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Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity Reassesses Its CRM Needs With Zuhlke Engineering
Consultation addresses 10 year old system that struggles with 35,000 transactions per day
Zuhlke Engineering, a premier provider of software engineering services, has applied its expertise gained from working with key City financial institutions to enable the hospital’s charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC) to create a world-class charity customer relationship management system.
CMS Expo 2012 coming to Chicago this May
On May 8th, 9th, and 10th you and I have the opportunity to attend 2012 CMS Expo which is held once a year in Chicago. This event is billed as ta CMS "Learning & Business" conference showcasing some of the world's leading Content Management Systems and the people who power them.
Generis Survey of CMS Plans - 2012
Generis has completed our 2012 survey of CMS plans and requirements. We had many more responses this year than last, with over 60 companies responding. While far from being a comprehensive, scientific study, it shows some interesting trends compared to 2011, while companies continue to suffer some of the same challenges with their existing CMS platforms.
Top Five Trends In Ecommerce Web Design
dotCommerce: Attention-grabbing ecommerce web design trends are constantly evolving and adapting to new ways of communication like smart phones, tablets and netbooks. Depending on the purpose and requirements, basic design elements like typography, navigation and colour schemes vary from site to site but all of them have functionality in common.
Next Tiki Webinar to Highlight Recently Updated Tiki 8 Features
On February 16, the Tiki Community will present the second in the year-long webinar series. Long-time Tiki Community members and contributors from Citadel Rock Online Communities Inc. will show a newly developed Tiki site that takes advantage of several features introduced in Tiki 8 including the Unified Search and advanced Tracker techniques.
Following the demo, a developer-led discussion will explore several new features planned for upcoming Tiki releases. This is your chance for a sneak-preview of what's coming in Tiki 9! For complete details on the February webinar, see http://tiki.org/February+2012+Webinar .
Rich customer journeys across multiple devices drives Braintree District Council's selection of Jadu's Universe web content management and mobile platform
Braintree District Council has announced a partnership with leading UK technology company Jadu to transform its current website and create a new mobile solution.
Jadu specialise in the design and development of rich web experiences that support websites, intranets and extranets and mobile web applications. Their UK clients include more than 50 local Councils, Directgov (Government Digital Service), the universities of Leeds and Northampton and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Hippo CMS in the Cloud, a step-by-step tutorial
Hippo CMS is a Java open source web content management system that enables a true, open and context-aware content strategy. It is targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like, web sites and intranets. This one is also very easy to deploy to Jelastic!
Kentico Recognizes Discover Ireland as the Site of the Year 2011
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, February 1, 2012 – Kentico Software (www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, has announced the Kentico Site of the Year 2011 Award winners. The Discover Ireland website, implemented by Kentico Certified Partner Tibus, was chosen as the global winner of the contest.
For the novice: 7 Content Management Systems
A website content management system (CMS) is software used to effectively manage the content of your website. A CMS helps website administrator to ‘upload’, ‘edit’ and ‘add’ content without any knowledge of web programming. Content management systems offers a range of benefits to website administrator and due to this they are highly popular among web community.
There are many CMSs on the market but you need to select the one based on your needs. If you are going to use a CMS for the first time, we recommend you choose a user-friendly CMS that does not add any kind of complexity on your part.
What follows is a list of what I believe to be the seven best web content management systems for novices:
WordPress
If you are a small business or a blogger, WordPress is an ideal choice for you. WordPress CMS software is developed by hundreds of community members and it includes a number of themes and plug-ins for appealing and effective website design.
Joomla
Joomla CMS is widely used in web applications as well as website development. Due to its user-friendliness and flexibility, it is amongst the most popular CMS on the market today. Joomla CMS is open source software thus available for free download to all.
Drupal
Drupal is open source website CMS software and It is used to create a wide verities of sites from a small scale personal blogging websites to large-scale community websites.
TERMINALFOUR Helps Derby City Council Bring Essential Public Services Online
TERMINALFOUR, a leading web content management company, today announced that its web content management solution (WCM) is being used by Derby City Council to deliver greater online services to citizens 24x7 and improve overall online communications.
Liferay Introduces Liferay Sync with Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities
Liferay Sync synchronizes content across mobile, desktop, and web
LOS ANGELES — (February 1, 2012) — Liferay, Inc., provider of the world’s leading enterprise-class open source portal, announced today the availability of Liferay Sync, a powerful document-sharing add-on to the Community Edition (CE) of Liferay Portal 6.1. Liferay Sync transforms the Liferay platform into a central, easy-to-use document sharing service.
Quoting IT: Blogging is not a Business
"There are people who can call a blog as their business. In this case, their revenue is mainly from ad sales on their blog. But, that is not a very sustainable or long term business approach you should have. Your online business must solve a person’s problem."
- Marieke Hensel, Why Blogging is Not a Viable Business Mode", Branding Personality, January 30, 2012
Four Things to Consider to Ensure the Sustainability of your Content Management Investment
2012 may indeed be the “Year of Web Content.” Actually, so was 2011, 2010, 2009… But this article on the Forbes Marketwatch blog describes how some big brands are attacking content marketing and content curation to help fulfill their brand promise.
Amongst content management insiders, there has been an ongoing acronym war over what the technology systems should be called that help companies manage their content online -- which quite frankly, end users care very little about.
At the end of the day, the companies mentioned in the Forbes article, and countless others, want to use content to engage with their customers and prospects to drive their business goals. And they want their content technologies to help them achieve those goals, not get in the way--regardless of what it’s called.
However there’s a growing disconnect between what’s expected and what’s actually being delivered when it comes to implementing those content systems and the associated costs. Increasingly, companies are questioning what capabilities (or lack of) they’re receiving from their web content systems investments. As well as, what additional costs of services they’ll need to incur to support, maintain and upgrade what becomes a very complex, highly customized system.
According to a post by The Real Story Group this past spring, web content management system implementation costs have risen to 7-8 times the cost of software licensing. Perhaps most galling to buyers, the increased ratios are simply stipulated as a fact that buyers should just prepare for. We have heard some form of the following countless times:
Systems are becoming more complex, and to deploy complex systems, it takes time, and your services dollars, and that’s ok.
My 1.5 seconds of fame on CMS Connected
With a smile on his face, Scott Liewehr sent me a tweet the other day letting me know that he briefly plugged my name while co-hosting CMS-Connected. CMS-Connected is a 60-minute monthly news show, streamed live on the TPN Network with a focus on the web content management industry and includes CMS related news and commentary from leading CMS expert analysts and participating guests. It's a very good video production and well worth your viewing time if you have any interest in content management.
My "plug" on CMS-Connected can be found about 41 minutes and 30 seconds into the January show, Web CMS Industry 2011 Year In Review. This video also includes host Tyler Pyburn and Seth Gottlieb as guest. The inside joke is that Scott didn't intend to mention my name, but was referring to Acquia's VP of Marketing, Bryan House. I've met Bryan a few times and lets just say he deserves better recognition than to be confused with me. Luckily, Scott caught himself and it didn't take him long to give Mr. House his proper dues.
My 1.5 seconds of fame put a smile on my face because it is a reminder to me that people with a passion for content management are drawn together for a reason. I've always said that a content management system is more than a product. If you don't get that a CMS is also about people, business, and information systems you'll never understand the power of a CMS. People like Scott Liewehr and Deane Barker get this.
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