Web Engagement News & Articles

Looks like Attensity is getting with the social times. The company announced the addition of a Facebook module to its analytics and engagement application, enabling business users to extract business insights from the network's comments, posts and surveys.

There's a new acronym on the block: WEM! It's Web, it's Engagement and it's Management. It's new, it's sexy and everybody loves it. But before you join the enthusiastic crowd, I think some warnings are essential.

HTML5 is cool. However, no matter how cool it is, it’s not magic. Technology teams must be concerned with the same development issues as with other languages: Managing applications, correcting defects and implementing enhancements. PreEmptive, providers of tools to harden, monitor and protect code from reverse-engineering applications, is providing teams with tools to make that easier.

The growth of web-enabled mobile devices is well reported, and clearly there are significant opportunities for revenue growth and customer engagement using the mobile channel. Businesses who understand mobile website user journeys are able to gain an advantage to capitalize on these opportunities.

I’d like to tell you a story. I was a major bank’s customer for a few years, but had to switch to another bank as I moved to California. I left the account open with just enough money to carry me until I could close it. One day, I looked at my account and saw that I had been getting charged a monthly service charge because an unauthorized transaction had made me dip below the limit without me knowing. I called the bank’s 800 number and asked to be credited, with no result, even after speaking to a manager. I asked to close my account and was told to “Call this other 800 number.”

Intelligent customer experiences are the flavor du jour of digital marketing and per the current mandate, they must seamlessly cross channels and devices as well. Translation: Your Web CMS must go beyond simply managing content. It must also be a marketing intelligence tool, capable of testing and refining digital customer experiences.

Rivet Logic, a consulting firm focused on open source software, offers a set of functionality based on the Alfresco CMS, aimed at making Alfresco a first rate customer experience management (CXM) platform.

Join in on Tuesday, September 13th at 11am ET / 8am PT (register here) for an interactive webinar as Rivet Logic shows how their Web Experience Management Logic Stack extends Alfresco to offer an open source solution for managing and optimizing web experiences.

If open source is your preference and you're looking to develop your organization's web experience management toolkit, then register now to learn more.

Alfresco + Rivet Logic = Open Source Web Experience Management (WEM)

Ingeniux 7.5 has been released today, offering web managers and marketers a digital hub that supports the management of a single set of content deployed across a range of channels and devices. There are over 126 updates in this release. Here's a look at the major ones.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• LinkedIn Adds Volunteer Experience
• Links Shared On YouTube Persist Longest
• More Than a Quarter of US Adults Use Mobile and Location Services
• Instagram Gains 50 Millionth User

While many web content management vendors have set their sights on building platforms that offer APIs and frameworks for building websites and applications, Percussion has stepped back and said 'wait a minute, let's get the core functionality down first in a way that's simple to deploy'. Today they offer that core "productized Web CMS" via Percussion CM1 Version 2.

Content management systems have always been known as great website editing tools, but many organizations aren’t even aware of the true power of current Web CMS platforms. Today’s CMS platforms offer advanced features and capabilities that can help you transform your website from a basic information center into a two-way customer engagement experience, which can help you interact with customers in a more meaningful way, and nurture them all the way through the buying lifecycle.

ECM and BPM giant OpenText will now be able to offer learning and training tools to customers via its latest deal to acquire a fellow Canadian firm.

As more organizations build online customer communities, often aided by social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, the lines between community and social media have begun to blur.

As we enter the fourth week in our Social Media Marketing 101 series, we’ve already outlined a lot of the basic details necessary for developing an effective social media marketing strategy. Now that you know who you are, what you do and the right keywords to use to describe your brand/company/product, as well as the appropriate goals you hope to achieve with and for your customers, it’s time to figure out a way to manage it all.

Last week, we reported that interactive marketing was forecasted to grow substantially over the next five years. Almost on cue, two launches seek to capitalize on this predicted growth. Ventana, best known for its public relations, has spawned a new entity it's calling Ventana New Media. With it comes the release of the Ventana New Media Engine, designed to optimize content-driven search engine communications so organizations can build an effective brand identity, while generating leads accurately across appropriate platforms.
 

Dreamforce starts today… and it feels like Groundhog Day. Not the groundhog that tells the weather, but groundhog in the way things keep repeating themselves. The repetition this time is in the shape of Microsoft’s offer of rebates of US$ 150-per-seat for customers who subscribe to Dynamics CRM online.