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Highlights of the Week

• IBM's Social Strategy Includes Support for CMIS, User Generated Content and Compliance. IBM announced a number of updates and new projects that must have generated lots of excited whispers in the corners.
• Vignette's VCM V8 Finally Made It. If you wondered about the fate of the promised last year VCM V8 in the light of Vignette’s various tribulations and the Open Text acquisition, worry not. It is officially here.
• NewsGator Acquires Tomoye: Expands Solution Offering, Markets. NewsGator has just announced an acquisition deal with Tomoye.
• EPiServer Trumps Competition, Decides to Go Public. EPiServer is preparing to go public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
  
• Oracle Gets EU Thumbs-Up For Sun Acquisition. Oracle has announced that it has received regulatory approval from the European Commission for its acquisition of Sun.
• Migrate and Manage Your SharePoint Content with MetaVis Migrator. If you are one of those companies who wants to use SharePoint for more than a gloried file share, the MetaVis Migrator for SharePoint is a tool you should consider adding to your arsenal.
• Guardian News Agency to Make $3.2 Mil on iPhone App? The Guardian News & Media has sold 68,979 copies of its premium iPhone app, which launched in December. Does the future of web publishing belong to iPhone apps?

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• IBM Amps Up Collaboration Platform, Invites Partners to Play. The new development combines Big Blue's hosted Lotus services with the resources of IBM Research, yielding fertile ground for business-driven collaboration ideas for the cloud.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• IBM Unveils New Project Focused on Future of Collaboration. Want to know what the next generation of collaboration software looks like?
• Gartner: Top Technology Predictions for 2010 and Beyond. Ready for some more predictions? Gartner got them.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. In our February article entitled Under the Covers: Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer we looked at Alfresco's take on providing basic document and collaboration services for free. Alfresco's project is called Alfresco Share.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
  
• SharePoint Online Gets Extensibile When it Upgrades to SharePoint 2010. Microsoft announced a version of SharePoint Online for External websites also built on SharePoint 2010.
• See Drupal 7 Alpha in Action. A Drupal tutorial site has released a video preview.
  

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• Social Media Business Assistant at Mashable
• Technical Writer at DemandTec
• Senior Product Marketing Manager, Yahoo! ICE at Yahoo!
• Marketing Manager at Memeo
• Sales Engineer at Colligo Networks
• Software Engineer at NewsGator
• Senior User Interface Designer at Brightcove

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Featured Events:

• Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group -- Feb 4 (San Francisco, CA)
• O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference -- Feb 22-24 (New York, NY)
• SXSW Interactive 2010 -- March 12-16 (Austin, TX)
• Drupalcon San Francisco 2010 -- April 19-21 (San Francisco, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)
• Cloud Computing Congress Asia -- June 24 (Kuala Lumpur, Singapore)

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Highlights of the Week

• 6 Things to Consider When Selecting A Digital Asset Management Solution. Becoming aware of an issue is one thing. Choosing a solution is another.
• Gartner: Top Technology Predictions for 2010 and Beyond. Ready for some more predictions? Gartner got them.
  
• WCM Field Notes: Give Open Source A Chance. There seems to be a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding open source content management these days.
• More Acronym Wars: Kill GRC? Back in December we remarked about the trouble with generic acronyms and what they contribute (if anything) to web content management. This year the same argument unfolds around another acronym, GRC.
• Alfresco Enterprise CMS Cozies Up With IBM Lotus. Alfresco got friendly with IBM Lotus today via a (soon to be available) integration of the Alfresco Enterprise CMS with IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere Portal.
• #LF2010 How to Assemble the Right Project Team. At this year’s Empower 2010, Christy Richardson, Pulte’s very own Director of Web Systems, schooled us on how it all starts with putting together the right project team.
• Drupal 7 Alpha Released, Call for Testers. Drupal 7 much anticipated, is now out in Alpha 1 release and the call for testers is upon us.

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• Ektron Closes 2009 With 38% in Web CMS Sales Growth. Ektron released some of its 2009 financials and announced sales growth of over 38%. That’s about the only number released by the privately-held Web CMS vendor, so now onto the end-of-year highlights, of course.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• Alert: What's Coming In Open Source CMS In 2010. Rather than blindly putting out an update for January, we thought we'd look farther ahead into what everyone wants to accomplish throughout next year. Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes.
  
• Gartner Provides Advice on the eDiscovery Vendor Landscape. Contained in this year’s MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors report, Gartner estimates that revenue in worldwide enterprise eDiscovery software was US$ 808 million in 2008, with an annual growth rate from here on in of 21% to 2013.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• Sitecore Ends 2009 with Slew of New, Updated Products and Record Revenues. If coffee is for closers, then Sitecore is certainly jacked up on caffeine.
• Choosing a CMS: Plone and Its Competition. Martin Aspeli of the Plone project recently sat down and evaluated a "whole slew" of web content management systems.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. In our February article entitled Under the Covers: Alfresco's SharePoint Services (WSS) Killer we looked at Alfresco's take on providing basic document and collaboration services for free. Alfresco's project is called Alfresco Share.

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Featured Jobs:

• Web Marketing Manager at AWHONN
• Sales Engineer at Snowbound Software
• Inside Sales (Entry Level) at CentralDesktop
• Senior PERL Engineer at Visible Technologies
• Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer at TERMINALFOUR
• Perl Developer at BuzzFeed
• Webmaster/Graphic Designer at The Cleantech Group

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Featured Events:

• Entrepreneur Magazine's Growth 2.0 Conference -- Jan 26 (Miami, FL)
• Agile Edge - Agile for Ebusiness -- Feb 9 (London, UK)
• O'Reilly Where 2.0 2010 -- March 30 - April 1 (San Jose, CA)
• Drupalcon San Francisco 2010 -- April 19-21 (San Francisco, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)
• Cloud Computing Congress Asia -- June 24 (Kuala Lumpur, Singapore)

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Highlights of the Week

• Choosing a CMS: Plone and Its Competition.Martin Aspeli of the Plone project recently sat down and evaluated a "whole slew" of web content management systems.
• Movable Type 5 Released, Adds Versioning, Better Management. The new version is being called “a great milestone in the 8 years of Movable Type history” by its team, and MT users are more than happy to welcome some long-awaited features.
• Gartner Acquires Burton Group, Provides Research to IT Professionals. December was a busy month for industry research giant Gartner. They started the month announcing the acquisition of AMR Research and they ended the month with the acquisition of the Burton Group.
• TERMINALFOUR Picks up €1.6m in Funding For R&D and Expansion. Irish WCM company TERMINALFOUR bags additional funding with new hires and expansion on the horizon.
• Dedication to Open Source and Open Standards Threatened in Leaked EU EIF Document. As the European Union works toward better integration to help countries work together more easily, one step along the way has been the development of the European Interoperability Framework, or EIF.
• Ektron Closes 2009 With 38% in Web CMS Sales Growth. Ektron released some of its 2009 financials and announced sales growth of over 38%. That’s about the only number released by the privately-held Web CMS vendor, so now onto the end-of-year highlights, of course.
• EMC Acquires Archer, Adds GRC Software to RSA Division. January kicks off officially for EMC with the acquisition of Archer Technologies, further demonstrating the enterprise content management vendors support for integrated governance, risk and compliance software.
  

Most Popular Articles

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• Alert: What's Coming In Open Source CMS In 2010. Rather than blindly putting out an update for January, we thought we'd look farther ahead into what everyone wants to accomplish throughout next year. Call it our open source 2010 predictions with less guesswork and high hopes.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• #diwd Moving The Economist to the Drupal Web CMS. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the idea of a free, open source CMS holds a great deal of appeal. However, in the case of The Economist, it didn't start out this way.
• Emerging Trends in Web Content Management There are emerging trends shaping web content management and the vendors that provide it. Here's a look at what's on our radar.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• Gartner Provides Advice on the eDiscovery Vendor Landscape. Gartner estimates that revenue in worldwide enterprise eDiscovery software was US$ 808 million in 2008, with an annual growth rate from here on in of 21% to 2013.
• FatWire Offers Website Optimization Capabilities via Integrated Google Analytics. FatWire’s first move of 2010? Analytics, baby.

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• Technical Writer at ZL Technologies
• Content Writers Wanted at Suite101
• Project Manager at TERMINALFOUR
• Marketing Programs Manager at Jive Software
• Rails/PHP Hacker at TechCrunch
• Perl Developer at BuzzFeed
• Webmaster/Graphic Designer at The Cleantech Group

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Featured Events:

• Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group -- Feb 4 (San Francisco, CA)
• Pink Elephant IT Service Mgmt. Conference & Exhibition Las Vegas 2010 -- Feb 17-21 (Las Vegas, NV)
• Nuxeo World Paris 2010 -- March 11-12 (Paris)
• AIIM International Expo 2010 -- April 20-22 (Philadelphia, PA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)
• ECM World 2010 -- May 9-13 (Boston, MA)

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Highlights of the Week

• WCM Field Notes: The Skinny on JCR, CMIS and OSGi. The web is humming with talk of standards at the moment -- due mainly to the fact that the Content Management Interoperability Standard (CMIS) version 1.0 is nearing its final state and open for public review.
• Emerging Trends in Web Content Management. There are emerging trends shaping web content management and the vendors that provide it. Here's a look at what's on our radar.
• Google, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress: The Interwebs of Cross Publishing. If you've ever wanted all your information in one place, your lucky days are upon you. The stars have begun to align and Santa is delivering some early Christmas gifts.
• A Quick Intro to Knowledge Tree SaaS Document Management. Over the course of its release history document management software developer KnowledgeTree has had a habit of mirroring upgrades in the on premise version of its products with corresponding upgrades to its SaaS version.
• Alfresco Gets More Settled, SaaSy in the Cloud. Alfresco is expanding its cloud horizons by offering complex configuration deployment options in the cloud for its Enterprise CMS via a partnership with RightScale.
• A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 2 - Vamosa. In this second article of our series (see part one covering Kapow Technologies here) we take a look at Vamosa Content Migrator 3.0. Come along for the ride.
• A Sneak Peak at HTML 5.0. HTML 5 is the fifth major revision of the web's core language and it has been designed to support the rapidly changing Web 2.0 world we live in today. Let's take a little tour of what this latest version means for web development.

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• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. When we posited that Alfresco Share was after SharePoint Services' marketshare, it sparked a bit of chatter -- some positive, some not so much.
• Social Media Minute: Bing Goes iPhone, Microsoft Gets Called Out. Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories.
• How Integrated is Your Web Analytics Package and is That a Good Thing? Here's a quick scan around the field and a look at what all this Web CMS + analytics integration news we've been hearing about means.
  
• Microsoft Launches SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Support Services Offer. Last year, Microsoft launched SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a service that provides customers of SharePoint Software Assurance extra tools to plan and implement SharePoint effectively in their organization.
• Drupal 7 Release Progress Report. The Drupal team's massive push toward Drupal 7 continues. There are a few changes to deadlines and expected features, but so far somehow it's all coming together, despite the daunting scope of the changes.
• ECMs that Implement Case Management Frameworks. Last month, in Part 1 of an examination of case management we looked at how Enterprise CMS vendors have been preoccupied with the development of platforms and solutions designed to fill a growing demand for case management software. Here in the second part of this series we look at specific software products that companies can use to develop case management frameworks.

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• Technical Writer at Lab126
• Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at nGenera
• Account Executive at IKON
• Sales Executive – CMS Solution Sales at Ektron
• Account Development Representative at Mimosa Systems
• Technical Support Engineer at SpringSource
• Web Designer at Spigit

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• Empower 2010 Laserfiche Institute Conference -- Jan 11-13 (Los Angeles, CA)
• ATIA 2010 Orlando -- Jan 28-30 (Orlando, FL)
• Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group -- Feb 4 (San Francisco, CA)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 -- Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

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Highlights of the Week

• How to Use, Not Abuse a Web CMS Features Matrix. The web content management feature matrix can be a useful tool, if you use it wisely. Here's how.
• Google Analytics Leaps Forward with 7 Great Features. Big G recently tacked on more enterprise goodies to Google Analytics. The seven new additions boost existing capabilities as well as introduce new customization flexibility.
• BlogEngine.NET, An Open Source Blogging Platform. For those who want to go their own way in the blogosphere and ignore the big guns of WordPress, Blogger.com, Movable Type or any number of other options, we take a look at BlogEngine.NET.
• #LeWeb Twitter Showers Developers with Real Time Love, Announces New Conference. Ryan Sarver, Twitter's Director of Platform made a series of four announcements, including the unveiling of Chirp.
• #diwd09 Do It With Drupal: Pragmatic Site Building. When it comes to why Drupal is popular, the discussion in many ways revolved around why open source was popular.
• Social Media Minute: Twitter Opens Up, Watch What You Say on Facebook. Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories.
• Magnolia CMS 4.2: Content Modeling, Standards, Integrations. Open source Magnolia CMS 4.2 brings hierarchical data modeling, simpler integrations with external data sources, updated STK and a new node-builder extending the JSR-170 standard.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn't get enough of during the past week -- if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? Drupal, ECM and SharePoint.

• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• #GilbaneBoston: The Rise of Open Source in Content Management. One of the hot topics at the Gilbane Boston conference this year is open source.
  
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. When we posited that Alfresco Share was after SharePoint Services' marketshare, it sparked a bit of chatter -- some positive, some not so much.
• Google Go, A New Programming Language After Microsoft's Dev Community? Early last month Google tossed its latest creation into the shark pool: A new programming language called Go. 
• Using Emotional Experience Design to Engage Customers on Your Website. Ron Rogowski and his team of researchers at Forrester Research, look at what they call emotional experience design and how it affects the way it can create online experiences that “deeply engage customers” in a new report called Emotional Experience Design,
• Collaboration, Search and Compliance Key Areas for ECM Investment in 2010. There's no sign of enterprise content management investment decreasing in the coming year. At least not according to new Forrester research.

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• .NET CMS Documentation Writer at pTools
• Account Executive at SpringCM
• Sitefinity CMS Presales Engineer at Telerik
• Open Source Java Developer at Atlassian
• Web Application Developer at Systems Alliance
• Drupal Developer at Think!Shout
• Principal User Experience Developer at eBay

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Featured Events:

• Empower 2010 Laserfiche Institute Conference -- Jan 11-13 (Los Angeles, Ca)
• ATIA 2010 Orlando -- Jan 28-30 (Orlando, FL)
• Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group -- Feb 4 (San Francisco, CA)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 -- Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

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Highlights of the Week

• #GilbaneBoston: The Rise of Open Source in Content Management. One of the hot topics at the Gilbane Boston conference this year is open source. The event program features several OSS-focused sessions, signaling its wider adoption and growing popularity.
• Social Media Minute: Facebook Usage Surges and Google Wave Gets A Competitor. Going forward, we are likely to see new usage of social networks and social media in advertising and brand outreach.
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 2). In Part One, we discussed the first two reasons why executive SharePoint ignorance is not bliss, here are the remaining three.
• Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in December 2009. Welcome to the December 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.
• Nuxeo Enters Open Source Digital Asset Management Market. Open source Enterprise CMS provider Nuxeo continues to grow its product suite by adding DAM to the existing ECM and DM capabilities.
• A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 1 - Kapow Technologies. When it comes to migrating your content to a new content management system, the only way to go is automated content migration tools.
• #GilbaneBoston: Content Migration, Dirty Little Secret of Content Management. The 6th annual Gilbane Boston conference featured a session called "Content Migration, the Dirty Little Secret of Content Management" that aimed to investigate the real stumbling blocks of content migrations and shed light on some techniques on how to avoid them.

Most Popular Articles

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• HTML 5 Supersedes Web Forms 2.0. HTML Working Group has announced that Web Forms 2.0 have been superseded by HTML 5.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7.One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 1). The job of how to implement SharePoint in an organization should not be in the hands of the IT department. It belongs with the business and the backing of executive decision makers. Here's why.
• SAP Betas 12Sprints.com, A Google Wave Competitor? The private beta version of the cloud-based application (codenamed Constellation) is called 12Sprints, and promises to expedite the decision making process for business users with pre-defined tools.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. When we posited that Alfresco Share was after SharePoint Services' marketshare, it sparked a bit of chatter -- some positive, some not so much.
• EContent Magazine Lists Top 100 in Digital Content. As usual this year's lot includes a ton of familiar faces. As much as we'd love to cover everyone's viability in the market, we simply haven't the time, but here's a quickie on some of the names and categories that stood out.

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• Part-Time Freelance News Writers at AOL
• Field Sales Solution Engineer at Kapow Technologies
• Technical Sales Engineer at Attivio
• Sales Representative at Equilibrium
• Senior Inside Sales Representative at Coremedia
• Drupal/PHP Developer at Achieve Internet
• Technical Specialist at Ephox

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Featured Events:

• Do it With Drupal 2009 -- Dec 9-11 (New Orleans, NY)
• Webinar: Achieving Harmony Between SEO and WCM Strategies -- Dec 15 (Online)
• Empower 2010 Laserfiche Institute Conference -- Jan 11-13 (Los Angeles, Ca)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 -- Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

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Highlights of the Week

• EMC, IBM, Open Text and Oracle Lead the Enterprise CMS Suites. The Forrester Wave took a closer look at eight ECM Suite vendors, evaluating them against over 70 criteria elements.
• Enterprise CMS Usage Scenario: Case Management Frameworks. What exactly is Case Management and how do Enterprise Content Management Systems support this growing market?
• What's a Flutter with Drupal Start Up Buzzr?. With all of the chatter about Drupal 7, it would have been easy to miss one or two Drupal-related announcements last April. One of those announcements dealt with Buzzr, a Lullabot-spawned startup focused on bringing hosted Drupal solutions to the masses.
• Nstein Aims to Offer a 'New Kind of Site Search' With 3S. Nstein released a new product -- which they say is more flexible, intuitive and extensible than Google Search Appliance -- called Semantic Site Search, or the “new kind of site search,” as the vendor humbly refers to it.
• 7 Ways to Blog Using Your Mobile Phone. From iPhones to Blackberry to Androids and Storms, these mobile platforms can help you chronicle your adventures while on the go or from where ever you please.
• t4 SiteManager 7: Accessibility, WebDAV, Cross Browser Support. Twelve months and €900,000 in research later, Irish-based TERMINALFOUR has a completely new edition of its enterprise grade web content management system.
  
• Webtrends Churns Out Updates, Says Hello to iPhone. Webtrends is taking it a step further by adding real-time alerts and updates via popular vehicles like e-mail, Twitter, RSS and even an iPhone app.

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And these are the articles you couldn't get enough of during the past week -- if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? Drupal, IBM, ECM and SharePoint.

• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• Enterprise CMS Leaders and Visionaries Identified in Latest Magic Quadrant Report Due to a highly volatile marketplace, Gartner specifically advises that you avoid comparing vendor placement in prior years, but it's still exciting to see who made the cut in the Enterprise CMS Magic Quadrant this time around.
• The Lowdown: Drupal 7 Means Big Changes. Fortunately for Drupal, the much discussed version 7 release is looking strong. It'll keep its cool we reckon and in the process it's shaping up to further enter the mainstream.
• IBM Focuses on Analytics as a Way of Better Content Management. IBM has been braving the strong winds of the analytics industry lately, trying to propose a better way of managing unstructured and structured content in combination with analytics.
  
• Overview: SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy Management. It would appear that SharePoint 2010 includes many new features under the umbrella of Enterprise Metadata Management, and they seem to have addressed some key issues.
• SharePoint 2010 Beta Available for All to Download. Microsoft has announced the beta release of SharePoint 2010 to the world.
• Drupal Wins First Inaugural Packt Hall of Fame Award. Speaking of winners, the winner of the first inaugural Packt Hall of Fame Award is Drupal.

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Featured Jobs:

• Web Content Writer at Garmin International
• Business Development Manager VIC at Sitecore Australia
• ASP.NET Developer at Cramster.com
• Senior Software Engineer at Webtrends
• UX Designert at Laserfiche
• Drupal Website Developer at Artistsworks, Inc
• Technical Project Engineer at Zylab

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Featured Events:

• Gilbane Boston 2009 -- Dec 1-3 (Boston, MA)
• IQPC 8th Annual eDiscovery Conference -- Dec 7-9 (New York City, NY)
• Do it With Drupal 2009 -- Dec 9-11 (New Orleans, LA)
• Online Information 2009 -- Dec 13 (London)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 -- Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• The Lowdown: Drupal 7 Means Big Changes. For site builders, the big changes begin with dependencies. Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 and either MySQL 5.0 or PostgreSQL 8.3. For databases, you now also have the option of SQLite.
• Enterprise CMS Leaders and Visionaries Identified in Latest Magic Quadrant Report. Due to a highly volatile marketplace, Gartner specifically advises that you avoid comparing vendor placement in prior years, but it's still exciting to see who made the cut in the Enterprise CMS Magic Quadrant this time around.
• Steve Ballmer: How SharePoint is Like the PC. Probably one of the most interesting interviews you could have is with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, on the topic of SharePoint. Oh to be a fly on the wall in that interview room — a fly that could also ask questions, mind you.
• Overview: SharePoint 2010 Metadata and Taxonomy Management. It would appear that SharePoint 2010 includes many new features under the umbrella of Enterprise Metadata Management, and they seem to have addressed some key issues. Here are the highlights.
• Sitecore and Telligent Integrate for Better Online Engagement. Web CMS vendor (and the latest J. Boye Web Idol winner) Sitecore integrated its content management system with Telligent Community -- a platform for social content, interactive communities, collaboration and social analytics.
• Hannon Hill 6.4 Features Connectors for Twitter, WordPress. Hannon Hill goes all social with its latest update for Cascade Server CMS, offering access to Twitter and WordPress with more to follow.
• Plone, Drupal Win Packt Open Source CMS Awards, More Coming. It's that time again -- Packt is announcing the winners of its Open Source CMS Awards.

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• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management. The changes coming with SharePoint 2010 combined with the advancement of desktop tools like Microsoft Project are ushering in a new era of SharePoint project management.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What's surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla.
• Microsoft's Not So Secret New Open Source CMS. Microsoft has a secret, although it's not completely secret. They are getting ready to offer a new open source content management application code named Orchard.
• The Scoop: SharePoint 2010 Records Management. The session began with a brief description of what records management is and what constitutes a record. Wikipedia defines records management as “the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal.
• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Microsoft gives us a bird's eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.
• Gartner Calls Drupal a Visionary in Social Software Magic Quadrant. Reportedly thanks to Acquia and the Drupal team's endless efforts to maintain healthy relationships with analysts, Dries Buytaert's CMS baby was added to the 'Visionaries' section of Gartner's Magic Quadrant last month.
• #e2conf Andrew McAfee's Top Enterprise 2.0 No-No's. McAfee explained that while he used to see potential customers approach enterprise tools with skepticism, he's recently noticed a significant shift in attitude.
  

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• Director of Engineering-Technical Lead at GigaOm

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• Legal IT Asia 2009 -- Nov 18-19 (Beijing, China)
• Technology Transfer -- Nov 25-26 (Rome, Italy)
• Gilbane Boston -- Dec 1-3 (Boston)
• Online Information 2009 -- Dec 13 (London)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 -- Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) -- May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

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Highlights of the Week

• #jboye09 Web Content Management: Inconvenient Truths and Industry Challenges. There is no best web content management system. But there is probably a good Web CMS for what you’re trying to do. With that, we kicked-off a heated debate on Inconvenient truths and unsolved WCM industry challenges at the J.Boye 2009 conference in chilly Aarhus, DK.
• #jboye09 Persuasion: How to Make Your Media More Persuasive. I'm here in sunny Denmark attending the 2009 J Boye conference where the presenters dig into many subjects, but one of my personal standouts is psychologist BJ Fogg of Stanford University's Persuasive Technology lab.
• Gartner Calls Drupal a Visionary in Social Software Magic Quadrant. Reportedly thanks to Acquia and the Drupal team's endless efforts to maintain healthy relationships with analysts, Dries Buytaert's CMS baby was added to the 'Visionaries' section of Gartner's Magic Quadrant last month.
• The Scoop: SharePoint 2010 Records Management. The session began with a brief description of what records management is and what constitutes a record. Wikipedia defines records management as “the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal.
• Microsoft Not So Secret New Open Source CMS. Microsoft has a secret, although it's not completely secret. They are getting ready to offer a new open source content management application code named Orchard.
• Social Media Minute: MSN Gets A Makeover, Twitter's Heavy Cost To Businesses. Microsoft unveiled a new version of MSN.com recently, making changes to the existing design and adding some new bits as well.
• Clearwell's Top 5 eDiscovery Trends of 2010. So this year, we turn once again to Clearwell to outline the eDiscovery trends of 2010. The fact that there are only five may indicate the growth and awareness of eDiscovery in the enterprise. As well, they touch on the functionality and technology of eDiscovery more than anything.

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• #jboye09 8 Key Trends in Web Content Management Architecture and Standards. David Nüscheler, the CTO of Day Software, presented his take on the top WCM trends for 2010 from the architecture and standards standpoint.
• #spc09 The Future of SharePoint Project Management. One of the immediate values SharePoint can deliver to an organization is the ability to address project management challenges, such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor information management practices and undefined project collaboration standards that compromises project success.
• #jboye09: Selecting a CMS - Pitfalls and Best Practices. We’re live from the City of Smiles, where the J. Boye conference kicked off today in Aarhus, Denmark. The first day is the Tutorial Day with topics ranging from content strategy and governance to persuading people with digital content.One of the tutorials -- CMS selection: the process, the pitfalls and the best practices --was presented by analysts Jarrod Gingras of CMS Watch and Peter Sejersen of J. Boye.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren't a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What's surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla.
• #jboy09 Pre Web Idol Competition Consternation. Here at J Boye 2009 the Web Idol competition is about to start. In the line-up we have 23 Video, e-Spirit, Kapow Technologies, Microsoft, Sitecore and TERMINAL Four.
• Ektron Releases Version 8 of CMS400.NET, Unapologetic About Innovation. The long-awaited and rather-delayed release was prematurely leaked a little while ago, but now it’s all official. Ektron CMS400.NET version 8 is live and brings a slew of new features, including usability enhancements, integrated web analytics, API changes, first attempts at CMIS support and new social media capabilities.
• #e2conf Andrew McAfee's Top Enterprise 2.0 No-No's. McAfee explained that while he used to see potential customers approach enterprise tools with skepticism, he's recently noticed a significant shift in attitude.

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• UI Developer at Jive Software
• User Interface Designer at Network for good
• Web Designer at Garmin
• Network Architect at GoDaddy.com
• Technical Architect & Integration Specialist at Sitecore
• UI Designer at HuffingtonPost

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• Workshop with Lou Rosenfeld: Site Search Analytics -- Nov 9 (Washington D.C)
• WordCamp New York City -- Nov 14-15 (New York City)
• Legal IT Asia 2009 -- Nov 18-19 (Beijing, China)
• Technology Transfer -- Nov 25-26 (Rome, Italy)
• Gilbane Boston -- Dec 1-3 (Boston)
• Online Information 2009 -- Dec 13 (London)
• Intelligent Content 2010 -- Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)

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Highlights of the Week

• Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API. Oh yes, we've been waiting for this one. The attack is not too forceful, but it is full frontal and there's more where this came from, you can be sure.
• Adobe Gets Around: Brings Flash Apps to Social Web. There are three primary components of Adobe Flash Platform Services for Distribution. Check ‘em out!
• CMIS: Draft at v0.7, a Public Review Vote and WCM Potential. Summer has come and gone and we still haven't seen a public review of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS). But while many of us have been impatiently waiting, it does appear that things have been happening.
• Didn't Make DrupalCon Paris? Get the Lowdown Here. Session videos, on the ground interviews with Dries Buyaert and Webchick and more. Missing the show is now a somewhat recoverable event.
• Social Media Minute: Top Tips for Getting Re-tweeted. The statistics are in. Here's what your tweet needs to really fly.
• Amazon Gets Organized, Offers Web Services Directory. The Web offers a virtual ton of solutions built on top of Amazon's (news, site) infamous cloud, so now the company is attempting to make some sense of all the chaos.
• Are You Managing Your Electronic Documents? Why Not? AIIM has just published a report that shows 26% of organizations admitting that they have no electronic records management policy.
• Web Publishing Roll Up: Fight Night! Web vs Print vs Mobile. This week we bring you web vs print. The match of the new millennium.

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• Open Text Web CMS Saga Continues, Party Lines Collide. The official party line is that no product migrations, discontinuations and code mergers will happen for Vignette and RedDot.
• Major Ektron CMS400.NET v8 Release - Preview Leaked. The new v8.0 release of CMS400.NET wasn't supposed to see the light of day for about another week, yet surfaced late yesterday in its full video-and-all glory via a company microsite.
• IKEA Chooses an Ugly Font. IKEA changes its font to Verdana. This is not likely to result in a massive drop in sales.
• MS Project 2010: Goodbye Portfolio Server, Hello SharePoint. Of course, we won't be talking about MS Project 2010 without talking about SharePoint  -- that's just how it will be from now on.
• Top 5 SEO Tools for WordPress, According to WordPress. WordPress users, get your SEO on or, if you feel we've missed a life-altering solution that fits into this category, by all means let us know.
• Packt Announces Finalists for 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. Here's a look at who made the finalist list and what happens next.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Well now, haven't we heard this question before? As it turns out, no one really tires of the Drupal / Joomla fight. Keep them comments coming folks, we are learning from them.

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• Web Analytics Manager at Capstrat, Inc.
• Community Manager at Freshbooks
• Sales Engineer at Ektron
• Chief Technical Officer at WikiMedia Foundation
• API Engineer & Developer Evangelist at Yammer, Inc.
• Silverlight Developer at IndustryNext

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• Rethinking Corporate Communications 2009 -- Sept 30 - Oct 1 (Washington, DC)
• Adobe MAX 2009 -- Oct 4-7 (Los Angeles, CA)
• Day Ignite Zurich 2009 -- Oct 14-Oct 15 (Zurich, CH)
• Open Text Content World 2009 -- Oct 25-30 (Orlando,FL)
• Day Ignite Chicago 2009 -- Oct 27-Oct 29 (Chicago, IL)
• J. Boye Aarhus 2009 -- Nov 3-Nov 5 (Aarhus, Denmark)

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Highlights of the Week

• Google Apps Now Syncs with Enterprise Directory Services Google has announced Google Apps Directory Sync — the ability to provision users and groups from your own internal directory services be it Active Directory, Lotus Domino or another LDAP solution with your Googe Apps accounts.
• State of the Project Report: Plone Web CMS. The Plone project has reached new levels of maturity.
• An Affordable SharePoint Alternative? Looks like Alfresco isn't the only vendor offering a SharePoint alternative. Australian vendor Intranet Dashboard says they have the perfect alternative to SharePoint, offering an all in one solution for creating Intranets, Extranets and portals.
• 5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Web Copy. It’s the Web, right? So it’s supposed to be sticky. Fortunately, there are simple ways to ensure visitors “stick around” your website.
• J Boye: Oxford University Brings CMS Change to Tradition. Oxford's centuries of immutable traditions aren't just old musty rituals that get in the way: they're the reason Oxford has persisted even as so many other institutions have perished. But what if change is essential or even critical?
• Oracle Buzzes with Updates for its Beehive Collaboration Platform. Beehive was launched in October last year to give Oracle some leverage in the booming collaboration tools market. What does its big update have to offer to make you look away from the other solutions on the market?

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• Open Text Enters Agreement to Buy Vignette Enterprise CMS. Canadian-based enterprise content management vendor Open Texthas reached a deal to buy Vignette Corporation for US$ 310 million.
• Swine Flu, H1N1 Virus, Novel Flu. Governments around the world are doing everything they can to rename swine flu. They will not succeed and will end up misinforming the public.
• SharePoint Online (SaaS) Review - What it is and Isn't. With the number of on-premise SharePoint installs going no where but up, one has to wonder why Microsoft has also gone to the trouble of building an online (SaaS) version.
• SharePoint Service Pack 2 - Helping Prepare for SharePoint 2010. Just like they said, Microsoft released the Office Service Pack 2 on April 28. In that service pack are a number of improvements and bug fixes for both SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS. We offered the hightlights earlier, now we look a little deeper.
• 8 Must Read Articles - Social Computing in the Enterprise. We offer you 8 articles on social computing, some focused on the plan, some focused on the technical solution. Both will provide you plenty of information to focus on your plans.

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• Senior Solutions Engineer at Jahia
• Content Analyst at Vasont Systems
• Project Management at Bluenog
• UI Engineer at MarketTools, Inc.

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Highlights of the Week

• Extending SharePoint for Legal Document Management ClearPeople and Microsoft recently published a case study that highlights how the SharePoint platform can be leveraged for vertical document management solutions.
• Where Does Interwoven Fit in Autonomy’s Q1 Results?. Autonomy reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2009. According to the company, these (unaudited) numbers represent the highest Q1 revenues and profits in Autonomy's history.
• Create Custom, Personalized Navigation for SharePoint Services Sites. Learn more about SharePoint Navigators — a new tool that lets you customize and personalize the navigation for your users in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS3.0) or MOSS.
• Communities Insights with Telligent's Lawrence Liu and George Dearing. When you start thinking about whether or not you need a community, there are likely a dozen questions running through your mind — at least there should be.
• Multi-Platform Chat Application Adds Skype to Your Browser. We've said it before so we'll say it again: Everybody's getting into the multi-platform chat game. The most recent solution to hit our radar is a little known application called imo.im, a Web based service that mimics popular alternative, Meebo.
• CMS Expo: Drupal Themes (and rumors). Dropping in at the expo.
• 8 Must Read Articles - Social Computing in the Enterprise. Here we offer you 8 articles on social computing, some focused on the plan, some focused on the technical solution. Both will provide you plenty of information to focus on your plans.

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• Autonomy Interwoven: Meaning Based Computing is the Future of Web CMS. We aim to better understand Interwoven's role within the walls of Autonomy.
• Traditional Writing Skills Don't Work on the Web. Most web content is overwritten; too much content, too much context, not nearly enough focus on the action. Unfortunately, we're taught to write this way.
• Apache CMIS Implementation: Is There Chemistry?. Meet Chemistry — a recently-proposed Apache Incubator Project with a goal of creating a generic, open-source, Java-language implementation of CMIS.
• Alert: What's Coming for Open Source CMS in May 2009. Here's what you can expect in May 2009. To avoid playing favorites, the projects are presented in alphabetical order.
• WordPress Can Be a Multilingual CMS, Meet WPML Well, well, well, it appears as though WordPress fanboys and fangirls are even more bent on making the popular platform a complete Content Management cure-all than we initially thought.
• Taking Enterprise Social Messaging and Collaboration to the Desktop. To get a better handle on their new Desktop solution, CMSWire talked with SocialText Chairman, President and Co-founder Ross Mayfield.

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• Content Management Specialist at Tomorrow's Solutions Today
• Senior Solutions Engineer at Jahia
• Director of Sales & Marketing at ImageX Media
• echnical Lead at HUGE

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Highlights of the Week

• An Enterprise Wiki for Businesses Both Small and Large. With over 9,000 customers of their solutions and US$ 100 million in cumulative revenues since they started in 2002, you can see that Atlassian is working hard to get your business.
• dotCMS 1.7 Puts a Dot on Plugin Architecture. dotCMS, an open source J2EE/Java Web CMS, released a new version -- v1.7. The last time we saw an update was back last year, when 1.6.5 came out.
• Document Lifecycle Management on an Alfresco Enterprise Scale. Companies struggling to control vast amounts of documents for compliance, or even litigation purposes, may be interested in the latest partnership designed to deal specifically with these issues.
• SDL Tridion Partners for Advanced Digital Asset Management. Last month, when ADAM software released its v4.4 of its enterprise Digital Assets Management (DAM) platform it had its eye on a bigger piece of the content management pie.
• Jahia CMS Extends Its U.S. Reach Via Partner. Jahia, an enterprise CMS vendor, is boosting its U.S. presence by tying up with a technology consulting firm Quoin to help distribute Jahia's free community edition and paid-for enterprise CMS suite.
• Open Source: The GPL, Your CMS Project and You. As the best-known free software and open source license, the GNU General Public License, or GPL, has become both a rallying point for the free software and open source (FLOSS) communities and a focus of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) campaigns for those who fear that these movements will destroy their revenue streams.
• Documentum Benchmarks Expose a Scalable Enterprise CMS. Want to know how scalable EMC Documentum really is? Well they wanted to show you. So they conducted a benchmarking study with Microsoft and HP to demonstrate just how well the enterprise content management solution would perform under pressure. 

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• MOSS and WSS Service Pack 2: The Highlights. Microsoft has stated that Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be available on April 28 with complete documentation. They have, however, provided us with highlights of what we can expect. We share these with you.
• It's Official - A New Name and Delivery Date for the Next Version of SharePoint. Finally. Microsoft has come forward with some news about the next version of SharePoint.
• Design Tools for the SharePoint Information Architect. Visual Studio is a great tool for the SharePoint Developer. But what about the SharePoint Information Architect?
• Finding the ROI in Web Content Management. How many reports does it take before Web Content Management vendors change their errant ways and start listening to customers?
• Drupal and Joomla to Lose Market Share to concrete5 Web CMS? If you were to believe all the hype surrounding concrete5, an open source Web content management system, then a remarkable new system has just gone on General Availability (GA).
• Web CMS is Booming with Double Digit Growth. While the majority of the country’s companies are struggling to keep their doors cracked open or regretfully shutting them all together, a handful of Web Content Management vendors are riding a wave of significant growth.

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• Sr. Web Developer at RingCentral
• Managing Editor at Change.org
• Manager, Application Development at Ning
• Financial Agent at Delhi Logistics

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Highlights of the Week

• Open Text Goes for Sizzling Experiences With Vizible Acquisition. Open Text announced yet another acquisition. Not as material as some of the previous ones, this one falls in a different category -- a quest for "sizzling technology."
• Microsoft's Quest for Interoperability and Open Standards. When an open source advocate, open standards advocate, or, well, pretty much anyone that competes with Microsoft sees an extended hand from the software giant toward better interoperability, they tend to look and see if the other hand's holding a spiked club.
• CrownPeak Targets Marketers with New CMS Features. The latest release of CrownPeak CMS sports multiple new features designed to make CRM and web content management easier. If campaigns, lead conversions, tracking and revenue generation are part of your lexicon, CrownPeak has news for you.
• Web CMS Budgets Increasing But Content is Still King. A new survey from the Aberdeen Group shows that 42% of companies surveyed were going to increase Web Content Management budgets this year.
• Social Web Analytics with Telligent's Harvest Reporting Server. Let's talk about social computing. Or we can talk about communities. Or we can talk about enterprise 2.0 and social networking, blogging, forums, wikis, what have you.
• AIIM 2009: A Story About Economy and ROI. For those of you who missed last week's AIIM content management conference in Philadelphia, here’s a little recap. It was actually a conference about the recession.
• FileNet Integrates a New XML Editor for Non-Techies. Another new coupling in the Content Management industry has just been announced. This time it's between IBM and Quark, a vendor of publishing software.

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• Taking a Closer Look at Microsoft's Ms-PL Open Source License. The rumors are true. Microsoft has an official open source license that was approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
• Gartner's Five Tactical Actions for Content Management in 2009. Gartner talks to a lot of organizations about content management and they are finding that in this tough economic climate clients aren't sure where to go with enterprise content management.
• CMS Selection - Death to the Features Matrix. Once the requirements collection and product evaluation phases are complete, the most difficult part of a CMS selection process starts.
• 7 Must Read Articles - SharePoint in the Enterprise. Here's a collection of must read articles for managers dealing with SharePoint/MOSS in the enterprise.
• Ruby on Rails Playing in the Open Source Web CMS Market. There is another small OS CMS market -- those written in Ruby on Rails (RoR).
• State of the ECM Industry 2009: Content Still a Challenge. AIIM has released its annual State of the ECM Industry research report. And although the term Enterprise Content Management was coined about eight years ago, the research findings are still not very optimistic in some areas.
• Project Management with SharePoint Gets a Boost. BrightWork, Inc. today announced the availability of version 7.0 of pmPoint, their tool for leveraging SharePoint specifically for project and program management.

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• Research Analyst at Aberdeen Group
• Financial Analyst at Amdocs
• Project Manager Guru at KGB
• Product Marketing Manager at Nuxeo

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Highlights of the Week

• An Archiving, eDiscovery and Compliance Solution Starting with Email. What's rising to the top of needs pile is IT efficiency — such as storage and backup costs.
• IBM vs. Microsoft: Dukes Are Up Over Cloud Computing In their most recent tiff, IBM plays the schoolyard bully while Microsoft attempts to save face with a cool yet scathing blog response. The fire starter? Oh, just what's being called the most destructive force in technology.
• Alfresco 3.1 Solidifies Enterprise CMS Readiness. Exclusively available to enterprise customers, this version has a number of stability improvements designed to support the most complex enterprises.
• EMC to Offer Content-Enabled Solutions to Work Effectively, Faster. Along with some revealing research conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by EMC, on the impact and importance of organizational agility, EMC is also announcing some new solutions designed to help customers work smarter.
• Movable Type Goes Faux SaaS. Six Apart in partnership with Etelos Inc. enables their Movable Type blogging platform to be available in a “cloud-hosted” environment.
• Best Practices For Your Web Strategy. At a time when the web has become such an integral part of any business plan, the web strategy process still seems to be lacking in focus.

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• State of the Project Report: Joomla! Web CMS. Born from a project fork of the Mambo CMS, and with strong early ambitions, Joomla! has struggled at times with its place in the open source landscape, and with the ideas of what is best for both the project and the community.
• CMS Selection - Death to the Features Matrix. It's not surprising that simple looking decision making tools suddenly become attractive.
• Day Software's CQ 5.2: Weaving in DAM and Social Collaboration. While marrying web content management with social media, web 2.0 and DAM is hardly revolutionary — nowadays, it’s more about execution than the idea itself.
• Managing Social Media With Vignette Community Apps 7.1. This social media solution targets organizations looking to engage with internet audiences and spice up their online presences with communities, social interaction and collaborative communication.
• RDFa, Drupal and a Practical Semantic Web. With RDFa software and web developers have the specification they need to know how to structure data in order to lend meaning both to machines and to humans, all in a single file.
• Great websites work beautifully. Humans are dominated by visuals. But the Web reflects a movement away from this visual dominance.
• SharePoint Designer 2007 Free to Download. There's been a little buzz in recent weeks about the possibility that SharePoint Designer 2007 — Microsoft's reincarnation of FrontPage — would become a free product.

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• Content Manager at PPT Consulting
• Content Manager at My Damn Channel
• Electronic Discovery Specialist at Stratify
• Web Developer at Aardvark