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Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Here's Why CMS Is Your 'Unsung Hero' in 2025

janus-boye

Over the years, content management systems have evolved in a number of different ways. Depending on your needs, you can find a CMS that works just about any way you can imagine–push versus pull architecture, open source versus proprietary, hosted versus installed, out of the box versus fully customizable, unlimited pricing models versus those based on pages or users or sites, and any variety of coding languages supported by a CMS. As long as you do the research to figure out what your organizational needs are, there is a Content Management System out there for you.
The problem now is that there’s a whole lot more to having an effective web presence than just being able to create and publish content. There’s social media, there’s search engine optimization, there are analytics, there are visitor journeys and customer personas, there’s paid search, and there’s email marketing. There are a heckuva lot of other things that you need to do with your content other than just getting it on the web.
That’s where content marketing software comes in. There are a ton of fragmented applications out there than can help you optimize your content, promote it and see how well it’s performing. The key is to find one platform that pulls everything into one place and works with your CMS.
Whether you work at a large or small organization, there is no reason to piece together content marketing solutions when there are a number of platforms that bring them all together under one roof. The benefits of this go well beyond not having to remember a dozen passwords. Having social media, email marketing, landing pages and forms, pageviews, campaigns and visitor identification all in one single platform means that all these things can work together, sharing information with each other.
For example, when someone fills out a form on your site, you can automatically enter them into a campaign to receive your monthly newsletter without having to import their email address into your email marketing application. Additionally, when a lead comes to your site via a tweet you sent out that was retweeted by a member of your community, you can trace the exact source of this traffic back to that original tweet because your social analytics, visitor identification and forms are all talking to each other.
When you have a blog post that is generating a ton of leads for you, the only way you’ll be able to tell is if your pageview data is linked to individual visitors and leads, as opposed to just viewing the data in aggregate, like in Google Analytics. And when a page is under-performing, one way to assess the reason is to use a tool that integrates your page analytics with SEO metrics and keyword densities. Having everything is one place is the only way to get a comprehensive understanding of how your marketing efforts are working.
One of the biggest reasons that companies invest in content management systems is to allow their less technical users to manage content. The CMS alone is a big investment, a much bigger investment if you also factor in the human resources costs of hiring and training content contributors. It only makes sense, then, to equip these contributors with complementary tools to help them promote this content, optimize it, measure it, and perfect it. The best way to have an effective content strategy is to be thoughtful about it and provide the necessary tools to support your authors and editors.
So, the next time you seek out a new content management system for your organization, be sure to consider your content marketing needs as well. Cascade Server (2013 Best Enterprise CMS Nominee) is the only content management system that comes with a full content marketing platform, which not only integrates with the CMS but also integrates with SalesForce, the leading CRM on the market.
For more information about how Cascade Server’s content management and content marketing solutions can help you go beyond just managing your content, <a href="http://www3.hannonhill.com/content-lifecycle-cms-critic-hannon-hill-cascade-page">get in touch with us</a>, and one of our solutions consultants will be happy to discuss the full content lifecycle at your organization and how we can help. 
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Why It’s Not Enough to Just Manage Your Content Anymore

mike-johnston

Koken users have been gifted their second update in under three months this week, as Koken 0.10 was officially released.
Following up from the early July release of Koken 0.9, the latest update builds upon the already powerful photography CMS.
New features include dynamic timeline-esque presentations of recent work, effortless featured image incorporation, template updates, and more. So, lets take a closer look.
<h2>Tidy Timelines</h2>
Koken's new Timeline feature keeps track of everything you publish and upload to your blog or website, including your latest snaps, videos, essays, albums and more, all within one aesthetically pleasing stream of content.
Your website visitors will now be able to quickly and easily scroll up and down your Timeline, exploring the latest updates in a linear fashion, designed for easy browsing.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.png" alt="Koken 0.10" />
The Timeline automatically groups your content by day published, and keeps itself updated whenever you upload images, videos, public albums and new essays. Timeline even updates itself whenever you add new content to old albums.
<h2>Featured Images Made Easy</h2>
The Koken 0.9 update introduced featured images for essays, but Koken have now improved on this fairly recent function, by automatically creating featured images from Vimeo, YouTube, Hulu, Flickr and Instagram.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2.png" alt="Koken 0.10" />
All you need to do is upload and embed the image or video into your essay as usual, and Koken will do the rest. This all means that adding featured images to beautify your essays has never been easier using Koken.
<h2>Smarter Filters, Categories and More</h2>
The latest Koken update also brings about some other smaller, yet equally important when it comes to organizing and managing your content throughout the Koken admin panel.
For example, a new “Independent” library filter allowing you to quickly find images and videos which have not yet been categorized. Also, Koken 0.10 introduces some smarter tag and category pagination, making it easier to browse through essays, images and videos which have been organized under certain tags or categories.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3.png" alt="Koken 0.10" />
Additional enhancements include visual improvements to Koken's “Pulse” Slideshow component, auto-updatable plugins, intelligent essay draft saving, and much more. All in all, with Koken 0.10 being released in such close proximity to the previous update, it's safe to say that the guys over at Koken have done a good job improving their platform, again.
To find out more about Koken 0.10, or to explore the features we've mentioned above in more detail, check out Koken's official release notes via their blog.

A Look at the Koken 0.10 Update

There are a huge range of content management systems on the market, all of which offer some basic, yet capable content and asset management features throughout their admin panels.
However, the open-source Pimcore platform takes these options, and focuses on them in a way which results in a highly professional content, asset and document management system.
Corporations, businesses and experienced website builders know what they want from their website, they just need the correct tools for the job – and that's where Pimcore out does most other CMS. Whether its digital asset organization, or detailed performance refinment, Pimcore has it all.
Pimcore has a few key attributes worth discussing, so let's dive in.
<h2>Powerful Design Tools</h2>
Although efficient content management is Pimcore's core strength, the platform also ensures that issues of design can be dealt with in an easy, yet powerful way.
For example, you can make use of Pimcore's drag-and-drop editor, which allows you to organize and manage pages, images, documents, navigational features and plenty more. The multi-tabbed admin interface enables you to have numerous documents and pages open at the same time within one interface, which will help speed up the editing process.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.png" alt="Pimcore" />
Additionally, Pimcore offers a WYSIWYG editor for all major areas of your website, along with a handy preview mode. A WYSIWYG editor makes editing fun, and incredibly easy, helping you to save time on design aspects, and concentrate on the bigger picture.
The WYSIWYG editor allows you to view and edit text, images, documents, video and more, and also benefits from the previously mentioned  multi-tabbed interface.
<h2>Professional, Detailed Management Options</h2>
Pimcore seriously excels when it comes to professionally managing and presenting your data, documents and other digital assets across your website.
The management of the assets can be done both from within the Pimcore admin interface or by using the Pimcore WebDAV functionality, which integrates with you desktop. Pimcore does a good job of offering access to print as well as web ready assets for website embedding or for content distribution across not just your website, but also other digital publishing applications such as Adobe.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2700x0.png" alt="Pimcore" />
Highly experienced website builders will also be happy to hear about Pimcore's huge potential for extendibility. Pimcore is based on the powerful Zend PHP Framework, which enables you to add an unlimited amount of properties to content, assets, objects and more.
These extendibility options mean that highly intricate search engine optimization can be carried out, detailed analytical tools can be used, and so forth.
<h2>Analytics &amp; Performance Features</h2>
Thankfully, Pimcore doesn't require you to tinker with its framework in order to get your hands on some analytics data for your website.
In fact, Pimcore has the ability to track every view or click your website receives, and then analyse the data via a useful integration with Google Analytics, Website Optimizer and Webmaster Tools.
Pimcore's integrated Google Web Optimizer tool also enables you to carry out A-B Tests, to help you develop and optimize pages and elements within your website.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3700x0.png" alt="Pimcore" />
Performance wise, Pimcore also has you covered. With intelligent caching systems, Advanced image embedding, script minification and CDN support, you can rely on Pimcore's server strength and build quality to keep your website running smoothly.
So, if you're looking for a content management system that will provide both your website and your admin panel with a highly professional backbone, you might want to check Pimcore out.
Sound good? Find out more about Pimcore via our CMS Directory, or get your <a href="http://www.pimcore.org/">free Pimcore download here</a>.

Pimcore: Powerfully Professional Content & Asset Management

Have you ever wanted to offer personalization to your users on the through your website? Are you running Sitefinity? Now you can! Telerik has announced two new connectors for their popular .NET CMS platform that are intended to offer a broader range of personalization options that have previously not existed.
<blockquote>“We live in a real-time world in which customers don’t want to wait or feel unknown or underappreciated. That’s why personalization has become so key to those organizations looking to conduct business online,” said Martin Kirov, Executive Vice President, Sitefinity division, Telerik. “Our customer base is made up of some of the largest, most well-known organizations in the world. They account for more than 70,000 users with daily web traffic in the millions. They depend on us to offer solutions to not only compete, but to strongly stand out in the face of an ever-evolving and crowded online marketplace.”</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Sitefinity  <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/cms-marketing-automation-integration" target="_blank"> Connector for Marketo </a>  —Monitors and tracks visitor behavior; increases conversions and improves sales by transferring online data (page visits, form submissions and file downloads) to build lead scores for personalized nurturing campaigns and more dynamic website experiences. Learn more about the Sitefinity Connector for Marketo  <a href="http://launchpoint.marketo.com/telerik-sitefinity/996-sitefinity-web-content-and-experience-management-platform" target="_blank"> here </a> .</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Sitefinity  <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/connector-for-salesforce" target="_blank"> Connector for Salesforce.com </a>  —Empowers the sales organization by populating the CRM with data (form submissions, recently viewed pages and file downloads) to build personalization rules and to customize and enrich the visitor’s online experience, based upon their persona type.</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>“Today’s customers want an experience that is customized just for them, whether they are browsing a website or receiving an offer. The power of the Sitefinity and Marketo integration now means that these two customer experiences can be intelligently connected,” said Robin Bordoli, Vice President of Partner Ecosystems at Marketo. “Data sharing between Sitefinity and Marketo means marketers can now personalize and synchronize content and themes across all channels and touch points with potential buyers, including web content and lead nurturing campaigns.”</blockquote>
Screenshots:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pr_screenshots_marketo780x0.jpg" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pr_screenshots_salesforce780x0.jpg" />
Learn more about <a href="/products/sitefinity/">Sitefinity</a>.

Telerik announces new connectors for Marketo and Salesforce.com

GOSS have now officially released the latest version of their content management system, the GOSS iCM (intelligent Content Management) v10.
Many high profile websites currently utilise GOSS' technology, including the BBC, the UK Met Office, and over 70 other UK public sector organisations. It goes without saying then, that GOSS has a solid history of success. A history they will hope to build upon with the launch of GOSS iCM v10.
The updated version of their CMS brings about a number of sweeping changes, including a brand new user interface, social media integration advancements, drag-and-drop editing and so forth.
GOSS have highlighted that many of their updates come in the face of restricted public sector budgets, and general belt tightening by most organisations. They aim to help cut costs by simplifying and streamlining a host of processes deemed vital to large corporations and governmental bodies. So, let's review the changes GOSS iCM v10 brings.
<h2>Integration on a Whole New Level</h2>
One way in which GOSS iCM v10 helps to minimize effort for users, is through some pretty extensive integration with other business tools, including social media, payment gateways, marketing applications and so on.
GOSS iCM v10 uses these media networks, SaaS (Software as a Service) systems and other platforms to help create a Single Customer View, which aggregates all of the data held on customers or individuals, by the company in question. 
The Single Customer View makes it easy to access this wide range of information within one, manageable interface. This information can include things like order statuses, service updates and more.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3.png" alt="GOSS iCM v10" />
The integration of SaaS systems and social media, will help organisations build a seamless link between their website and other tools offering more flexibility and more information, but with less work.
<h2>Enhanced Form Capabilities</h2>
GOSS have also worked hard on streamlining the processes surrounding online data forms, making it easier for organisations to create forms, and to offer their customers a more user friendly experience.
This is all thanks to GOSS iCM v10's newly improved drag-and-drop script editor, which allows administrators to quickly and easily build, modify and customize online forms.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.png" alt="GOSS iCM v10" />
Additionally, improved non-technical editing in the form of WYSIWYG editor, makes it simple for website administrators to implement changes surrounding online forms, as well as across the entire website itself. 
These improvements mean that administrators need to know nothing about coding in order to successfully build forms and create content, which will inevitably save both time and money in the long run.
<h2>Interface Changes, Sub-Site Creation &amp; More</h2>
On top of these integration enhancements and online form improvements, GOSS iCM v10 also brings about a wide range of other updates.
For example, administrators will benefit from a revamped control panel interface, with larger, clearer icons and faster navigation. Quick links and shortcuts can also be created, giving users fast access to different areas of their website, admin panel, and even third party applications.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2.png" alt="GOSS iCM v10" />
Another useful update, is the sub-site management feature. Many organisations create sub-sites to run events, promote products, and so forth. With GOSS iCM v10, administrators can create and manage sub-sites from their control panel, allowing their sub-sites to inherit the capabilities of their main site. This will make sub-site creation far easier, quicker and more manageable than ever before.
For full details on the points highlighted above, plus a long list of all updates and enhancements brought about by GOSS iCM v10, <a href="http://www.gossinteractive.com/v10-overview">check out GOSS' official overview of their v10 launch</a>.

GOSS iCM v10 Launched

Wow, some interesting news has come out of the Telerik camp this morning. Apparently, their flagship product, Sitefinity has hit 70,000 users which is a huge gain of 40,000 in the last 12 months. Ever more favourable is the news that 49 of those customers are in the Fortune 500. Pretty good statistics!
According to Martin Kirov, Executive Vice President for Telerik's Sitefinity:
<blockquote>“In 2013, we delivered the first truly mobile web content management platform that gives organizations the flexibility to pick the mobile strategy that's best for them, rather than one their vendor supports. But we've delivered so much more, too – whether aligning ourselves with the best services teams around the world or providing integrations with popular business technologies that enable organizations to deliver a more personal experience to their audience through richer context. We have no intention of slowing our innovation down. Look for more exciting announcements in the coming months.”</blockquote>
Sitefinity has also been the winner of a number of awards, namely:
<ul>
<li>American Business Awards (SM) (Stevie) “People's Choice Awards – Favorite Content Management Solution” and “New Product or Service of the Year – Software – Content Management Solution” – Gold Winner</li>
<li>KMWorld “2013 Trend-Setting Product” – Sitefinity 6 was selected by the panel because it demonstrates thoughtful, well-reasoned innovation and execution for the most important constituency: the customer.</li>
<li>International Business Awards(SM) (Stevie) “Best New Product or Service of the Year – Software – New Version” – Silver Winner – “Complete Mobile Strategies Now Possible with Telerik Sitefinity 6”</li>
<li>Golden Bridge Awards – Two finalist designations for “Mobile Innovative Products or Services” and “Mobile/Wireless Solutions”</li>
</ul>
<a href="/products/sitefinity/">Learn more about Sitefinity</a>

Telerik Sitefinity Adoption hits New High

Today, ClassDojo, one of the world’s fastest-growing education technology startups, is launching in Canada with language support for French and English, as well as 14 additional languages, including Spanish, German, and Chinese. Already, teachers and students in more than 120 countries are using ClassDojo in English; however, this launch marks the first time teachers within Canada can use ClassDojo in their native language to help develop their students’ behaviors and character strengths–like persistence, curiosity, creativity and hard work–that can improve both their academic–and lifetime–success.
ClassDojo is a web and mobile service for teachers to help them improve behavior with their students. It is extremely easy-to-use for teachers: they only need one device, such as a laptop or mobile device. All teachers need to do to is:
<ul>
<li>Sign up at <a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.classdojo.com</a></li>
<li>Add their class list</li>
<li>Select the positive behaviors they want to develop</li>
</ul>
Teachers can then easily reinforce the selected behaviors by giving students feedback points in real time, using a laptop or mobile device. When feedback is given, a visual and auditory cue is triggered that notifies the student of their progress. These feedback points are automatically stored, analyzed, and collated into progress reports that teachers can share with other teachers, administrators, parents, and students.
Since its launch in July 2011, ClassDojo has become the world’s fastest growing education startup: in the past year alone, the company has gone from 3.5 to 17 million teachers and students using the service. The tool has seen viral success with teachers across the globe using, recommending, and sharing ClassDojo with other teachers; this growth is unprecedented in education technology and highlights the demand by teachers for a solution to behavioral development in their classrooms.
<blockquote>
“Building positive behaviors is shown to improve a child’s academic and lifetime outcomes,” says ClassDojo co-founder, Sam Chaudhary. “Our goal is to help teachers address this ‘other half’ of education that goes beyond test scores, towards helping students build positive behaviors for learning and helping them become well-rounded individuals.”
</blockquote>
ClassDojo’s co-founders, Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don – a former teacher and education technology PhD respectively – have been vocal about having teachers guide the company’s product development from the very start. In fact, the added language support was spearheaded by groups of teachers using ClassDojo internationally that were eager to translate the site into their native language. Today’s launch furthers ClassDojo’s mission to help students all over the world develop the behaviors and character strengths they need for academic and lifetime success, in and out of the classroom.
ClassDojo is a web and mobile classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior and built positive learning habits and character strengths with their students. It is free for teachers. Find out more about ClassDojo here: <a href="http://www.classdojo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.classdojo.com</a>.

World's Fastest Growing Education Startup Launching in Canada

We are half way done the voting stage for People's Choice Awards and we've seen a huge response!
We have received thousands of votes in all categories and are getting close to the end of this years People's Choice awards. We're excited to begin announcing the winners of these awards throughout October.
Also during the month of October, the judges (to be announced here shortly) will begin deliberating on the various categories for the Critics Choice portion of the awards. This is where the judges choose the best of the best based on our experience and familiarity with the market.
We wanted to thank everyone for their participation in this years awards and for making it the single most popular awards program on the ‘net. We never expected it to take off as quickly as it did, but now that it has.. we have huge plans for next year.
So <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">keep on voting</a> and get ready for the announcements starting October 1, 2013.

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Content Management Vendor Nuxeo has announced that they have acquired an additionsal $3.8 million in funding from venture capital firms. This brings the total amount raised to $9.5 million to date.
Acording to Nuxeo, they will use the new capital to support their rapid growth in the U.S. market. Nuxeo launched a presence in the U.S. market in 2009, and has exceeded revenue expectations in the region in the past 3 years, with over 100% growth annually since 2011. The U.S. market now represents more than 50% of new subscription sales for the company.
The capital will support a range of activities, such as building out consulting and support teams, and expanding the sales presence in North America.
<blockquote>“Our product appeals to architects, developers, and project managers in technology-enabled companies,” said CEO Eric Barroca. “Nuxeo clients such as Electronic Arts, Sharp, FICO, Netflix, and Jeppesen/Boeing are using the Nuxeo Platform to build applications to solve problems in their particular business context. Our business model is based on annual subscriptions, so we are deeply invested in the success of our customers' projects. We've reached a stage in our growth where we need to expand so we can maintain our high standards for support and project guidance.”</blockquote>
Nuxeo's business model centers on a subscription offering that includes support, maintenance, and application design and deployment tools. Nuxeo is sustaining a monthly subscription renewal rate of 105% globally, indicating both a high level of customer satisfaction and bigger renewal contracts to accompany growing projects. This corresponds to a negative churn rate, which is much better than average for the software industry.
Learn more about <a href="/products/nuxeo/">Nuxeo</a>.

Nuxeo adds $3.8 million in funding

Jahia, today announces the availability of Jahia xCM 6.6.2 in Community and Enterprise distributions, and of Jahia Wise 1.8, its social and collaborative document sharing solution (Enterprise distribution).
These new versions are Services Packs resulting from continued collaboration with the community, which makes it possible to constantly enhance the user experience, performances and stability.
For all Jahia customer projects combining critical portal and content management aspects, these new versions mean significant improvements in terms of scalability, speed and stability, including:
<ul>
<li>For Jahia xCM, a significant improvement of response times when viewing and contributing to a project, with display times almost 50 percent faster; optimization of the clustering, making it possible to linearly extend the scalability of the consultation front end for web and mobile projects.</li>
<li>For Jahia Wise, the ability to manage up to 1 million documents while maintaining an optimal user experience.</li>
</ul>
Socomec and La Poste in France, Desjardins in Canada, the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, General Motors and Phoenix in the United States, to name but a few, recently selected Jahia over proprietary or Open Source competing solutions, for critical and complex projects. The choice made by these large organizations demonstrates that Jahia’s vision is consistent with the needs of enterprises: application convergence (portal, web, research, document, social, collaboration and mobile).
These recent deals allowed Jahia to achieve the best half-year results of its history with a growth of over 70 percent compared to the first half of 2012.
<blockquote>“We have been working jointly with members of our community, our clients and partners for over 10 years. This allows us to address the strategic challenges of large companies. Whether for portal, extranet, intranet, web or mobile projects, Jahia’s unparalleled portal/content unification naturally convinces them to choose our offering over all other solutions on the market. Developers, especially those working for our partners, appreciate the increased development speed provided by our exclusive tool – the Jahia Studio – and its suite of modules, when implementing digital portals. All this demonstrates that our platform is robust, feature-rich and relevant in the long term.” Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solution Group SA, comments.</blockquote>
Downloads and Migration Tools
<ul>
<li>Jahia xCM Community distribution (Windows and Linux) – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fcommunity-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Migration package from Jahia xCM 6610 to Jahia xCM 662 Community distribution – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fcommunity-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Jahia xCM Enterprise distribution (Windows and Linux) – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fenterprise-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Jahia Wise Enterprise distribution, migration packages for Jahia xCM and Wise Enterprise distribution – available on the client extranet.</li>
</ul>
Screenshots
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-interface250x0.png" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-workspace-home-page250x0.png" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-feeding-document-by-email250x0.png" />
More details on <a href="https://www.jahia.com/">Jahia xCM</a> and <a href="https://www.jahia.com/">Jahia Wise</a>

Jahia Announces the Availability of Jahia xCM 6.6.2 and Jahia Wise 1.8

The Jaws Project has announced a new update to the incredibly easy to use Jaws CMS.
<img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/control-panel835x0.png" />
This update offers tons of new features such as a new forums gadget, a comments gadget for centralize manage comments and much more.  Here's a quick summary of some of the updates in this release:
<ul>
<li>Added Forums gadget</li>
<li>Added Comments gadget for centralize manage comments</li>
<li>Added Jaws_ORM</li>
<li>Added mootools framework as default javascript library</li>
<li>Added support dynamic ACLs</li>
<li>Added BBCode plugin</li>
<li>Added inline playing audio/videos by using BBCode plugin</li>
<li>Added HTTP errors handling to UrlMapper gadget</li>
<li>Added installing jaws with sample data</li>
<li>Added some new actions: online user, online statistics and latest registered users</li>
<li>Added CAPTCHA to login box for security reason</li>
<li>Added authentication type selection to front-end login box</li>
<li>Added profile, about and contacts actions to Users gadget</li>
<li>and much more.</li>
</ul>
For more details on this release, follow their home page link.

Jaws Project releases new updates to Jaws CMS

After being founded in 2007, SocialGO has grown from strength to strength, becoming one of the best social networking CMS available today, supporting well over 400,000 websites.
SocialGo actually offers two separate social platform builders. SocialGo Classic is the option which allows you to use pre-set configurations to quickly create a social network. Alternatively, SocialGo Pro offers a wider range of features, directed at more experienced users who are aiming to create a fully customizable, feature rich social website.
Both options allow you to get your website and content online within minutes, in a way which is professional and socially optimized. You can be completely hands-on, by editing themes and creating custom pages, or you can opt for a more hands-off option, allowing the SocialGO experts to take on the task of building your social website for you.
<h2>Extensive Social Features</h2>
Since SocialGO is all about social networking, it's vital that it gives our users the ability to utilize their handles from the biggest social media websites around, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Your users will be able to sign up with your website quickly and easily via Facebook, embed videos and images from YouTube and Flickr, and more.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3.png" alt="SocialGo" />
SocialGO Pro users will also be able to offer their members access to a Twitter sign up option alongside the standard Facebook feature, advancing an already solid social integration feature.
Whether you are looking to build a social network from scratch, or offer a new residence for an existing one, having these integrated social features is vital for any online community. This is down to the fact that, instead of competing with the giants of social media, SocialGO enables you to use them for the benefit of your members.
<h2>Leave it to the Pros</h2>
If you're weary of setting up your social network, SocialGO offers a service to help give you the running start you need.
From as little as $250, SocialGO offer three comprehensive design and build packages. The packages ensure that your website is built by SocialGo's professionals, who will take your brand and idea, and put them into action for you. Once they're done, you will have a social network which is aesthetically pleasing, and tailored to your own taste.
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Services offered within the packages include bespoke theme designs, custom pages, headers and even CSS coding. What's more is, SocialGO also offer search engine optimization services, logos and a 3 year redesign.
<h2>Everything You Need to Build a Thriving Community</h2>
As well as service to design and build your SocialGO website as previously mentioned, you can also rest assured that you won't be left without the right tools once you begin recruiting members, marketing, expanding and even monetizing your online community.
SocialGO gives you everything you need to build a successful social network, and then some. For example, you can monetize your online community via membership fees, which can be paid via PayPal and ClickandBuy.
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Additionally, you and your members can enjoy the functions of instant messaging, video chat, blogs, forums, and much more. You also don't need to worry about the size of your community, as SocialGO allows you to have an unlimited number of members.
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Overall, SocialGO offers a pretty comprehensive social network building solution, dividing their services into both the Classic and Pro platforms. Both platforms have their advantages, with one being suited to a quick, streamlined launch, whilst the other enables you to take a more detailed and executive approach to building your social network or online community.
Whichever of the two platforms you opt for, you can take comfort in the fact that SocialGO has a solid history and a thriving user base, both of which prove the effectiveness of their community building products.
Sound good? Find out more about SocialGO, or check out their 14-day free trial.

SocialGO: Online Community Building Made Easy

2012 was the first year we decided to step up and fill the void in the CMS community by bringing the Critic's Choice CMS Awards to the world. We never expected it to turn into such an amazing success and are very excited that it's received (and continues to receive) such great interest throughout the world. 
As you know, we have two portions of the awards; the People's Choice (where the public votes and chooses their favorites) and the Critic's Choice portion (where judges select the best of the best).
This year, we've brought on two additional judges to work with us on the hard task of selecting the cream of the crop for the Critic's Choice portion of the awards and we've got a few new categories to consider as well.
Here are the categories for this year's Critic's Choice CMS Awards:
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<li>Best Free CMS</li>
<li>Best Open Source CMS</li>
<li>Best SMB CMS</li>
<li>Best Enterprise CMS</li>
<li>Best ECommerce Solution</li>
<li>Best Website Builder</li>
<li>Best Forum Solution</li>
<li>Best Social Networking Solution</li>
<li>Best Hosted / Cloud CMS</li>
</ul>
and our additional categories this year include:
<ul>
<li>Best New CMS</li>
<li>Most Innovative Solution</li>
</ul>
Over the next few days, we'll introduce you to the judges for this years awards and give you more details on their background and why they were selected. Stay tuned!

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