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Highlights of the Week

• How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. We hear the same terms bandied about whenever a popular site gets hacked. You know… SQL Injection, cross site scripting, that kind of thing. But what do these things mean?
• More Than Blogging: 48 Ways to Use WordPressWho knew using customization capabilities could enable the blogging platform to morph into so many different solutions?
• Preview of “Introducing Acquia” Presentation at DrupalCon. Acquia needs a strong Drupal community. And the community needs the firm commercial hand of Acquia to drive the project toward greater levels of commercial adoption.
• echoTechnology Reverberates Release of echo for MOSS. Nine new echo Managers let you migrate and manage change on the SharePoint platform through the entire life-cycle.
• Yahoo! onePlace – Mobile Content Management. Revolutionizing the global mobile ecosystem onePlace at a time.
• NewsGator Updates their MOSS-based Social Sites. An effort to increase the social networking and community capabilities of SharePoint even more.
• Ascentium Adds to MS Search Community Toolkit Who doesn’t love easy-to-use tools?

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, and a whole mess of Sharepoint!

• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• SharePoint Web Content Management Licensing was Botched
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)

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 industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Compliance Manager at Sallie Mae, Inc.
• Web Coordinator at George Mason University
• Tech Blogger/Journalist (contract) at Simpler Media Group (CMSWire)
• Sr. Project Manager at The JAR Group
• Sales Account Manager / France at Red Hat
• Senior Software Developer (Java Web Applications) at Magnolia International Ltd.

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

Highlights of the Week

• Google Bets Complexity will be the Death of MOSS Google has finally re-launched JotSpot — it’s answer to the SharePoint (MOSS) way of enterprise collaboration.
• CrownPeak’s End-to-End Content Management Website. Venturing into the delivery side of the content management equation Crownpeak will now challenge other SaaS solution vendors such as Clickability.
• Harvard Hack Betrays Joomla! Vulnerabilties?. A variety of simple Joomla! hacks expose weaknesses in 3rd party modules.
• Colligo Networks Takes SharePoint Offline. Offline synchronization made easy.
• Vignette Resurrects the P-Word (Personalization). Personalization is not dead, it’s just been hiding for a while.
• A Moderated Approach to User-Generated Content Is user-generated content all that it is cracked up to be?

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, and a whole mess of Sharepoint!

• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)

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 industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Communications Director at Common Sense Foundation
• Web Project Manager at GreatSchools.net
• Web Content Writer at CreateSpace
• Pre-Sales Engineer - Web Content Management at PaperThin, Inc.
• Web 2.0 Developer at TechSmith Corporation
• Senior User Experience Designer at Flickr / Yahoo!

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

Highlights of the Week

• Drupal 6 Officially Released: No-Gamble Blogger Fury. The major new release of the Mothership of community-building Open Source Web CMS is ahead of schedule.
• SharePoint Web Content Management Licensing was Botched. The SMB Web CMS market, we assert, has been left high and dry by Microsoft.
• (Interview) Feed.us Skins Web Publishing Cat with SaaSy Cache and XML Gadgets. Come along for the ride as we spent some time in the mind of web publishing geek and Feed.us co-founder, Rick Stratton.
• Quick Take: Clickability’s SaaS Web Content Management Platform. More SaaS for you. Clickability cmPublish has been rebranded as the Clickability Platform. We’ve poked under the covers. Here’s what we found.
• Convio Introduces Social Media To Nonprofits. Embracing social media and Web 2.0 technologies can be a challenge for non-profits. Convio can help.
• Microsoft Embraces Interop, Apocalypse Imminent? In one of the more abrupt u-turns in recent corporate history, Microsoft announces changes to both development and business practices intended to “increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.” Holy $#@$, we never saw that coming.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, SharePoint Proliferation and Managing Content better.

• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• IBM’s Fight to Stop the SharePoint Proliferation
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2 - Workflow)

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 industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Web Designer at InfoStar Productions
• Development Lead at Microsoft Corp
• Program Manager at MSN AdCenter
• Project Manager at RotoHog
• Strategic Content Manager at HP
• Software Marketing Manager at Executive Sales Network, Inc.

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

Highlights of the Week

• VMWare Brings Toil and Trouble to EMC Sharp losses but impressive gains. Duck and Cover?
• SharePoint’s No Slouch — Earns Microsoft $1 billion. Flip over to the black side and SharePoint is Microsoft’s billion dollar baby. Cha-ching. Now, if only they could get their licensing sorted out for Web Content Management. What a botch that is.
• Movable Type Advances Open Social Web with Action Streams. Moving you one step closer to the open social web dream, Six Apart puts all your degrees of separation into one steady stream.
• Xythos Releases Software with Web 2.0 Capabilities. Meet two new enterprise software suites, Xythos Enterprise Document Management and Digital Locker 7.0. We think you’ll get along well.
• WSO2 Releases New Mashup Server on SOA Platform. Combining the capabilities of developing “situational” mashups with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform.
• MySpace vs Facebook: Dueling Developer Platforms. They will support OpenSocial apps, but oh goody, sounds like one more proprietary development platform. If so…boo!
• MessageGate Taking Secure Email Solutions to the UK. God Save the Queen’s Email!
• Web Professional: Are You Ready to Serve? Gerry McGovern is back and educating you web-head aspirants. Service young men and women. It’s not what you can do for your website, it’s what your website can do for your customers. Live the mantra. Make mo’ money.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Trends for 2008 and the best of CMS. And of course, yes, more and more SharePoint. Wee!

• Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100
• IBM’s Fight to Stop the SharePoint Proliferation
• Exclusive: Interview with Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert
• What’s Trendy in Content Management for 2008?

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 industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Vice President, Digital Trends & Strategy at Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Strategic Content Manager at HP
• Electronic Resources Editor at American Health Information Management Association
• Information Management Business Analyst at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
• Marketing Associate - Content Management at Vertive
• Web Developer at Pitchfork Media Inc.

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Black Hole Sun Engulfs MySQL For US $1 Billion. Sun becomes a major player in the enterprise database market, as well as one of the first major public companies to offer open-source software.
• Jakob Nielsen Dishes Up The Best Intranets 2008. Learn the seven important considerations to establishing a good Intranet.
• TechCrunch on VC in MediaTech, Social Networking and the CIA. The biggest deals, the most prolific investors and VC trends in new media.
• Yahoo! Signs up to OpenID. Talk about momentum bumps — how does adding a quick 248 million identities to pool sound?.
• What’s Trendy in Content Management for 2008? Oh how we love the oracles!
• Oracle is on a Buying Spree: BEA, Capitvation. And speaking of oracles, why predict when you can just buy and control? “You’re mine now!” …says the man in the emerald towers.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways.

• Why Isn’t Linux Catching on?
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6
• One Collaboration Platform to Rule Them All?
• Exclusive: Interview with Drupal Founder Dries Buytaert

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Web Manager at Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
• Website Manager at Namco Bandai Games
• Web Editor at Wine Enthusiast Magazine
• Business Analyst at Keane, Inc.
• Group Product Management at Symantec
• Online Campaigns & Marketing Production Specialist at Beaconfire Consulting

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Why Isn’t Linux Catching on? Why hasn’t the open source flagship caught on with mainstream PC users? See what we and the (avid) commenters had to say.
• eCopy Connects with SharePoint 2007. Learn about another new SharePoint Connector on the market.
• Yahoo!’s War on Google Hits Mobile Arena. Just one of a number of Mobile Web initiatives launched by the beleaguered company.
• CMSWire’s Unparalleled Predictions for 2008. Perhaps just nuts enough to be ahead of our time? Only time will tell.
• SpringCM Bounces Back With Latest Document Workflow Solution Release. This latest release offers a number of enhancements to its features that increase business productivity.
• Flash Quiz: CMS Consultant Sandro Groganz Speaks. We pose personalities from the Content Management Systems world some simple questions about themselves, the industry, and of course fast cars and the Google share price.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways.

• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 2)
• Movable Type Goes Open Source; Released Today
• Why Isn’t Linux Catching on?

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Business Development Manager at Associated Content
• Web Content Manager at New York University
• Copy Editor/Writer - Digital Media at NBC Universal
• Sr. Electronic Data Discovery Technician at Lighthouse Document Technologies
• Senior Interactive Designer/Programmer at 160over90
• User Interface Designer at StumbleUpon

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Stop Wasting Visitors’ Time. Is your site optimized for its visitors?
• Google Creates Knol: Invites Users to Share Knowledge. Knol to challenge Wikipedia. A similar service, but with perks!
• EMC to Acquire Document Sciences Corp. High-volume and real-time interactive document generation.
• Professional Development: Embracing Change Head On. Don’t let the curse of knowledge stifle your innovation.
• eZ Systems Announces Mac OS / iPhone Support for eZ Publish. Enabled support for Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard.
• Goodbye Netscape, Hello IE8 Standards Compliance!. What you missed while you were toasting in the new year.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? Nothing says Happy New Year like content managed by SharePoint or open source tools.

• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Movable Type Goes Open Source; Released Today
• Nepalese Drupal Beginners Guide + 50 Tricks Not to Miss
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Internet Business Solutions Director at Cisco
• Content Management System Analyst at Wells Fargo
• Web Editor at Profiles Creative
• Business Analysis at Genesis10
• Web Content Strategist / Copywriter at Zappos
• Technical Project Manager at Facebook
• User Interface Specialist at Colorado Public Radio

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

This week’s highlights include:

• IBM Launches Free Smart Email Search for Outlook, Notes. Enjoy an early Christmas gift, courtesy of Big Blue.
• Movable Type 4.1 Goes Beyond Blogging. MT gets commercial, open source and personal.
• Firefox 3.0 Pokes Head Out from Covers. New UI offerings for Version 3.0.
• SharePoint Alert Capabilities Just Got Better. Manage alerts for all users at the farm, web and site collection levels.
• CMSWatch’s 12 - no - 11 Predictions for 2008. Plan for 2008 with help from CMS analysts.
• Puretext Pacifies Grumpy Online Journalists. Copying and pasting doesn’t get better than this.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? Many of you plan to ring in the new year with content managed by SharePoint or open source tools.

• Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1)
• Movable Type Goes Open Source; Released Today
• Easy Web User Controls for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
• Do You Believe in a Flat-File Driven Content Management System?

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Executive Director at CM Pros
• Application Developer at PaperThin, Inc.
• Freelance Technology Copy Editor at NewsFactor
• IT Project Manager at King County Department of Transportation
• eCommerce Researcher / Blogger at Varien
• Director of Product/Website Management at Vertive, Inc.
• Technical Lead (Content Management) at Beaconfire Consulting

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Movable Type Goes Open Source; Released Today. The bloggers are cheering. The staff are beaming. And we are upgrading…
• Credibility and Integrity in the World of Web 2.0. Without it, your content becomes worthless.
• Red Hat + Alfresco == SharePoint Killer?. We like the leader, but doubt the hypothesis. That said, Alfresco’s certainly putting on a good show.
• Diplomas Handed to Four New Jumpboxes. Meet the four new members of the graduating class from the JumpBox Proving Grounds.
• It’s Official: SharePoint (MOSS) SP1 is Out the Door. The first major updates for SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 are out, live and straining the hard drives of servers everywhere. Have you upgraded yet?
• Open Text Pledges Allegiance to European Standard. Unifying records management software practices and standards across Europe.
• Mochila Expands Online Syndication Network with New Partners and Services. Best. Year. Ever. for the global online media marketplace.
• 7 Superfly Plugins for Wordpress. Not as groovy as Curtis, but you know, not bad at all.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? Open source projects are in the limelight and growing both in credibility and number. SharePoint is still queen despite many nipping at her flanks. Google has struck fear in the hearts of Web Content Management vendors everywhere.

• Nepalese Drupal Beginners Guide + 50 Tricks Not to Miss
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6
• Google to Step on Content Management Toes in 2008
• Do You Believe in a Flat-File Driven Content Management System?

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Technical Lead (Content Management) at Beaconfire Consulting
• Executive Product Manager at BBC Future Media & Technology (FM&T), Journalism
• Director, Business Development at National Public Radio
• Sr Java Developer (Content Management) at Informative People Inc.
• Editor at National Women’s Magazine
• Digital Project Manager at Box New Media
• Advertising Operations Associate at Gawker Media
• Online News Designer at New York Times
• User Experience Researcher at Facebook

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Six Lessons for Succeeding in Enterprise 2.0 Life is easier when you do it right the first time.
• Every Website is NOT Differente Design for what is common, not for what is exceptional.
• Social Project Shakes Out Community Tools for Flux Platform Add mobility to your sleepy content site.
• Poll: Web Designers Out-Write Copywriters 2-to-1 Who’s writing your content?
• Us vs. Them: IT and Your Organization Learn how how to keep IT sensible and partnerships functional.
• Plone Foundation Sets Open Source Standards What’s in a word? These guys think quite a lot.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? SharePoint is king of the spot light (will it ever change?). Blogging and social media product selection is getting harder, not easier. Google has struck fear in the hearts of Web Content Management vendors everywhere.

• Web Content Management with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
• Movable Type 4.0 vs. Expression Engine 1.6
• Google to Step on Content Management Toes in 2008
• Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone
• Alfresco’s New Facebook App is No Popstar Babe
• What is Web 2.0 Content Management? (Part 1)

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Sr Director, Business Development at MySpace
• Website Manager at Walkit.com
• Solutions Architect at RedDot
• eCommerce Blogger at Varien
• Content Management Systems (Support Expert) at Oxford University Press
• Head of Project Management at Agency.com London
• Regional Sales Rep at Ektron, Inc.

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Live coverage from the cmf2007 conference in Arhus Lisa Welchman digs into the dark corners of Web Operations Management. Bob Boiko implores us to bring back the “I” in “IT”. And eZ Systems takes home the Web Idol award, the deuxieme time.
• Alfresco Calls Nuxeo’s Version Raise The arms race between the open source enterprise cms vendors continues.
• Innovation in Education: Introducting iTunes University Opening up the world of the classroom to the eyes of the public. For free.
• J.L. Halsey Decides A (Name) Change Would Do It Good Musics & Lyris. One of the largest providers of marketing technology solutions changes it’s name.

• SilverStripe Recruiting Cunning Linguists It’s easy to mingle when you’re bilingual. Contribute your language skills and translate a module today.
• Waffles, Beer, and… Polopoly Belgian media group Cornelio announces Polypoly as their long term partner in providing Web CMS functionality. I’ll drink to that.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? Battles among open source software. SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint! Social networking and the CMS universities choose.

• Case Study: Discovering Plone Content Management System (Part 2)
• Easy Nuxeo vs. Alfresco, How Do You Like Your OSS?
• Getting Started with SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
• UC Davis Web CMS Survey for Universities - Results
• WordPress Wins Best Social Networking CMS

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Director of Content Strategy at The College Board
• Technical Journalist & Web Developer at Congressional Quarterly
• Outreach and Community Manager at Six Apart
• Customer Relationship Manager at CMS Watch
• Product Manager (Sharepoint) at Microsoft
• Author Services Account Manager at Federated Media Publishing, Inc.

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Best Open Source CMS Awards (Galore) from Packt Press Joomla! shines, once again. WordPress pulls us to our social senses. And MODx continues to collect the accolades.
• Meebo: Not Just a Pretty IM Tool An underdog entering the multi-platform apps game can fetch.
• Is IBM Falling Behind in Content Management? Drifting into the wild Big Blue yonder?
• Interview: FatWire CEO Discusses Web 2.0 Acquisition FatWire CEO Yogesh Gupta speaks about the acquisition of Infostoria: right technology, right people, right time, right price.
• Salesforce Two-Times AppExchange with Hot Banana Meeting the specific needs of its core customer base with a competitor’s product. Puzzling indeed.
• Plain Speaking Works on the Web Web users are not fools. Period. Gerry McGovern says keep it real.

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? CMS implementation is still tough. SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint! Open Source is fashionable, a great dancer, yet still threatening.

• Open Source Web CMS’s Threaten Commercial Marketshare
• Easy Web User Controls for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007
• Bitnami: Free Open Source Content Mangement Stacks
• Umbraco Means dot NET Open Source CMS
• Open Source: Joomla CMS Dances Off the Mambo Floor

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Core System Developer (PHP/Java) at eZ Systems
• Outreach and Community Manager at Six Apart
• Manager, Web Content Technology at Epilepsy Foundation of America
• Editor at TerraPass
• Instructional Designer at The New School

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

This week’s highlights include:

• Atompub Goes from Dream to RFC One click publishing ain’t all there, yet. But our dear XML visionaries have taken another step towards manifestation.
• UC Davis Web CMS Survey for Universities — Results Taking cues from those with low budgets, haphazard implementation and under-supported CMS.
• Bitnami: Free Open Source Content Mangement Stacks Speaking of tight budgets, BitNami takes a bite out of the pain associated with open source install / config. <Insert Applause>
• coComment Shoots for Common Man in v2.0 What can Web 2.0 do for the casual commenter? More!
• Vignette Looks Toward the Rich Media Horizon The Web is gettin mo’ riche. Rich asset management targeted at multiple channels, multiple devices. That’s what they’re on about.
• Managing Global Customer Experiences, Better Rethink how you manage global Web content with the help of tech, process and a healthy dose of Gilbane.
• Lookout Microsoft! Firefox Tops IE 6 Open source advocates do the happy dance, while Microsoft worries (and yes we know that IE6 + IE7 is a mean team, but let us have some fun dammit).

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. The gist? CMS implementation is still tough. SharePoint, SharePoint, SharePoint! Tony Bryne predicts the future, again. Percussion dresses up Rhythmyx for Halloween, and beyond. And Rick Sloboda rescues 9 out of 10 of us from certain failure.

• 7 Challenges of Implementing a Content Management System
• SharePoint 2007 Review - Six Pillars of MOSS
• Percussion Repositions Web Content Management Solution
• CMS Watch: Future Web CMS Trends
• 13 Reasons Why Most Businesses Fail

Looking to advance your career? Or has your org got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers? You’re just in time to catch the best fish of the season in our content management industry job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Product Manager - Software as a Service (SaaS) at Xythos
• Content Management System Manager at Sling Media
• Editor at Los Angeles Newspaper Group
• Enterprise Content Manager at Deloitte