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A full month of guidance on Information Management Agility is nearly behind us. Wrapping things up we checked-in with the CMSWire community via our latest reader poll. The question this time around: What do you think is the next big thing for Information Management? And it's mobile that has taken the winners flag -- but that glossy thing in your right hand ain't the only thing changing the game.

The need to manage our information and channel it to the right people at the right time has become increasingly critical. The technologies to support information management are evolving, as are the business practices.

Tell us what you think is the one thing that will most strongly influence the next wave of information management. Our survey runs through Monday September 27th.

In our last poll, we asked if your Intranet includes enterprise collaboration tools and you responded. But exactly how important is your intranet to your daily work routine? Does it have the information you need? Or is it still a broadcast tool for corp communications? 

While you are at it, let us know in the comments below how you think your Intranet needs to evolve.

This poll will run until August 20th -- so there's no time like the present to weigh-in.

Last month we ran a poll asking you if your intranet included collaboration tools and features. Over 1000 of you responded (thank you!). Now normally we take the results of our polls and send out questions to a group of experts for their thoughts and insights. 

Well we could do that, but we aren't.

 Fatwire (news, site) is back in the news this week with the release of FatWire Content Integration Platform 2.0 for EMC Documentum. The platform enables organizations to apply enterprise standards for retention and business compliance to Web content. 

Webware, C|Net’s Web 2.0 blog-monkey, has launched the second annual Webware 100 poll. There are awards and there are awards, but popular voting awards under the C|Net banner are worth noticing. With half a million votes from Web users last time around, we will watch developments here with interest.

There is a wide range of categories to vote in including Audio, Browsing, Productivity and Video; but the battles we are primarily interested in will be conducted in the “Publishing and Photography” category.

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.

The rumors are true: comment box-modding is now an industry.

JS-Kit has just released a new Comments widget that boasts lots of important features but is disturbingly easy to implement and use. (Seriously. Try it here.)

At no cost and with no advertising, users of JS-Kit Comments can:

• Monitor threads
• Create RSS data feeds to track comments. This also empowers search engines to index them
• Sort comments based on name, date and “karma” (based on user votes)

The feature doesn’t cause laggage and comments materialize instantly, even without the whole-page twitch that typically happens when a site is over-AJAXed.

After trying out Comments we started checking out JS-Kit’s other widgets. They include, Ratings, Top Rated and Polls — all sound CRM tools with a professional veneer. Just pop the HTML into your site.

It’s amateur-easy.