CMS Report featured at Alltop

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Alltop, all the top stories

A month ago, I started observing an increase in traffic from a relatively new aggregation site called Alltop.  CMS Report is now being featured in Alltop's content management page which is dedicated to "all the top content management news".  Alltop recently expanded the number of topics they cover and I surmise that content management is one of those new topics.   While there are already a number of news aggregation sites referring their readers back to CMSReport.com (and if you're one of them...we thank you), Alltop is special.     

What makes Alltop so special? First of all, the site is a project associated with Guy Kawasaki.  Guy Kawasaki has a history with Apple but he is one of those successful IT guys with so much confidence in himself that his time at Apple alone doesn't define him.  If you check out his blog on a regular basis you'll come to understand what I'm trying to write here.

Secondly, Alltop is special because it was developed by a neighbor, Electric Pulp.  Electric Pulp is based in my city, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  I don't know what it is, but there seems to be a lot of successful tech companies with national presence to be found in Sioux Falls.  Go figure that one out.

Augustana College using Drupal

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Augustana College, a United States college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is using Drupal.  According to Augustana's Web Editor the site was developed by Tim Broeker of Electric Jet (Mnpls) using Drupal 5.  Electric Pulp, a local Sioux Falls company, also contributed to the project by doing the design and CSS work.

I don't think I've ever met Tim Broeker, but what is interesting about this Drupal site developer is that he also has a Joomla! Core Team connection.  Yes indeed, open source does matter.

Screenshot of Augie.edu

 

Aaron Mentele: The good touch / bad touch of small business growth

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"I was a freelance web developer once (both full- and part-time.) I remember my 1-person thing being exceptionally uncomplicated. Project work was easy to find, and money wasn’t my key motivator. I did it because I enjoyed it.

Eight years later (today,) I co-own a 10-person thing called Electric Pulp. As much as I prefer the new thing to the old, it’s far less uncomplicated (that was a double negative for anyone keeping count.)

Local Sioux Falls company does Feed Rinse

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The local newspaper for Sioux Falls, SD contains an article about an online service called Feed Rinse. The service "can rinse your feeds by keyword, author, tag, etc, or filter profanity and more." According to the article, the service is making national headlines on their Feed Rinse product. I've never used the service, so I can't really give it thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Some excerpts from the Argus Leader:

Blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick said of FeedRinse: "A very nice feature that we don't have to hack and work around to make happen anymore."

The Associated Press dispatched a favorable review this week. Technology writer Brian Bergstein said, "I can see where the site could be a little simpler to use, but for the most part, it was clean, easy to figure out and worked as advertised."

That review appeared on dozens of prominent Web sites, including washingtonpost.com and ABC.com.

Ok so it may be a great product, but I think many reading the newspaper still do not quite get what a Web Feed is exactly. The following is a little bit of my explanation on what a Web feed is all about.

RSS Feed Synbol

You've probably seen this symbol on the left posted on Web pages. That symbol is considered a "community mark" for letting everyone know that the Web site offers a Web feed (though I like to call them News Feeds). You may also see other symbols that contain either RSS or XML. These too are symbols to show that a Web Feed is available. If you click the icon your browser will be forwarded to a page with a lot of programming code that may not make a lot of sense to you. This source code contains the Web Feed for CMSReport's own headlines.