Content Management Matters ™

Saturday, Sep 6 2008

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

Highlights of the Week

Most Popular Articles

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? Hacking and security, Google Apps and a whole mess of social media!

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

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Friday, Sep 5 2008

Thanks for the support y’all. The likes of Ademero, CMS Watch, Ektron, Ephox, eTouch SamePage, The Gilbane Group, Hot Banana, Kentico, Quantum Art, Sitecore, Telerik Sitefinity, Xythos and of course dear old uncle Google have kept the Nespresso machines running this week. And we are thankful.

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SpringCM, an enterprise document management vendor, has announced that KMWorld Magazine has placed its Software-as-a-Service platform in the Trend-Setting Product List of 2008.

Friday, Sep 5 2008

KIT digital, a provider of IPTV enablement technology and video-centric marketing solutions, recently announced that it has completed an agreement to acquire Morpheum, an Australian provider of LanternCMS software.

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks’ SM news in scan-friendly format.

This Week:

Google Chrome

Google launched a new browser this week. You may have heard something about it. It’s great, far as we can tell (here’s our take on Chrome), and is tailor-made for running rich web applications, because it runs RIAs in seperate tabs in their own environment, or something. Which FireFox and IE do not. Which is why FF 3 crashes like a mutha and why IE usually runs like a 3-legged dog.

The folks at MarketingProfs are always offering new ways to help organizations and companies learn about digital marketing.

In an effort to guide marketers around the twists and turns of web marketing and digital media, MarketingProfs presents a Digital Marketing Mixer: A Forum on Email, Search and Social Media. The event is scheduled to take place on October 22 — 23, 2008, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Channels Network TV humbly called this day “the day when business advertising and marketing changes forever.”

Channels Network TV, a provider of e-commerce web development and web publishing, has officially launched the “first ever video-based business web portal group.”

Thursday, Sep 4 2008

According to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study, Internet users are shifting their media consumption habits to downloading more podcasts.

Open Text Corporation, a well-known ECM player, announced its intention to acquire Captaris, Inc., a provider of document management and delivery solutions.

The price of this deal is approximately US$ 131 million.

ShoZu Ltd., a provider of mobile social media services, announced a new edition of its free social media application for iPhone and iPod Touch.

The enhanced version is all about web 2.0 and offers easy photo uploading, blogging, geo-tagging and mobile interaction with more than 50 social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, Google Blogger, Picasa Web Albums and Twitter.

Ingeniux, an enterprise 2.0 WCM provider, has recently started offering three new SaaS packages for Ingeniux OnDemand, its hosted web content management solution.

The new approach is called “web content management by the slice” (hungry yet?) and allows customers to buy exactly as much of the Ingeniux CMS software as they need — without the headaches of hardware and bandwidth — all in a hosted environment.

Mimosa isn’t just your typical Sunday brunch affair anymore. Now it can also archive your email.

Mimosa Systems, a provider of information management and content archiving solutions, recently announced an addition of a new solution — email archiving — to its NearPoint product.