Content Management Matters ™

There are a number of ways to get targeted news, relevant to your niche, to your website. We've tried most of them, and the new NewsBar Wizard from Google News AJAX Search API is easily the best to date.

Simply enter the keywords you want to show up in the feed, copy the code generated by Google, and embed it to your website. The result enables visitors to view the latest headlines from each of the listed terms at a glance, and click quickly between news for the various search terms. The widget displays the results without any heavy-handed branding, flashy effects, or unnecessary load times. In short, it's Google doing what it does best -- giving us unparalled results faster than anyone else.

We show you exactly how to embed this fantastic new capability onto a WordPress -driven website, but the principle will be largely the same for most other content management and blogging platforms (if you use static html, it'll be easier again). It's a CPP situation (copy javascript, paste, pray...). You know the kind.

Here's where to get the Google NewsBar Wizard.

And here's the full lowdown, with embedding directions:

There's a new Joomla tutorial website in town. It's called MyJoomlaCast.com and it's jam-packed with tutorials for Joomla developers of all levels.

For those of you overwhelmed by the notion of dipping your feet in the CMS waters, the folks at joomlaforbeginners.com are here to make your learning experience as easy as possible -- and free.

The kind people over at SharePointHosting.com and LeanVu.com have published a whole host of videos on their website to help us all with our SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 administration. The range of topics is broad, covering everything from the basics of storing documents, to creating InfoPath forms libraries, to authoring SharePoint blog posts.