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Highlights of the Week

• Autonomy Leads Search and Discovery Market According to IDC. A recent IDC research report shows Autonomy is leading the search and discovery market in terms of both revenues and market share.
• Amazon EC2 Customer Hammered by DDOS Attack. Amazon may be one of the 200 lbs information gorillas in the cloud, but it’s not immune to taking a good beating, as this unfortunate customer story shows.
• Alfresco Achieves DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification. Alfresco has become the first open source product to demonstrate compliance with the DoD 5015.02 STD spec.
• Microsoft Creates FUSE Labs for Social Media Research. Reorganization strikes again! General Manager Lili Cheng is set to head the new FUSE Labs for Social Media Research at Microsoft, an apt title as the group will fuse members of the Creative Systems Group with the Rich Media and Startup Labs.
• e-Spirit CMS Gets More Serious About Content Re-use. e-Spirit, the makers of FirstSpirit CMS, released a new module called Database Pool that goes on top of the core content management platform.
• eXo Takes Its Enterprise CMS and CEO to the US. Another European company has announced that it is opening a US office. This time the location is San Francisco and the company is open source solution provider eXo.
• Yooba Adds Content Only Editor to Flash Web CMS. We’ve already expressed the growing interest around Flash-based content management systems this week, so let’s get straight down to business with Yooba announcement about a cool little content editor for integration with existing CMS platforms.

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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? Twitter, CMS, iPhone and Google.

• Crowd Fusion, a Web Publishing Platform for Topic based Websites. One of the newest web content management platforms to come our way is Crowd Fusion CMS. Although only in private beta testing at this time, it is getting some notice.
• Top 5 Best Twitter Tools for Business. Endless analysts, “social media experts” and pundits are telling you that it’s imperative that you develop your Twitter presence. Yes, yes, yes… As for the tools, here are what we consider the top 5 twitter tools worth some of your precious time.
• Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API. With the introduction of Google’s new Sites API — and some tools that explicitly pull stuff out of SharePoint and place it into Google Sites — the real heat between Redmond and Mountain View is finally starting to build.
• Ektron Snaps Up Former Interwoven CMS Evangelist. With the M&A activity in the content management space not dwindling down despite the economic crisis, it’s only natural to see the content management industry talent hop around. At times, that happens in a fashion resembling the game called “A Cold Wind Blows.”
• Social Media Minute: Employers Ban Social Media, Twitter Finally Gets Revenue Deals. According to a study from Robert Half Technology, a little more than half of U.S. workplaces are banning their employees from viewing and interacting with social networking sites.
• Jive Wants to Socialize Your SharePoint Enterprise Content. Jive Software has a new strategy designed to extend SBS across an organization’s content silos. The plan? Take enterprise content stored in your Enterprise CMS and socialize it within SBS.
• The Great Flash for the iPhone Fake Out. Yes, Flash has been brought to the iPhone. No, you can’t view Flash-based Web content on the iPhone. Kind of a rough deal, right?

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 on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• .NET Software Developer at Bridgeline
• Content Management Software Documentation Writer at pTools
• Content Management Application Developer (Reddot) at Quotient
• Inside Sales Representative at Flypaper
• Software Developer at Unicon
• Web CMS Admin at UC Davis
• Software Sales Engineer at Westbrook Technologies

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Day Ignite Zurich 2009 — Oct 14-Oct 15 (Zurich, CH)
• Open Text Content World 2009 — Oct 25-30 (Orlando,FL)
• Day Ignite Chicago 2009 — Oct 27-Oct 29 (Chicago, IL)
• How to Drive an Effective Governance Retention and Compliance Strategy — webinar, Oct 29, 2009
• J. Boye Aarhus 2009 — Nov 3-Nov 5 (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Sharepoint Symposium 2009 — Nov 20 (San Jose, CA
• WordCamp NYC 2009 — November 14-15 (New York, NY)

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (10-Oct-2009)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• Former Open Text-er Takes CMO Job at Open Source Nuxeo. Meet Cheryl McKinnon, the new Chief Marketing Officer of the Paris-headquartered open source ECM vendor Nuxeo.
• Content Management Interoperability Spec(CMIS) Ready for Public Review. We expect the CMIS OASIS Technical Committee is feeling pretty good right now. They voted CMIS specification draft 0.70b to be the official Committee Draft and approved it for submission to the OASIS public review process.
• Google Wave Has Arrived — For Some of Us. Will Google Wave be the next step in communication as so many like to imagine it will? Or the viable alternative to traditional e-mail that Google themselves planned for it to be?
• Microsoft’s LookingGlass: Monitor, Engage and Analyze Social Media. Microsoft unveiled its latest proof of concept, LookingGlass. The new business tool is part of a broader strategy within its platform strategy group to deliver marketing and advertising as SaaS-based services.
• eZ Publish 4.2 Released, Focuses on Usability, Scalability and Performance. eZ Publish 4.2, the most updated version of eZ Systems’ open source CMS, was released earlier this week.
• Customer Experience Affected Most by Social Media Channel. Wake up call: social media is more than just communication, it’s customer engagement. If you’re not engaging with customers using social media, you’re not maximizing your effort.
• Social Media Minute: How Social Networking Sites Are Selling Your Identity. Social media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here are the week’s top stories

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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? Open Text, Obama, Sharepoint, Google and Open Source.

• Why Obama Loves Enterprise Content Management. Yes, we are back onto the environment-friendly, green track. There’s a lot that can be done both at home (think recycling) and at work (not surprisingly, think content management).
• Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API. Given the amount of data that sit in SharePoint worldwide, given how eager Google seems to be about enterprise apps these days, and given the size of Google’s appetite for data, we must say…it’s about time.
• MS Project 2010: Goodbye Portfolio Server, Hello SharePoint. Of course, we won’t be talking about MS Project 2010 without talking about SharePoint — that’s just how it will be from now on.
• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Microsoft gives us a bird’s eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.
• Open Text Web CMS Saga Continues, Party Lines Collide. Open Text Content World will be in the lovely Orlando, and we all should expect to be enlightened on OTEX’s product map and strategy for its two web content management arms: Web Solutions (aka RedDot) and the recently acquired Vignette.
• Alert: What’s Coming for Open Source CMS in October 2009. Welcome to the October 2009 installment of our what’s coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. When we posited that Alfresco Share was after SharePoint Services’ marketshare, it sparked a bit of chatter — some positive, some not so much.

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 on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Director of Technology at ConsumerSearch, Inc
• Web Analytics Manager at Capstrat, Inc.
• Programmer / Developer at Boston Globe Media
• Mobile Engineer at Automattic
• API Engineer & Developer Evangelist at Yammer, Inc.
• Silverlight Developer at IndustryNext
• Code Wrangler at Automattic

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Adobe MAX 2009 — Oct 4-7 (Los Angeles, CA)
• Global Information Management Conference — Oct 15 (London)
• Drupal Camp Montreal 2009 — Oct 17-18 (Montreal)
• Day Ignite Chicago 2009 — Oct 27-Oct 29 (Chicago, IL)
• J. Boye Aarhus 2009 — Nov 3-Nov 5 (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Business Technology Summit — Nov. 6 (Mumbai)

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (3-Oct-2009)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• An Easier Way to Change Your SharePoint Password. With a new version recently released, this web part offers some nice capabilities to help administrators manage the password security policies for their implementation.
• No Coding Required: Hosted CMS for Designers. With its new CMS, Webvanta works to give designers new options for deploying sophisticated websites at lower costs.
• Open Source XOOPS CMS 2.4.0 RC Brings Usability Fixes. The XOOPS Project decided to build on the momentum and promoted XOOPS 2.4.0 Beta 1 to the release candidate level.
• Drupal Code Freeze Update – 82 Weeks + a Slushy. September 7th has passed and the Drupal 7 code freeze is officially on. 82 weeks of development that started in February 2008 has come and gone and now it’s time to relax.
• Document Capture and Imaging Comes to Laserfiche ECM. What happens when we make a comment about it being a while since we’ve heard from Laserfiche? They suddenly burst with new news.
• Jive Adds Social Web Monitoring into Social Business Software. Jive Software has announced Jive Market Engagement, a new service integrated into their Social Business Software.
• Canto Cumulus 8.0.2: Digital Asset Management for All. Arguably the coolest part of Canto 8.0.2, the newest version, is its compatibility with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the forthcoming Microsoft Windows 7.

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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? Microsoft, Adobe and CMS.

• MS Project 2010: Goodbye Portfolio Server, Hello SharePoint. Of course, we won’t be talking about MS

  

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• SharePoint Gets Search Intelligence. Ontolica is a search solution for SharePoint and Surfray has just announced the latest version.
• Drupal Gardens Screencast of Theme Builder and Export Tools. At DrupalCon Paris, Acquia announced a new service that helps people create, configure, and launch a Drupal 7 site with relative ease.
• Free Document Management Solution Aimed at Engineering Industries. A new Portuguese-based document management software provider has come up with what has to be one of the cheapest — if not the cheapest — product on the market.
  
• EPiServer CMS Integrates Marketing and Sales Engine. EPiServer, on its ongoing quest in “the new era of the Engaged Web,” has news for marketers, who are looking to deliver dynamic, personalized, optimized and measurable web experiences.
• WordPress Under Attack! Upgrade Now or Forever Live in Fear. The particularly nasty worm has been quietly making its way into old versions of WordPress and wreaking tons of havoc.
• Socialtext Lets You Collaborate on Your Smartphone. Socialtext brings collaboration to your smartphone with Socialtext Mobile, allowing secure microblogging and staff communication on the go.
• Living on the Edge of Global Web Content Management Crisis. If you were still not quite convinced that global content management is a pretty big deal nowadays, take a look at the latest research saying that 35% of companies surveyed have more than 10 websites with almost 50% of those published in over 5 languages.

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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? Ugly websites, CMS reviews and Joomla!

• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren’t a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews. What’s surprising is that this issue is true even for such popular solutions as Drupal and Joomla.
• The Ugliest Website in the World. Craigslist breaks all marketing and branding rules. In fact, it doesn’t market or brand or sell itself at all.
• 5 Must-Read Web CMS Reviews. Here are 5 must read Web CMS reviews covering Umbraco, Day CQ5, Vivvo CMS, SharePoint Online and Digitalus. All are different, yet quite interesting in their special ways.
• Need Joomla! Templates? Look No Further. After some pretty hard googling to save you the time of some pretty hard googling, here are the top Joomla! templates resources we found
• Open Text Starts Vocalizing Vignette Plans.Open Text has finally revealed a bit more information about what the giant plans to do with its multiple WCM offsprings.
• Rich Media Revolution in Web Content Management: Are You Ready? With greater competition, more organizations have come under the increasing pressure to facilitate effective use of rich media content.
• How to Engage Your Audience Through Web Content. It goes without saying that we are increasingly betting our businesses on our websites. They represent us, who we are and what we stand for.

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 on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Associate Creative Director / Writer at Weber Marketing Group
• Inside Sales / Lead Generation Representative at Clearwell Systems
• UI Designer at Zendesk
• User Interface Designer at Claromentis
• Marketing Assistant at AvePoint
• Sales Manager at BAInsight
• Lead Development & Inside Sales Representative at Kazeon Systems

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• IDEA Conference 2009 — Sep 15-16 (Toronto, Canada)
• Collaborate Conference 2009 — Sep 24-25 (Huntsville, AL)
• Future of Web Apps – London 09 — Sep 30-Oct 2 (London, UK)
• Open World Forum Paris 2009 — Oct 1-2 (Paris)
• Adobe MAX 2009 — Oct 4-7 (Los Angeles, CA)
• IFRA Expo 2009 — Oct 12-15 (Vienna, Austria)

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (12-Sep-2009)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

• Alterian Has Not One, But Two SharePoint Connectors. Now some of you might ask why Alterian would have two SharePoint connectors in their inventory content management connectors. If you knew the history of Alterian, you would know.
• Amazon Debuts With Virtual Private Clouds. Ever thought that the cloud is not secure enough for your organization to even consider adopting it? You may want to give that thought another swirl. And the reason for that is the new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• MageBridge Connects Joomla and Magento for eCommerce. Only four weeks after Yireo announced the release of MageBridge v1.0, a suite of extensions that binds Magento, an open source ecommerce platform, and Joomla!, it has announced the release of MadgeBridge v1.1
• Sitecore Updates Its Multisite Management Tool Foundry. Sitecore says that in Foundry 3.0 users will see new and advanced .NET security controls, enhanced HTML newsletter capabilities and Silverlight photo gallery support.
• Volume is the Wrong Way to Measure Web Success. Are you measuring the right things? Could growth in your page views in fact be a negative trend?
• Open Text Extends Enterprise Connect: eDocs, SharePoint Integration. Open Text announced the further integration of its eDocs products with its Open Text enterprise content management suite, and it unveiled a new version of its Enterprise Connect, which offers new plug-ins for Microsoft SharePoint and eDOCS DM.
• Cash for Cache, Terracotta Buys to Better Java. Terracotta, a software company you may know for their expertise in the caching and Java departments, recently acquired a similar company called Ehcache.

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? Sharepoint 2007, 2010 and Facebook.

• New-Look Facebook App is Ready to Storm the iPhone. The official Facebook for the iPhone 3.0 app is due for release on the App Store, once it has passed Apple’s review process.
• CenterStage – How EMC is Taking on Microsoft SharePoint. The need for knowledge workers to leverage an ECM’s capabilities while at the same time leverage Web 2.0 tools for better collaboration, has led to a number of new Enterprise 2.0 solutions from ECM vendors.
• Largely Unplanned SharePoint Growth Causing Enterprise Problems According to a recent IDG survey, 62% of CIOs said that SharePoint was a critical component of their technology portfolio. And these organizations have big plans for expanding SharePoint use in the next year.
• SharePoint Designer 2007 Free to Download. As of April 1, 2009, SharePoint Designer 2007 can be downloaded for free. According to Microsoft, offering the Designer free is their way of promoting continued custom development on the SharePoint platform.
• Employers Use Facebook More Than LinkedIn for HR Screening. No matter how professional you may come across on your LinkedIn page, employers are getting the real dirt on you by checking out your profile on Facebook.
• SharePoint 2010, A Business Collaboration Platform. Microsoft gives us a bird’s eye view into what SharePoint 2010 is really going to look and behave like. Time to take a little tour.
• Open Text on Q4 and FY2009 Financials, Vignette’s Fate. Despite the current economic climate, OTEX reports achieving bottom line target, although net income for fiscal year 2009, and license revenue and operating cash flow in the fourth quarter have dipped.

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 on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Content Management Architect at Mindlance
• Senior News Registry Consultant (Contract Position) at The Associated Press
• Technical Writer at TeAM Inc.
• Territory Sales Manager at SpringSource
• Account Executive at IKON
• Senior Server Software Engineer at Terracotta
• Web Designer at iATN
• Senior/Principal Software Engineer, UI & Services Development at Digital Reef

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Drupalcon Paris 2009 — Sep 1 (Paris, France)
• X Change Web Analytics Conference — Sep 9 (San Francisco, CA)
• IDEA Conference 2009 — Sep 15-16 (Toronto, Canada)
• Collaborate Conference 2009 — Sep 24-25 (Huntsville, AL)
• Open World Forum Paris 2009 — Oct 1-2 (Paris)
• Adobe MAX 2009 — Oct 4-7 (Los Angeles, CA)

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (29-Aug-2009)