Web Cms News & Articles

Earlier this week, we told you that there may be more than meets the eye when it comes to Google+. Google is looking to use Google+ to connect its millions of users already engaged with its numerous other platforms. This week, Google cranked its Google+ campaign up a notch, while Google Security added a few more layers of privacy.

On our last day at Gilbane Boston 2011, we learned how to work together better to achieve better results and innovation. Remarkably, much of the conference emphasized people processes rather technology to improve the way projects are streamlined, websites are built and content strategies are aligned.

While at Gilbane Boston 2011, we've met with vendors to get the inside scoop about their newest projects and greatest insights about the state of web content management. In a world of rapidly increasing data, customers demand more meaningful content, while companies demand better control over how they create, share and manage it all. So what do you do, and how do you manage it all? 

In a move to expand beyond its eZ Publish web CMS roots, California-based Granite Horizon announced a new partnership with Nuxeo, the open source document management platform. Nuxeo’s advance workflow management enables automation of business processes using their graphical design environment, and when combined with Granite Horizon’s strengths in web CMS, should serve customers well.

Your website is dead. But your content lives in other formats, across other devices. What is currently available is only the beginning -- the world is changing, and as a result the way we interact with information is changing. In the session, Managing New Kinds of Content Mash-ups, Stefan Schinkel of Hippo walked us through the endless possibilities that content engagement afford us.

Anyone who has ever tried to implement a new software application knows that unless you can get past the IT department, chances of a successful deployment are slim. It isn’t that IT is a bully or that marketers are naïve, it’s more likely that these departments aren’t properly aligned. As we start Day Two of Gilbane Boston, we are attending an intervention of sorts. The session, Marketing & IT -- How to Work Together, is aimed to bring the two groups together. 

Danish based Composite C1, Microsoft's top ranked open source web content management system, announced today full support for cloud hosting through Windows Azure, allowing users to easily gain the benefits of scalable global hosting, increased security and low cost. 

Welcome to the November 2011 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Each Web Content Management (WCM) platform has a sweet spot and making the right technology decision really depends on what is at the heart of your online business model. Understanding the business model for your website is fundamental in understanding whether Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the right WCM platform for you.

Monday Consulting's Webforms plugin adds survey, purchase orders, registrations and contact requests functionality to the CoreMedia CMS.

The first major release based around the Salesforce acquisition of Radian6 has been unveiled and extends social enterprise marketing with the addition of features for social monitoring, insights, engagement, workflow and websites.

In the spirit of this month’s editorial theme on all things cloud, I thought I’d ponder about cloud/SaaS web content management on the premise that SaaS Web CMS cannot save the world or cure your WCM illness, despite the much-spread hype you may hear in the marketplace generated by vendors. There’s no perfect storm for cloud WCM.

Water&stone released its 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, which shows that Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla command the market, but Concrete5 had a great year and is a CMS to watch.

The month is almost at its end, but Adobe has managed to sneak in one more big announcement. Adobe has finalized negotiations to purchase the privately held multi-channel ad buying and optimization company Efficient Frontier, known primarily for helping marketers negotiate ads on Facebook.

WordPress.com is finally giving its bloggers the opportunity to earn a little revenue from their well-crafted words, and taking a jab at Google simultaneously.