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The Gilbane Conference - Boston 2009

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

The sixth annual Gilbane Conference in Boston will be held on December 1-3, 2009. This year's conference will cover a number of topics on content management, collaboration, and customers. For 2009, the Gilbane Conference is more focused than ever on the business impact of content solutions that are here right now and ready to be implemented right now.

Every program component of the conference is tied to the business issues surrounding marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference has taken the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and organized them into tracks that make it easy to customize an agenda that meets your business objectives. The four tracks include:

Plone 3.3 offers refinements

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

Although Plone 3.3 is a minor release in the Plone 3 series, it does offer several refinements. Highlights of the 3.3 release include the ability to localize navigation, tabs, sitemaps and searches within folders. According to an announcement by Steve McMahon "this makes it much easier to develop autonomous sub-sites within a Plone site". The new Lineage add-on provides management facilities to exploit the new feature.

Some additional new features and refinements include:

Quoting IT: Addison Berry

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

There are some people blessed with the rare skill of saying something of value under 140 characters or less. One of those people is Addison Berry. Addi is an active contributor to the Drupal open source project, Lullabot team member, and former civil servant . Two tweets from Twitter by Addison Berry that made me smile when I first read them can be found below.

"I find the kinder and gentler I am to myself, the kinder and gentler I am to others."

Get out the Vote: 2009 Open Source CMS Award

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

There ~~are~~ is only ~~about three weeks~~ a day or two left to nominate your favorite open source content management system for Packt Publishing's 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This is the fourth year for the award and the third time I will be sitting on a judging panel for the award.

This award is often seen as a competition between open source CMS projects, however, I view the award as an opportunity to promote open source and content management to the masses. I also know many in the content management field that use these type of awards to help them decide which open source CMS projects should be on their radar too. While the winning open source projects do enjoy winning their share of the $24,000 in award money, I think the projects are more appreciative just knowing their users thought enough of their CMS to nominate them in the first place.

The failure of Technology Break 2009

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

Last month I began my annual break from technology. Using previous technology breaks as my guide, I had expected to spend a lot less time at the computer and cell phone. My plan was simple, straight forward, and summarized in a simple slogan, Blog Less, Relax more. A month later, I write this blog post with the realization that my Technology Break of 2009 was a complete utter failure.

Kentico CMS 4.1 for ASP.NET released

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

Kentico CMS 4.1 for ASP.Net was recently released. Kentico, the software vendor, announced that this version of the CMS contains a new enterprise-class search engine and several usability improvements.

The new search engine is based on the Lucene.NET search engine which is already known to provide excellent performance and search results. The new Smart Engine can be used side-by-side with existing SQL-based search engine. The main features of Kentico's search engine includes:

Social Publishing with BuddyPress Video

16 years ago By Bryan Ruby

During the past year, I've posted various articles on social publishing systems. Open source content management systems such as Drupal, Movable Type, and WordPress have done a lot in the past year to better incorporate social media features into their web applications. I think the topic of social publishing will continue to be an interesting topic as the CMS continues to evolve in order to stay current with the current social tech trends.

The following is a WordPress.TV video of Andy Peatling, Automattic, talking about the WordPress social networking system BuddyPress at WordCamp Montreal. In the video Peatling gives practical advice for people considering WordPress/BuddyPress as a platform.

Butlins' Online Overhaul with SDL Tridion Pays Dividends

16 years ago By Real Wire

Maidenhead, UK, 13th August 2009 – SDL Tridion, leader in Web Content Management (WCM) and part of SDL, leader in Global Information Management (GIM), today announces that Butlins’ new website has resulted in significant net benefits, notably a 21% increase in web traffic. Working with Building Blocks to implement SDL Tridion’s content management platform, combined with a site re-design, has provided Butlins with a significantly more robust online environment. Butlins can now take new, competitive offers to market quicker, increase the frequency of such offers, handle the subsequent spike in online traffic, and ultimately convert more sales.