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

Highlights of the Week

• Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer Security Patch. Less than 24 hours after news was released about security issues with Internet Explorer, Microsoft has released a hack patch for the security flaw that affects all versions of IE version 5 to 8 beta.

• The Cost of Enterprise Content Management. Enterprise level applications are not cheap.

• Internet Explorer Security Flaw Prompts People to Switch Browsers. The flaw allows serious and far reaching attacks that are not just theoretical in nature.

• 2009 Predictions for Web CMS, ECM, Mobile, MOSS and more. And so it has started. The end of the year is upon us and everyone is thinking about what’s ahead.

• The Latest Guide to Developing with Drupal Web CMS O’Reilly Media wants to help make working with the Drupal web content management system just a bit easier.

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? Microsoft, W3C, technology predictions for 2009, SaaS CMS trends and more.

• Are You Delivering Accessible Web Content? The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) has been approved by the W3C. With it, comes discussion among W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative about what’s new with these guidelines as well as the resources that will be available for web developers and designers.
• Microsoft’s New Open Source Web CMS. Yes, Microsoft has SharePoint. And it’s the most talked about and controversial content management system out there today. Everyone seems to have it. Many actually use it.
• Zoho Creator Becomes a Google App Engine IDE. Two major themes on the web today are interoperability and sharing.
• Yonkly: The Next Twitter Killer? A new web service aims to bring new functionality to the microblogging space. Yonkly recently launched into public beta and seems similar to Twitter and Tumblr, but with many more features and capabilities.
• 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.
• 2009 Trends in SaaS Web Content Management. Our friends at CMS Watch recently announced their take on trends in SaaS Web Content Management for 2009.

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:

• Product Planner / Product Manager at Cirius Technologies, Inc.
• Software Developer at Hulu
• Web Designer at Universal Consulting Services
• User Experience Architect at Aquent

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (21-Dec-08)

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

Highlights of the Week

• Nuxeo: Enterprise CMS Updates, New Products and A New Blog. We had an opportunity to see just what Nuxeo has been up to lately – new Digital Asset Management Product to name one thing – and where they are headed next year – dare we say the cloud?

• How Web is Different from Print. Of all the things that make the Web different from print, linking is the most important.

• Novell Continues Collaboration, Messaging Battle. Groupwise 8 is now available via Novell. The release aims to boosts personal productivity with a customizable dashboard that allows users to interact with traditional and Web 2.0. tools, from e-mail to blogs.

• TypePad Adds New Community Features to Blog. With the move to a new infrastructure finally nearing completion, TypePad is starting release more new features designed to take your blog’s community to the greater social web.

• Are You Delivering Accessible Web Content? After months of collecting thousands of individual comments from hundreds of sources around the world during the development of WCAG 2.0., the final guidelines have been published.

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? Microsoft, Web publishing, SaaS CMS trends and more.

• Microsoft’s New Open Source Web CMS. Having SharePoint isn’t enough. The company has just announced an open source web content managment platform (or blogging engine depending on how you slice these things) called Oxite.
• 2009 Trends in SaaS Web Content Management. Our friends at CMS Watch recently announced their take on trends in SaaS Web Content Management for 2009.
• Inmagic Says Knowledge Management Can be Social. Inmagic, a provider of knowledge management solutions, recently released a new socialized version of their knowledge repository.
• Open Text Embraces Recommind, Expands eDiscovery Tool. Open Text has partnered with Recommind, a provider of enterprise search and eDiscovery solutions, to offer a new product called Open Text eDiscovery Early Case Assessment.
• Magnolia Releases CMS for Broadcast Media With the new tool, users can capture broadcast content and rapidly re-purpose it for publication on the Web through a seamless environment for transferring content between professional broadcast systems and what Magnolia calls “a feature-rich interactive Web-presence”.
• CMIS Update - First Integration Modules Appearing. Alfresco may not have been in the original group of three Enterprise CMS vendors who developed the CMIS Specification, but they certainly are the most active when it comes to putting it to use.

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:

• Freelance Web Content Editor at Xigi Inc
• Head of Content and User Support at Yelp
• Technical Operations Lead/Manager at Yelp
• Junior Software Developer at Magnolia

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Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (14-Dec-08)

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

Highlights of the Week

• WordPress 2.7 Comes to WordPress.com. Automattic, the driving force behind WordPress.com has announced they are releasing the newest version of the blogging platform, version 2.7

• UpComing Conferences: Drupal, Social Networking, CMS and More. With the holiday officially upon us now — did someone say Advent Calendar? — you may be saving all your money to buy an Xbox or a Wii. But if you aren’t, or you are one of the fortunate few to have tons of money to spend, we have a few conferences that might be tempting

• Open Source .Net CMS DotNetNuke Gets a New CEO. DotNetNuke is on the move.

• Ektron Offers End to End Service for Web CMS. And so Ektron’s Complete Services Solution was born…

• MindTouch: New Desktop Collaboration Integration. MindTouch really wants you to use their Deki open source collaboration solution.

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? Microsoft, Web publishing, SaaS CMS trends and more.

• 2009 Trends in SaaS Web Content Management. Let’s take a look-see at CMS Watch’s predictions for the year to come and some more analysis of hosted Web CMS solutions.
• iPublishCentral Web Publishing Attracts Publishers. From India to Iceland, many publishers are eager for the opportunity to promote their brands and titles by way of viral Web marketing.
• Microsoft Doles out 5GB Free Online Storage. Microsoft is now offering 5GB of free online storage through Windows Live Skydrive. Are we sensing a little bit of the Christmas giving spirit?
• Google Gets Closer to the Enterprise Offering Forms Templates. Like using Google Apps? There are a lot of templates to choose from, so you don’t need to start from scratch.
• Fatwire Content Server 7.5: Web CMS Site Preview Feature is a Must Have. This newest version has improvements designed to make content management easier, more efficient and automated.
• How To: Integrating Amazon CDN in 4 Simple Steps. The news that Amazon is now offering a low-cost CDN has likely excited many people. Aptly named CloudFront, this service is stirring up a lot of attention.

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:

• Online Community Manager at MyLifetime
• Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at OOYALA
• Ruby Software Engineer at iList, Inc.
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The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler.

Highlights of the Week

* Alfresco Launches Full Frontal SharePoint (MOSS) Assault. Anything SharePoint can do, Alfresco can do with open source. Read on.
* Cuil Is Not the Google Killer It Would Like to Be. There may be a bright search engine future ahead of Cuil, but not at this point in time.
* Survey: Most Popular Open Source CMS. Joomla! is leading the pack by the number of Google’s Blog Search entries — which can be nothing but a mere correlation to Joomla!’s summer release of new versions.
* Content Migrations: Options, Strategies and Faux Pas. Whether you are migrating content from an existing CMS, a file structure or a blog, there are a number of things you need to think about, plan for and decide upon.
* News You Can Use. In an age of attention deficit and impatience, news created on organizational websites and intranets needs to be brutally action-oriented and to-the-point. It needs to help people do things.

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And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? The web publishing business, hacking and security, Web 2.0 CMS and a whole mess of MOSS!

* How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques. Defense is your best offense. Know the basics.
* 75 Bleeding-Edge Search Engines To Beat Google. Differences aside, they all want to take a bite out of Google.com’s posterior.
* Google Apps Go Mobile, Starting with iPhone. What does Safari 3 have to do with Office applications on the iPhone?
* Is Ning The Next Facebook or MySpace? Ning vs. MySpace. Oh what fun we’re having.
* Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100. What micro publishers are using today.
* EMC Documentum Releases v6.5 Full of Web 2.0. A “balance between business agility and IT control”.

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, Business Development at Facebook
* Website and Content Manager at Cornell University
* Web Producer / Content Manager at Zend Technologies
* Research Analyst at Digg
* Drupal Developer at Amherst Community Television

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Weekly Roll Up - Top Stories, Memes, and Moments