Acquia: "What do media companies really need to take their websites to the next level? With social media came an influx of blogs, wikis, and forums in the media market - but many lacked real strategy or commitment to the success of the cause. Marketers certainly "get" the value of community, but in looking across so many sites in the industry, media brands could be doing so much more to strengthen their brand equity through their sites."
A couple days ago, I posted CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009. The articles listed were ranked by popularity based by how many times viewed and the rate that they were viewed through the year. Popular stories do not always signify well written articles or are always an indication of personal favorites. Each year, I write a number of content management or IT related articles that I love but for various reasons you the people didn't have interest in reading and sharing.
Below are some of my favorite articles written in 2009 that were not a part of the previously posted Top Ten list. If I had a Top 20 Stories list the articles in both of these listings would be included.
The level of interest in content management systems astounds me. Each year, I continue to see at CMS Report an increase of visitors looking for information on content management. Our stories tend to focus on open source CMS more than proprietary applications and evidently that's the subject matter that our readers want to read.
Below are the top ten stories of 2009 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. As you can see, stories involving Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Alfresco, and Nuxeo took center stage. These stories might not have been the ten I would have personally picked for this list, but I'll respect the numbers behind their ranking.
The interest in Nuxeo took me by surprise and I'll be adding the CMS to my top 30 CMS Focus page as time allows. As always, our thanks to all those who continue to return to this site to read the stories, join in on the conversation, and even submit articles. As I've said before, I'm not sure we would be doing this if it wasn't for the interest shown by others visiting the site.
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CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
JoomlaShack - JoomlaShack offers Joomla! templates and custom services. If you are looking for a reliable quality template at an affordable price, JoomlaShack is the right place to visit.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
etonDigital - etonDigital crafts custom social networks for Business and Alumni Communities, Members, Friends, Associations or any other social/professional networking group.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives.
Sitecore - The Sitecore CMS allows you to create rich interactive websites, easily. It scales to meet virtually any need.
Not long ago, Acquia announced a new product/service called Drupal Gardens. In the announcement, Dries Buytaert gave his description of Drupal Gardens.
For those who have not heard about Acquia Gardens, this product will provide an easy on-ramp for people to experience the awesome power of Drupal without having to worry about installation, hosting and upgrading. Think of it as Wordpress.com or Ning for Drupal. Think of it as 'Drupal as a service'.
Acquia continues to slowly give additional information on what can be expect from Drupal Gardens. The latest post on the company's website includes a preview screencast of Acquia's new service.
Our sponsors are simply an amazing group. Without their financial support the ability and incentive for hosting this site would be much less. If you like what you read at CMSReport.com, we encourage you to also pay a visit to the websites of our sponsors. We are actually a little bit choosy on the sponsors we allow on this site by making sure they provide content management related services and products that we ourselves would be interested in too.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, you can purchase banner space at this site either through Google's ad services or through BuySellAds. Sponsorship helps us pay for the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
JoomlaShack - JoomlaShack offers Joomla! templates and custom services. If you are looking for a reliable quality template at an affordable price, JoomlaShack is the right place to visit.
Interspire - InterspireWebsite Publisher is a content management system which makes it easy for non-technical users to create and maintain fully functional websites. Over 5,000 customers are using our software to power their websites and applications.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Microsoft - Microsoft has been advertising their enterprise search capabilities as well as their new version of Internet Explorer, IE8.
pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives.
The month of July brought a big change to how we do sponsorship here at CMSReport.com. We removed the text link advertisements due to some of our sponsors using the service more for search engine optimization than true advertisement of their products. The goal for making this change is to pull in higher quality sponsors here at CMSReport.com. We think we can achieve this goal by only allowing advertisement via quality ad services such as Google's ad services and BuySellAds.
CMS Report took a financial hit because of this change, but with your help we'll recover. If you or your company produces a CMS or social media related product, please consider helping us out via the purchase of ad space. Sponsorship helps us pay the bills from our host provider, internet service provider, and any software or hardware needed to support CMSReport.com.
CMS Report wants to thank our current sponsors for their support.
Acquia - Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build sophisticated community websites.
Interspire - InterspireWebsite Publisher is a content management system which makes it easy for non-technical users to create and maintain fully functional websites. Over 5,000 customers are using our software to power their websites and applications.
CMS themer - CMS themer is a professional theming service catered to designers, developers and web companies who do not have the time or expertise to theme a CMS based on an existing website or design.
CMS Report also wants to thank these enthusiastic Google Adsense advertisers.
Artisteer - Artisteer provides Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique website templates and blog themes. Design WordPress Blogs, professional Joomla! and Drupal templates, and cool Website designs in minutes
Ektron - Ektron provides a complete platform with all of the functionality necessary to create, deploy, and manage your Web site.
Kentico - Kentico CMS for ASP.NET - flexible, all-in-one solution for web developers.
Microsoft - Microsoft has been advertising their enterprise search capabilities as well as their new version of Internet Explorer, IE8.
pTools - pTools Enterprise Web Content Management Software delivers powerful intranet, extranet and Internet solutions for critical business initiatives