Recommended Feeds for CMSReport.com

While we prefer to promote our primary news feed, you'll find that CMS Report offers a variety of RSS links available on various related CMS topics. Many of these "hidden feeds" can be discovered though the tag links found at the end of most articles. Below is a list of CMSReport.com's five most popular RSS fees.

Page RSS News Feed
Main Page http://cmsreport.com/rss.xml
Featured Stories http://cmsreport.com/featured-stories.xml
Planet CMS http://cmsreport.com/planet-cms.xml
Category: CMS http://cmsreport.com/taxonomy/term/713/0/feed
Category: Social Media http://cmsreport.com/taxonomy/term/32/0/feed

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Elcom enhances CMS experience with CommunityManager.NET

Sydney, Australia – 16 February 2011– Elcom, one of Australia’s largest independently owned Web Developers, today announced the latest release of CommunityManager.NET (Version7.3) – its flagship enterprise Web Content Management software.

CommunityManager.NET is utilized by over 500 organizations worldwide, and provides a secure and scalable framework which supports websites, intranets, ecommerce platforms, membership systems, mobile platforms and online training capabilities.

Underpinning this latest version of CommunityManager.NET is a variety of updates and additional new features, designed to increase efficiency and reduce costs through an improved user-experience for clients and end-users. At the core of this latest release is the addition of A/B testing to Elcom’s existing Online Marketing offering.

According to Elcom’s Product Director, Anthony Milner, “This new feature was developed in response to industry trends and by really listening to what our clients wanted”. It allows users to test a baseline control sample webpage and compare it to a variety of single-variable test samples, in order to better evaluate and improve response rates. This ultimately enables the execution of “smarter marketing” through testing, evaluation, better resource allocation and enhanced tracking ability – thereby significantly improving Return on Investment.

Recommended Feeds for CMSReport.com

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When it comes to promoting the CMS Report's news feeds, I've always been indecisive on how best to promote our various RSS links. I've always been happy to promote our primary news feed, but I've been hesitant about promoting and supporting some of our more "hidden feeds". However, increasingly I've been receiving emails from our readers asking for alternative feeds that might be more suitable for their needs.

So by popular demand, a list of some of the RSS feeds available at CMSReport.com:

PageRSS News Feed
Main Pagehttp://cmsreport.com/rss.xml
Featured Stories
http://cmsreport.com/taxonomy/term/10%2B802/0/feed
Planet CMShttp://cmsreport.com/planet-cms/feed 
Category: CMS
http://cmsreport.com/taxonomy/term/713/0/feed
Category: Social Media 
http://cmsreport.com/taxonomy/term/32/0/feed

Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released

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I'm looking forward to evaluating the new FeedAPI module for Drupal. Though one feature I haven't seen in any of the aggregators I've seen so far for Drupal...a way to snip the original RSS feed. Some sites provide you the entire post in the RSS feed with no teaser. This may be great for the reader, but I'm not sure everyone is happy to see their entire post on someone else's site.

From time to time, I've hacked the core to get me closer to how I would like the content from an RSS feed to display at my site. There has to be another way and perhaps FeedAPI could by my solution...

Development Seed: FeedAPI 1.0 Released -

After being in development for about seven months, we released FeedAPI 1.0 nearly two weeks ago! This is really exciting for me and everyone else who has been craving a more flexible aggregator for Drupal.

Power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0

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A very nice article on RSS found at IBM's developerWorks:

Realize the power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0 applications - Tap this article's fully functional PHP code snippets that show you how to use PHP-based server-side functions to develop your own customizable RSS feed aggregator. [IBM developerWorks]

I'm still looking for an article that explains to those of the non-IT persuasion what RSS feeds are all about. Everytime I make an attempt to explain RSS feeds to those how don't even know what browser they are using...I get this "deer caught in the headlights" look from them. They then usually turn around shaking their head wondering if I will ever try to speak to them in English. Sigh...

Federal Computer Week: Web 2.0 for feds

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A few weeks ago, Federal Computer Week, had an article about the role Web 2.0 may have in the federal government. Is there a place for wikis and other tool now included in most modern content management systems in the federal government?

The article hints that Web 2.0 may have place more behind the scenes then in public view.

Other officials are beginning to recognize the value of government wikis. One crisis management expert said he thinks wikis and other Web 2.0 applications could become useful resources for homeland security and disaster relief officials. W. David Stephenson, an Internet strategy consultant and principal at Stephenson Strategies, said that before another disaster such as Hurricane Katrina hits, the government should set up a wiki behind a firewall to coordinate relief efforts.

The intelligence community recently acknowledged its interest in using internal wikis for information sharing. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) hosted a public roundtable on Intellipedia, which is an adaptation of Wikipedia, the online, self-correcting, self-evolving encyclopedia that a community of Wikipedia users updates regularly.

Now you may ask why would the government use Web 2.0 internally and not in public view? In my opinion most of the Web 2.0 features allows individuals to express themselves in a larger collaborative group. However, when you visit your government you're not looking for the personal opinion of an a single government worker but the "official" stance taken by the government. What good is an employee's blog about his disagreement with a newly enacted law when in the end it's a law that must be followed?

Owen Winkler: Planet WordPress and the Dashboard Feeds

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"There are a bunch of folks who don’t get it or don’t like it, so I figured I would take the time to explain Planet WordPress to the extent that I can, since it seems that I’m the one that usually causes the most problems with duplicated feed items, etc.

Planet WordPress is a site that aggregates feeds from a number of users who have contributed to the WordPress Open Source project, or who provide good sources of information on WordPress, it’s themes, or it’s plugins. Planet WordPress produces a feed that is displayed in the Dashboard of most WordPress installations."

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Eric Shepherd: Feed access fun

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"I spent today writing myself a little RSS reader extension for Firefox 2. It just adds a clickable item in the status bar that, when clicked, opens up a new window and displays the contents of an RSS feed in it, with clickable links on the titles of each article that take you to the targeted site.

Nothing fancy, but it let me figure out a lot of stuff about how the new feed content API interfaces work. I’ve written the first bits of a document about them, and will be adding more content, including documentation for the interfaces themselves, over the next few days."

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Professional PHP: The Legality of Republishing RSS Feeds

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"Tobias Schlitt "freaked out" today about PHP Freak's republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds. This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues. In my mind, there's no question that a blogger grants an implied..."

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Development Seed: Optimizing the look of your syndicated content

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Ian Ward, Development Seed, not only makes some good points about the inclusion of CSS within an RSS feed, but he also that the "look" of the feed varies from RSS reader to RSS reader. Hopefully, in the future the Internet gods will be kind. I personally don't want to worry about how my CMS looks in a browser and an RSS reader.

Development Seed: Optimizing the look of your syndicated content - RSS readerJust like the large number of different web browsers that you need to design for (you have Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Mac Firefox, Mac Internet Explorer, etc.), there are also a ton of RSS readers. On top of that, RSS readers can be desktop based or web based – similarly to email with desktop email like Outlook or Lotus Notes and web-based email like Gmail or Hotmail. From a web designer's or content publisher's perspective, a person in these trades needs to be aware that the content they are publishing on their site will look good no matter where a user sees it. [Planet Drupal]

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.

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