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Significant revenue growth seen with SilverStripe CMS

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By CMS Report - Posted on 09 November 2009

Wellington technology company SilverStripe has recorded its best company growth in its 10 year history, in contrast to the tough global economic conditions that have adversely affected much of the IT industry. SilverStripe recorded 190% revenue growth between 2007 and 2009, ranking SilverStripe the 37th fastest growing business in New Zealand as calculated by Deloitte for their 2009 New Zealand Fast 50 awards.

SilverStripe CEO Brian Calhoun explains that the company growth reflects the belief in open source and people: "This is a big deal for us because it shows that the things we believe in; open source, excellent web user experience, and a focus on the humans who use web technology, are all qualities that are appreciated by the business community."

Demand for SilverStripe's services are also represented in physical book sales. In October 2009, a 432 page SilverStripe developer manual was published. This book has sold out on multiple occasions at Amazon.com and ranks in Amazon's top 100 fastest selling website programming books worldwide. The book allows website developers to build complex websites using SilverStripe's open source software, which has been downloaded over 250,000 times.

Sponsors help CMS Report say no to In-Text Advertisement

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By Bryan - Posted on 26 April 2009

Here at CMS Report we do not accept cash for product reviews nor do we accept In-Text Advertisement.  In-Text Advertisement is the annoying marketing technique used by some sites that produce a pop-up advertisement whenever you let your mouse rollover the contextual link.  Besides ethical issues, we just feel these marketing techniques do not provide visitors a good online experience.  So instead, we try to choose less intrusive forms of advertisement here at CMSReport.com.

For revenue, we rely on sponsorship and banner advertisement.  Our generous sponsors help pay for our servers, software, and additional expenses the comes with hosting CMSReport.com.  If you would like to be included as a sponsor of CMSReport.com, please consider taking advantage of the sponsorship opportunities currently available.

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.

Sitecore - Sitecore provides web content management and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences. Sitecore enables stakeholders to rapidly implement a successful online business strategy, and measure and manage that ongoing website success.

SkyBlueCanvas - SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS is an open source, free content management system written in php and built specifically for small web sites. SkyBlueCanvas is custom-built for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower.

StormWeb - StormWeb is a high-technology web hosting company based in Ontario, Canada.

HostDone - HostDone Inc. offers affordable hosting without loosing the quality of web hosting service and performance.

Wild Apricot - Wild Apricot has been specifically built to store member records and contact lists and link them to your Website and other software tools to automate and streamline administrative tasks for clubs, associations and communities.

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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.

Adobe - Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information.

Focus on print hurts newspaper sites

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By Bryan - Posted on 16 October 2008

Mark Van Pattern has written a piece on PBS's MediaShift titled, "How the Focus on Print Hurts Our Newspaper Site".  His story is a common story I hear time after time from those in the newspaper business.

It's definitely no tangled bureaucracy, but even within this simple system you find conflicts holding the website back. The problem is that the different people in that system just have different priorities. As general manager, I want to see both a strong online presence and continued healthy print circulation. In contrast, the managing editor doesn't want to "hurt" the print edition by making the online edition too strong, fearing that it could tempt subscribers to abandon print.

Ultimately, this conflict is what's holding our online edition back. Without a full commitment from the managing editor, the website will never reach its full potential.

The digital age remains to be a dillemna for newspapers.  Newspapers either have to ballance their resources between print and online media or put more focus on one over the other.  I think it becomes even more difficult for publications when they find a large readership online yet the higher revenue remains on the print side.  Although it may take some years, I still say that eventually online media will beat old media.  It is just a matter of time.

Freelancing on White Papers

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By Bryan - Posted on 03 June 2008

Nice reminder from The Content Wrangler on where the money:

Are you looking to drum up some new business? Want to get more dollars from existing clients? Are you a starving writer?

White paper expert Michael A. Stelzner, author of Writing White Papers: How to Capture Readers and Keep Them Engaged, provides the following reasons white papers could dramatically increase your writing revenue...[more]

Over the past couple years, I've been asked by a few if I would be willing to write a white paper recommending a content management system. information system, or specific product.  For the most part, those opportunities always seem to arrive when I'm busy with other projects so I declined. When I wasn't busy, I was asked to write positively about a product I knew nothing about (I declined) as well as a specific information system which I believed could be better written within the company (the potential client had smarter people than me and they agreed).

Saying Goodbye to Old Media

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By Bryan - Posted on 10 September 2007

MySiouxFalls.com is a new and local online news source for the city where I currently reside, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  At first, I was not all that excited about the site and had not plan on mentioning the MySiouxFalls.com site here at CMS Report.  We've all seen these sites before, right?  In fact, I would say that many of the visitors to this blog likely have designed or participated in building sites similar to MySiouxFalls.com.  That's not to say that there are not some things from a content management perspective worth mentioning.

MySiouxFalls.com


Open source fans likely would have interest in knowing that the site runs Joomla! for it's content management system.  Weather buffs who border on the geeky side also might find interest that much of the site's weather graphics are provide by HAMweather.  HAMweather provides weather-related products and services (some of it for free) and in my opinion produces some of the best "custom" graphics derived from the National Weather Service's NDFD.  While the site's software has caught my attention, for a change it is something else that has caught my attention.  After visiting the site a few times and a chain of events, I suddenly realized that sites such as MySiouxFalls, NowPublic, and The Register are slowly changing my habits as a news reader.