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By David Roe
| Thursday February 4, 2010
February and we just can’t seem to get away from the dual obsessions of hosted solutions and security. Particularly telling in the SMB sector, it looks like these are two areas we are going to be hearing a lot about over the course of the year.
By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday January 23, 2010
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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? IBM, open source and SharePoint.
The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday January 16, 2010
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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? Open source, eDiscovery and SharePoint.
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 on our content management job board.
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday January 9, 2010
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
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.
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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, ECM and SharePoint.
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 on our content management job board.
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday December 19, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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.
- 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.
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 on our content management job board.
Featured Jobs:
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday December 12, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
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.
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 on our content management job board.
Featured Jobs:
Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday December 5, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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, HTML 5 and SharePoint.
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 on our content management job board.
Featured Jobs:
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday November 21, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
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.
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, IBM, ECM and SharePoint.
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 on our content management job board.
Featured Jobs:
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday November 14, 2009
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.
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 v. Joomla, Web Content Management and SharePoint.
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 on our content management job board.
Featured Jobs:
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday August 1, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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? Google and Microsoft Waves, SharePoint 2010, Drupal and the next generation of CMS.
- Microsoft Wave Smashes Google Wave, or Not. Microsoft's absolutely random decision to use Microsoft Wave as the name of a new project — not long after the Google Wave announcement — confuses many and irritates more. But it sure does generate some publicity. Here's what the splash is about.
- SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Now 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.
- The Next Generation Web CMS, Has Modera Got Answers? Web Content Management 1.0 is dead! So says Forrester Senior Analyst, Stephen Powers. There are few that would disagree with him — I mean hey, there's like "2.0" all over the place these days. We need some for CMS too, right?
- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: A One Stop Shop for All Your IT Needs. Let's take a little tour into the world of Oracle (news, site) and see what's in store.
- Shareflow Emerges as Competition for Google Wave. Zenbe asks What if we could create a separate conversation, invite a specific audience to that conversation, and make it accessible on the Internet?
- Push Your SharePoint Content to Non SharePoint Websites. Who says you have to pay for all those SharePoint licenses to have your SharePoint content available on a public website? GOSS Interactive says you don't — if you use the GOSS iCM SharePoint Connector.
- Learning Drupal CMS? Here's the Book List. Oh Drupal, you open source hottie, you. You've managed the content of many, kicked out release after release, even inspired projects like Acquia and Open Atrium.
The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday May 2, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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? SharePoint, ROI and open source.
- 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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By Marisa Peacock
| Sunday April 26, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
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.
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? SharePoint, ROI and open source.
The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday April 11, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
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.
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? SharePoint, open source and CMSs.
The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming
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By Marisa Peacock
| Saturday April 4, 2009
The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.
Highlights of the Week
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? SharePoint, social media and CMSs.
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.
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By Marisa Peacock
| Thursday April 2, 2009
Another week and another exciting update about the state of web publishing.
Auto Industry Drives Online
You may recall that the auto industry isn't fairing so well. While stocks fell earlier this week a Nielsen report shows that as far as the auto industry in concerned, their online presence isn't doing as badly as Detroit. Even as auto companies slashed their overall ad budgets in the second half of 2008, their online spending dipped only 0.5%.
So far this year, Nielsen says that auto-ad spending online is “once again gaining momentum and is forecast to be on par with Q1 07, while still slightly below Q1 08.” By next year, Nielsen expects the Internet to be the second-largest advertising category for car makers, after TV.
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