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I-Metrics CMS

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The I-Metrics CMS is a complete web content management system that can be used for start-up businesses, blogs, personal sites. It includes advanced features to create, group and associate text pages and image lists, effective SEO modules, a plugin manager, a helpdesk and various tools to manage a webiste.

The base web engine of the I-Metrics CMS is osCommerce MS2.2 simplified and striped of e-commerce features. The package is extremely light, very easy to learn and expand, suitable to both novice and advanced web-developer.

The website part of the framework consists of very few files easy to understand and use even for people with little programming knowledge. Thanks to the simplicity of the MS2.2 engine customizations can take place directly into the core files or for an advanced developer who prefers object oriented programming, additional functionality can take place via the plugins manager.

The build-in plugins manager is independent of the core functionality. Individual plugins can take advantage of the core functions or implement their own.

The latest releases of this package can be found in sourceforge.net and there is an online demonstration of the package at demos.asymmetrics.com

Full Exposure: CMS Expo Helps You Choose the CMS That’s Right for Your Business

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Wordpress. Joomla. Drupal. Plone. Choosing between the top content management systems is something every business with a web presence must do eventually, so wouldn't it be nice to compare them side by side at your leisure and then learn the ins and outs of each from acknowledged experts? CMS Expo, coming May 3-5 to Evanston, IL, lets you do all that and more. This unique conference allows aficionados of the top four content management systems to come together under one roof to share best practices, make new ones, and, of course, convince those on the fence to choose their CMS over the other three.

The guest list for CMS Expo 2010 reads like a who's who in the CMS world: Mitch Pirtle, Chris Coyier, Dries Buytaert, Alan Runyan, Ben Bassi, Ryan Ozimek and more, all together at one conference dedicated to improving all four CMSs. The conference offers seven tracks: Business, Foundations, Power, Joomla!, Drupal, Wordpress and Plone so that business owners familiarizing themselves with the CMS world and web professionals looking to push the boundaries of that world can collaborate under one roof and share their expertise with like-minded individuals from across the CMS spectrum.

Whether you represent a growing small business, a thriving nonprofit, a savvy educational institution or any other organization looking to streamline its web operations with a content management system, CMS Expo is your chance to pick the brains of the pros of each of the three major CMSs on the web today.

FancyCMS has released its Free Flash CMS

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The FancyCMS team is proud to announce the release of its highly awaited free open source core.

FancyCMS is a brand new product on the flash CMS market and the release of an open source core allows to take the inner view to the software capabilities. We invite developers to try our free flash CMS in action and submit their feedbacks.

Main features of FancyCMS free core:

- Rich content pages with 2-level menus and support for different media files;
- Flash blog solution with the ability to moderate comments;
- 100% Seo Friendly website, deep linking;
- Ability to change site skins & plug your own flash sites to FancyCMS engine;
- Flash e-commerce.

To enlarge your experience with the product, we are giving out two FancyCMS premium templates as a free additon to the core.

You can get the full information at our website: http://fancycms.com

Kentico Announces the MVP Award Program

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Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, March 16, 2010 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announces the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, which is a one year industry recognition given to individuals based on their community participation and evangelistic activities in the CMS and .NET communities. 

“Kentico MVP’s are passionate about the tools and technologies of Kentico, .Net and the CMS community worldwide,“ says Thom Robbins, Product Evangelist at Kentico.

The very first person to be honored with the Kentico Most Valuable (MVP) Award is Richard Pendergast for his exceptional contributions to the Kentico community, represented especially by the Kentico Developer magazine he founded and manages.

“I feel very honored,“ says Richard Pendergast, Kentico Developer Magazine Director and founder. “This award means a great deal to me. Respecting and admiring so many of the Kentico partners I work with, means that to be singled out from amongst such a talented group feels like a really big deal. I look forward to taking advantage of this opportunity and working even more closely with the wider Kentico community.”

Who really defines what is a CMS?

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You do.

I'm more convinced than ever that CMS experts aren't really in the driver's seat when defining the content management system. Experts in the field of content management are more or less observant passengers that are there to help you not get lost and to point out the significant landmarks on the way. This journey takes you to places while you the customer remain in the driver seat with all the privileges and responsibilities of being the driver.

Over the past few years I've realized that my work preference is to keep things as simple as possible. Sometimes when defining information systems keeping things simple works while other times the system is new and remains too complicated to define. Thanks to my reply in a productive rant against CMS by Laurence Hart I'm not only understanding my aversion to being called a CMS expert but also my philosophy and role in defining what is a CMS. This personal philosophy is developing...

Scott Abel convinced me a few years ago on my own blog that the definition of a CMS is never static and always changing. We’re chasing our own tail when we get nit picky in our definitions of a CMS. Somewhere in all the marketing that has been done for terms such as CMS, ECM, and WCM…we have forgotten the difference between information system and information technology.