Content Management Matters ™

For "legit" print journalists, the day of reckoning may be approaching more quickly than any of us would like. A survey by web CMS vendor Polopoly reports that, according to European newspaper execs, 40 percent of published content will be user generated.

In the next three years.

Because of this, blogs and other "new media" commodities will become increasingly critical to the news-making populace. And with this trend, personalized online advertising opportunities are also expected to improve.

The University of California, Davis has been tinkering with the idea of implementing a Web content management system since 2005.

To help decide which road to take, the school initiated a survey of what other campuses were using. The results were published this week and offer valuable insight into who is currently winning the Web CMS war.

The results also betray how universities, which face among the greatest content management challenges of all, cope with web content issues.

Business Process Management (BPM), while in demand, isn't yet implemented consistently or systematically across organizations -- at least, not by those surveyed by the Enterprise Content Management Association's Industry Watch study.

This was the overriding theme of "BPM: Not Just Workflow Anymore," which was released this week.

Hey, champ. Ever wonder how your intranet stands up against another company's? It's probably tough to gauge, considering asking about another enterprise's back-end is a little awkward.

With that devastating curiosity in mind, Intranet Dashboard just compiled a survey on global intranet use and trends that aims to answer all your burning questions.

SurveyGizmo has announced that their popular web survey and data collection tool can now can be used in your favorite Web CMS or blogging solution.