Content Management Matters ™

These are busy times for the content management industry and its related industries. Lots of conferences going on, experts sharing their thoughts and ideas about how things are and will be, partnering, integrations...whew..

Hard to keep track of it all. Here are just a few we thought would peek your interest...

A new feature commeth from CMSWire. It’s our Weekly News Trawl, and the idea is to ensure that we are all up to date on smaller -- but just as important -- news items that touch our cozy little industry.

The collection is gathered by our multi-talented editorial team whose interests vary as widely their basic grammar skills.

In the spirit of handing out exceptional yet unsolicited advice, the gang here at CMSWire felt it was our duty to provide our loyal readers with some of our keen insights into the world of content management for 2008.

So without further adieu, here's exactly what you can expect to happen in 2008.

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

One of our favorite ASP.NET component vendors, Telerik, has recently launched an AJAX developer center portal. Its pretty light weight for the time being and is obviously geared towards Telerik's own ASP.NET rich callback component suite, but does offer some valuable resources for those just getting started with rich client AJAX dev.

Resources include: History of AJAX, Getting Started with AJAX, Problems and Challenges with AJAX (ASP.NET specific), etc. Telerik AJAX Developer Center

We previously posted a tip sheet on Getting Started with SharePoint WebParts. Kindly supporting us in these endeavors, our dear friends over at MSDN have published a chapter from the book Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out.