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Highlights of the Week

* Waste Time on Intranet, Make More Money. Now is the moment to cash in on your company’s Intranet.
* Web Content Migration: Disastrous Strategy. There is probably no worse strategy for an Intranet or public Web site than content migration. It is doomed to failure from the very start.
* ClearGauge and ZoomRank Deliver Next Gen SEO Analytics. What do you get when you mix a provider that specializes in search engine optimization and a Web-based service that monitors search engine rankings?
* (Interview) eZ Publish as SaaS Web CMS. We spoke with eZ’s global partner manager Bertrand Maugain to get more insight into the new eZ Publish SaaS offering and their partner in arms, Mamut ASA.
* How To: Running WordPress with SQL Anywhere. SQL Anywhere is a simple, powerful database with some interesting features.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? WordPress 2.7, Day CQ5.1 WCM, Google Mobile Apps and Amazon’s CloudFront CDN.

* Day Software’s New CQ5 Web CMS Has Arrived. To get as close as possible to a real-life experience, we went ahead and installed the software from scratch and played with it for a couple of days.
* Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
* WordPress 2.7: From Blog Platform to Web CMS. Now on their third beta release, WordPress is promising big things with version 2.7.
* Gartner: 2009 Top 10 Strategic Technologies. At the recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner analysts presented their insights into the top 10 technologies and trends to rule the world in 2009.
* MySpace Tries Something New With Profile 2.0. The two most significant changes included in this optional upgrade are advanced privacy options and the near complete adherence to W3C HTML standards.
* Amazon Launches Cheap CDN for SMB Web Publishers. Amazon’s CloudFront CDN is cheap enough that SMB web publishers are now able to serve their more popular content to their customers quickly and easily.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

* Director of Developer Community at The Echo Nest
* Full Time Writer at TechCrunch
* Senior Technical Consultant at Acquia
* Director of Technology with Drupal Experience at Imagination

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (29-Nov-08)

Harsh economic times are safe havens for those in the legal industry. So many desperate acts, so little time to search and discover each one.

Such little time is driving up legal costs and stretching companies’ resources thin. So much so, that many enterprises choose to simply settle cases in order to avoid the costly and, often, painful process altogether. While many eDiscovery solutions have conveniently popped up in the marketplace in time for financial meltdowns, it’s not always easy for companies to decide what to do and how.

CMS Watch to the rescue. They have added a new course called The Fundamentals of eDiscovery to their vast curricula of online courses.

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CMS Watch Teaches Fundamentals of eDiscovery

C2C builds email, data and file management solutions. SharePoint can store a massive amount of content which includes emails, data and other documents. Want a way to easily archive and manage that content in MOSS? Try C2C Archive One for SharePoint.

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Old Data in MOSS? Try C2C Archive One

Microblogging is one of the fastest forms of social interaction online today. And sites like Twitter are at the top of the traffic ladder according to Alexa. Now you can get your own. Shout‘Em is releasing its first public beta trial of the system some are calling the “Ning of Twitter”.

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JustSystems knows how to help their user base. They have just set up a new Community for their XMetal enterprise content management solution. Called the XMetal Community Forums, it’s a community where partners, customers and their own internal services team can go to get all their questions answered.

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JustSystems Shares CMS Tips with New Community