social publishing system

Six Apart announced the release of Movable Type 5 this week. Traditionally a blogging application, Movable Type 5 brings new features into the Web application that evolves it into a more rounded social publishing system. This release includes two versions:

• Movable Type 5.01 - commercial license
• Movable Type Open Source 5.01 - open source license

The goal of Movable Type 5 is to give businesses, organizations and individuals a single, unified software package with integrated website and blog capabilities.  It's been enhanced for the easy creation, administration and management of websites and blogs - all from a single user dashboard.

Here are some of the new and improved features in MT5:

• A new user dashboard for both the website and blogs. This makes it easy for authors, editors, designers and other publishers to easily navigate between the two.

• A new theme mechanism that makes it easy to apply a new theme across a website and blogs with a single click that proliferates changes throughout the published site.

• Enhanced content management features that include revision history and new custom fields. There are five new object types for custom fields: website, blog, comment, template and asset.

Earlier this week, Ektron Inc. announced the release of Ektron CMS400.NET version 8.0. Version 8.0 builds on Ektron’s social software and enterprise Web content management to allow for the creation of sites that today’s web users expect. Version 8.0 includes the new eMarketing Suite, complete with the analytics, multivariate testing, drag and drop page assembly, ecommerce and enhanced site management tools that marketing teams can use to drive measurable business results.

CMS400.NET’s enterprise Web content management platform has always been about giving marketing teams the ability to manage the Web experience. The new eMarketing Suite brings an additional set of tools to grow a brand’s global message and online presence. In addition to building dynamic, engaging Web sites and communities, marketing teams now have the ability to rapidly assemble campaigns, comparing multiple variations of content, layout and design with multivariate testing. Leveraging rapid drag and drop page assembly and multivariate testing enables marketers to maximize business results efficiently and intuitively. The new analytics module lets marketers track visitor actions and demonstrate solid returns on online marketing investments. Ektron’s unique approach integrates best-of-breed site analytics packages such as Google Analytics into the authoring process, delivering analytics within the context of the content management system’s user interface.

This week, Matt Jacobs announced the availability of Movable Type 4.3. Jacobs calls Movable Type 4.3 "snappy" and states that this release "makes composing, publishing, and searching in Movable Type easier than ever".

Version 4.3 of this social publishing platform includes the following new features and improvements:

• Smarter Search and Pagination - Several new ways to drill down your search (author, category and date), which lays the groundwork for the ability to paginate your index and archives. The ability to paginate comments, which will dramatically improve publish times on prolific comment threads.
• Entry Asset Manager - Movable Type has been improved by the way it handles assets like photos, which means it's much easier to make slideshows and editing entries that use assets.
• Summary Object Framework - This is Movable Type's first step in dramatically improving performance for larger installations.

LONDON, ENGLAND – July 16, 2009 – Emojo, the eBusiness Specialist announces the launch of ‘rapid-implementation’ Affino - for companies wishing to take full control of their online presence.

“We are delighted to be introducing this design revolution – which means that our customers will be spending less time managing their websites and more time making money from them” said Markus Karlsson, CEO and founder of Emojo.

Faster Development, Increased Productivity

The Design Centre has been part of Affino since version 2.0 which came out 7 years ago in 2002. It was revolutionary back then and it is even more revolutionary today.

The new Design Centre is a true breakthrough which minimises the time-to-market for launching advanced websites and allows companies to easily transform their sites at will. A highly fluid, visual environment increases productivity by up to 90% and significantly reduces the learning curve for non-technical people for implementing a website design.