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

msalvatierra

eZ Exceed 2.0 is the latest release of the popular extension for eZ Publish that makes the editorial workflow more efficient. . Exceed 2.0 is more intuitive and was made for content creators. With this extension, you can work up to 50% faster on either desktop, tablet or smartphone.
Here's a quick video showcasing the product in action:
http://youtu.be/PH8vdV0Yyas
Installed Exceed for eZ Publish takes about 15 minutes and the benefits are obvious right away. There are also iOS apps that you can use to edit and review content on different devices. «Mirror Browsing» in Exceed lets you mirror your desktop browsing to your iPad and iPhone. This makes checking your responsive sites a breeze.
Visit <a href="http://try.ezexceed.no/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://try.ezexceed.no</a> – and login to click around and test Exceed.

New eZ Exceed 2.0 offers faster and more efficient editorial workflow

mike-johnston

As I'm sure you already know, given the amount of coverage in the media about this story, Yahoo has purchased the extremely popular microblogging platform, Tumblr for $1.1 Billion dollars.
Given Yahoo's rather checkered past, what do you make of this purchase? How do you think it's going to affect Tumblr as a platform? What do you think it will do to Tumblr's “cool factor”?
Yahoo hasn't had the best luck with acquisitions. It picked up Delicious and basically destroyed the popular bookmarking platform. Sure, it still exists and is used but it's a shell of its former self. The same applies to the former web darling, Flickr.
Adding fuel to the fire, WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg has <a href="http://ma.tt/2013/05/yahooblr/" target="_blank">pointed out</a> on his personal blog that they've seen a huge number of people jumping ship from Tumblr to WordPress.com
<blockquote>
Imports have actually spiked on the rumors even though it’s Sunday: normally we import 400-600 posts an hour from Tumblr, last hour it was over 72,000
</blockquote>
Now, having said that, this is really a drop in the bucket to Tumblr who boasts a huge 109.5 million blogs on the platform but if the migration keeps up (and I'm sure we'll find out soon enough if it does) then this could be a sign of bad things coming.
Personally, I'd like to see Yahoo! pull this one off correctly. As long as they keep their horrible Yahoo! sign in away from Tumblr and don't try messing with the serving of ads on the platform, Tumblr could very well benefit from this arrangement.
I think, however, that the reason people are jumping ship is because normally when acquisitions like this occur, it's only a matter of time before the services fades away (take Posterous for example)
That's my opinion on the matter. What's yours?

What do you make of Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr?

<img alt="Sitecore7" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitecore7.png" />
Sitecore is a major player in the web content management (WCM) playing field. We've kept a close eye on this CMS for a long time, tracking their improvements and success. Just today, Sitecore announced the release of Sitecore 7, which is the latest iteration of the company's unified software suite.

<h2>Sitecore 7:  Introducing Search Based Architecture</h2>
Sitecore 7 is a big jump forward for their already-advanced suite of products. In fact, the new system marks a milestone in the industry as a whole. Sitecore 7 now has a search-based architecture, which means that the system can be highly tuned to the specific needs of audiences. When CMOs and other marketing professionals possess firm control of the entire range of customer interaction, they are thus able to define and refine the approach to match an audience exactly.
<h2>Less Limits. More Power.</h2>
Sitecore is a customer experience management software (CXM) in addition to a lot of other integrated systems. One major drawback of marketing CMSs or CXMs is their constraint on content and the scalability limitations. Sitecore 7 has completely redefined the playing field with their search based architecture advancement. The search technology is pluggable, meaning that users can select the Lucene/SOLR engine they prefer.
Already, Sitecore is a leader in CXM/CRM technology. They offer one of the only unified solutions in the industry. This enables companies to provide multichannel marketing integrated with CMS, marketing, engagement automation, analytics, business processes, external tools, and databases. The unified software is massive — sure, it requires a learning curve — but it's also very powerful.
By “power” we mean limitless content, too. Chris Odom, a developer for one of Sitecore's clients, sang his praises of the system: “There is no limit to the amount of content we can store.” Another component of Sitecore 7's power is its customization due to the search based architecture. Odom says, “Our marketers can be confident that they can deliver what customers want without worrying about losing customer interest or revenues due to content that wasn’t robust enough, or relevant enough or recent enough.”
<h2>The Power of Search</h2>
It's that search based architecture we keep coming back to that helps to set Sitecore 7 apart. Search is the way we live our lives, from Google queries to that Crtl+F keystroke to find content in a document. Customers and marketers alike will benefit from having a search based system. As Sitecore's SVP of Product Marketing explained, “More ability to seve up exactly the right item at the right time to the right person.”
We think that more CXMs will be drifting toward search based architecture in the years ahead.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
The bottom line is this:  Sitecore 7 helps marketers better engage their audiences. A good CXM allows a company to better serve their audience. Improved audiences are solid customers. Sitecore 7 is a win-win-win for everyone involved.
Once again, Sitecore has proven that they can produce a system that lets marketers engage with their customers rather than get bogged down in content management and data manipulation. The new Sitecore 7 software suite is a powerful way to supercharge customer interaction, while possessing a powerful backend system.
<a href="http://www.sitecore.net/Landing/Global/Q2-2013/MCOT-XC-Sitecore-7.aspx" target="_blank">Read more about Sitecore 7 here.</a>
<a href="http://www.sitecore.net/" target="_blank">Visit Sitecore's website.</a>

Sitecore 7 Released, Boasting Advanced Search Based Architecture

daniel-threlfall

<img title="WordPress Competition" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/wp-760x427.jpg" alt="WordPress-Competition" />
It is certainly no secret that the world of online content management is dominated by WordPress. Since its release in 2003, WordPress has grown to be the most popular content management system on the internet. In fact, 17.4% of all websites in existence use WordPress as their core CMS.
In terms of popularity amongst the elite, WordPress also fares the best. <a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/11/wordpress-completely-dominates-top-100-blogs/" target="_blank">Pingdom</a> recently conducted a survey on the <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/top100/" target="_blank">top 100 Blogs compiled by Technorati</a>, in order to analyse the diversity amongst their CMS. Unsurprisingly, WordPress was used by 48% of the listed blogs.
However, despite the dominance of WordPress over its rivals, it would be an injustice to ignore the presence and growth of the various CMS which make up the WordPress competition. Each one brings something unique to the table, and thus, each one has its own loyal fanbase.
So, which content management systems are currently forming the major WordPress competition?
<h2>Joomla</h2>
<img title="joomla" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla.jpg" alt="joomla" />
Currently, WordPress' biggest foe in terms of sheer figures, is Joomla. The <a href="/wordpress-vs-joomla-a-perspective/" target="_blank">WordPress vs Joomla</a> debate has been raging for years, but the numbers never lie. WordPress boasts a 7.5million user base, whilst Joomla in the second most popular CMS, with a user base of just 1.8million.
Joomla is usually best suited to small to mid-sized websites. It looks good out of the box, and has a well structured GUI backend that offers plenty of features, and yet is still easy to learn.
The standard templates offered by Joomla are often preferred by businesses and websites offering products or services. The designs are sleek and professional, making it ideal for small to medium sized businesses.
However, the rigid, executive feel of Joomla websites, paired with a backend which doesn't match the simplicity or functionality of  WordPress, makes it unpopular with bloggers and first time web site owners.
<h2>Drupal</h2>
<img title="Drupal" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/blogger2-2.jpg" alt="drupal" />
In terms of numbers, Drupal pales in comparison to both WordPress and Joomla alike. With just a 520,000 user base, Drupal is relatively small time. However, after the release of Drupal 7 in 2011, <a href="http://trends.builtwith.com/cms/Drupal" target="_blank">those numbers certainly seem to be increasing</a>.
By nature, Drupal is slightly more complex than both WordPress and Joomla. Additionally, you will not find as many themes and templates, but the Drupal system is able to create almost anything via “modules”, which can be created, customized and optimized via the backend.
Generally speaking, Drupal is veered towards users who have past experience with web development, and who know exactly what they want from their website. Although you can do pretty much anything with Drupal, a lack of various first and third-party templates makes it difficult for most users to warm to – especially when WordPress and Joomla are offering an easier set up and design experience.
On the other hand, Drupal is renowned for its flexibility, thanks to the versatility of its module design system – which can create almost anything you want, in any way you want.
<h2>Blogger</h2>
<img title="Blogger" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/blogger2-1.jpg" alt="blogger" /> 
Third on the WordPress competition list is Google's Blogger platform. Blogger boasts a relatively modest user base of 280,000, yet is extremely popular with first time bloggers. For individuals looking to start a personal blog or small writing platform, the choice is often between both WordPress and Blogger.
Blogger's strengths lie in its simplicity. A blogging novice can get a blog up and running just as quickly as any expert. The drag and drop design features also make it easy to customize, allowing the user to spend less time designing, and more time blogging.
However, much like Drupal, Blogger lacks variety found within WordPress when it comes to themes and templates. The layout limitations imposed by Blogger maim any creativity. Joomla, WordPress and Drupal websites can be designed to a degree which makes it difficult for most people to guess the CMS behind the site. Unfortunately, a Blogger website is easily distinguishable thanks their all too familiar layouts.
Overall, Blogger's name is a befitting one. The platform is ideal for begginers looking to start up personal blogs, but users looking to excel in the blogging and business world often steer clear.
<h2>Niche Success for the Rest</h2>
Naturally, the content management systems mentioned above are accompanied by a host of others, each with relatively smaller slices of the CMS cake.
Although WordPress is the most comprehensive CMS around, its competition has made no mistake when it comes to appealing to different, more specific audiences. For example, for those looking for the best <a href="/top-8-website-builders-for-photography-websites/" target="_blank">CMS for Photographers</a>, systems such as SquareSpace and Zenfolio offer a more image based themes, which are perfect for online portfolios.
So far, the three major competitors – Joomla, Drupal and Blogger, have successfully secured their places within the sphere of content management. However, as some of the statistics show, their futures remain uncertain in the face of steady WordPress growth, and the emergence of more niche driven content management systems.

Which CMS make up the WordPress Competition?

I'm very pleased to inform everyone that we will be opening up nominations for the 2013 CMS awards on June 1, 2013. Thanks to the incredible success of last years awards, we're excited to see how things evolve for 2013.
We're also introducing some new categories for this years awards. Here's a full list of the award categories:
<ul>
<li>Best Open Source CMS</li>
<li>Best Free CMS</li>
<li>Best Small to Midsize Business CMS</li>
<li>Best Enterprise CMS</li>
<li>Best eCommerce Solution (New for 2013!)</li>
<li>Best Social Networking Solution</li>
<li>Best Hosted Website Builder</li>
<li>Best Hosted/Cloud Solution (New for 2013!)</li>
<li>Best Forum Solution (New for 2013!)</li>
</ul>
We're also including some new awards for Most Innovative in 2013 and others which will be given out as part of the Critics Choice portion of the awards.
Read more about our awards and last year's winners on the <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Critics Choice CMS Awards page</a> and be sure to check back and stay tuned for the nominations to begin on June 1, 2013.

Nominations for the Annual Critics Choice CMS Awards open June 1, 2013!

Content management vendor, Ingeniux, has announced a significant new upgrade of their social collaboration platform, Cartella with their 4.0 release. Cartella comes in two editions, Intranet and Extranet.
Some of the key benefits that Cartella offers include:
<ul>
<li>Social Software Suite One application for blogs, documents, wikis, video, image sharing, and other social software tools. With Cartella you can make social content easy to manage and share without building new silos of information.</li>
<li>Business Ready Solutions Turnkey solutions for online communities, secure extranets, and read/write employee intranets. Use Cartella across your business to accelerate productivity and extend the reach of your brand.</li>
<li>Fast Time-to-Value Launch online communities and collaboration spaces in days to deliver immediate business value. Add Cartella to your existing websites or build new communities with custom themes, applications, and business processes.</li>
<li>Built for the Enterprise Authenticate users with single sign-on, permission people and workspaces, approve content with integrated workflow, connect Microsoft Sharepoint, file systems, and other repositories, and meet key compliance requirements. Cartella is the first solution to provide the ease of social software with the control of a true enterprise application.</li>
<li>Real-Time Analytics and Social Intelligence Use Cartella's built-in analytics to gain 24X7 insight into the performance, usage, behavior, engagement, and ROI of your online communities and business collaboration.</li>
<li>Groundbreaking “Microsoft .NET MVC” Architecture Cartella is built from the ground up with Microsoft .NET's new MVC technology. MVC redefines how .NET software may be developed and extended, making it web-friendly, easy to customize and integrate, and highly secure.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Ingeniux Intranet Edition</h2>
Ingeniux Intranet Edition offers some welcome features to those looking to launch employee directories, manage documents, create secure workgroups and collaboration, and turn content into conversations with forums, blogs, and comment moderation.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/igx-cartella_profile_resize0-620x560.png" alt="Ingeniux Intranet Edition" />
 
Some of the features available in this edition include:
<ul>
<li>Departmental and group workspaces</li>
<li>Blogs</li>
<li>Document collaboration</li>
<li>Mobile access</li>
<li>Employee or member directory</li>
<li>Member profiles</li>
<li>Taxonomy and tagging</li>
<li>Enterprise search</li>
<li>Social networking</li>
<li>Status updates</li>
<li>User syncing with Active Directory, Salesforce.com, and Dynamics</li>
<li>Calendar</li>
<li>Photo gallery</li>
<li>Forum</li>
<li>Video</li>
<li>Surveys and polls</li>
<li>Time tracking</li>
</ul>
Find out more about <a href="http://www.ingeniux.com/portals-and-intranets/intranet-edition">Ingeniux Intranet Edition</a>.
<h2>Ingeniux Extranet Edition</h2>
Ingeniux Extranet Edition offers a wide variety of modules that can be used to create amazing out of the box experiences. It also incorporates integrations with Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics and Active Directory.
Some of the features available include:
<ul>
<li>Blogs</li>
<li>Document management</li>
<li>Digital asset management</li>
<li>Profiles and directories</li>
<li>Galleries</li>
<li>Video</li>
<li>Forums</li>
<li>Polls and surveys</li>
<li>Project time tracking</li>
<li>Calendars</li>
<li>Other tools and solutions</li>
</ul>
Find out more about <a href="http://www.ingeniux.com/portals-and-intranets/extranet-edition">Ingeniux Extranet Edition</a>.

Ingeniux Updates their Social Collaboration Platform, Cartella to Version 4

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/writingtools.png" alt="improve your writing" />
You've heard it ad nauseum — content is king. Yes, it's still king. Every Internet factotum must also be a connoisseur of content. If you're not exactly feeling all Stephen King about your writing prowess, there's still hope. It comes in the form of seven outstanding web tools that can kick your writing up to the next notch. You may not be publishing a bestselling novel anytime soon, but, hey, Internet content trumps action thrillers any day.
<h2><a href="http://www.keybr.com/"> 1. Improve your typing speed with keybr.com </a></h2>
Hunt-and-peck techniques will slow your writing way down. The only way to focus on improving your typing speed is to concentrate on it. Keybr.com is the tool that allows you to monitor speed and progress. You will probably notice an improvement in your typing speed in just a few weeks of using the tool.
<h2><a href="http://onelook.com/"> 2. OneLook gives you that perfect word. </a></h2>
There are times when you're looking for just the right word for a particular instance. Not just any word will do. OneLook can probably guess what you're looking for. Just type in a wildcard search, and you'll come up with a list of possibilities. They claim to have indexed 19,500,236 words. I didn't even know that many words existed.
<h2><a href="http://docs.google.com/%E2%80%8E"> 3.  Google Docs for easy, fast, and solid content storage. </a></h2>
Chances are, you already using this king-of-all-cloud-based word processors. If nothing else, Google Drive and its integrated products provide a great online storage and collaboration site. Good Docs is extremely handy as word processors go. One of the best features? It's always saving your work as you go. No more letting loose with cries of anguish when your software goes poof, taking your literary genius to a cyber grave. Google Docs has your back.
<h2><a href="http://wordcounter.net/"> 4.  Count every word with WordCounter.net </a></h2>
Don't scoff at the simple. Several times during the course of a work day, I hop over to WordCounter.net. Since I am often creating meta tags and meta descriptions for SEO clients, I need to keep track of those 160-character limits. Also, most online writers are confined to word limits for article length. WordCounter gives you an instant word count, character count, sentence count, paragraph count, sentence length average, and keyword density. Brilliantly simple.
<h2><a href="http://www.articleformatter.com/"> 5.  Strip away anger-inducing formatting using Article Formatter. </a></h2>
This close cousin of WordCounter is also very handy. If you receive content from a variety of sources and want to paste it into your website or CMS, you've probably faced the frustration of carry-over formatting junk. More often than not, you can't simply copy/paste a Word doc into a WordPress editor template without putting some messy in your code. Article Formatter is in the business of stripping away those pesky bits and presenting you with copy/paste ready text. CTRL-V with confidence.
<h2><a href="http://evernote.com/"> 6.  Evernote – a digital brain for remembering everything. </a></h2>
Evernote's remarkable capabilities as a note-taking device need to be sung louder. I use this app on my Mac, iPhone, and iPad all the time. When I'm away from my own devices, I can just log onto Evernote's web server and access all the files that I've stored there — pictures, audio, text, Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, tables, video clips, and web pages. Its power for writers is that it can instantly tuck away those aha-moment article ideas, turns of phrase, or web pages that apply to an article you're researching. I seriously don't know how I did it before Evernote.
<h2><a href="http://bywordapp.com/"> 7. Focus better and become more creative with Byword. </a></h2>
Byword is quick and beautiful. Several notable writers, all Mac-users I must say, use this writing tool as their favored mode of creating content. Maybe it's something about the sleek design and delightful UI that serves as a catalyst for inspiration. Who knows?
Just reviewing these tools gets the writing juices flowing. Maybe the real solution to writer's block is to use one of these tools. Give it a try, and you'll probably find that content flows faster, swifter, and better than ever before.

7 Online Tools to Improve Your Writing

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<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/kokenupdate.png" alt="Koken Update" />
<a href="http://koken.me/" target="_blank">Koken</a> is <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/top-8-website-builders-for-photography-websites/" target="_blank">one of our picks as a top CMS</a> for photographers. Just this week, they made an already good CMS a whole lot better. Koken 0.8, announced on May 9, includes a lineup of great new features and capabilities. We'll touch on the highlights.

<h2>Make SEO-Friendly Links</h2>
Koken's old system built links in the old-fashioned ways — numerical slugs that did zilch for SEO, and even less for users. Now, the links are formatted with real text that humans can read and search engines can index. More SEO love.
<h2>Geotag Your Photos</h2>
If something as basic as Instagram has geotagging, shouldn't a sophisticated CMS like Koken? The answer is yes. Koken integrates GPS data into photos, and provides the familiar GPS locator button in the upper right corner of each featured photo. Clicking the pin brings up a map that locates where the picture was taken.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/library-geo-button-620x254.jpg" alt="Geo Button" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/library-geo-map-620x254.jpg" alt="Geo Map" />
<h2>Create Custom Code</h2>
For the code-savvy creative, adding a bit of Java is easier than ever before. The editor now includes a code button, which allows the user to copy and paste code anywhere in normal editing.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/custom-code-620x254.jpg" alt="Custom Code" />
<h2>Host Better Conversations</h2>
To facilitate comments and interaction, Koken has included the Disqus plugin, which is now supported by all their default themes. Users need only to set up their Disqus account and enable the plugin to let the comments begin.
<h2>Manage Covers Easily</h2>
One of Koken's biggest selling points is the slick creative interior of the CMS. It makes organizing photos, portfolios, and other digital content a snap. Now, cover images appear at the top of columns when selected. The easy drag-and-drop repositioning makes it easy to rearrange files as needed.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/library-cover-drag1-620x254.jpg" alt="Library Cover Drag" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/library-cover-title-620x254.jpg" alt="Library Cover Title" />
<h2>Feature More Social Sharing</h2>
Koken got more social. Each of the Koken themes automatically includes sharing buttons for four popular social media sites — Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+. In addition to spreading link love, these buttons help to trigger more social signals, that build rep and SEO for a site. Koken is pretty excited about the <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards">support for Twitter cards</a>.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/koken-social-share-620x254.jpg" alt="Koken Social Share" />
Koken describes themselves as “a free system designed for photographers, designers, and creative DIYs to publish independent websites of their work.” The sleek interface of the design and the cutting edge power make this a CMS worthy of a second look. With this update, Koken delivers more power than ever before.
<a href="http://blog.koken.me/essays/2013/05/big-new-features-fixes-and-enhancements-now-available-in-koken-08/">Read more about Koken 0.8 in their blog article</a>.
<a href="http://help.koken.me/customer/portal/articles/848339-release-notes">View the release notes for Koken 0.8.</a>
(All screenshots, courtesy of Koken.)

Koken Announces New Features in v. 0.8

Just Add Content Review

While we tend to share our own opinions on this site frequently in the form of our various CMS reviews, it's nice to hear what the rest of the community thinks as well. For this reason, today we're hoping to drive some discussion about what CMS you use and why?
Regardless of the purpose of the system, share with us in the comments what you like to use, the reasons behind it, and what you use it for. This will not only help us learn about possible systems we may have missed in our coverage, but it will also serve as an excellent resource for those who are in the market for a system and are unsure what to choose.
<img style="max-width:570px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/content-management.png" alt="Content-management" />
So whether you use one of the big three, something cool for enterprises or you develop on a framework that has really made you feel like you were getting something accomplished, please share your thoughts on why you think yours is a great choice for your needs.
We'll also use some of this feedback as a basis for our <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">CMS awards</a> which are coming up again in September of this year.  While we tend to share our posts to various networks such as LinkedIn and others, we'd like the comments to be kept here for future visitors to get something valuable out of so we'd appreciate you sharing on this site.
Thanks and we look forward to your responses!

What CMS do you use and why?

ProcessWire, the winner of our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/critics-choice-for-best-free-cms-goes-to/">Best Free CMS</a> award in last year's <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">Critic's Choice Awards</a>, has a new release available for public consumption. Thanks to numerous optimizations and improvements, <a href="http://processwire.com/">ProcessWire 2.3</a> is the fastest, smartest and most capable version yet.
In version 2.3 of ProcessWire, major upgrades have been made throughout the entire system. If you are using an older version of ProcessWire, now is a good time to upgrade to ProcessWire 2.3. If you are not yet using ProcessWire, version 2.3 is a great place to start. Below is a partial list of what's been added and changed.
<ul>
<li>Optimized selector engine making ProcessWire faster and more accurate than ever before.</li>
<li>Installer upgrades, including the ability to specify your admin URL at install time.</li>
<li>Multi-language page names to round out our multi-language fields (dev branch).</li>
<li>New session handling features enabling you to use your database for session storage.</li>
<li>Image support updates including custom API-level cropping support.</li>
<li>Tagging of fields and templates for admin grouping.</li>
<li>Default admin theme upgrades including improved mobile support (responsive).</li>
<li>Numerous input field upgrades and additions for greater customizability and validation.</li>
<li>Password system updates now supporting enhanced security with PHP 5.3+.</li>
<li>Comments fieldtype additions like a new website field, Gravatar support and more.</li>
<li>File and image fieldtype upgrades including support for tags and queryable created/modified timestamps.</li>
<li>Support for secured page files: now file-based assets can have access control too.</li>
<li>Great new core API functions and methods.</li>
<li>Implementation of all jQuery traversal functions in our API.</li>
<li>Great new core modules and classes.</li>
<li>Numerous other upgrades and additions!</li>
</ul>
For more details about these upgrades and additions, please see our extended <a href="http://processwire.com/about/news/introducing-processwire-2.3/">ProcessWire 2.3 press release</a>.
<h2>About ProcessWire</h2>
ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation. With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.
Clients love ProcessWire for its no-fuss simplicity and ease of use when editing their site. Designers and developers love ProcessWire for its thoughtful, easy and powerful API-driven approach that keeps them in control of the markup and makes development fun again. Not to mention, ProcessWire's API can also be booted from other applications or command-line scripts, bringing entire new levels of accessibility to your content.
ProcessWire is a modern SEO specialist's dream come true. It uses logical, readable and search-friendly URLs that always reflect the content's home in the tree. Meaning you'll never have to worry about multiple URLs or play duplicate content games. With full markup control, all custom fields, and support for runtime URL segments, ProcessWire lets you take full advantage of all the on-site SEO possibilities without wasting your time on long irrelevant tags and tricks.
ProcessWire is designed for the needs of today and not limited by the past. It is equally at home powering small-to-large scale standards-friendly websites, mobile websites, JSON/XML web services, Flash applications, AJAX-driven content, iPhone/Android applications, and more. This output agnosticism drives ProcessWire's simplicity and makes it support, rather than interfere with your work.
ProcessWire is a mature product that comes from a strong bloodline of content management systems developed over nearly a decade. ProcessWire runs beautifully on web servers running PHP 5.3.8+ and MySQL 5.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://processwire.com/">Learn more about ProcessWire CMF/CMS</a> and <a href="http://processwire.com/download/">download</a> »</li>
<li><a href="http://processwire.com/demo/">Try out a demo of ProcessWire</a> »</li>
</ul>

ProcessWire 2.3 Released

<a href="http://www.braindigit.com/">Braindigit</a> announces the release of SageFrame 2.1, an enhanced version of SageFrame2.0.
SageFrame is a highly extensible CMS, that helps users build their sites, and builds them to perfection. SageFrame is an open source CMS that is released under the MIT License and built on ASP.NET technology. As a matter of fact, SageFrame is much more than a CMS; it is a CMF (Content Management Framework) that is scalable, extensible and provides enhanced user experience. Further, it empowers users with all the essential tools required for developing custom modules, applications, templates and various-purpose websites with ease, convenience and simplicity. SageFrame employs an extensible modular architecture and implements role-based security.
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SageFrame 2.1 users can now use Open IDs like Facebook, Yahoo, etc. to login to the SageFrame. They can perform cache management, look at the site analytics, priorities events on system startups, schedule events, create and manage multi-portals, and make their sites multi-lingual. Furthermore, SageFrame users can customize their page by adding preset templates to their site. While adding such templates, the original data associated with the templates is also fetched. Another notable improvement that SageFrame 2.1 includes is that the pages built on SageFrame 2.1 are compatible with both handheld devices and PCs.
There are strong incentives for SageFrame 2.0 users to migrate to SageFrame 2.1, as this SageFrame version is truly built for developers, crafted for designers and developed for site administrators and comes with several powerful and handy features. Further, it comes with several bug fixes and security updates. For more information users can visit www.sageframe.com and see SageFrame in action at <a href="http://demo.sageframe.com/">http://demo.sageframe.com/</a>

Braindigit Announces the Release of SageFrame 2.1, a Promising Content Management System

One of the best things about SharePoint is its name. The moniker suggest a friendly place where people can gather, work, and say to themselves, “a good time was had by all.” If the greatest thing going for a software is its name, then it probably has some shortcomings elsewhere. SharePoint has shortcomings, and in the rough-and-tumble world of collaborative web applications, SharePoint has received more than its fair share of criticisms. Let's find out what these shortcomings are, and maybe what we, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, can do about it.

What are SharePoint's shortcomings? To answer that question, we'll ask a less biased question — what is SharePoint anyway? There are three main promises that SharePoint has made about itself. We'll consider each of these, and uncover how it may not have completely fulfilled its promises on all three fronts.
<h2>1.  SharePoint is everything.</h2>
SharePoint is allegedly everything that you could have ever wanted — at least that's how it was described in its infancy by Jeff Teper. Teper, “the father of SharePoint” sold the product on the promise that it would integrate everything — doc management, CMS, intranet, sharing, blogs, etc. — into a ginormous silver bullet. It's been called the “all-in-one collaboration and communication server” by one <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/meet-the-father-of-microsoft-sharepoint-jeff-teper/4299" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">organization</a>. Teper preferred to <a href="http://creese.typepad.com/pattern_finder/2009/10/quotes-from-the-sharepoint-conference-keynote.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">describe it</a> as the “ultimate Swiss Army Knife.”  Swiss Army Knives are great, precisely because they can do everything. That's precisely the point (no pun intended):  SharePoint can do everything!
SharePoint's Wikipedia entry tries to make sense of it all with its descriptions, an unending stream of functionality:  “SharePoint can be used to provide intranet portals, document &amp; file management, collaboration, social networks, extranets, websites, enterprise search, and business intelligence. It also has system integration, process integration, and workflow automation capabilities…central management, governance, and security controls,” and more.
Let's see…did they miss anything?
Unfortunately, a system that promises to be and do everything will probably not be and do all of those tasks with the highest degree of competency. When users discover that SharePoint doesn't execute what they were hoping it would, they may choose to use something else. A further concern is that the multifaceted features of the tool become buried in an overwhelming array of knives, tools, bottle openers, and awls, making it difficult to determine what to use — or how, or when to use them.
Sometimes, a product that promises to be everything ends up being nothing. When a product aspires to be so many things, it loses the power of  a single selling point.
<h2>2.  SharePoint is “simple, simple, simple.”</h2>
When SharePoint developers became concerned that people wouldn't understand how simple SharePoint was, they decided to describe it as “simple, simple, simple.” So, its simple.
Or is it?
Teper himself admitted in a retrospective mourn, “We may have oversold how simple SharePoint was to deploy.” And that's another shortcoming of an end-all system. When you describe a product as “simple,” and it ends up looking like a do-it-yourself home helicopter kit without the instruction manual, you're going to disappoint a lot of people. In order for a system to gain a loyal tribe, it must have a slick UI, intuitive purpose, and deliver quick solutions to obvious needs. Instead of fulfilling its prophecy for simplicity, SharePoint became “quite ambitious and complex.”
Information workers are a fairly intelligent group of people, but we want things to be simple enough to use without having to take night classes. Climbing a learning curve is something we don't mind doing, but we'd rather not do it at all. When SharePoint releases multiple versions and expansions, trying to make sense of itself, it loses touch with its user group who is left in the lurch of its latest not-so-simple iteration. Keep in mind that not everyone using SharePoint is tech-savvy. When non-tech user meets teched-up SharePoint, the relationship can get a bit awkward.
<h2>3.  SharePoint is collaboration.</h2>
Just about everyone thought that SharePoint was a collaboration platform. Hence the name. Yet it is also a content-driven system. That's the problem. Collaboration and content don't dance together very well. Forrester provided their perspective on the system's collaboration capability:  It is “SharePoint's least successful workload.”
Collaboration is crucial, and if a system lags in this department, it's a huge downer. SharePoint's oft-touted collaboration power is not much more than a newsfeed. As we reported recently, the majority of SharePoint users are stymied by the system's <a href="/microsoft-sharepoint-research-highlights-gaps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inability to deliver satisfactorily</a> on this front.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
Lest this article degenerate into a SharePoint bash fest, let's back up and admire its strong points. There are a few. And, true, many organizations have profited from it. Many businesses continue to use and value SharePoint for its advanced technologies and tools.
It's come to the point, however, that we need to realize that a unified source for everything may no longer be the most realistic and practical way to go about performing operations. It sounds nice, sure, but is it for real? Is SharePoint going to last? More and more collaborative platforms, CMSs, and powerful platforms have filled the marketplace. Is there still enough room for SharePoint to live on as the dominate force?
Like it or loathe it, SharePoint's market share is big enough to mean that it's not going to fade into oblivion in the next few years. Yes, it <a href="/is-sharepoint-going-away/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">might be on the decline</a>, but we still get to use it for a while.
So, in the meantime, lets try to utilize SharePoint correctly and capitalize on the strengths that it does possess.

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