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The Rise of Social Networks and the Importance of Engaging your Customers

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The rise of social networking has, without doubt, led to a number of significant changes on the web. Previously, to get support from a company, one would have to either register with their forums or interact with them via email. With the introduction of sites such as Twitter, Facebook and the new Google+ platform, the [...]

Joomla! CMS 1.7 released with focus on enhanced security

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Today marks the official release of Joomla! 1.7. One of the world’s most popular open source content management systems, Joomla! has continued to grow in popularity since first branching from Mambo many years ago. One of the most common criticisms people make when speaking about Joomla! are jabs at its security model, which some consider [...]

Radiant CMS Review

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Radiant CMS is a simple, no-frills Content Management System that is built using Ruby on Rails. It is licenced under the MIT Licence, which means it is freely redistributable and can be employed for both commercial and non-profit usage. Main Features Radiant has a fairly simple and minimal admin interface that has barely three tabs [...]

Gartner: Building a Global Online Strategy with Cloud WCM

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As VP of Research and Lead WCM Analyst at Gartner, Mick MacComascaigh knows more than a thing or two about enterprise web content management systems. In the recent podcast “The BIG Shift: Building a Global Online Strategy with Cloud WCM”, Mick talks about the challenges many organizations face in building a global web presence, in [...]

Using Sitefinity to manage your Facebook Fan Page

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Now with Sitefinity you can conveniently create exclusive welcome and fan pages that drive engagement and invite visitors to become your fans on Facebook. Sitefinity CMS allows you to manage the content and layout of these Facebook pages and track conversions directly from the CMS interface. The ready to use Facebook template is available from [...]

It’s Official, WordPress has conquered the Web

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The end of June marked one of the most impressive milestones to date for the world’s most popular blog platform. WordPress is now officially powering over fifty million websites. What an achievement for creator Matt Mullenweg and his team of developers. The adoption of the platform has been steadily increasing as blogs have grown in [...]

Nuxeo Releases New Open Source ECM Packages for Ubuntu Server

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Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, today announces that Nuxeo Document Management is now available in the Ubuntu software partner catalog, ensuring ease of installation and deployment for developers building content management applications designed to run on the Ubuntu server environment. This new packaging and partnership with Canonical will ease installation, [...]

The Fuel CMS ‘Standard Package’ – Introduction

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The Fuel Standard Package is based on the fantastic Open Source Sapphire CMS framework from Silverstripe. Heavily customised to be more user-friendly and feature many more features ‘out of the box’ than the default Silverstripe CMS, but all developed within the open source framework guidelines. This demonstration video uses a sample ‘bare-bones’ website design to [...]

How dynamic partnerships will be a necessity to local authorities’ web channel strategy

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As the public sector begins to get to grips with the transformation of services to online delivery, it is more important than ever that councils and local authority departments select the right supplier to support their Web Channel Strategy. It is well recognised that there is a plethora of web content management (WCM) systems in [...]

WordPress vs Textpattern

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WordPress and Textpattern are two of the most well known blogging platforms out there. Each has its own share of advantages and disadvantages as well as supporters and critics. Both have a great user base and power many wonderful websites! In this article, I shall attempt to provide a comprehensive comparison of both WordPress and [...]

Ten Content Management Systems for Photo Galleries

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When it comes to sharing your images on your website in the form of a web gallery, the CMS options for managing the same are many. Whether you wish to create an online portfolio, or simply want to share some photos, choosing the ideal CMS for your web gallery goes a long way in effectively [...]

Interview with Joseph Wykes, President of Percussion

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Percussion is a company that has been steadily growing in the CMS space and we decided to take some time to get to know the company and their products a bit further. We had a chance to connect with Joseph Wykes, President of Percussion and here are the results of that interview. CC: Can you [...]