Global Content News & Articles

What does Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) have in common with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)? TypeCon.

This week at SOTA’s annual conference, W3C plans on initiating discussion around the new open format for enabling high-quality typography for the Web.

As many American newspapers and news agencies close down news desks scattered strategically around the world, citizen journalism is filling the gap. By offering local journalists and concerned citizens a platform from which to offer their perspectives on local and global events, coverage of world news is showing signs of life again.

OmniUpdate (news, site) released version 8.10 of its OU Campus Web CMS that is available in both SaaS/hosted and on-premise flavors. Some of the highlights on the new release include multi-language editing/preview and multi-output preview capabilities.

The new release allows OU Campus users to preview content rendered in various file type formats, such as .html, .pdf, .xml, .csv. The preview capability has also been extended to mobile layouts, as well as any UTF-8-compatible languages, including the two-byte ones.

The multi-output preview feature should be helpful for scenarios when a template is coded to handle multiple files formats, allowing content editors to preview all the outputs together before publishing to live.

When there are instances of the same piece of content existing in multiple languages, each of the language versions can be edited and previewed either individually or side by side.

OmniUpdate has had multi-browser preview functionality for quite some time now. It’s good to see the vendor finally paying more attention to the global, multi-lingual aspect of web content. In the meantime, the word on the street has it that we are already living on the edge of global content management crisis…

Global Information Management Solution Provider SDL (news,site) has unveiled its Common Enterprise Application Framework (CEAF), a new platform for better managing global content across multinational companies.

The new product is designed to create greater efficiencies and interoperability among Global Information Management Applications (GIM) which manage content throughout the entire global information lifecycle – from authoring through content management to on-line and off-line publishing across world markets.

With the world becoming more connected, global authoring and publishing will need to be addressed by nearly all technical communications personnel. But with global authoring and publishing come translation hurdles as well as working to maintain consistency with global publications to streamline the translation process. These can mean both added time and cost for businesses.

Web CMS vendor Sitecore has recently been on about this. The SDL Tridon deal was arguably driven by the opportunity in global Web content management. Vendors like Clay Tablet have been throwing some chips in the game as well.

Staying in command of the prevailing content management winds, the Gilbane Group’s November conference squarely targets the theme.

According to Gilbane, global business mandates spell the end of cottage-industry approaches to global content management. They assert that it’s now time to rethink content management and translation process management, and to bring these practices together effectively with people, process and technology.

You too can learn to speak like this. Just get yourself registered for the three-day Gilbane Boston conference, kicking off on November 27th. Early birds save US $200 with the discount code “Gilbane”.

The globalized content theme has been in the air for the past year or so and of late has been rapidly gaining momentum (news, news and news). The tools, processes and practices around managing multi-language, multi-cultural web content are gelling, but there’s plenty of ground left to cover.

This Thursday at 11am Pacific time, you can tune-in for some real world tips from Darren Guarnaccia, who’s a the marketing veep at international Web CMS vendor Sitecore.