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The American Society of Magazine Editors has announced the 2011 finalists for The National Magazine Awards for Digital Media. The Ellies, as they are known because of the Alexander Calder stabile "Elephant" given to winners, award excellence in categories such as design, the mobile edition, the multimedia package, podcasting and online department in digital media.

This afternoon at Forrester’s Content & Collaboration Forum, Christian Finn, director for collaboration and enterprise social computing at Microsoft, shared some insight into how the software leader is reinventing knowledge management with social media.

So you’re in the web provision game, and you’re too much of a big shot to use WordPress, right?
If you’re doing multi-user, community-based, advanced website features then I can understand that. For a pretty-boy website and a heavily branded product, you don’t want WordPress. If you’re building the next Facebook, or setting up a web solution for The New York Times, this is not the tool you need.

But if you are doing a bit of blogging and want to put in a few ads here and there, or run a newsletter, a RSS feed, a poll and an occasional blogcast, then WordPress is perfect.
It’s low-maintenance, set-up is quick, updating and customizing is a snap, and non-techies will find the back-end content management intuitive and hassle-free.

But the best thing about WordPress, as everyone knows, is the sheer weight and quality of plugins to extend this cuddly Micro CMS. Here’s a few of the best.

No one can ever say Six Apart’s Movable Type 4 suffers from lack of ambition.

Noting most bloggers can probably talk their heads off, given the chance, Movable Type releases fully-integrated out-of-box podcasting support. No plugin necessary.

Say hello to Beta 7, a logistical first for a major blog purveyor.