Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Are you ready for SharePoint 2013?

In this third installation of my four part series giving a 35,000-foot overview of some of the major changes expected in SharePoint 2013, we will be looking at some of the new features that will specifically affect SharePoint designers.

Google Apps has made a big splash in the enterprise market, with businesses moving their apps to the web. But even as emails, calendars, IM and online storage have increasingly gone cloud-bound, the service has been limited by the languages and domains supported. In its latest update, Google Apps has opened its domain registration to country-based top-level domains (ccTLD), and is offering support for new Arabic input tools.

FusionLeaf, the brainchild of developer Joseph Spurrier, is now open to the public, and the open source CMS can build fully featured websites complete with analytics, rich text editing and all the tools we expect from a modern Web CMS.

Sitecore has taken a large minority investment in Komfo, a Denmark-based social media marketing platform provider and member of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer Program. The Komfo platform is designed to allow marketers to create and manage Facebook fan page conversations without needing additional resources.

Acquia has just announced that it is buying content monitoring vendor Mollom. With Mollom, Acquia says it will be able to build the first social content moderation platform that will ensure the quality of content that appears on client’s websites.

Web engagement/interactive technology vendor Bridgeline Digital is releasing a new website management suite aimed specifically at large franchise networks and multiple dealer organizations. Called iAPPS ds (distributed subscription), the suite is intended to provide franchisees and dealers with a centralized digital marketing structure.

Digital marketing is being disrupted. New technologies, including social media, and increased consumer sophistication are requiring digital marketers to rethink how they engage their audiences.

As detailed in CMSWire's August 8th webinar, “Rethinking Web Engagement - Leading with Content Marketing,” by changing their approach to a content- and journey-centric marketing strategy, marketers can weather this change and distance themselves from the competition.

Read on for a recap of the webinar content and to access the full recording of the event.

This week it was all about new markets and marketplaces. Elcom set up an office in San Francisco, eZ Systems appointed a VP of Americas, Microsoft debuted a new Windows Phone Dev Center and Liferay officially opened its portal app marketplace.

Think Engagement, Not Marketing
Sitecore also provided tips on engaging the empowered customer, and we learned how gamification may just be the secret sauce of customer engagement. 

SharePoint on the Brain
SharePoint 2013 remains a huge topic of discussion — if our Top 10 Hot Articles list is any indication. Here's a sampling:

• SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
• 35,000 Foot View of SharePoint 2013 for Administrators
• Will End Users Buy Into the New SharePoint 2013 Interface?

The August Tweet Jam
Our August 22nd SharePoint Tweet Jam will take a step back and look at how to best use SharePoint to support the Information Worker. Mark your calendars, it will be interesting. And don't forget our SharePoint 2010 poll, voting is still open.

Most Popular

• SharePoint 2013: 7 Features Users are Going to Love
• Digital Forensics for Archivists #saa12
• Discussion Point: SharePoint 2013 is a Serious WCM Contender
• Gartner: Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP Dominate Sales Force Automation MQ
• Find Your (Corporate) Greatness

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Norway-based software vendor eZ Systems AS has appointed Dylan T. Williams as Vice President of the Americas.

Content management is like having a garden. Everyone appreciates a beautiful garden, but few want to toil in the heat that makes it all possible.

Australian Web CMS vendor Elcom is expanding its US operations with a new office in San Francisco. The California location opens just 18 months after Elcom opened its first North American office in New York City.

Accrisoft Corporation is releasing version 8.0 of its Freedom Web CMS aimed at building and managing dynamic, database-driven websites. Freedom 8.0 includes upgrades to the user interface as well as to email marketing, statistics and file management.

Eloqua Ltd., a privately held provider of marketing automation software, became a publicly traded company today on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ELOQ.

The company’s IPO offered 8 million common shares at $11.50 each, which at the time of publishing were up 13% to $13.08. Eloqua is challenged in the marketing automation space by the likes of Act-On, Aprimo, Marketo, Net-Results, SilverPop and others.

It's here, the public preview of SharePoint 2013 and guess what? Microsoft has made some significant enhancements to its web content management capabilities. But is it enough? Is SharePoint really a serious WCM contender? That's our question for this discussion point. Here's what the experts said.

August belongs to SharePoint at CMSWire. This month, we’ll examine SharePoint from many different perspectives. But before we do, what is SharePoint? If you had to conceptualize it, what would it look like? What characteristics would be highlighted?

Web CMS vendor Telerik is adding enhancements including support for ASP.NET MVC (model view controller) and the Razor rendering engine, as well as a redesigned email campaign management tool, to the new version 5.1 of the ASP.NET-based Sitefinity CMS.

Welcome to the July 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Vendors are always a little bit reluctant to give too much away about up coming releases, especially when that release is to be the cornerstone of its annual get together. Magnolia is no different. But with its conference set for the beginning of September, they have offered some details about Magnolia CMS 5.0, which will be previewed then.

Web content management system (CMS) technology has evolved to the point where it has become relatively simple for users to create and deploy content for Web pages without technical knowledge. However, in addition to a number of “must haves” any Web CMS must offer, there is an emerging trend for Web CMS to also offer customer engagement functionality.

DotCMS, an open source, Java-based Web content management system, has released version 2.1. The latest upgrade to dotCMS includes improvements to site search, workflow task automation, administration and content.