Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

At DrupalCon in Denver, DPCI, Achieve Internet and Blink Reaction were three of the vendors offering Drupal solutions for the enterprise.

Luke Wroblewski gave the third and final DrupalCon keynote on Thursday morning in what he called the “hangover slot.” Conference attendees who slept in missed an inspiring, entertaining talk about putting mobile design first.

EPiServer, a provider of web content management (WCM) and engagement products, has announced the availability of a new add-on for their WCM platform. The new component, Social Reach, provides a single interface for users to personalize and communicate content across multiple social networks.

As usual this year, hidden in the deluge of press releases and publicity material produced by Microsoft over the course of Convergence, there were a few gems that it took a while to uncover. One such gem was the keynote from Kirill Tatarinov, president, Microsoft Business Solutions, who had a lot to say about Dynamics, and the cloud.

Let’s be honest, SharePoint For Internet Sites (FIS) has been given a pretty tough time in terms of its ability to deliver rich and engaging experiences on the web.

Today is day one of the Adobe Digital Marketing Summit, bringing together around 4000 online marketers, technologists and ecosystem players. Kicking off the day today Adobe announced the latest release of their Web Experience Management platform, and this afternoon we had a chance to chat with VP of Enterprise Technology, David Nuescheler, about the CQ 5.5 release, the Adobe product roadmap, how DAM is changing digital marketing team relationships, Adobe's new Web Experience Management (WEM) in the cloud and what challenges are shaping the industry in 2012. Here are some video extracts from our chat.

Calling it a groundbreaking tool that provides relevant content on a customer-by-customer basis, Charlotte, NC based Randall-Reilly announced a data-driven, customized approach to business video presentations in its Real Time Content (RTC) product launch.

 Want to monetize mobile? Today’s your lucky day. Thanks to Mediaspectrum’s precision technology, users can now employ its mobile Cloud platform to capture, analyze, and monetize customer interactions.

In the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism State of the News Media 2012, the annual report on American Journalism identifies not only the parallels between tech and news, but also the growing presence of mobile devices and its affect on news consumption.

It’s a busy month over at Acquia, a provider of value-added products and services for Drupal. The company has announced a new Cloud API and a change in its leadership team.

If you use Drupal and thought it might be nice to have an Apple-style Genius Bar that allows your customers and prospects to schedule time with you, you’re in luck. TimeTrade, which specializes in online appointment scheduling, has released a Drupal module that makes it possible at this week’s Denver DrupalCon.

You know the story by now. Employees are disconnected from customers. Customers remain isolated by geography or by access. How do businesses get closer to customers without sacrificing productivity? Moxie Software provides a solution that aims to converge customer communications with employee collaboration applications. 

In his morning keynote, open source CMS Drupal creator Dries Buytaert offered a vision of what to expect at this week's DrupalCon, and explained the expectations for Drupal 8.

Later today, Acquia is releasing an infographic that illustrates 10 years of Drupal growth, from the dorm room to the boardroom — and we got an exclusive early look at Acquia's look back.

It's Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City, Utah and a big chunk of the city is waking up with Digital Marketing on their minds (and breakfast of course). With two days of product training out of the way at the Adobe Summit, it's time to talk keynotes and sessions.

Phase2, an open source technology solutions provider with a focus on publishing, government, public policy and non-profit clients announced that the company has merged with Treehouse Agency, a company that builds large-scale websites on the open source Drupal CMS.

Web Content Management is in a state of flux. It was traditionally aimed at the web. But now, with the rapidly increasing number of channels that are only partly "web" related from a technological and conceptual viewpoint (Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Mobile apps), Web CMS vendors are moving to try to cram all channel specific possibilities into one WCM system.

Web content management (Web CMS) provider Percussion Software is making a few leadership changes. The company has announced it has appointed its Chief Operating Officer (COO) to a dual role as President.

The best content management software in the world cannot save you from an implementation disaster. 

Successful CMS projects achieve their goals as a factor of the implementation, deployment and change management processes as much as they do by way of the quality and features of the software being deployed. Some might even argue that deployment factors are more important than the software itself.

Join in this Wednesday March 21st at 11am Pacific time / 2pm Eastern time for a lively one hour discussion covering the top 6 major pitfalls associated with Web CMS projects.

During the talk you'll learn about:

• Best practices for creating a full-proof migration strategy
• What to do at the beginning to ensure happy web authors when the process is finished
• How to differentiate implementation priorities of a Web CMS from a CMS
• How much reliance on automation is too much when transferring your data
• …and much more

If successful projects are your cup of tea, then sign-up here to reserve your seat.

We all know that a picture has the ability to be worth a thousand words. With the rise of popular visual content platforms such as Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook Lists and Storify (to name a few), content is finally moving beyond words to help build connections. As a community manager, how can you begin to leverage the power of a picture to enhance relationships and promote your brand?