Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Next week we’ll be at Gartner’s Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit in Orlando, Florida. Lest you think that this just an excuse to catch some rays, you can be reassured that we’ll be under the fluorescent lighting, gleefully attending session after session tackling topics such as the social workplace or debating the merits of BYOD or evaluating social media policies.

If you’re not entirely sure that your company has developed the correct Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy or technologies, you would not be alone. According to recent research from Forrester, despite widespread adoption and deployment, many IT and business people says they are struggling.

Sometimes, a partnership is just meant to be. Building on many successful integrations since 2009, EPiServer acquires Mediachase and makes Mediachase's eCommerce engine a permanent component of the EPiServer Commerce solution.

If you think online advertising is the key to keeping your site afloat, then heed this warning: According to the 2012 Digital Advertising Attitudes Report, 20% of US consumers would stop using a company’s products or services entirely as a result of receiving too many advertising messages, while 28% would be less likely to respond positively to that company in the future. What qualifies as “too many” is not entirely clear, but the report highlights a few best practices to help you retain customers without annoying them.

Welcome to the February 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.

The long, sordid history of web content management system (Web CMS) complexity is finally catching up with us. End users are revolting and demanding an easier way to manage content because the old ways are just too hard. At the same time, some in the industry are instead touting this complexity as “inherent” or “OK” because that is “just the way it is.”

I disagree, and I’ll bet you do too.

Strategy is defined at a senior management level. Good content can help implement that strategy.

Microsoft's venerable basket of Windows Live services will live on, but the name is being retired. With the launch of Windows 8, something new is needed to unify and simplify Microsoft's offerings as it has to work across phones, tablets and desktops without sounding out-of-place.

If you have been thinking, “What I would really like to see on Facebook is more obvious advertising,” your wish is about to be granted. Rumors have been swirling that Facebook is on the verge of rolling out big changes in its advertising system. Reports suggest the changes will be implemented on February 29, but there are signs that the new advertising features may appear sooner than anyone expected.

March 19 will be here before you know it. Thousands of people will flock to Denver, Colorado for a week of learning and networking with Drupal community members.

Sensing a high demand in the realm of media and entertainment, today CoreMedia announces its new solution for web content management and user engagement across media outlets. Built for a new kind of audience, the Web CMS provider has created a means for press to publish high volumes of content, anywhere at anytime, and across any interface. The age of 24-hour news is upon us. 

The G-Cloud framework is a procurement initiative projected to save the UK government £ 120 million by 2014. Developed in only four weeks, the CloudStore offers more than 1,700 cloud-based products and services from more than 250 vendors.

For companies with robust Web CMSs, the move to a mobile app brings up many challenges to create consistent and seamless customer experiences.

This week, a new social media management platform has emerged. Tracx is a modular and scalable platform designed to provide professional users all the tools necessary to build, manage and monetize their social media presence.

Agility CMS announces a turn-key online magazine publishing solution.

 Telerik has been busy. The software development provider announced its first quarter release, and it includes updates to almost every developer tool in the company’s portfolio.

Open source content management system (CMS) vendor Jahia has released a new version of their platform. Jahia 6.6 includes several notable enhancements to Jahia Studio, the free user interface builder the company introduced in its last release, and the core platform.

Looking out for the little guy too, this week Pressly announced it will be launching a self-serve platform in the spring, so that any blogger can renovate his social media feeds and websites for tablets and mobile devices. Though originally focused on the major players, the independents of the world can now spiff up their palates and bolster competitive plans against major publications and/or each other. The age of the amateur journalist just took a turn for the better.

When business is doing great, you don't just sit back and ride the wave — you go out find yourself a Chief Technology Officer. At least that's what Ektron did.

Just as Forrester predicts that, by 2020, we’ll be living in a world dominating by smart devices, it also suggests that, in just 4 years, there will be a chief mobility officer overseeing enterprise mobile strategies.