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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/gutensite-responsive-website-design.jpg" /></p>
<p>If you’ve been around web designers much in the last year, you can’t have missed the buzzing excitement (and a few tears of joy) around the growing use of “<strong>responsive website design</strong>” (RWD) and the compelling case for <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2013/03/26/why-you-need-to-prioritize-responsive-design-right-now/">why having a responsive website is critical for your business</a>. The web is a wild and crazy place, with constantly evolving demands to support new technology and changing standards to meet those needs. We have known that mobile audiences were important, but until now there hasn’t been a simple solution for creating a “mobile version” of your website.</p>
<p>A beautifully designed, responsive website is the mobile friendly solution we’ve all been waiting for. Responsive design allows you to have one website which resizes it’s text and images and realigns it’s layout to fit any sized screen, be it phone, tablet or desktop computer, shaken, flipped, or stirred. It’s elegant, and it just works. Having one website that does it all makes it easy to edit in one place, which simplifies managing SEO as well. </p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/gutensite_-_compare_profiles_on_responsive932x0.jpg" alt="Compare the Responsive Gutensite Profiles on Desktop and Mobile" /></p>
<p>View one of the <a href="http://businessdemo.gutensite.com">Gutensite Demos</a> on your smartphone or open it up on your computer and resize your browser to make it the size of a phone screen and watch how it automagically “responds” to the new size. It's really fun!</p>
<p>Even many big CMS/website builders like Wix, haven’t converted to responsive design yet (it’s easier said than done for dynamic user generated content, particularly a WYSIWYG editor). For companies like Gutensite, which are known for cutting edge design, going 100% responsive was a major priority. This month, Gutensite finished a major platform upgrade to support native responsive design. Gutensite also released several brand <a href="http://www.gutensite.com/Free-Website-Designs">new free responsive templates</a> and redesigned nearly all of their existing free templates to be responsive. All the specialty content types were also redesigned. And of course all new custom designs are responsive. The response from our customers has been overwhelming!</p>
<p>If you browse through one of the <a href="http://churchdemo.gutensite.com/">demos</a> you’ll get to see a wide variety of pages in action, like this <a href="http://businessdemo.gutensite.com/About-Us/Calendar-Home">beautiful new calendar</a> which shifts to a list view when it gets to phone size. All this brand new design also looks beautiful on regular desktop computers too!</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/gutensite_-_compare_responsive_calendar_on_mobile932x0.jpg" alt="Compare the Responsive Gutensite Calendar on Desktop and Mobile" /></p>
<p>According to a <a href="http://mashable.com/2010/04/13/mobile-web-stats/">recent report by Morgan Stanley</a>, by 2015 more people will access the internet through mobile devices than desktop computers. And you’ve also probably heard that <a href="http://readwrite.com/2011/02/07/smartphones_outsell_pcs">smartphone sales have exceeded desktop computer sales</a>, with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-the-massive-growth-of-mobile-media-consumption-means-for-the-mobile-industry-2013-8">tablets growing 83% in 2013 while desktop shipments dropped 13%</a>. The desktop computer is still the preferred device for serious work (we love our big screens). But the convenience of smartphones is undeniable, whether you are browsing the latest news while you are waiting in line at the grocery store, or searching for information about a business you are visiting.</p>
<p>The importance of the mobile audience is no longer possible to ignore. And now that there are so many affordable platforms like Gutensite, which natively provide mobile friendly websites out of the box, there is no longer any excuse to have a website that isn’t mobile.</p>
<p>If your website hasn’t been updated in a few years and isn’t responsive yet, you should find a progressive CMS platform, and have them help you migrate all your existing content to create a brand new site. For most businesses, migration is easy. Aside from being mobile friendly, you’ll also probably appreciate the other <a href="http://www.gutensite.com/Popular-Website-Features">features</a> and great <a href="http://www.gutensite.com/Website-Support">support</a> you’ve been missing.</p>
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Gutensite Gets Fluid with Mobile Responsive Design

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<p>If you've been waiting to cast your vote for your favorites in the People's Choice Awards, now is the time to do so.</p><p>Voting has officially opened and you may now <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">cast your vote</a>! So head on over to our <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">awards page</a> and submit your favorites.</p><p>If you are in the running, we have created a handy badge you can use to spur interest...</p><p>Simply download the graphic (shown below) and link it to <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">https://www.cmscritic.com/critics-choice-cms-awards/</a>.</p><p>For those who missed it, here are the nominees in each category:</p><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Open Source CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-open-source-cms-nominees">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://modx.com/">MODx</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.dnnsoftware.com/">DNN Platform</a></li><li><a href="/products/liferay">Liferay</a></li><li><a href="/products/processwire/">Processwire</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://e107.org/">e107</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Free CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-free-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://processwire.com/">Processwire</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://tiki.org/HomePage">Tiki</a></li><li><a href="/products/concrete-cms">Concrete5</a></li><li><a href="/products/wordpress/">WordPress</a></li><li><a href="/products/umbraco/">Umbraco</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Small to Midsize Business CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-small-to-midsize-business-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>Adobe Business Catalyst</li><li><a href="/products/ingeniux/">Ingeniux</a></li><li><a href="/products/kentico/">Kentico</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.percussion.com/">Percussion</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.progress.com/sitefinity-cms">Sitefinity</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Enterprise CMS</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-enterprise-cms-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.adobe.com/solutions/web-experience-management.html">Adobe Experience Manager</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hannonhill.com/products/cascade-cms/index.html">Cascade Server</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.optimizely.com/">EpiServer</a></li><li><a href="/products/liferay/">Liferay</a></li><li><a href="/products/sitecore/">Sitecore</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best eCommerce Solution </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-ecommerce-solution-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>3dcart</li><li>Aspxcommerce</li><li><a href="/products/bigcommerce/">BigCommerce</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://business.adobe.com/products/magento/magento-commerce.html">Magento</a></li><li><a href="/products/shopify/">Shopify</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Website Builder</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-website-builder-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li>Adobe Business Catalyst</li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.jimdo.com/">Jimdo</a></li><li><a href="/products/squarespace/">Squarespace</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ucoz.com/">UCoz</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.webydo.com/">Webydo</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Forum Solution </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-peoples-choice-for-best-forum-solution-nominees">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://vanillaforums.org/">Vanilla Forums</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://nodebb.org/">NodeBB</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.simplemachines.org/">Simple Machines Forum</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.vbulletin.com/">VBulletin</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.invisionpower.com/">Invision Power Board (IPBoard)</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Social Networking Solution</a></h3><p>2013 Nominees ( <a href="/announcing-the-people-s-choice-for-best-social-networking-solution-nominees/">read the announcement </a>):</p><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.dnnsoftware.com/products/evoq-engage">Evoq Social</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.phpfox.com/">PHPFox</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.oxwall.com/">Oxwall</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.socialcore.com">SocialCore</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://socialengine.com/">Social Engine</a></li></ol><h3><a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Best Hosted/Cloud CMS </a> (New for 2013!)</h3><ol><li><a target="_blank" href="http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-cloud">Acquia Cloud</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://agilitycms.com/">Agility CMS</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.paperthin.com/products/commonspot-cms.cfm">CommonSpot</a></li><li>Gutensite</li></ol><p>Best of luck to all who are in the running!</p>

It's Official! Voting is Now Open for the People's Choice Awards!

<p>A new category in this year's awards is the People's Choice for Best Hosted / Cloud CMS. This new award was designed to recognize those vendors that offer primarily SaaS (Software as a Service) Content Management Systems.</p>
<p>Here are the nominees for this year:</p>
<h3>Acquia Cloud</h3>
<p>Acquia's open cloud platform delivers scalability, security, and high performance for your Drupal sites. Acquia Cloud is the only solution that helps everyone from professional developers to large enterprises achieve success in Drupal application lifecycle management.</p>
<p><a href="http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-cloud">Learn More.</a></p>
<h3>Agility CMS</h3>
<p>Agility helps media companies and brands maximize the value of their online content. Their content management system and solutions are geared to improve profitability of the online channel by increasing traffic, boosting advertising revenue, and promoting conversions while decreasing the time and cost of keeping content up to date. Their software is designed with the entire production team in mind offering a fresh and easy solution for content management across the board.</p>
<p><a href="/products/agility-cms/">Learn More.</a></p>
<h3>Gutensite</h3>
<p>Gutensite would be a great platform for a wide range of websites, from simple brochure sites to enterprise, mission-critical websites that need advanced customization. It has the cost advantages and the simplicity of a shared hosting website builder, but it's a platform that can grow with you, because like an open-source CMS literally anything can be customized. Gutensite for those that value good design and need customer support or a dedicated webmaster.</p>
<p><a href="/products/gutensite/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>CommonSpot</h3>
<p>PaperThin's web content management system CommonSpot is designed to specifically address the requirements of web content management, web experience management, brand management, social media management, document management, and community management while satisfying the needs of digital marketers and business users at every technical level. CommonSpot is a complete web content management solution that helps you publish content instantly, and intelligently.</p>
<p><a href="/products/commonspot/">Learn more.</a></p>
<p>Best of luck to all who were nominated and see you at the voting stage September 1, 2013!</p>


Announcing the People's Choice for Best Hosted / Cloud CMS Nominees!

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<p>The popular, open-source platform MODX Revolution have today released version 2.2.9 of their CMS, alongside a significant Software Development Kit distribution.</p>
<p>The SDK distribution includes “ext-all-debug.js and ext-base-debug.js”, which developers should find handy. These distributions, along with a summarised list of the main updates introduced by Revolution 2.2.9, can be seen below.</p>
<h2>What's New</h2>
<p>Creative Freedom is the slogan used by MODX, and version 2.2.9 of their platform aptly gives their strong fan base that extra bit of creative power, through means of SDK enhancements and other upgrades. These include,</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved Manager experience and performance</li>
<li>Ext JS has been upgraded to 3.4.1.1, which supports IE10 and fixes several IE9 and IE8 bugs</li>
<li>Ext JS debug support has been added to the SDK distribution</li>
<li>Increased stability with an xPDO upgrade and several bugfixes</li>
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<p>Revolution 2.2.9 also introduces patches to help bolster security, fix bugs and enhance the user interface. For a full break-down of the changes brought about by Revolution 2.2.9, you can check out MODX's complete <a href="https://raw.github.com/modxcms/revolution/v2.2.9-pl/core/docs/changelog.txt">changelog file</a>.</p>
<h2>MODX Revolution 2.3 Incoming</h2>
<p>Perhaps the most exciting aspect relating to the release of MODX Revolution 2.2.9, is that it has been accompanied by the news that the very next update, will be the eagerly anticipated Revolution 2.3.</p>
<p>MODX have claimed that “Amazing things” are to be expected from the approaching update, which will only fuel the flames of anticipation for MODX users everywhere. </p>
<p>To find out more about MODX Revolution 2.2.9, or to delve deeper into the features we've mentioned above, check out <a href="http://modx.com/blog/2013/08/29/revolution-2.2.9-sdk-release-and-more/">MODX's official release notes</a>. Alternatively, you can cut to the chase and simply <a href="http://modx.com/download/">download MODX Revolution 2.2.9 here</a>.</p>
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MODX Revolution 2.2.9 Released

<p>Sometimes, you just want an extremely simple store, offering some extremely simple products. Yet too many e-commerce CMS often make the process of setting up and populating an online store lengthier than it has to be.</p><p>With Wazala! you can have an elegantly simple online store ready to go within minutes.</p><p>Essentially, Wazala! allows you to add a store to your website in a rather unique way. Instead of having to build and design an entirely new page or section of your website, Wazala! enables you to beautifully overlay your store on top of an existing web page.</p><p>Unsure of what I mean? Allow me to explain.</p><h2>A Store from Within</h2><p>Wazala! allows you to create a store, unlike traditional online stores. Wazala! brings a button to your website, which activates the storefront. Your website's web page is dimmed, and your store is presented to the user over the top of it, without leaving the page.</p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/1700x0.png" alt="Wazala!" /></p><p>Adding an online store to your website in this way means, you won't have to worry about building a new section of your site. The store is simply there, within the pages of your website.</p><p>Alternatively, if you would prefer that your store is presented in a more traditional way, Wazala! have you covered there too.</p><p>As well as being able to overlay your online store, you can also have your store located on a separate page on your website, or even embedded into an existing page, making it look more integrated.</p><h2>Simple Yet Detailed</h2><p>Without doubt, the appeal of Wazala! lies mainly in it's elegant, minimalistic design. But on top of its aesthetic simplicity, Wazala! still has some useful features to help get the most out of your store.</p><p>Wazala! excels at getting your products online extremely fast, but it also does a great job of helping you market and evaluate the progress of your store in a more constructive way.</p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/2700x0.png" alt="Wazala!" /><br />For example, as the store admin, you can access in-store analytics within your dashboard screen, which presents the sales and revenue made over certain periods of time. You can also view customer details, total store views, and much more.</p><p>Additionally, Wazala! gives you a helping hand when it comes to marketing your products. Using the admin panel, you can create coupons that give customers access to discounts in a variety of ways.</p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/4700x0.png" alt="Wazala!" /></p><p>Your coupons can cover the entire store, or simply a small selection of products or categories, and can also run between dates which can be easily set and modified at will. You may also set percentage discounts, or make the discounts value-based, allowing you to market them as both discount coupons and gift vouchers.</p><p>Other features include inventory tracking, the ability to receive payments through PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize, and even the option to sell both physical and digital products.</p><h2>Hugely Accessible</h2><p>As previously mentioned, Wazala! allows you to present your store within your website in a variety of different ways, including embedding and overlaying. However, the accessibility and presentation features don't end there.</p><p>Wazala! also enables you to reach your customers via a variety of platforms and networks, in a way that suits their needs.</p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/5700x0.png" alt="Wazala!" /></p><p>Your Wazala! store will come fully optimized for mobile web browsers, which means that customers browsing your store from a mobile device will be able to do so seamlessly. All features available to desktop users are a the fingertips of mobile users, including the ability to pay and checkout.</p><p>What's more is, Wazala! stores can be integrated into many popular CMS, including WordPress, Wix, <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a> and Blogger. Additionally, you can even integrate your store into social networks like Facebook and Tumblr.</p><p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/6700x0.png" alt="Wazala!" /></p><p>To further extend the accessibility of Wazala! there is an incredibly easy way for your customers to switch between languages whilst they browse through your products. No less than 15 languages are available, ensuring that your store can be enjoyed by an audience from across the globe.</p><p><i>Sound good? check out their </i><a target="_blank" href="https://www.wazala.com/"><i>15-day free trial</i></a><i>.</i><br /> </p>

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<p>Webnodes AS, a company developing a .NET based semantic content management system, today announced the release of version 4.5 of their CMS, with several significant improvements including ontology merging, more options for load balancing setup and content synchronizations between installations.</p>
<h2>New load balancing set up and content synchronization</h2>
<p>Due to the size and complexity of recent web applications projects and online banking systems, Webnodes found a need for improved functions and better options for load balancing. As a natural next step, Webnodes also introduced support for content synchronization between different installations.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The setup of load balancing is now easier and more flexible than ever. Internally the system is separated into 8 core components. Where each of these core systems can be installed on separate servers and multiplied as needed. Externally, the systems acts as one installation, where all internal components automatically communicate and updates each other. The core components are: frontend servers (for html), edit servers, background worker servers, query cache server, content cache server, content delivery, text indexing servers and database server”, says Ole Gulbrandsen, CTO of Webnodes.</p></blockquote>
<p>The new content synchronization engine has several purposes:</p>
<ul>
<li>It can synchronize identical versions of the same websites located in separate hosting environments. This enables complete redundancy, extreme scalability and reduced latency.</li>
<li>The content synchronization works on websites with different content and data models (everything is based on GUIDs). It can synchronize only selected parts of content and data.</li>
<li>Development and staging environments. It can be used by developers to move content from a staging environment to a live server without any downtime.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Ontology merging system</h2>
<p>The new ontology merging system in Webnodes, makes it possible to merge together two conceptually divergent ontologies or the instance data associated with two different ontologies. With this new and unique functionality, Webnodes provides a complete framework for synchronizing content, code and data models between any Webnodes installation.</p>
<h2>OData V3 and SSL support</h2>
<p>Webnodes reconfirms its position as a leading provider of the OData protocol in the CMS segment. OData has become a well-used and popular protocol for several Webnodes clients, on how to share and reuse data in machine-readable formats between different applications and websites. Webnodes now supports all the new functions in OData V3.</p>
<p>Webnodes also supports SSL for securing OData services where clients will be providing user names and passwords and authenticating using Forms Authentication.</p>
<h2>Improved user interface with SignalR support</h2>
<p>The edit user interface has been completely overhauled and improved utilizing SignalR technology:</p>
<blockquote><p>“SignalR has proven to be a great technology that have helped us improve the responsiveness and overall performance of the Webnodes edit interface. Editors will have a much nicer user experience in version 4.5”, says Vidar Langberget – Chief Developer at Webnodes</p></blockquote>
<h2>Other improvements in version 4,5</h2>
<ul>
<li>Improved internal cache settings – average website will see a speed gain in the 20-50% range, in addition to reduced memory usage by &gt;50%.</li>
<li>“Leading wildcard” support in Lucene PNG image compression that reduces the size of a PNG image by about 40-70% without visible differences.</li>
<li>Support for SQL express 11.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.webnodes.com/">Learn more about Webnodes.</a></p>
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<p>Content curation is a concept that has been on the rise over the last couple of years. Curation, derived from the Latin word ‘cura' which essentially means to care of or oversee something, basically means the collection and presentation of content in a way that is interesting and useful to the end user. A recent survey revealed that each Facebook user created about 90 pieces of content each month. There are currently more than a billion people using Facebook as of July of this year. Do the math and you’ll realize that people love finding, creating and sharing content. With the explosion of the internet and social media, people all over the world are looking to make sense of content and are wanting to have a platform where someone has already done the hard work so they can simply congregate on a forum and take what is meaningful to them, served up in bite-size information that’s easy to take in.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/content-curation.jpg" alt="Content Curation" /></p>
<p>Content curators are thus tasked with the responsibility of collecting links, resources and posts from all over the internet and coming up with interest portals (think Pinterest, but with text) that people can use in the here and now. You might be tempted to think of this system as being an automated one (much like Google news). Content curation is far from being automated as people expect something that has a human element, as well as something that is interactive whereby they can leave responses and get answers to the same.</p>
<p>Content curation is especially important for organizations that want to be recognizable brands as it gives them a platform to establish thought leadership and stand out from the millions of competing companies. One such media company that has been able to do this is Huffington Post, whose blog currently tops the Alexa Global Traffic Rank. This means that people trust and access the HuffPost webpage and series of blogs to get up-to-date information regarding current news and affairs. Some people may point out that HuffPost is just a vacuous media company with inane stories about celebrities and random animals doing funny things, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that web users gravitate towards the website to glean valuable information as it breaks.</p>
<p>A great way of visualizing the process of content curation would be to think back to your childhood and remembering those years when you spent time cutting up photos and putting them in a scrapbook. If you never did that, I’m sure you at least had photos of your favorite celebrities or bands on your bedroom wall. As your interests changed, so did the media on your bedroom wall and scrapbook. This means that even before the advent of social media, people were content hunters and gatherers in the simplest form of the word. In 2013, the same people who did this in during their childhood and in their teens are wanting an easier way of curating content, and this is where you come in as a content curator.</p>
<p>There are three tenets governing content curation, and they are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Seek</li>
<li>Sense</li>
<li>Share</li>
</ol>
<p>Seeking information involves doing some research on the topics you want to cover and organizing your sources. You can spend half an hour doing this on a daily basis, spending 15 minutes in the morning and the remainder late in the afternoon or evening. You want to scan information, blog posts and web content and capture only high quality links in preparation for the second stage of the curation process.</p>
<p>Making sense of it all requires you to have a keen eye regarding what works and what doesn’t, as well as how all this information fits together in the bigger scheme of things. For example, you may write a post and include links leading out to other articles and news pieces that expound on the topic that you’re covering. You may also need to know how to annotate links and archive the information you’re presenting for future access. This should you anywhere between 30 minutes to a full hour each day.</p>
<p>Sharing is the last part of the process, and it involves sharing the best bits of information and posts in a way that adds value to your reader. You can do this via social media, as well as via email and influential websites such as LinkedIn.</p>
<p>The most important aspect of content curation has to be consistency. You want to develop a relationship with your readers or followers and have a reputation for providing them with insightful content that can enrich their lives on a daily basis. This is especially important for web-based businesses that are wanting to convert followers into customers. The truth is that once you earn the trust of your audience, they’ll be more willing to purchase whatever physical or digital items you have to offer.</p>
<p>Here’s a list of content curation tools to help you tell your story to a waiting audience:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://get.meddle.it/">Meddle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://opentopic.com/">Opentopic</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.storify.com">Storify</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Please leave your thoughts and comments in the text box below and share with us your content curation strategies.</p>
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Content Curation – Building Your Brand via Targeted Story Telling

<p>Social Networking is huge nowadays and there are plenty of solutions on the market. This year, we've had a number of nominations for Best Social Networking Solution and today, we're pleased to announce this year's nominees for the People's Choice award.</p>
<p>They are:</p>
<h3>Oxwall</h3>
<p>Oxwall is an unbelievably flexible and easy-to-use PHP/MySQL social networking software platform that also happens to be the winner of our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/peoples-choice-winner-for-best-social-networking-solution-is/">2012 People’s Choice Awards for Best Social Network Software. </a> There is a hosted edition (called Wall.fm) and the downloadable version which is available on the Oxwall website.</p>
<p><a href="/products/oxwall/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>SocialCore (formerly OneSite)</h3>
<p>SocialCore is a complete community software platform offering social network and content management tools. Build sites using a drag and drop modular layout. With our platform-agnostic approach, functionality can be extended using our widgets, plugins, APIs, and SDKs. Whether building a social destination or expanding an existing site, our tools can be used to create a new valuable experience for your users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.socialcore.com/platform">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Evoq Social</h3>
<p>Evoq Social, formerly known as DNN Social, is a business solution that fosters and enhances social conversations via its online community platform. Gain valuable insights that can lead to new product ideas and new sales opportunities.</p>
<p><a href="/products/dnn-evoq-social/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>PHPFox</h3>
<p>phpFox is a social network software that gives you the ability to create a unique community that includes many of the features found on sites like Facebook and MySpace. It is well supported, has a large community, and is quite popular. There are numerous add-ons, themes, and various other integrations for the system that make it an excellent choice for those in the market. phpFox has also won our 2012 Critic’s Choice Award for <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/critics-choice-for-best-social-network-software-is/">Best Social Network Software</a>.</p>
<p><a href="/products/phpfox/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Social Engine</h3>
<p>SocialEngine PHP gives you a simple, unbranded network that you can customize in any way. You’ll have the freedom to maintain fine-grained control over all aspects of your site and content.</p>
<p><a href="/products/social-engine">Learn more.</a></p>
<p>Congratulations to all who were nominated. Best of luck! Remember, voting begins September 1, 2013, so be sure to check back then to cast a vote for your favorite!</p>


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<p>This year, the Best Small to Midsize Business CMS category was quite active with far more nominations than we expected from a variety of great products that are on the market today.</p>
<p>We are very happy to announce this year's nominees for the 2013 People's Choice award for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS.</p>
<p>Don't forget to check back on September 1, 2013 to begin voting on the <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">awards page</a>.</p>
<h3>Adobe Business Catalyst</h3>
<p>Business Catalyst (BC) is an all-in-one business website and online marketing solution, built for web designers. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.</p>
<p><a href="/products/adobe-business-catalyst/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Ingeniux</h3>
<p>Ingeniux is the only web experience management platform architected for the cloud. Featuring unparalleled scalability, lower total cost of ownership, and innovative content management software, Ingeniux empowers organizations to manage world-class websites and vibrant online communities across desktop web, mobile, and tablet devices.</p>
<p><a href="/products/ingeniux/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Evoq</h3>
<p>Evoq Content, formerly known as DotNetNuke Professional Edition, is a business solution that helps bring your website to life with captivating content and engaging interactions. Users can add and edit content through a standard browser with no IT support.</p>
<p><a href="/products/dnn-evoq-content/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Percussion CM1</h3>
<p>Percussion makes it easy and affordable to design and maintain an engaging and modern website. Drive change quickly to the web to increase leads and conversion rates.</p>
<p><a href="/products/percussion/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Sitefinity</h3>
<p>Sitefinity by Telerik is an ASP.NET web content management platform engineered to make managing your website a more positive, empowering and usable experience. Sitefinity is the first and only CMS to enable enterprises to take full advantage of all three mobile development strategies— Responsive Web Design, mobile websites, and mobile apps, easily and effectively—and all from one CMS user interface.</p>
<p><a href="/products/sitefinity/">Learn more.</a></p>
<p>Best of luck to all who were nominated! Be sure to check back on September 1, 2013 to begin the voting process.</p>


Announcing the People's Choice for Best Small to Midsize Business CMS Nominees!

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<p>We have completed sorting through the incredible number of nominations that came in for the People's Choice for Best Website Builder and we are proud to announce the following nominees for this year's award.</p>
<p>This is a new category just added in 2013 and the response has been massive!</p>
<p>We are looking forward to seeing who comes out on top from the People's Choice perspective and don't forget, we've also got a Critics Choice portion which will be selected by a panel of judges, so if your favorites weren't shortlisted this time, they may be for the next portion of the awards.</p>
<p>Without further delay, here are the nominees for Best Website Builder (People's Choice).</p>
<h3>Adobe Business Catalyst</h3>
<p>Business Catalyst (BC) is an all-in-one business website and online marketing solution, built for web designers. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites.</p>
<p><a href="/products/adobe-business-catalyst/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Jimdo</h3>
<p>Jimdo is the easiest way to create a website. With a simple, intuitive interface, Jimdo enables anyone to create a unique website with a blog and online store. Our motto—Pages to the People!—sums up our mission: Put the power of website creation into everyone's hands. Whether you want to start a business, promote your music, or simply share photos with your friends and family, you can create your home on the web with Jimdo.</p>
<p><a href="/products/jimdo/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Squarespace</h3>
<p>Squarespace is one of the most popular website builders on the market. With an extremely easy to use interface that's sleek and “gets out of your way”, they are definitely a top contender. For those on the fence, they offer a free trial with no credit card required. Most people who get the free trial end up buying so they must be doing something right!</p>
<p><a href="/products/squarespace/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Ucoz</h3>
<p>UCoz is a website builder that offers integrated ecommerce, blogging &amp; more. It is one of the top sites for Russian Speaking users and currently, there are over a million websites hosted on the uCoz platform.</p>
<p><a href="/products/ucoz/">Learn more.</a></p>
<h3>Webydo</h3>
<p>Webydo is a professional web suite that enables graphic designers to create and manage exceptional HTML websites, without writing code. With this sophisticated online software, designers can bring any design to life and with a click of a button, publish an advanced HTML website with a friendly built-in CMS for the website owner.</p>
<p><a href="/products/webydo/">Learn more.</a></p>
<p>And there you have it, folks! Our nominees for Best Website Builder in the People's Choice portion of our CMS awards. Check back on the 1st of September to begin voting. Best of luck to all of the nominees.</p>


Announcing the People's Choice for Best Website Builder Nominees!

<p>This is the first year we've had this category and we had tons of participation from the various ECommerce vendors on the market and those who use them. Thank you for making this nomination period such a great success. Some of the nominations were a close call but we've broken it down to the final nominees for the People's Choice award for Best ECommerce Solution for 2013.</p><p>Here they are:</p><h3>3dCart</h3><p>3dcart is a powerful online store builder and e-commerce solution that offers a staggering list of features for those looking to transact business online. If you are in the market for an exceptional platform for your store, this is a great product to consider. They offer a 15-day free trial that allows you to play around with their excellent software to see if it suits your needs. With 24/7 free premium technical support, quick setup, and no transaction fees, 3dCart is definitely a solid option to consider.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.shift4shop.com/">Learn more.</a></p><h3>AspxCommerce</h3><p>AspxCommerce offers a complete e-commerce solution that allows you to build and run your fully functional online store in minutes. You can create your storefront; manage the products through categories and subcategories, accept payments through credit cards and ship the ordered products to the customers. We have everything set up for you so that you can only focus on building your own online store.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.aspxcommerce.com/">Learn more.</a></p><h3>BigCommerce</h3><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bigcommerce.com/">Bigcommerce</a> is an excellent online store builder that offers a plethora of features ranging from your own custom domain name to a ton of great integrations with products such as MailChimp, analytics and more. As with most, they offer a free trial as well so you can see how the product works.</p><p><a href="/products/bigcommerce">Learn more.</a></p><h3>Magento</h3><p>Magento is an open-source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. Magento uses several key coding practices that make the system both versatile and adaptable both as a web platform and as an e-commerce platform.</p><p><a href="/products/adobe-commerce">Learn more.</a></p><h3>Shopify</h3><p>Shopify is an excellent choice for those in search of the best online store out there. They offer a 14 day free trial on all of their plans and they offer a number of reasonable pricing plans for any size of online store.</p><p><a href="/products/shopify/">Learn more.</a></p><p>Congratulations to all who were nominated. Remember, voting starts September 1, 2013, so be prepared to vote for your favorites!</p>

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<p>A new release of Umbraco CMS has been made available. Version 6.1.4 is primarily a bug fix but also includes some performance enhancements.</p>
<p>For those who are interested, the full release log can be found here: <a href="http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/releases/614">http://our.umbraco.org/contribute/releases/614.</a></p>
<p>From the announcement:</p>
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<p>A little bonus for the NuGet lovers out there: If you are using the Publish-feature in Visual Studio you should be happy to know that we now have a build script included that makes sure to copy the umbraco and umbraco_client folders (which are not included in the Visual Studio solution) to the deploy package or file system.</p></blockquote>
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