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In his well-known book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” which is regarded for its timeless insights, Robert Fulghum reviewed some basic lessons of life we all learned as children that are universally true, even at the places where we work and within our social interactions. There’s a reason we invest a good portion of our educational funds in early learning: what we absorb and come to believe during our formative years influences our thoughts and decisions throughout our lives.

If you haven’t thought about each of the ten timeless truths listed below in terms of your business process automation goals, it may be time to rethink your ECM strategy. The payoff for ‘getting it right the first time’ is significant.

Here they are, rephrased a bit to help you make the connection:

1. Remember that everything dies. Hamsters, mice, people, and even company projects have limited life spans. Routine business processes, too, ultimately outgrow or outlive their usefulness. Take time to put everything in perspective. What are your company goals? Are your processes still relevant and in line with your vision? Are there processes you maintain purely because things have ‘always’ been done a certain way? Is anything ripe for change?
    
2. Be prepared. Remember the first day of kindergarten? Probably not, but chances are good that you carried a backpack or bag with everything you needed to address the routine challenges of the day. If you’re investing in technology, give yourself and your staff the time and resources they need to be prepared. You can’t expect miracles from even the best software and hardware. However, if you give your people sufficient time for analysis, planning, and improvement, ECM technology can produce phenomenal results.
    
3. Play fair. Be considerate. Even if you’re starting with a small project, keep the company’s enterprise goals and other departments’ needs in mind. Although you need to remain dedicated to your own vision, being selfish about your needs, simply refusing to make your project transparent, insisting on your own way of doing things, and similar self-centered practices will hurt your company in the long run. You’ll also miss great ideas for improvement that others could offer. You may have terrific ideas and plans, but someone else’s contributions might help them to prosper more fully.

Two security vulnerabilities were just discovered and a new release has been published to address them. The ImpressCMS Project has just released ImpressCMS 1.2.4 as a stable release - site administrators are strongly encouraged to upgrade their sites.

The imagemanager plugin used by the TinyMCE wysiwyg editor was bypassing the permissions system, allowing unauthorized creation of categories and folders within the image folder. The second vulnerability was a potential cross-site scripting, but required elevated permissions and access to the administration area of ImpressCMS.

David Bobzien: WordPress Analytics: What You’re Doing Doesn’t Measure Up via WordPressTV for WordCamp Las Vegas 2010.
 

"There is no best content management system. But there is probably a good CMS for what you’re trying to do. You need to do your homework and find the right fit. It's not something you put on a wishlist for Santa to take care of."

- Irina Guseva, 10 Common CMS Implementation Mistakes, CMSWire.com, December 16, 2010

The developers of mojoPortal have recently released a new version of their CMS, mojoPortal 2.3.5.8. Some of the new features include:

• A new Flickr Gallery feature
• A new User Sign In Module that can be put on a content page such as the home page
• A new scroller setting in the Feed Manager to enable a scrolling news ticker
• Some improvements to the List/Links feature including a new introduction that can be used to place html above the list and a new option for non-ajax paging
• Database authentication and LDAP - a new config setting for fallback to LDAP if database authentication fails. This allows scenarios where your internal users such as content authors can login with their LDAP credentials while still allowing public users to register and sign in with database credentials.
• A new option to disable CSS caching while designing by clicking a button that sets a cookie to disable it. The previous way of of disabling it from config still works but this new way may be more convenient. You will find the button under Administration > Advanced Tools > Designer Tools
• Upgraded to CKeditor 3.4.2
• Updated Italian resources
• Bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the previous release including several fixes in the SQL CE data layer and the Firebird data layer.

The latest version of mojoPortal is available on the site's download page.

Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, December 15, 2010 – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced the general availability of Kentico CMS 5.5 R2. This new version of their flagship enterprise CMS provides enhanced Intranet support, Document and Project Management,  integration with Microsoft Office through WebDAV protocol, Workgroups,  Sharepoint 2010 Connector and Windows Azure support.

“We have always developed Kentico CMS as a scalable enterprise platform for corporate websites, intranet solutions, e-shops and integration with social networks. Our main focus for Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 was to extend our intranet offering mixed with key Enterprise 2.0 functionality” says Petr Palas, CEO of Kentico Software. “Keeping our intranet solution in step with our CMS offering ensures customers can grow their website needs with their business; leveraging the consistent easy to use Kentico environment that includes multi-site management, and an industry leading ROI.” he adds.

Key features that round out the Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 intranet offering include Document and Project Management, Workgroups and WebDAV support. Project Management provides the users with ability to manage, assign and monitor projects and tasks. The new Document Management helps users to manage documents and their permissions directly from a website without access to the administration UI. With the added support of WebDAV, users can now directly edit documents without the need to save them manually to a temporary location and then re-upload them.

“With our partners and customer focus, we drove our development based on an extensive set of client scenarios. We validated our features with our partners and key customers like Shaw Industries Group Inc. to refine our key scenarios. Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 delivers a complete intranet solution with a ready to use Intranet Starter site and flexible Document Management. Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 cuts down the time and cost of any intranet portal development. This combination of features and functionality guarantees that the Kentico CMS Intranet helps our partners and customers successfully meet their business goals.” says Michael Neuwirth, Product Manager at Kentico software.

Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 extends support for SharePoint 2010 and includes Windows Azure support for single CMS installations.

More information about the Windows Azure support is available at: http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Michal-Neuwirth/December-2010/Kentico-CMS-5-5-R2-has-been-released.aspx

Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 for ASP.NET can be downloaded as a free 30-day trial at http://www.kentico.com/Download.aspx.

The Tiki Community is proud to announce the immediate availability of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 6.1. This update includes over 250 code changes by nearly 20 Tiki Community members. Although these updates are primarily fixes and improvements to existing features, there are several new items that Tiki administrators will be happy to see, including:

• Continued upgrades for WYSIWYG editing
• Default toolbars include a new button to easily select a file (after file upload, if needed), and it's name and link are added to the textarea of that wiki page, forum, blog, etc.
• A new admin panel for Clipperz online password management
• Improvements to CSS inclusion for newsletters
• Many translation updates (from Tiki's interactive translation feature)
• New and improved plugins for third-party media (such as Vimeo, Blip.tv, and YouTube) and generic buttons.
• Updated plugin interface
• New module: Tracker help
• Export or show a wiki page in text-only format (useful to be used with Pretty Trackers)
• Static text fields in Trackers can be sent with wiki-parsed text in notification emails.
• New language.js file added to language folders to assist in translation of text and UI elements used in JavaScript functions.

See the Release Notes and the Tiki6 document for complete details on this release. All Tiki administrators are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release.

“In progress.” When it comes to government, we hear those words a lot. It’s no surprise: meeting the needs of a geographically large nation with diverse constituents is challenging. Change and progress require time…and patience.

Technology is one area where progress is evident. Change is afoot everywhere, from optimizing government websites for mobile devices, to coordinated healthcare services and discussions about creating a national dashboard to share meaningful information. The goals are familiar: