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5 Tips for a Better User Experience on Your Site

Eric Brown — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:28:00 -0500

Any good web publisher knows that it isnt just content that keep readers reading and coming back for more. Just as important as quality, relevant content, a bad website design will drive your audience away before they get through the door. Without some sound design tactics you end up putting a lot of work into publishing for maybe a couple of unique visitors a day. If you are attempting to get opt-ins and generate revenue from your site and you miss some key design tips you are going to suffer and your ROI will go down the drain. But just how do you design a clean, concise layout that is logical but also aids in producing results? Weve got 5 tips to help you in your endeavorsand none of them require a separate manual to interpret.

EPiServer Expands Euro Opps with Finish Bureau

Barb Mosher — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:00 -0500

Continuing it's expansion into the Nordic Market, EPiServer has announced it's newest office now opened in Finland. They are a provider of web content management based on the Microsoft.Net platform. Although it's their first Finnish office, they are not new to the market, having a number of existing customers and several partners located there for the last two years. "Finland is a natural next step for us and we see great possibilities for a quick expansion. We stand by our established sales process via our partner network, which allows us to keep our focus as a product company," says Peter Larsson, CEO at EPiServer. The work EPiServer has done has proven that Finland is very similar in needs to the rest of the Nordic market. Areas including accessibility and the need to provide e-services that integrate with back-end systems are key to business-based websites. In addition, EPiServer has recognized a trend towards more up-to-date content by a wider range of editors -- something that speaks volumes to the needs for a CMS. This is EPiServer second office opening announcement in the last couple of weeks. At the end of April, they announced a new hosting office in Sweden. Early in April they also announced the acquisition of Netstar, a community platform provider. It would appear they are driving forward, strengthening existing markets and offering new integrated services that should help push their Web CMS further into European organizations.

How Design Impacts the Bottom Line

Marisa Peacock — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:10:00 -0500

On a whole, the art of Web design has begun to be better understood as a necessity in the world of ecommerce and content management. After all, content is only as good as its design and vice versa. Once viewed as something that made your site look pretty but had little significance to the bottom line, web design is now considered an integral part of a site's success.

Study Reveals Digital Media Growth Abounds

Marisa Peacock — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:42:00 -0500

Gilbane Group Inc. an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987 has announced the general release of Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Growth, Trends, and Best Practices, a comprehensive study of the growing market for digital editions of periodical publications. Before we divulge the results of the study, let's take a moment to make an educated guess about what revolutionary information could have been gathered about newspapers and their online counterparts. Would it reveal, per chance, that more people than not are reading the news online? Or perhaps that more technology publishers are going online and abandoning print? What about advertising revenue? could it be that it's more lucrative online?

Introducing Easy File Sharing With Drop.io

Maria M. Diaz — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:56:00 -0500

Following in the great web 2.0 tradition of having a cute name and throwing some awesome launch parties, New York based Drop.Io has started to make a splash on the scene after receiving their second round of funding in March and opening themselves up to the public. The question remains however, what exactly is the site and why should we sign up for yet another 2.0 service?

Blinkx Gets Rosy for Video Content Management

Barb Mosher — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:18:00 -0500

Ahh, our insatiable need to spend hours viewing online video, whether it be our favorite episode of The Family Guy, or that hilarious commercial on YouTube. Yes we definitely are a world of watchers. And organizations are getting smarter everyday figuring how to use this vice to their advantage. Online video search engine provider, blinkx, aims to help those organizations by providing the blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a video content management solution that will "unlock the potential of video assets and maximize their monetization".

What's in your Xobni?

Marisa Peacock — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:45:00 -0500

When Xobni was formed in 2006 by two graduate students, it sought to improve, enhance and otherwise fix Microsoft Outlook. Now, it's taking its efforts even further with a new tool that plugs into Outlook. Their software, free and downloadable, indexes all the e-mail in Outlook and makes those messages easily searchable and readily available.

CM Pros to Host 2008 Spring Summit

David Dahlquist — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:33:00 -0500

West coast CMSers, it's time to get yo' summit on. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars have announced that the 2008 CM Pros U.S. Spring Summit will take place on June 17, in conjunction with the fourth Annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference which is June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The summit will offer attendees an in-depth forum for discussing the business and technical side of managing and delivering dynamic content.

A Multilingual Deki Wiki for Mozilla

Marisa Peacock — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:00:00 -0500

No matter how you say it, MindTouch has announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki "Jay Cooke" v8.05. Driven in part by the requirements of Mozilla, which selected MindTouch for the upcoming re-launch of their Mozilla Developer Community, the open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform known for its innovations in internationalization/localization, search and user experience, has aimed its sights on revolutionizing multilingual content management.

List Websites by Audience Demographics with Quantcast

John Conroy — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:03:05 -0500

Quantcast this week launches a service which enables searching of websites according to key readership demographics. The new facility enables marketers to enter a list of demographic parameters, and returns a list of websites whose readership matches those criteria. As an example, if a marketer is targeting black male readers, over 40, with an income over $60,000, then Quantcasts new service serves up a list of websites which attracts that audience, and also tells you whether or not the site accepts advertising. Better yet, the service is free. Just sign up and target away.

Away From Print Towards A Better Life Online

Marisa Peacock — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:41:00 -0500

Can print media survive the transition to the Internet? It's an awkward question at best, whose answer has seemed quite dismal over the past year. But now, with a struggling economy and fledgling print audience, International Data Group (IDG) has sought a probable answer.

GoogleReader Challenges Others like FriendFeed

Eric Brown — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:59:00 -0500

Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, Note in Reader, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already. Can Google compete?

Virtualization - What Does the Next Generation Look Like?

David Dahlquist — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:35:00 -0500

Virtualization has been taking the IT field by storm, but where is it headed? The theme of November's 4th International Virtualization Conference and Expo is "The Next Generation of Virtualization". They are welcoming submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not just on how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is altering the way businesses run IT in a fundamental way.

The Computing Cloud Gets a Little Bigger with Mosso

Maria M. Diaz — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:40:00 -0500

Rackspace's cloud computing provider Mosso announced they were introducing an Internet based storage solution called CloudFS as a complement to their recently launched, The Hosting Cloud. CloudFS is poised to be a competitor to Amazon S3 and Google Apps.

Mainsoft Puts a Little Bit of SharePoint in Lotus Notes

Barb Mosher — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 -0500

Seems like it was only yesterday we were talking about IBM introducing a Quickr Content Integrator that will help move organizations away from SharePoint. Oh, right it was yesterday... Today, we see that IBM may actually be wise enough to tackle the SharePoint challenge from both ends. Another IBM partner is helping to bridge the integration gap with SharePoint. The partner -- Mainsoft. The solution -- SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. If you are one those organizations that has a mixed technology environment -- and you are not alone -- this solution will go a long way to help.

Who Reads Technology Blogs? A Dirty Analysis of Reader Demographics

John Conroy — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:25:34 -0500

What's the typical audience composition for a Technology blog? We didn't know, so we vowed that we would move mountains to find out. But several months with a shovel in the Sierra Nevadas produced little in the way of usable data. And so we moved on to Plan B, and sought out the services of the Quantcast website metrics gathering service.

The Bug Squad Helps Launch Joomla 1.5.3 Early

Eric Brown — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Joomla, one of the foremost names in open source web content management is upping the bar for the competition. The early release of Joomla v1.5.3 comes on the tail of one of their major competitors, Drupal, having been named in Webwares Top 100 last week. Is Joomla responding to being left out?

IBM's Quickr Woos Would be MOSS Users

Barb Mosher — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:00:00 -0500

CMSWire spends a fair amount of time bringing you news and information about products or services that help you integrate SharePoint data into your other systems. It's pretty rare to find a vendor who doesn't want to integrate with Microsoft's flagship CMS system. If there was ever to be one though, it should come as no surprise that IBM is that vendor. The newest release of their Collaboration software, Quickr, comes with a content integrator tool designed to help organizations move away from the dreaded viral software that SharePoint is fast becoming to the software company that use to claim that "viral" title.

Deacom Mixes ERP and Document Management

David Dahlquist — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:40:00 -0500

Deacom, a North American producer of integrated accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has added a document linker to their DEACOM Integrated Accounting and ERP Software System. The document linker is an extension to the DEACOM electronic document management system, allowing manufacturers to link an indefinite number of transactional documents to their respective transactions for easy access in a single ERP system.

It's Time to Head off to Camp - WordCamp That Is

Eric Brown — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:00:00 -0500

Remember when you were a kid and you spent the summer at camp, lying in the sun, hiking, grilling and just plain having fun? Or maybe you just wished you were one of those kids. Here's a camp that doesn't have the sunbathing, hiking or grilling. No, this camp is nothing like that at all. This is WordCamp. And the fun? Well, that's completely up to you.

Check It Out: A Free Content Delivery Network

Maria M. Diaz — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:14:00 -0500

Coming off the heels of recently announced low cost and free hosted web application services such as Amazon's S3 and Google Apps, UK based digital asset delivery network Velocix have announced that they are releasing the world's first free content delivery network called Velocix Accelerator, currently in private Beta.

Are Your Website Metrics Reliable?

Gerry McGovern — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:17:38 -0500

Not only do many websites have unreliable metrics; they're usually measuring the wrong things.

Weekly Roll Up - Top Stories, Memes and Moments

Marisa Peacock — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:49:54 -0500

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

Highlights of the Week

* Socialtext 3.0 - New Ways to Share Information in the Enterprise. Getting users to actually utilize wikis in a meaningful way. * EMC Provides OEM Developers with a new Toolset. Providing everything a developer needs to build content rich software. * Alfresco Quietly Releases Latest Enterprise Edition. Giving the gamers a CMS that goes beyond regular content management. * WordPress Gets an Overhaul with 2.5. Aiming to offer better functionality and continues the ease of use tradition -- all in a more aesthetically pleasing packaging that works better for you. * Yahoo's Going Open Social With a SearchMonkey. Unlocking another social network. Wee! * eTouch Losens Global Tongues with Latest Wiki Build. With Enterprise 2.0 collaboration in focus, this release carries a few goodies that may make your team smile.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldnt get enough of -- if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So what was your fancy? Popular CMS, and a whole mess of Sharepoint! * How They Hack Your Website: Overview of Common Techniques * Web Content Management with SharePoint MOSS 2007 (Part 1) * Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati's Top 100 * Is Ning The Next Facebook or MySpace?

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SDL Tridion Bolsters APAC Ops

David Dahlquist — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:00:00 -0500

SDL Tridion, a Dutch provider of Web Content Management software solutions is strengthening its market presence in the Asia Pacific with a new office in Tokyo and a new VP of Sales Asia Pacific and Middle East to help spearhead regional growth.