Education News & Articles

Government institutions and higher education purveyors have major content issues. Increasingly, they’re turning to the pros to help assist them - not a bad deal for the enterprise and Web CMS industries at large.

With this in mind, content infrastructure vendor Day was selected by Oklahoma University to assist in developing the institution’s online personality across a user-scape of over 17,000 unique daily visitors.

Despite a broad track record across the digital space, the notion of wikis in the workplace still makes enterprises twitch with fear. Whether because they don’t fully understand what a wiki is, or because the word itself conjures up visions of Lord of the Flies (employees running amok, unmanageable access to all kinds of information), many fail to realize the benefits of this helpful collaboration tool.

Wikis can help employees share information, track workflow and allow users to edit and author information with ease, often saving time and money.

We’ve said for awhile now that the European CMS market is cluttered with a menagerie of small and mid-sized contenders. Overall, however, it awaits the arrival of a real rallying gem.

To gauge whether a vendor meets that higher call, we can typically look at the impact it’s made on both enterprise and education.

Enterprise-wise, Ireland-based ECM firm TERMINALFOUR showed some classy color with Site Manager 5.3. And now it’s making waves in the latter category, too.

In a collaboration with the Center for Applied Special Technology, the RFB&D has launched Learning Through Listening, a site for educators with students experiencing unique setbacks.

The site was put together with NetReach’s web CMS cmScribe, keeping the site’s information fully compliant with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines presented by the W3C.

Yes, even educators have a compliance line to walk.

With the introduction of its Premiere Apps suite into the marketplace, we posited Google was getting its ducks in order to turn Apps into a major enterprise-ready contender.

But the search giant has pulled a surprise move, having released their “educational” edition of Apps, dubbed the Google Apps Education Edition, to registered non-profits in the US at no cost.