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This week it's been all about strategy. Whether we are talking about content strategy, tips for deploying social technologies or how to support the marketing team, there's always something to be doing better.

In other news, Pew research has shown that people are taking privacy more seriously, restricting access to personal information. We spend loads of time online, constantly sharing information about ourselves, on purpose and unknowingly, forever feeding the big data pot.

Has the big brother, big data backlash begun?

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• Customer Experience Management: The Key to Web Strategy in 2012
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• Forrester: Where SharePoint Lacks as Enterprise CMS, Supplement and Integrate
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Editor's Picks

• iPad 3 Launch Confirmed: Time to Battle Microsoft in the Enterprise?
• Top 3 Considerations for Deploying Social Technology in the Enterprise
• Beneath the Buzz: A Big Data - Data Scientist Primer
• Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in March 2012
• Marketers Want Simplicity in a Complex Online World

Around the Web

• The Dawn of Social Mediocrity
• Web Sites Are Dead. Long Live CMS Sites
• Social Media and the CIO: Be the Gas Pedal, Not the Brake
• Is Automation Killing the "Social" in Social Media?
• The Mindset Shift: Providing Information -vs- Stimulating Discussion

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• Mar 06, 2012 -- Get Social with Microsoft & Telligent in Dallas
• Mar 09, 2012 -- SXSW Interactive Austin
• Mar 12, 2012 -- Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit Orlando
• Mar 20, 2012 -- Adobe Digital Marketing Summit in Salt Lake City
• Mar 20, 2012 -- AIIM Conference San Francisco

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Senior Vice President of Engineering in Denver at Quark
• Content Manager in Los Angeles at Belkin
• Senior Analyst -- Web Analytics in Boston at Zmags
• Multimedia Designer in California at Facebook
• SharePoint Developer/Architect in Seattle at Blue Rooster

At the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain earlier this week, the global cellular trade group GSMA said the total number of “connected devices” is on track to hit 24 billion by 2020, with a global business impact of US$ 4.5 trillion from new revenue streams, by the end of this decade, based on Machina Research estimates.

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.

 Last summer, eBay was busy acquiring companies in an effort to put together a developer platform called X.Commerce. While its presence has been muted, its open platform aims to helps merchants and businesses of all sizes to “compete and thrive in a fast-changing world of social, local, mobile and digital driven commerce.” eBay isn’t the only working to make it easier for business to buy, sell or market their services to one another. Enter gotradelive.

Today, web content management provider Telerik releases the next update to Sitefinity Web CMS, this time with a focus on easier administration to get your websites up and running quickly.

A forensic analysis of Google Wallet points to unencrypted data and security vulnerabilities.

Gartner has released the most recent version of its magic quadrant for e-commerce. It’s not shocking that the market is growing; something has to be powering all of those black Friday sales, right?

This week in the Google-verse we welcomed back the iOS Gmail app. So far, the angry pitchfork mob has been quiet. Meanwhile, Google+ plugged in a little Trends column in the search results page (it's like Twitter's Trending Topics with a twist) and all marketers have been invited to check out Think Insights, a smorgasbord of helpful tools and up-to-date studies, trends and videos.

Online customers want faster, more convenient and completely secure transactions. A globalized economy demands payment systems that cross borders and supports diverse payment types. And fraud losses continue to be a growing issue for most merchants. With a constantly changing eComm landscape, many mid to enterprise-level organizations are finding it difficult to select the right eComm platform for their business. The key to the selection process is focusing on solutions that are flexible, secure and designed for growth. By doing so, merchants can be confident their eComm platform will meet their organization’s needs, today and in the future.

Today's economy is growing internationally and likewise, online retailers need to be able to meet consumers wherever in the world they may be. Bridgeline Digital has updated its iAPPS suite to better enable web retailers and web publishers to meet the needs of an international audience.

IBM reports that iPad and mobile devices will drive 15% of retail web traffic this holiday season.

Telerik has released version 4.3 of its Sitefinity .NET Web content management system. And like we expected, there are more capabilities to support the online customer experience.

PayPal is taking a new route to get your money, it's taking its wallet offline.

The Science of Sharing study, exposes the methods consumers use to research different kinds of products online and the influence social media can have on other consumer's purchases. 

Three major components of today's customer experience management efforts are the three "C's": Content, Community and Commerce. It goes without saying that all three are important for success in today's world of online commerce, but all too many implementations are ineffective because they ignore an unspoken, and perhaps the most important "C", the Convergence of each of these key areas.