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

Highlights of the Week

• Waste Time on Intranet, Make More Money. Now is the moment to cash in on your company’s Intranet.
• Web Content Migration: Disastrous Strategy. There is probably no worse strategy for an Intranet or public Web site than content migration. It is doomed to failure from the very start.
• ClearGauge and ZoomRank Deliver Next Gen SEO Analytics. What do you get when you mix a provider that specializes in search engine optimization and a Web-based service that monitors search engine rankings?
• (Interview) eZ Publish as SaaS Web CMS. We spoke with eZ’s global partner manager Bertrand Maugain to get more insight into the new eZ Publish SaaS offering and their partner in arms, Mamut ASA.
• How To: Running WordPress with SQL Anywhere. SQL Anywhere is a simple, powerful database with some interesting features.

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? WordPress 2.7, Day CQ5.1 WCM, Google Mobile Apps and Amazon’s CloudFront CDN.

• Day Software’s New CQ5 Web CMS Has Arrived. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• WordPress 2.7: From Blog Platform to Web CMS. Now on their third beta release, WordPress is promising big things with version 2.7.
• Gartner: 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies. At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts presented their insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2009.
• MySpace Tries Something New With Profile 2.0. The two most significant changes included in this optional upgrade are advanced privacy options and the near complete adherence to W3C HTML standards.
• Amazon Launches Cheap CDN for SMB Web Publishers. Amazon’s CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Director of Developer Community at The Echo Nest
• Full Time Writer at TechCrunch
• Senior Technical Consultant at Acquia
• Director of Technology with Drupal Experience at Imagination

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

Highlights of the Week

• WordPress 2.7: From Blog Platform to Web CMS. Now on their third beta release, WordPress is promising big things with version 2.7.
• MySpace Tries Something New With Profile 2.0. The two most significant changes included in this optional upgrade are advanced privacy options and the near complete adherence to W3C HTML standards.
• Amazon Launches Cheap CDN for SMB Web Publishers. Amazon’s CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.
• SharePoint Security Concerns Simply a Lack of Governance? New research shows that companies who are deploying SharePoint are doing so in a manner that might be putting crucial data at risk.
• Bamboo OEMs Its MOSS Project Management Offering. This integrated offering is beneficial for those Microsoft customers who use both SharePoint and MS Project 2007 for managing projects.

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? Microsoft 7, Google Mobile Apps, Day Software and CMIS.

• Microsoft Windows 7 Aims to Be What Vista Isn’t. Microsoft saw better days before the release of Vista — which many consider a disaster — but Microsoft is quickly trying to make amends with the development of Windows 7.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Day Software’s New CQ5 Web CMS Has Arrived. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days.
• De-hyping CMIS. But it’s been relatively quiet these days and we find that strange considering the importance of a standard like this to the industry.
• Look Out Google! Microsoft Office Web Enters the Cloud. Microsoft made a bold addition with the recent announcement of their new Office Web applications.
• Day Speaks on 2009 Plans, Open Source, CQ5 and More. Recipe for success? Mix two tablespoons of Day with several pounds of a new chief marketing officer, who has arrived from Interwoven via the open source devout Alfresco. And, voila! The open source awards will follow.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Lead UI/User Experience Designer at edufire
• Technical Architect at Frog Design
• Senior Web Developer at Trapeze
• Copywriter at Navajo Company Inc.

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

Highlights of the Week

• Enterprise CMS Socialism: Documentum Supports CMIS. Are you tired of hearing of this draft CMIS thing yet? Content management software companies aren’t.
• Joomla! Release 1.5.8 is All About Bug Fixes. The Joomla! Bug Squad, with the help of the Joomla! community, has been striving to make Joomla! the best it can be.
• Visual Studio 2010 Eases Web, Cloud Development. There are tons of new improvements expected, along with a rumor that SharePoint development will get much easier.
• Razuna: Open Source Digital Asset Management (DAM). Open source DAM anyone? It has arrived — an open source enterprise-level DAM system named Razuna.
• Google Goes Virtual with Search Appliance. There are a number of organizations today that use the Google Search Appliance. And why not, it’s a solution in a box that is relatively easy to use.

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? Hacking and security, Google Apps and maps, choices, results and strategies.

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Gartner: 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies. These technologies impact the organization’s long-term plans, programs and initiatives.
• Google Maps Get Better Eyesight With GeoEye-1. There is a new eye in the sky.
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
• Harvard Hack Betrays Joomla! Vulnerabilities? Ever trouble over just how hackers do it? Unfortunately, it’s no big secret.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• ActionScript Engineer (ActionScript Assassin) at Meebo
• Sr. Software Engineer, Content Management CondéNet
• Senior Web Developer at Trapeze
• Copywriter at Navajo Company Inc.

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

Highlights of the Week

• Open Text Puts RedDot to Enterprise 2.0 Use. We had an opportunity to chat with Stefanie Lightman, VP of Marketing at Open Text, to get the scoop on the new offering.
• WebTrends Declares Data Independence. The new platforms (yes, plural!) are standards-based and make it possible to exchange data across the enterprise, free from the closed silos of mass-market Web analytics suites.
• PacktPub 2008 Awards - Open Source Web CMS MVPs. This year promises great things from a variety of CMS systems and each has had its opportunity to wow the judges.
• Microsoft Poised to Offer SharePoint 2007 SP2. Microsoft plans to ship Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2 in early 2009 and will focus on improving the end-user experience.
• Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services Platform. It offers both an operating system and a set of developer services that you can use individually or together.

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? Hacking and security, Google Apps and maps, choices and results.

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
• Google Maps Get Better Eyesight With GeoEye-1. There is a new eye in the sky.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
• Five Reasons to Choose Vignette (or Not…) The company has been kicked around a little bit lately in the press. We give them an opportunity to press back.
• Is Ning The Next Facebook or MySpace? Ning vs. MySpace. Oh, what fun we’re having.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• EMC/Documentum Content Management Architect at Urpan Technologies, Inc.
• Copywriter at Navajo Company Inc.
• Technical Architect at Frog Design
• Principal Technical Architect at TandemSEVEN

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

Highlights of the Week

• Where Content Management Meets Social Media. Where, you ask? This time around — at the upcoming Gilbane Boston 2008 Conference.
• SpringCM Offers Free Records Management. There is one word everyone loves to hear, and that word is “free.” SpringCM has decided to appeal to customers who love that word.
• Former Alfresco Exec Takes a Day Job. Day is on the move again, this time announcing the appointment of a new Chief Marketing Officer.
• Key Semantic Web Standards Take Next Step. As of late, we’ve noticed the spiking interest in this branch of linguistics as it applies to the good ole Web.
• How Intelligent and Reusable is Your Content?. Creating content is easy. Creating intelligent and reusable content — not so much.

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? Hacking and security, Google Apps, MOSS and Social Media.

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
• Google Maps Get Better Eyesight With GeoEye-1 There is a new eye in the sky.
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
• SharePoint in Leaders Magic Quadrant for Enterprise CMS According to Gartner, 50% of the enterprises they surveyed use MOSS 2007 or WSS.
• Is Ning The Next Facebook or MySpace? Ning vs. MySpace. Oh, what fun we’re having.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Head, Metadata and Content Management at USC - Norris Medical Library
• SharePoint (MOSS) .NET Developer at IEM
• Documentation Wrangler at The Linux Foundation
• Information Lifecycle Manager at Harvard Business School