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Launched recently is the new .NET CMS from Media Courtyard, currently in its second beta stage and due for final release over the coming months.

What makes this .NET CMS stand out is its use of the new Microsoft Silverlight 3 plugin which gives content editors an easy to use WYSIWYG interface.

The beta version can be freely downloaded and installed on a shared server to keep costs low.  In terms of features it has all the usual CMS functionality such as page metadata, indexed search, dynamic news/rss generation, membership and a whole lot more.

The beta version and documentation can be found at www.mediacourtyard.com.

Regional council using Elcom’s enterprise content management and web design platform to improve online service delivery and simplify access to information

Sydney, Australia (June 22, 2009) – Tamworth Regional Council (www.tamworth.nsw.gov.au) is rebuilding its website with the help of Sydney-based enterprise content management company Elcom in an effort to improve its service delivery and offer better information resources to its customers.

Using Elcom’s CommunityManager.NET development environment, the new website will allow for certain services – such as rate payments – to be made available online in the future. It will also simplify the process of publishing and retrieving information, allowing multiple personnel that aren’t familiar with web publishing or HTML to publish content that adheres to the design and formatting guidelines set out by the Council’s internet committee.
“Our website has grown organically over the years, to the point where finding specific information can be difficult,” says Mark Crompton, Finance and IT Manager, Tamworth Regional Council. “Coupled with the fact that the systems running our website have reached the end of their lifecycle, we had a ‘perfect storm’ of reasons to completely rebuild our web presence.

“At the same time, we wanted to create a platform that will serve the Council well into the future, and allow us to innovate with new online services as the need arises,” says Crompton. “As a regional council covering more than 9,600 square kilometres and a population in excess of 53,000, making it easier for customers that live hundreds of kilometres away from regional centres to access information and basic services online can make a major difference to their lives.”

Iatek, today announced the latest .NET version of its flagship product, PortalApp.

PortalApp 4.0 is the newest open source portal and content management system for the .NET platform. This highly anticipated release contains several dramatic improvements that make PortalApp a massively versatile application. With blogging, content management and community features, PortalApp is so flexible that it can be used to rapidly create any type of content-centric Website.

PortalApp was entirely redesigned, and as before a significant goal was to make a product that could be used to manage any type of Web content. The CMS industry has run with the concept of 'Content Types' that Iatek originally introduced in 2004. PortalApp .NET now includes more than 100 Content Type templates. Iatek has also extended the Content Types with custom attributes that can be used to accomodate ad-hoc content. PortalApp is not a CMS that just lets you post articles. PortalApp can be used to manage news, blogs, image galleries, projects, downloads, product descriptions, tech notes and any other type of content. PortalApp's template-based architecture enables administrators to define and manage the sites' layout and functionality from the Web-based control panel.

The flexible templates are also used as the basis for all of the PortalApp modules including membership, forums, surveys, calendar and advertising. The extra modules for community and advertising extend PortalApp well beyond a pure CMS. The new PortalApp also includes more than 100 pre-defined tokens that can be used to plug in functionality like tag clouds, thumbnail viewers, or latest postings.

Seattle (PRWEB) January 7, 2009 -- DotNetNuke® Corporation, the creators of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework, today announced a deeper collaboration with CodePlex, Microsoft's premier open source project hosting website. Beginning with the DotNetNuke 4.9.1 and 5.0.0 product releases, DotNetNuke is now leveraging CodePlex's expansive infrastructure for its core product distribution.

In past collaboration with CodePlex, DotNetNuke Corporation announced the availability of the DotNetNuke Forge in February 2008. The DotNetNuke Forge is a premier destination for open source collaboration on the DotNetNuke platform. The DotNetNuke Forge has grown in breadth and popularity over the past year and now represents a vital part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem.

Over the past year we have witnessed CodePlex's strong commitment to open source projects on the Microsoft platform. We are excited to welcome DotNetNuke to the CodePlex community.

As the leading open source web application framework for ASP.NET, we're looking forward to partnering with them to promote open source development on the Microsoft platform. We're also looking forward to hearing the feedback from the DotNetNuke community for improving the open source development experience on CodePlex.

Santa Clara, California - Dec. 1, 2008 -- DotNetNuke Corporation today announced the appointment of Navin Nagiah as its Chief Executive Officer. Nagiah, previously CEO of CIGNEX Technologies, will succeed co-founder Nik Kalyani in this role. Coming on the heels of the company's recent Series A funding announcement, Nagiah will also join DotNetNuke creator and Chief Architect Shaun Walker on the company's re-organized Board of Directors. Kalyani will continue to focus on product innovation as Director of Products and Strategy.

"We are pleased to have Navin come aboard as CEO," Kalyani said. "In the past year, he has been our business advisor and has helped us immensely in shaping our business strategy. Navin's experience with open source software and enterprise customers combined with strategic insights will be essential as DotNetNuke Corporation focuses on building a profitable business," he said.