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Ah it all becomes clear now...Americans do believe there's more to Canada than seal hunting and polar bears. At least Web Content Management Provider Ektron does.

Ektron has announced that they are opening their first office in Toronto, Canada. Home of the Blue Jays and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

What has encouraged this movement North? "Significant growth" in sales from Canadian companies over the last year according to William Rogers, CEO of Ektron."We saw a need to establish a local presence not only to better server our clients, but also to build closer relationships with our partners and provide them with the support they need."

Kevin McCloskey, formerly of Momentum Advanced Solutions Inc., will be the Director of Ektron Canada and is tasked with not only growing the business but also ensuring that Ektron's Canadian partners and existing client base are well supported.

Ektron's core product is it's Web CMS CMS400.Net. They also offer built on social networking and web 2.0 features like wikis, blogs, forums...you know...the stuff every CMS vendor is adding on now.

It's good to see vendors recognizing the potential in Canada, especially since our dollar is now on par. We got a little bit of money to spend, eh!

According to Web CMS favorite Ektron, there's more to social networking than posting incriminating pictures of last night's beer-pong tournament or pasting witty comments and YouTube clips on your friend's profiles.

The Ektron Intranet, which takes the ideas of popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace and puts them in the office, enables the controlled, collaborative creation and managed distribution of business documents on the corporate intranet.

Ektron has announced the release of Ektron CMS400.Net v7.5.

v7.5 comes packed with a few new punches, adding an extra dose of Web 2.0 schmoozing to the existing Web CMS. Yes, there's support for blogs and wikis. And yes, there's social networking and forums.

In other words, you get everything you prayed for when you unwrapped CMS400.net 7.0.

Ektron Inc., a major name in Web CMS, has announced the launch of “Ektronville,” a state and local government Starter Site.

Noting that many state and local government websites look and operate as though they were created a decade ago and have missed an upgrade or two, or four, Ektron’s Ektronville aims to correct this sad state of {government} affairs and bring their web presence up to date.

I admit it. I stop to ask directions when I am lost and I always watch the online tutorial offered when using a new product. Whether it be for a new Web-based app for the iPhone or the latest in Web design tools I marvel at their succinct ability to demonstrate the most challenging of hoops and hurdles.

I guess it has the same appeal of cooking shows and anything marketed as DIY. It all just looks so easy.

Fresh from this month's launch of a UK-based operation, Ektron's expansion continues into the southern hemisphere with the opening of new offices in Sydney, Australia. Ektron has chosen Sydney's business hotbed, Norwest Business Park, as the location for their Asian-Pacific presence.

Crossing paths mid-flight with many a European CMS contender, Ektron, a New Hampshire based Web CMS vendor, has set up camp in the United Kingdom. Their new UK division will include business development, partner support, technical consulting, customer service and an in-house training center.

New Hampshire-based Ektron, a popular provider of Web CMS and Document Management solutions for the mid-market has unwrapped their latest release of CMS400.NET.

Version 7.0 of the product is tuned into the ever present Web 2.0 theme and proudly sports new Wiki functionality, better forums, enhanced blogging tools, and advanced navigation features.

The Web CMS software purveyors at Ektron have announced the launch of the Ektron Certified System Administrator Training Program for web masters, web admins and the other geeks who keep the wheels of so many company websites turning.

Each certified training course lasts for two days and will be held twice monthly in Amherst, NH -- where the company's training facility is located.

CMS vendors continue to update their applications to be compatible with IE7 and Vista. The supposed 85 percent marketshare of IE is definitely causing a real and broad scramble in the field. The latest in the wave of releases is Ektron's eWebEditPro+XML rich text editor. Along with IE7 support comes a host of new features sure to please the the content managers.

Ektron's CMS400.NET was their first native .NET Web Content Management System (CMS). With much of the purchasing world fragmented into .NET or J2EE and the SMB market slanted towards .NET, this was a wise move, and one that has reaped strong returns for the company.

Recently announced, Ektron's CMS400 now supports ColdFusion, JSP, PHP and ASP as well as ASP.NET for integration, customization, and the presentation layer of websites built upon the product.

Ektron, a Web CMS and Document Management provider, has attained .NET Connected designation from Microsoft for their Ektron CMS400.NET .NET Web Content Management Product.

The Microsoft .NET Connected recognition acknowledges software solutions that demonstrate a significant level of Web Services interoperability and are built upon Microsoft technologies.

CMS400.NET is among the first Web CMS systems to earn Web-services-enabled distinction via the Microsoft review process.

Ektron's been running at a fast pace lately. Keeping the momentum, today they've announced their latest off the shelf product, the DMS 400 mid-level document management system.

"Ektron blazed new trails with our Web CMS and will so the same with our DMS," says Bill Rogers, Ektron's CEO.

Mid-market Web Content Management (CMS) vendors around the world are successfully winning business from larger CMS players.

"A plethora of mid-market Web content management vendors have been growing in size and numbers while most of the enterprise-tier players have taken their eye off the Web content ball in favor of grander ECM visions," says Tony Byrne of CMSWatch.

New Hampshire-based Ektron Inc., today added enhanced workflow capabilities to its Web Content Management (WCM) offering.

The new workflow features give managers control over their publishing processes by automating collaboration, management and approval of content assets. Organizations can now add content process control, including tasks management and progress monitoring.