Publisher Utilizes the Xtenit Content Management System

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Xtenit a leading provider of web, email, and ad management services in the cloud, announced today that Shelf Awareness, a successful, online only, B2B publisher in the book trade sector, has re-launched their website using the Xtenit web content management system.

Xtenit provides an unique services platform for publishers that combines web content management, email publishing and ad serving. By tightly integrating the core services that publishers need to manage their online presence, Xtenit provides additional value and can more effectively meet the varied requirements of publishers.

Shelf Awareness publishes several e-mail newsletters. They wanted their new website to keep subscriber experiences centered around the newsletters, while managing the articles that compose the newsletters separately for tracking, reporting, and search optimization purposes. The Xtenit product was able to recognize each newsletter as a collection of content items and customize it differently for email, web, and mobile delivery.

“We needed a content management solution that would fit our publishing model and advertising requirements. The Xtenit product delivered exactly what we needed and made it almost effortless for us to go from design concept to implementation.” said Jenn Risko Publisher and Co-founder of Shelf Awareness. Jenn Risko further added, “Xtenit has had a very positive impact on our success and profitability. They have removed us from the technology infrastructure and support costs that have crippled our competitors.”

“Shelf Awareness serves their subscribers well and provides excellent value to their advertisers. We look forward to working with them as they add new newsletters and extend their success into other markets.“ said Brian McFadden CEO of Xtenit.

F.A.Z. Selects the Polopoly Web Content Management Solution to Power All of Its Online Properties

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Reading UK— Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z), one of Germany’s largest newspapers, has signed an agreement with Atex to deploy the Polopoly Web content management solution across all of its properties including its main news website FAZ.NET, which averages 22 million visits and more than 116 million page impressions per month.

German website nordbayern.de is live with Atex Polopoly Web Content Management System

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Reading, UK - Atex announces that Verlag Nürnberger Presse, the Nuremberg, Germany, media company, is live on the Atex Polopoly Web Content Management system. The go-live was part of the relaunch of nordbayern.de, the online presence of "Nürnberger Nachrichten" and the "Nürnberger Zeitung".

Verlag Nürnberger Presse chose the Atex Polopoly system because of its robustness, flexibility and scalability. The implementation includes a close integration between Polopoly and the Atex editorial system allowing for seamless exchange of content between print and online editorial teams.

"One of our goals was the close cooperation of print and online,” said Werner Wittmann, Project Coordinator of the nordbayern.de relaunch. “The integration with the Atex editorial system we already use for the print production allows the print editors to put their content directly online and thus permits us to introduce modern convergent ways of working.”

Micropayments for Content

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Rita McGrath at Harvard Business Review has written a blog post on why she hates micropayments.  Micropayments are financial transactions involving very small sums of money (see Wikipedia). For online publishing, a small fee would allow you to view the content for a certain period of time or for a certain number of articles.

Personally, I'm not sold on the concept of micropayments for content which is probably why I was lured to Ms. McGrath's article in the first place.

The idea has been around a long time — at least since the mid-to-late 90s — with both supporters and detractors weighing in. Millions have been lost by companies seeking to capitalize on streams of micropayments, almost all of which eventually crashed and burned. Myself, when confronted with a request to chip in 99 cents for a one-time glimpse at an article or $2.99 for a week's worth (as some of my local newspapers are doing) — well, I close that window and go away.

The author of the article discusses further the importance for any payment system adopted to consider "how the payment link of customers' consumption chains fits into their total experience". Micropayment systems have a tall order in that they need to be seamless, transparent, and achieve inevitability. Even grimmer for publishers, it's not only the micropayment experience that needs to be improved but also the non-micropayment systems too.

For the past few years, I've paid a yearly subscription to the Wall Street Journal for the print publication and the online subscription. With my yearly renewal coming up very soon, I've decided to discontinue my online subscription to the WSJ. Why would I do that? There are some very basic reasons to why I'm dropping WSJ.com. I rarely find myself reading the online content of the WSJ. I either already read the stories in the print version of the WSJ or I have found myself already familiar with the news story because I read a similar story posted elsewhere online. Stopping by the WSJ.com, unlike CNN or FoxNews, never became a daily ritual for me.

Linux.com and NewsForge.com

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Is there anyone else disappointed that Linux.com and NewsForge.com now mirror each other in content?  In the past I've called this the CMS déjà vu phenomenon.  I'm not sure what to think about it.  No wait, I do know what I think about the two sites basically merging into one...I don't like it.  I really do miss the diversity in stories the two separate sites once offered.

Thumbnail of NewsForge.com  Thumbnail of Linux.com

Am I am the only not liking the change?  Yea, yea, I know...Linux.com and NewsForge.com have every right to do what they do.  That's not my point...this time it's about me...

Challenges of Blogging

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John Newton, Alfresco co-founder, is a man I have never met.  Regardless of this important fact, I feel like I have gotten to know a small part of him through his blog.  While Newton's blog may focus on Alfresco, his posts offers a wide range of insights on subjects such as commercial open source, content management,  enterprise software,  business processes, and information technology.  So if you have any idea of who I am through my own writings  it should be no surprise to you that I enjoy reading and talking about some of his articles on my own site.

During the past few months, Newton has been doing what many good bloggers are doing these days...writing guest blogs for professional online publications such as his blog on ZDNet.  While I'm glad to see his thoughts reach a broader audience, something regarding his ZDNet posts have been missing for me.  Don't get me wrong, the articles on ZDNet are still worth reading but those articles don't seem to have the same "thinking out loud" content I'm accustomed to through his personal blog.  Newton finally offered an explanation of why his blogging is different on ZDNet.

The CMS evolution and publishing revolution

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This is a fantastic article found on ZDNet UK not only about open source content management systems but the issues that traditional publishers are now facing in either competing or adopting with today's Web CMS.  The article is written by Mike Barrett and is titled, "CMS evolution, publishing revolution?".  The author writes:
Mainstream content management systems are only now starting to provide similar flexibility for publishers. Open source products such as Drupal and Joomla now offer a viable way for smaller businesses to get on line effectively. Like the blogging platforms [Wordpress and Blogger] they introduce the opportunity to create multiple sites, cost effectively, by re-using functionality, content and platforms. But how many publishers are actually taking advantage of this? Often, even where publishers have multiple sites, many are still designed and built in isolation from their stablemates as businesses fail to understand the benefits of one platform.
Why don't the traditional media just migrate over to open source CMS?  Don't forget that when many of the publishers first put their CMS online several years ago...propriety was still king.
The problem for all those publishers (large and small) that built their own systems is that they now have such a huge “cost of exit” that it's almost impossible to migrate to this model. The small publishers probably don’t even have access to their original developers (one story I heard recently was of a developer that emigrated to New Zealand to be a car mechanic!).

Packt offers free sample chapter from Alfresco book

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From the Sample Chapter Kshipra Singh of Packt Publishing sent me an e-mail the other day.  Packt Publishing focuses on the publication of computer and information technology books intended to be read by developers, administrators, and newbies.  Mr. Singh wanted to let me know that they just recently published a new book for the Alfresco CMS.  The book is titled, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation, and is written by Munwar Sharrif.

Packt Publishing has offered me "a sample chapter from this book, to be published" here at CMS Report .  To make things easy we decided just to offer the link onsite to the sample chapter stored directly on Packt Publishing's servers.  You can download the the sample chapter in PDF format by clicking here.  The sample chapter being provided is Chapter 5, "Implementing Document Management".