Content Management Matters ™

San Francisco-based Six Apart -- makers of Movable Type, sellers of Live Journal -- have just unwrapped a lovely new piece of technology. Some call it blog fire-hosing, but we'll go with rather heavier metaphors and say their new Blog It FaceBook app is double barrel publishing fun. It's buckshot blogging. It's strafing the blogosphere. It's like going hunting with Cheney -- you know, pull the trigger once and you get two birds and all your friends, right in the face.

As with any website, design can be key to your overall performance. Many already know that WordPress offers some great features for blogs and sites alike. But did you know that you can get great magazine style themes to ensure maximum design efficiency online?

It’s getting the point that if you aren’t using some form of Web 2.0 in your online endeavors that you are behind the game by about a year. Web 2.0, and particularly the social aspects of it, is the fastest growing web setup around. Remember when YouTube sold for more than a billion dollars (and it had only been live online for about two years)? It was all because two guys wanted to create a social environment that they and their friends could share videos over.

Northern California-based Tangent, Inc. today announced their DataCove email archiving appliance. The company aims to deliver a device that meets US federal archival compliance regulations, and with a ticket price just under US$ 4000.

Wasn't it just yesterday that "wiki" was a funny word? Well, a lot has changed since then. Today wikis are not only used by the Web 2.0 kids -- they are now being analyzed, evaluated and integrated into the day-to-day flow of the enterprise.

Respected for their simple collaborative possibilities, these useful little tools are also becoming a way of life behind the firewall.

But wikis may seem like "the simplest things that could possibly work," integrating them is trickier than most think, and requires some finesse.

What follows are a few simple strategies for integrating wikis into office life.

Following shortly behind the 3.0 release candidate this past July, the Plone Foundation is excited -- and relieved -- to announce the general availability of Plone 3.0.

At least part of the big news with this release is the addition of versioning to the Plone core. This new capability places the Plone offering into a new class of Web Content Management competitors.

Businesses are starting to recognize it’s not the volume of online traffic, but the quality that counts.

Good traffic comprises relevant visitors who are likely to fulfill a desired action on your website, whether it’s to make a purchase, e-mail or call, subscribe to a newsletter or what have you.

Poor traffic, even in extraordinary amounts, is a waste of bandwidth. No matter how impressive the numbers, the wrong crowd won’t bring you desired results.

There is a new player in the document management game, and it goes by the name of Ademero, Inc. The latest release of its document management solution (DMS), Content Central version 3.5, intends to simplify the process of document capture, retrieval, and management.

Asbru is the rainbow bridge in Norse mythology, built between the realm of man and the realm of gods. If we were to take this literally, it could signify that the release of Asbru's CMS version 6.5 bridges the gap between basic and advanced Web lifeforms. With its ready to use system of optional community, e-commerce and statistics add-on modules Asbru Content Management's newest release provides greater functionality to the realm of man, er...the user.

Although slightly behind schedule, Nuxeo is otherwise on-track to deliver the next the full point release of its open source enterprise content management system this week.

Commerce and Kiwis are two wonderful things that just aren’t paired together often enough. ITema, Inc. has thankfully addressed this issue, at least in name, by releasing to the open source community KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for the MODx content management system.

Wordpress, Expression Engine and Movable Type may be out front in the Micro CMS space, but a little competition is always a good thing. That competition comes in the form of New Zealand based Silverstripe who have released an updated version of their open source CMS product.

Astoria Software, providers of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) content management solution, and XML-based content authoring tool provider In.Vision have teamed-up to address the perennial question plaguing CMS project leaders the world over:

"What do you mean I can't use Microsoft Word?"

Has it been a year already? Apparently it has, as Packt Publishing releases a first look at the list of nominees for the 2007 Best Open Source CMS Awards.

Anytime a software company announces a complete revision of its flagship product, its a momentous occasion for existing customers. When that company is EMC and the product in question is Documentum, then the entire industry stands up to take notice.

Before everyone gets swept up in the pomp and circumstance, however, let's keep a few things in mind.