoo, the company still manages to kick out a slick-looking new browser that's creating a lot of positive buzz for a change. Unfortunately, Axis is missing some basic functionality.

Enterprise data management technology vendor Kapow Software is partnering with global information management solutions provider SDL’s web content management (WCM) division to automate the migration of legacy digital assets to the SDL Tridion WCM application. The Kapow Katalyst application integration platform can now automatically access, transform and migrate legacy digital assets, such as web content and metadata without causing business disruptions for the end user.

Open source CMS vendor ProcessWire has released a new version of its PHP-based platform. Version 2.2 is the third release for the CMS that went to beta in February 2011. Version 2.2 has a long list of enhancements and new features that may make the platform more attractive in the increasingly crowded open source CMS field.

The weather finally turned hot this week in Europe, and it looks like it could fray tempers a bit as Oracle, SAP and IBM once again set upon a collision course — this time over data management around e-commerce.

Enterprise social software provider Moxie Software is enhancing the functionality of its Spaces by Moxie customer communication suite to aid customer service efforts of companies in highly regulated industries. New features are designed to make internal experts available to assist customer service agents with complex inquiries and to ease compliance with regulations regarding data security and customer privacy.

 Consider for a moment that you are a health care provider. For every patient you see, you hear “I read on the Internet that …” As a result, you may spend a great deal of time re-educating the consumer and separating fact from fiction — unless of course, there was some way to ensure that the bulk of health information being consumed online was accurate and up-to-date. Healthline Networks’ new Consumer Engagement Platform is helping to make that dream a reality.  

Source code hosting site GitHub began in 2008 as a side project to provide an easy hosting option for developers. The site has since grown to more than 1.6 million users and over 2.8 million source code repositories. The popular site has finally released a Windows version of its client that works with everything from Windows XP to pre-release versions of Windows 8.

If Salesforce Chatter isn’t chatty enough for you, then the announcement today that Salesforce will be making Chatter Messenger and Screensharing generally available next month should come as good news.

How can you deliver optimal online customer experiences across channels? What tools and processes must be in place? How do you connect web analytics and customer data? What is big data and what skills do you need to make smart use of it?

CMSWire explored these questions and many more in our May 2 webinar, "Using Analytics and Customer Data to Build Great Customer Experiences."

The event featured Dan Keldsen, partner at Human 1.0 and Kevin Cochrane, VP Product Marketing for Web Experience Management at Adobe. For those of you who could not attend the live event, this redux gives you a summary of who said what and why it’s important — and includes the full video of the webinar at the end of the article.

I think I'll sit down and watch some television now. Let's see… hmm… What am I in the mood for? Am I feeling guilty about watching TV? If so, maybe I should check PBS and see if Nova is on? Maybe I'm a little depressed and I should check out Comedy Central and see if Louis CK is on. But wait a minute… there are comedy shows on other channels and there are educational programs all over the dial as well!

This morning I added the new Facebook Pages Manager app to my iPhone. While it takes up real estate beside my Facebook app and the Facebook Messenger app, it is a valuable addition.  

Tremor Video has built a platform that can build video ads that will run on any mobile device, and it's all done from a tool called Mobile Creative Platform. 

Today, YouTube celebrates its seventh birthday. Hard to imagine that our social video sharing platform is growing up. And while YouTube users upload 72 hours of video every minute, it’s not just kids, cats and Justin Bieber. No, YouTube has become a valuable enterprise tool, used to showcase training videos, demos and closer looks at new products. 

It's good to make your website or application as beautiful as possible, but not at the expense of usefulness.

Cookies. Those software namesakes of the sugar-charged morsels are central to the growing Do Not Track (DNT) movement, and now Ensighten has released a free Web tool to help publishers follow and disable the tags that use cookies.

Video, as every marketer knows, can capture eyeballs and the wallets that come with them. Sitecore understands this and has taken the route of integration with Brightcove to help marketers take their customer experience strategies to the richest media level.

Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.

Tag management systems (TMS) that automate the placement and management of digital marketing vendor tags can provide significant benefits, according to a new survey from Econsultancy and Tealium. Results of “The ROI of Tag Management” indicate TMS technology reduces cost and time-to-market of managing tags, while improving website speed and security.