One of the first sessions I attended at CMS Expo was a presentation focused entirely on Telerik's Sitefinity CMS. The most significant features Sitefinity has to offer is a Mobile Web option which uses responsive design. However, it was Sitefinity's usability features and widgets that impressed me most which attracted me most.
Contensis signs money-saving agreement with Manchester councils
In this age of austerity, Contensis has signed a money-saving agreement with public authorities in Greater Manchester.
The framework agreement with AGMA – the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities – could see possibly up to 18 councils and other local public bodies signing-up to use the Contensis web content management system.
Public procurement is an expensive business and when Government is trying to improve efficiency and make saving throughout the public sector, framework agreements are one area which can help.
CMS Expo: Telerik Sitefinity CMS Flyover
One of the first sessions I attended at CMS Expo was a presentation focused entirely on Telerik's Sitefinity CMS. The most significant features Sitefinity has to offer is a Mobile Web option which uses responsive design. However, it was Sitefinity's usability features and widgets that impressed me most which attracted me most.
SilverStripe helps win a presidential election; this time in France
François Hollande won the presidential election in France last week, with the help of an impressive campaign and content management system SilverStripe. In the month before the election, the site had three million unique visitors and ranked 15th most visited information site in France.
OpenCms Days 2012 - Call for papers still open!
OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
Conference Program - First topics have been fixed
Experts from around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. The first sessions of the conference program are already fixed and give an overview on the multiplicity of OpenCms 8. Nevertheless we are still looking for session proposals, bringing up project-reports and experiences around OpenCms 8.
Kentico Introduces Integration with Jigsaw in the New Data.com Connector
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, May 10, 2012 – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced today integration of their Enterprise marketing Solution (EMS) with Jigsaw’s database, the world's largest database of complete contact and company information. The Kentico Data.com Connector enables website to easily importation contacts’ details into Kentico EMS.
dotCMS 2.0 Improves Java-based Web Content Management
dotCMS, an open source, Java-based web content management system, is pleased to announce the release of v2.0. This latest release continues dotCMS’s pursuit of providing one the most scalable, powerful and easy-to-use web content management platforms in the marketplace today. No spin or catchy titles, just good, meaningful tools and functionality for both commercial-grade and multi-tenant content driven web applications.
“dotCMS 2.0 is our response to the on-the-ground, real needs of both business users and developers,” announced Will Ezell, CTO of dotCMS. “We have exciting plans for the 2 series, which will continue to rapidly improve upon our already robust enterprise content platform”.
MODX Revolution 2.2.2 Released
Jay Gilmore tweeted me this morning to be sure that I made a note of the latest version of MODX Revolution that was released a couple days ago. MODX Revolution 2.2.2 includes a number of important fixes, some performance improvements, and two new wizards to make it easier to create User and Resource Groups in the CMS.
If you're using MODX Revolution and have not upgraded to 2.2, you will find that it has been one of biggest releases for the MODX folks to date. There were also notable improvements and enhancements included in Revolution 2.2.1.
Some of the highlights in the MODX Revolution 2.2.2 release:
- New wizards for creating User and Resource Groups
- xPDO change to improve performance, specifically with getResources
- Upgrades from command line no longer require all settings in the config file
- Added User duplication for the easy creation of Users and to preserve settings
- New prompt to login to regain access to work in progress after timeout
- Improvement to URL handling
- Further performance enhancements via xPDO method changes.
For further details, please read the release announcement found at MODX.com. MODX Revolution can be downloaded via the MODX download page.
Tiki Releases 8.4
The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 8.4. This release, with more than 150 code contribution by eight Tiki Community members, includes several fixes and updates.
Among the new features are:
- Several new, detailed user permissions
- Support for stateful SOAP sessions
- UI enhancements
You can refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 and the Tiki 8.4 Release Notes for details.
This is the last planned release of the Tiki 8.x branch. Tiki Administrators using the 8.x version are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release, and then to Tiki 9.0 when it become available.
For information on these releases and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap. You can obtain Tiki 8.4 (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download .
Kentico Introduces the SalesForce Connector for Integration with Salesforce.com
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, May 3, 2012 – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced the integration of their Enterprise Marketing Solution (EMS) with Salesforce.com, the world’s most popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM). The Kentico SalesForce Connector enables website contacts to replicate into your SalesForce organization as leads.
XOOPS 2.5.5 Final Released
The XOOPS Project is proud to present XOOPS 2.5.5. This release is focused on fixing open bugs and on updating external libraries to their latest versions:
- phpMailer 5.2.1,
- TinyMCE 3.4.9,
- jQuery 1.7.2,
- jQueryUI 1.8.18,
- HTML Purifier 4.4.0,
- phpThumb 1.7.11,
- jGrowl 1.2.6
It also included security fixes, and therefore it is recommended for all XOOPS users to update to this version.
The main features of XOOPS are full modularization where modules can be installed/uninstalled/activated/deactivated with a mouse click, its versatile Group Permissions System, and a theme-based skinnable interface, where both webmasters and users can change the look of the entire website with just a click of a mouse. There are over thousand of themes and modules available for free download. With the most popular modules like News, Discussion Forums, Photo Galleries, Calendars, Jobs and Classifieds, Polls, and Video presentations, it’s very easy for anyone to set up a “Community Website”. And since XOOPS is Open Source, the users can also contribute back to the development.
In the current economic downturn, Open Source software has become increasingly attractive to users and companies, as well as to governments, as it helps them to save a lot of money.
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