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Innovation: Perspective Matters, But Many Simply Lack Vision
Recently both BusinessWeek and Fast Company published their respective 50 most innovative companies list. I have “mashedup” both lists in the chart below and edited the lists a bit. (Where there is overlap I indicate the difference in ranking order......
Context is King and ECM-based BI is the Keys to the Kingdom
Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrap paolo) about a Boston Globe article on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that, but then this morning, serendipitously I heard a story on NPR about the dramatically changing world......
Content Security and KM "D'oh"
OK, I admit it. I do not spend all my weekends sitting around thinking deep ECM and KM thoughts. I enjoy hanging out with the kids and indulging in some mindless TV watching. Its amazing though how the KM/ECM geek......
A Historical Moment for the ECM and RM Industry
Today, I learned that Miep Gies died. She was a stellar example of why content and records management is so important. Many of you may not recognize her name, but you will likely recognize the name of the content author......
ECM: A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet – and I do mean Sweet
A week ago, my long time colleague, whose opinion I respect, Whitney Tidmarh, (@whitneytidmars) EMC Documentum CMO and AIIM Board member tweeted the following: “ Great discussion with #AIIM board about the relevance of the term #ECM today. Does #ECM......
Making Blogs More Transparent Angers Bloggers - Huh?
An article in today's Boston Globe, reports that a new regulation will compel bloggers to disclose any affiliations or gifts they have received. What makes this article especially interesting to me is the reaction of bloggers. Bloggers are reportedly "unhappy"......
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#SXSW: Getting Streamy With Chris Messina and ActivityStrea.ms
Unless you’re living off the grid, or a paranoid rendition of Tony Soprano operating on a cash basis and only taking in-person meetings — your life is full of streams of data that track what you are doing. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join...
Week in Review: Managing Product Demos, Integrating Portals and CMS
Welcome to the weekend. The hyped SXSW is in full swing, check out our ongoing live coverage from Texas. More interesting content management events are coming up: J. Boye Philly and GilbaneSF. But first let’s take a look back and see what’s been cooking in the Enterprise CMS/Web CMS kitchen this week....
#SXSW: the Hype, the Networking Opps and the 256 page SXSW Booklet
This is the first time that I have attended SXSW and after yesterday, I can say that it definitely lives up to its billing and all of the stories that you have heard are true. The networking opportunities are tremendous. Yesterday I ran in Pete Cashmore CEO and founder of...
Thanks to Our Fabulous Sponsors (12-Mar-2010)
Spring just days away and even closer is the SXSW Interactive event in Austin — stay tuned for some live coverage out of Texas.And for now we’re busy bidding farewell to the working week. But just before we do so, here’s a ...
The Interactive portion of SXSW kicked off today and we start our coverage with the UX of Mobile. Thanks to the iPhone we now have a whole new benchmark on the user experience of smartphones. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter ...
Enterprise Software: To Be or Not To Be Like Facebook
While most of us have been preoccupied with game-changing releases from Google, a war has been waged in the name of the future enterprise. On one side, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, leads those who believe enterprise software should be more like Facebook. On the other, a crowd...
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The Components of Enterprise Content Management
Continuing from the previous post of this series, What is Social Media…. Really? Let’s explore the c...
8 Ways Web Content Management has Improved in SharePoint 2010
Some say that Microsoft hasn’t really made many changes to SharePoint 2007’s web content...
Alfresco offers a flexible, scalable content management platform that combines open source advantage...
Content Is King and CMS is your most important online marketing tool
Why aren’t marketers hollering about decapitated Content Management Systems (CMS)? Are they in...
Many thanks to the London Communications and Engagement Group last night for their kind invitation t...
EMC Admits it Needs Help, Partners with FatWire
If you haven’t been paying attention, EMC announced a strategic partnership with FatWire today...
Recent Blog Entries
Understanding SaaS CMS pricing
Last week I received a message from a friend discussing the annual fees his firm pays for their hosted Web CMS. The CMS and associated website are served up by a well-known, Software as a Service ("SaaS") WCM vendor...
Little Lucid gets big funding for Lucene
Lucid Imagination, the commercial company that distributes its own certified versions of the open source Apache Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, has raised $10 million in Series B funding from a series of venture capital firms...
SharePoint Ecosystem Pros and Cons
I hope you can join me 15 April for a great conference (Midwest SharePoint 2010 Conference), at a great venue (Italian Conference Center), in a great city (Milwaukee, WI, USA), on a Great Lake (Michigan)...
Updates to our Web CMS research
Last month we updated several WCM vendor evaluations, including...
Which CMS does The Real Story Group Use?
I get that question a lot, especially since one of our main services is called "CMS Watch"...
Evaluating WordPress as a Web CMS
There's a debate raging within Twitter about whether traditional blogging platform WordPress is also a CMS...
CMS Report
Sponsors continue to march on for CMS Report
I can't tell you how much I'm in awe of our sponsors. For several months CMS Report's sponsors have consistently helped finance the costs to running our site by purchasing banner space. For niche sites like this one, that sponsorship is important. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills ...
Bitrix Introduces the D.I.G. Engine : Enterprise 2.0 Search Technology
ALEXANDRIA , VA. – Bitrix, Inc. (www.bitrixsoft.com), a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces D.I.G. technology – an advanced search engine developed specifically for enterprise intranets and websites that enables high-performance data search in texts, media content and documents with smart ranking, sorting and display. The engine is available...
CMS provider pTools adds social media content distribution
Content Management Software (CMS) provider, pTools, today announced the addition of a range of embedded social media and networking features to its software. From within the pTools CMS, social media content can be easily re-distributed to any site anytime in any format on any social network. A key feature,...
Quoting IT: What is content management?
"What is Content Management? My definition is... Content Management is the management of content."-Tony Byrne, What is Content Management, Real Story Group, February 24, 2010As strange as this sounds, one of the biggest debates among CMS gurus is over the very definitions of content management and content management system....
OIT and Client Panhandle Farmers Mutual Named AIIM Award Finalists
Optical Image Technology (OIT) and client Panhandle Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of West Virginia has been named one of three national finalists for the 2010 AIIM Carl E. Nelson Best Practices Award in the small company category. The award recognizes excellence in the field of enterprise content management (ECM) technology,...
DrupalCon - San Francisco 2010
Drupal's "premier conference" is quickly approaching. This Drupal conference is known as DrupalCon and will be held in San Francisco from April 19-21, 2010. As with previous years, the unofficial theme of the conference is to "learn about all things Drupal". If the conference sessions aren't enough, the schedule is...
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Applying to IPF's Web Drama Series Pilot Program
Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely. I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that...
Twenty-Two Days Until April Fools
Get ready, the greatest holiday of the year is coming soon. Don't be caught out without a great prank to pull. Here's the first of the Hailey Hacks April Fools videos. Watch for another next week. <object height="344" width="425"><param></param><param></param><param></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HMOn6bBhAFc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" height="344" width="425"></embed></object> ...
Over at Advertising Age, Keith Richmond is writing about the importance of distribution in the next decade. His piece is called Is Content King? Then Distribution is Crown Prince, subtitled Great Content Does Not Mean It Will Find an Audience: In the next decade, we will see significant changes...
Check out Where Have All the Women Gone? Long Time Passing in The Research Wrap Blog. Pilot season has been especially unkind to women writers this year. And the staffing situation isn't much better. Take at look at this chart included in the post: What about cable? Perhaps, I...
This morning, I got up my nerve and played a little Chat Roulette. This is the site where you turn on your web cam and then click to look at total strangers via their web cams, and text chat with them. I was a little apprehensive about it. Strangers!...
I was cruising the web this week looking for information about soon-to-be-released television series and was shocked to find virtually nothing. I'm talking about more than one series -- series that are in the can and awaiting air dates. Yet, the only information about them are their IMDB...
Contentmanager.net
PRIMAGAS now uses the Content Management System CONTENS for their online communication needs. The internet appearance designed by Saatchi & Saatchi provides for an improved service orientation and inc......
RTL.de relaunched with CONTENS
RTL interactive, subsidiary of the most successful German commercial broadcaster, relies on the content management technology of CONTENS for its broad General Interest website RTL.de......
onion.net presents SharePoint Integration at the CeBIT (Hannover, 2 - 5 March 2010)
The onion.net SharePoint Integration will be sparking interest at the Microsoft business stand during this years CeBIT (Hall 4, A26)......
CeBIT 2010: CONTENS presents integration of Google Search Appliance and SaaS solution
For the first time CONTENS presents an integration of the Google Search Appliance 6 into its Content Management technology, a new SaaS product and many more enhancements on the CeBIT......
SDL enters online retail market with acquisition of eCommerce software company Fredhopper
SDL plc ("SDL or the "Company), the leading provider of Global Information Management solutions, today announces the acquisition of Fredhopper, a recognized leader in targeting and marketing softwar......
MM MerchandisingMedia launches SevenBrandVentures with CONTENS
MM MerchandisingMedia, the licensing, music, and commerce company of ProSiebenSat.1, has launched its investment initiative "SevenBrandVentures" with the content management systems (CMS) of CONTENS......
DPCI blogs
On Opentext's acquisition of NStein
Here is a nice post by Tony Byrne of CMS Watch evaluating the acquisition of NStein by OpenText. I've got a couple of things to add to Tony's concise analysis. From my standpoint, the real value of NStein from OT's perspective has to be the Text Mining Engine (TME) technology as...
How to Create Dynamic InCopy Article Templates Inside of K4
If you need to create templates that look like the actual pages that the articles will eventually end up on, this is the article for you Creating professional InDesign templates is a task that requires great thought and deep insight into the ways that Styles, Master Pages, and Libraries can...
Why don't we teach project management to school kids?
Over my twenty plus year professional career I've spent thousands of hours performing project management duties, teaching others the discipline of project management, or studying, reading and writing about project management to become a better practitioner. In some ways I have innate characteristics that are well suited for the profession...
A Crisis of Identity in the Digital Age
Hi, my name is Craig, and I create content. Between gabbing about industry trends, waxing political, songwriting and recording music, not to mention posting sporadic updates to my status on myriad social networking sites, I am out and about on the WWW. Not as much as some, but of late,...
Just read a blog posted by Dana Blankenhorn on the ZDNet site entitled Open source may be a venture capital dry hole. In the blog, Dana references Dave Rosenberg's blog on open-source acquisitions. That blog, Dave ponders what the hold up is for VC money into the open-source software (OSS)...
Review of article by Bruce Jensen on Folio Magazine's website
Just finished reading a 'trends' article that Bruce Jensen wrote for Folio Magazine. The article is entitled Four Magazine Tech Trends for 2010 and Beyond. I think there's a few other things that publishers should be concerning themselves with in 2010. The first is Semantics -- continuing to enrich their...
Another DAM blog
Recognition for going above and beyond the 'call of duty' is not often rewarded. Sometimes not even mentioned in the workplace. While we don't need a ticker tape parade or gold medals for 'just doing our job', mentioning and/or rewarding real achievements is one way to recognize individual overachievers and...
How many DAM metadata fields do you have?
Your DAM is only as good as its metadata...and the DAM's usability. If you have a Digital Asset Management solution in your organization, how many metadata fields do you have within the DAM? Take this quick, anonymous poll....
Where can I find some DAM jobs?
Despite current economic times, Digital Asset Management (DAM) jobs are listed on a regular basis throughout the United States and the world. While many positions are clustered around major cities, there are often 100+ jobs listed at any one time. So the question is if you have relevant job experience...
What do you use to deduplicate assets?
Continuing on my earlier blog post about deduplication of DAM assets... If you deduplicate assets, what method do you use?...
Do you deduplicate your DAM assets?
Do you deduplicate the assets in your Digital Asset Management (DAM)? Please answer this quick anonymous poll......
How do I avoid duplicate assets in a DAM?
In some cases, organizations have unique file naming conventions, but file names are often created by people, which more often yield not-so-unique file names. One person names a file one way and another person names the exact same file another way because they use it differently or in a different...
CMS Critic - Content Management Reviews
Jaws CMS 0.8.10 has been released
A new release of Jaws CMS is available. Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly,...
ImpressCMS 1.2.1 has been released
A new release of ImpressCMS has been made available. Version 1.2.1 contains a number of fixes to the award winning CMS. Too many to list here, but issues were resolved for these - Control Panel Core Functionalities Design & Templates Installation Process Registration Process Upgrade Process There are a lot more things in this release - you...
WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 released & new project website
After showcasing three release candidates during the last weeks the developer team is proud to present the final and stable release. In WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 several minor bugs have been fixed and some modules have been updated to new versions. Here's an overview about some changes: updated and optimized backend template preparation for multilingual...
CMS Provider pTools Adds Social Media Content Distribution To Its Software
Content Management Software (CMS) provider, pTools, today announced the addition of a range of embedded social media and networking features to its software. From within the pTools CMS, social media content can be easily re-distributed to any site anytime in any format on any social network. A key feature, pTools...
Simple Machines Forum 2.0 RC3 Available
A new release candidate of SMF 2.0 is now available for testing. This is the 3rd release candidate for what will soon become Simple Machines Forum 2.0. Highlights of this release include: Several security-related fixes. Better compatibility with RTL languages. Added curvy headers to loads of tables throughout SMF for the best Curve experience. Fine-tuned conversation...
phpBB gets update to counter security hole caused by introduction of feeds
A security issue was introduced with phpBB 3.07 which allowed users to bypass permission settings if any of the following conditions were met: Feeds are enabled Any of the posts or topics feeds are enabled The unauthorised user - or one of the groups they are a member of - have forum permissions...
BizTechTalk
ECM Stuff: Now AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Practitioner Certified I've known Jed for several years, first met in Aarhus, Denmark in 2007, and have maintained connections through his departure from the UK to Toronto. Sharp fellow, great to hear our Enterprise......
Smashwords - How to Publish on Smashwords Continuing investigating ebook publishing - and the wide variety of tools, oriented towards consumers, authors, commercial venues, academic publications, enterprise use, you name it. It's a confusing market. And to think my accidental......
Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com The # of users of Foursquare is a tiny fraction of the potential users, so let's not get carried away just yet, but for those locations that take advantage......
mite.blog. Facts & figures: The first 20 months of our small SaaS start-up going for premium-only instead of freemium Great writeup by a German SaaS start-up - demonstrating their twist on the freemium model (30-day fully functional trial, instead of......
Global CIO Quick Take: Don't Crown Salesforce Cloud King Just Yet -- Global CIO -- InformationWeek I'm planning a longer take on this, but the succinct take, Salesforce hasn't innovated for quite some time, and their offerings in content management......
Project Shrink Blog
In order to have a “happy project,” a software project manager should respect the flow of the stakes… Stakeholders have stakes. Stakeholders communicate their stakes by expressing their expectations, which are more formally defined by means of requirements to the process or product. Project management should make every stakeholder a winner...
Social Markers. Here I Am, Brain The Size Of A Planet.
“Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction?” Do you know this quote? If you do, we have something in common, we both like the “Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” enough to know some of...
What If Your Project Goal Is… Well… Uhm… Dull?
If your project has a Big Hairy Audacious Goal, one that is life changing, one that makes your existence worthwhile, one that makes you feel powered up like an energizer bunny, it’s almost difficult to be not motivated. Being part of something bigger, using the coolest, latest, state-of-the-art technology will...
Working With An Agile Offshore Team
Dave Prior talks to Thushara Wijewardena from Exilesoft on how to make sure you aren’t the cause of your Agile offshore team failing. Click here if you can’t view the video. Other people who liked this article liked these tooProject Shrink Links 11-02-2008How To Supervise Offshore Development?7 Things You Need To...
Should Transformational Leaders Tweet?
If you spent too much time using social media, don’t worry… it’s legit. You might be working on your next gen leadership skills. Social media will allow you, personally, to develop your social skills, get over fears of online expression and dealing with transparency. By developing your own personal skills, by...
You are stressed out. You are looking for a book that provides you tips on how to deal with the situation. You find two books. “For The Stressed And Overworked And Unprofessional Project Manager” and “The Relaxed PM”. Which title would you pick? Content is the same. The first title might even be...
Persuasive Content
Last week I was proud to be voted onto the board at CM Pros, to join a pretty new board under the presidency of Scott Liewehr to take this respected community of practice organisation forward. It’s something we’ve been talking about for six months or so and one look at...
TfMA Seminar – Content is still King!
Forgive the cheesy title, but yes I gave a presentation at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TfMA) show last week where I talked about the place of content and in web or digital engagement. Or as marketing put it in the show guide synopsis: ”The importance of good content...
On Strategy, Twinterviews and Haiku
I think we can safely say that the last two week have been quite lively for Alterian Content Manager, as after an incubation with partners, customers and analysts we took our product strategy and roadmap to the social web. I’ve tweeted, interviewed, commented, posted and now (finally) blogged our message...
Is Wordpress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?
The perennial “what is a CMS” debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, “I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system.” that many of our CMS community waded into and included this post on CMS Myth arguing in favour and just about...
What’s the big deal about Coke?
It was recently reported in New Media Age, picked up by the Hubspot blog that Coca-Cola were moving their campaign sites from “traditional” websites to social media platforms and they are not alone, Pepsi recently created a stir as they announced a move from big budget Super Bowl ads to...
Joining the Trend for WCM Trends
I’m going to kick off 2010 with a blog post about Web Content Management, enough for now of my wittering on about my place in the social web or even web engagement. Content is still king and as I catch up with three weeks or so of my RSS reader, it...
Digital Landfill
An unplanned horse race between content industry terminology and SharePoint
This morning I inadvertently recently conducted an experiment in ECM industry terminology. [Note: Many of you know that this has been an issue on my mind of late (see Would an ECM Rose by Any Other Name Still Be This Confusing?)] I use Tweetdeck. I have one column that utilizes...
8 Things You Can’t Afford to Ignore About eDiscovery
John Wang is Product Manager for ZL Unified Archive. He has over 15 years of experience in enterprise software, including specialties in eDiscovery, archiving, compliance, information management, and information security. His eDiscovery expertise includes billion document information management and eDiscovery projects. John has led technology innovation and industry best practices...
8 things you need to know about cloud content management
One of the more interesting developments in the content management space in the past few years as the industry "mainstreams" is the development of a wide variety of models for delivery of content management functionality. In addition to the traditional in-house software solutions, the market now includes a host of...
8 Reasons to Consider a Center of Excellence
The author is a consultant with Doculabs, an independent consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations with their ECM strategies. 312-433-7793, www.doculabs.com. Also check out Joe’s blog, “Agile Ramblings,” at http://joeshepley.wordpress.com/, where he regularly publishes his thoughts on organizational design, strategy, process, and technology. [New AIIM information e-book -- FREE...
7 fast facts about the connections between ECM and ERP -- new survey results and webinar
AIIM recently conducted a survey on Connecting ERP and ECM: Measuring the Business Benefits. We'll be talking through the results on a free webinar at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24. Here is the link for registration (free) -- http://www.aiim.org/events/webinar-Integrating-ERP-ECM.aspx. ERP has long reigned supreme as the all-encompassing enterprise application,...
8 Reasons Why You and Your Organization Should (NOT!) Be Afraid of Social Computing
By Brian Kellner, VP of Products, NewsGator Technologies, www.newsgator.com. As VP of Products at NewsGator Technologies, I have come across more instances than I can count of companies wanting the productivity, innovation and collaboration benefits of social computing, but fearing risk (most unfounded) regarding such a solution. There are numerous...
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Google’s Take on the Newspaper Business
Chief Google Economist, Hal Varian, has an interesting post about online and offline newspaper economics on the Google Public Policy blog. Most of the ideas will be familiar if you read Clay Shirky: cross-subsidization of the news; specialized sites drawing away ad revenue; relative cost of production. One point that...
Text Killed the Multi-Media Star
Recently it occurred to me that video and (to some extent audio) has become a less important requirement for most of my web content management clients these days. If I were to extrapolate the interest trend I was seeing back in 2004, I would expect to see the web...
The Open Source Way is a great resource for developers who want to start their own open source project. It is a wiki of lessons learned and best practices gathered primarily from experiences working on the RedHat and Fedora projects. One page that I find particularly interesting is...
Why CMS Vendor Acquisitions are Bad for Customers
It just occurred to me that my recent quotes on Fierce Content Management make me sound like the Statler and Waldorf of the content management industry. I really don’t mean to sound so negative but, from where I sit, software company acquisitions are nearly always bad news. My...
Around thirteen years ago, I helped build a prototype for a custom CRM system that ran on an object database (ObjectStore). The idea isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds. The data was extremely hierarchical with parent companies and subsidiaries and divisions and then people assigned to the...
Publishing Decision Tree V2 Originally uploaded by sggottlieb I just read Philippe Parker’s thoughtful response to Janus Boye’s provocative post “How I use Twitter for Work”. Both these articles, plus my recent experience at PodCamp Western Mass, made me a little more conscious of my strategy and techniques for social media....
New entries at Datamation Product Watch
WebAllow - Force browser to display only selected URLs
WebAllow allows only selected URLs to be displayed in Internet Explorer...
Website Block - Block access to any website on your PC by URL
Block unwanted websites from view in Internet Explorer by web address or keyword...
TextPipe Engine - Industrial strength text transformation DLL
Industrial strength text transformation engine DLL data conversion and mining...
How to Remove Duplicate Songs - How to Remove Duplicate Songs?
How to Remove Duplicate Songs? Delete duplicate songs, Remove duplicate songs !...
MDF Repair - MDF Repair Software for Repairing MDF Files
Free MDF Repair Tool to Repair Corrupt MDF File of MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000...
PowerPointPipe - Search and Replace Microsoft PowerPoint slide
Search and Replace Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, change hyperlinks...
Content Log
A shift in Alfresco Community license to LGPL
First of all, it's my pleasure to recognize Alfresco's 5th birthday. In January 2005, a group of eleven of us started on a fantastic journey from a familiar world, Enterprise Content Management, into an unfamiliar one, Open Source. During this......
At the recent AIIM Board Meeting that I attended this month, AIIM President John Mancini asked us to blog using the number 8. Why 8? Because no one else is using that number and AIIM can brand around it. So......
CMIS one year on - soon in public review
Autumn marks the new school year, business year and CMIS year It's that time again. Autumn and the new school year and we are about to take another major step with CMIS, the Content Management Interoperability Services proposed standard at......
Professional Open Source Software
I am constantly asked about why we put our software out as open source. Is it some sort of altruism? Communism? People who have worked with proprietary platforms may not be familiar with open source and its implications or the......
New Alfresco 3.2 was designed for the Great Recession
Back at the height of the market downturn in October, we looked at how Alfresco should address the rapidly changing economic situation. Rather than being pessimistic, we believed that this was a real opportunity for us. Times like these wipe......
I have been researching the origins of open source recently and realized that I had missed an important anniversary last year. On a very rainy day in early February 1998, a group of people very familiar with free software met......