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The Top 10 AI Tools for Small Business: From Automation to a Coordinated Team of AI Agents

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<a target="_blank" href="http://dashboard.webydo.com/landingpages/starta.aspx?campaign=cmscritic&amp;utm_source=cmscritic&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritica">Webydo</a> is a powerful website builder that's recently begun to really gain traction for themselves in the industry. Today, we bring you our interview with Webydo CEO and co-founder Shmulik Grizim. Read on to find out more about this unique and interesting website builder.Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background?Before working on Webydo, with my partner Tzvika Steinmetz, we founded and headed two leading web agencies that are still very successful. Webydo is a collision of two personal passions of mine – the web and good design. Good design puts creativity at the center, enriching the human experience. My other great passion is the web. The web has introduced a new era of collaborative efforts. An innovative community brings to life radical transformations.  I believe that Webydo's designers’ community is building up this transformative power that will change the structure of the web itself.How did Webydo come about?We were leading a big web agency and felt frustrated by the fact that 70% of website creation budget is going towards the repetitive development of handwritten code. This old professional process for creating a website was slow and expensive and we felt that the hands of our creative designers were tied. Designers are marginalized in this process; they cannot experience their designs in real time and lack direct communication with their clients. We believe there's a need for a pro-designers movement, a community lead platform that will enable designers to control the entire website creation process on their own.We've asked the best mathematicians and engineers to develop a code generator that will automatically convert graphic design into code. With Webydo designers can finally create advanced websites for their clients in a process that is ten times faster and cheaper, without hiring a developer or writing even one line of code. That's a real revolution.We hope more talented designers will join Webydo’s community and help us create the best work environment for creative designers.Where to you think the market is headed for website builders?The web design market has seen a rise of low-cost, Do-It-Yourself solutions for amateurs like Wix, Squarespace and <a href="https://www.weebly.com/">Weebly</a>. These simple tools offer limited selection of pre-designed templates and are designed to provide a “fast, fun and easy” process for unprofessional users. However, less than 3% of websites are created using do-it-yourself platforms. Amateurs find it hard to finish the process and only 2% of the registered users manage to publish a site on domain. We believe website creation is a serious task that needs to be done by professional designers.And indeed, more than 70% of websites today are created in a professional process by developers and designers using pro-developers platforms such as WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. However, using these solutions designers still need to code or hire developers.Yet, there is a global community of 38 million designers who wish to focus on the creative side and create multiple websites for their clients without writing code. Designers cannot use DIY website-builders, as these solutions are not suitable for professional use. Asking a designer to create a website using DIY website builders is like asking a designer to design for print using PowerPoint… Professional designers need professional solutions.Now, there is finally a solution made by designers, for designers. Webydo’s free online software enables designers to create and manage multiple pixel-perfect websites for their clients, without writing code or hiring developers.  With Webydo designers can build an independent web design business and conquer the market.Where do you see Webydo in this market?Webydo is the leader of the pro-designers movement. We’re providing the first full solution for website creation, designed specifically to fit the needs of creative designers.We believe that designers should grab the driver’s seat of website creation. Designers are the innovative force behind the great achievements of this era. And, while developers have extremely powerful open-source communities such as WordPress, designers had no solutions tailored to fit their creative and professional needs. It is time for designers to unite in action and create a design-centered platform. We hope more talented designers will join Webydo designers’ community and together we will create a better web for us all.What do you think makes Webydo unique? Why?Webydo’s free cloud software is like an online Photoshop re-imagined for the web.  Every feature in the system was made with designers needs in mind, providing designers with total creative freedom and independence. The challenge was to make Webydo's sophisticated system extremely user friendly and efficient. One element that saves a lot of headaches for designers is that with Webydo you are designing in browser. There is no need to install or patch any software and you can continue working on your clients’ sites from any computer. Webydo's system provides a full code-free cloud solution for designing, managing, and hosting your clients’ sites and even billing your clients.Webydo enables designers to start designing from scratch, with a blank canvas, using a professional “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” design interface that allows designers to just drag and drop images, texts, videos, flash, galleries, menus, custom designed forms, widgets, or even their own HTML code. When the designer finishes designing and hits Publish, the website is immediately live online.Moreover, designers need to have a clear and direct dialog with their clients, as websites today demand constant updating and managing. This is why Webydo offers designers two integrated work environments: the professional online software for creating and designing websites as well as a built-in CMS (Content Management System) for the ongoing content updates by the website owner. Designers can even lock parts of their design, preventing unwanted changes and preserving full artistic control. This integration of professional web design cloud software with a CMS that can be easily used by unprofessional users allows designers to provide their clients with exceptional web design service.  Lastly, the full Webydo solution is provided to designers for free. Designers can even host unlimited amount of websites on Webydo’s sub-domain all free of charge. When the designers’ clients are ready to publish their sites on domain, the client can purchase a premium plan for $9.99 a month. In this way Webydo is helping designers build a strong and independent web design business.If you could change one thing about the industry, what would it be?There used to be many technological barriers in the process of creating advanced websites, including the need to master HTML code, databases, Ajax, Java Script, .NET, handle server crashes, etc. Webydo’s mission is to eliminate all these technical barriers and help designers focus on what is most important – the creative side.What do you consider your biggest accomplishment to date?We’ve started with a small team and a tremendous mission to find a solution to a problem that big companies like Adobe have yet to solve. The strength of Webydo’s innovative platform is coming out of the fact that Webydo is lead by its users. Webydo’s devoted community of designers is setting up the roadmap for development of Webydo’s online software, suggesting features and voting which features should be developed first. We believe in radical democracy and we want designers to own the Webydo platform and shape our future. Your biggest failure?There are still many designers who have not yet joined Webydo…Webydo has a strong community of more than 13,000 designers who’ve already created close to 90,000 websites and hundreds of designers are joining us every month. We see every designer who joins us as our partner and we hope this tremendous momentum will continue and the design community will unite in action and turn Webydo into the best work environment for website creation by designers.Where do you see your product 5 years from now?We want to empower &amp; help designers lead the website creation market, turning the web into a richer human experience.Thank you for your time Mr. Grizim.—Have you tried Webydo? If not, check them out and let us know what you think in the comments below: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.webydo.com/">Try Webydo</a>

Interview with Shmulik Grizim, Webydo CEO and Co-founder

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After building and perfecting your content management system, it's now time to market itThere is already an ocean of content management systems available, and so it's very easy for new products to get lost in the currents, never to be exposed to the masses.This marketing struggle doesn't only affect newcomers to the CMS world either. Many platforms which have been active for months and sometimes even years can find it difficult to stand out from the crowd.So, to help get your product heard, seen and spoken about, I've put together a handy guide which outlines the best ways to market a content management system.<h2>Start a Blog</h2>Blogging is one of the most powerful ways to market online. Period.By setting up a blog for your content management system, you can detail some of its core features, explain answers to commonly asked questions, and even comment on wider issues which are trending in your niche.Using your blog, you can produce free, valuable content which will breed trust in your product and keep customers informed. The content you create can then be shared on social media and will eventually be picked up by search engines – both of which will bring you traffic.A blog is also a great way to keep your customers up to date with product news and updates surrounding your product. Additionally, the comments section of a blog is the perfect setting to engage with customers directly, and personally.<h2>Write Quality Press Releases</h2>Whether you're launching a new product, or releasing an update, pushing out a press release to news websites is a great way to get exposure.But don't just write a press release – write a damn good one.Nobody likes a lengthy, boring press release, nor a long list of impersonal bullet points. If your press releases don't intruige the reader, they won't bother trying to find out more about your product, which is assuming that your boring press release got published by anybody in the first place.So instead, ensure that your news actually is news worthy, and present it in a way which is concise, professional and above all, engaging.<h2>Get Active on Online Communities</h2>Marketing isn't all about beng formal, nor is it about staying within the zones of your own digital spaces. In fact, marketing requires you to branch out.Online communities like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.quora.com/">Quora</a> allow you to interact with people who are asking questions relevant to your industry. By answering these questions and presenting yourself professionally under the name of your product or brand, you will naturally enhance your reputation, and gain some targetted traffic whilst you're at it.Furthermore, online forums related to your industry are ideal for getting your product seen. The trick is to find relevant discussion boards, sign up, take part in the community, and make good use of your forum signature to link back to your website for yet more targetted traffic.<h2>Jump on to Social Media</h2>Speaking of branching out, there's no better way to do it than with social media.For starters, get your product a dedicated account on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. Then, start to engage with customers and people in your target market directly by answering questions, partaking in hashtags and showing a bit of personality.Although, showing personality doesn't mean losing your professionalism altogether. Keep your social media updates relevant more often than not, and avoid tangents which will alienate your fans and followers.If your niche or industry is flexible enough, you can even extend your online presence to other social platforms like Vine, Instagram and Pinterest. A photography-based CMS for example would be a great match for such visual social networks.<h2>Initiate Email Marketing</h2>Perhaps the most important piece of information you can collect from a customer, is their email address.Having a list of emails from previous and potential customers enables you to send out products news, special offers and other marketing content right to their inboxes. That means complete access without having to worry about the customer missing the memo, like they may do if you only make announcements via social media or blog posts.So, start building an email list today using your website and blog by integrating a newsletter subscription form. The more emails you collect, the further the reach of your email marketing campaigns.<h2>Hold Developer Contests</h2>Another great way to market your content management system is to hold developer contests.The idea is that developers compete with eachother to produce valuable content for your platform in return for a prize, or perhaps some form of coverage on your website or blog. The content can be in the form of templates, plugins, or whatever else you feel would work best.Not only will your CMS gain some new content, but this method will also help your product be heard amongst the developer community in particular.<h2>Join the CMS Critic CMS Directory</h2>For those of you who haven't yet noticed, CMS Critic hosts a very detailed CMS Directory, which is free to become a part of.If you have a content management system, there is no reason at all why it shouldn't be listed on our directory. Not only will it be found by browsing customers, but they can also find your website, social media accounts, videos, screen shots and more. The directory even allows users to “Like” products.And as if all that wasn't enough, it's also a piece of cake to submit your CMS.<h2>Over to You</h2>So there you have it, some sure-fire ways to get your content management system under the noses of potential customers.If you can successfully leverage these methods in a consistent manner, the results will soon speak for themselves.So get out there and start talking – because the Internet is full of ways to get your voice heard.

The Newbies Guide to Marketing a Content Management System

Choosing a content management system for a mobile platform is vital for companies that are looking to get the most out of their marketing efforts. This is due to the proliferation of mobile phones and devices, and the fact that most of us use Android, Apple iOS or Windows platform powered devices to access the internet. There are various factors you need to look into when choosing your ideal mobile CMS, and we’ll be exploring a few of these in this article.It Starts With AnalyticsTo begin with, you need to know what the figures are in regards to your target audience that are accessing your site via mobile phones or other hand-held devices. A great place to start would be Google Analytics, a free tool that displays all the pertinent data to give you an idea of whether going mobile would make financial sense in the long run. Metrics found onGoogle Analytics helps you answer questions such as:–    What are mobile visitors searching for (keywords)? –    Is the structure and information flow in your site mobile-friendly (site search, page depth, conversions and site speed)? –    Are they having trouble finding information (landing page bounce rates and average time on page)?…and so on. Armed with this information, you can start creating a CMS that’s able to get you better conversions as well as boost your visibility online.A mobile CMS should be basic, intuitive and minimalist. However, there’s the problem of having different needs for different mobile platforms that makes it necessary to have a mobile CMS that can have the same effectiveness across all platforms. For example, things like presentation style, interaction style and software stacks are all important things to pay attention to when creating your ideal mobile CMS.Device Agnostic vs Device Specific CMS DevelopmentThere are two approaches to mobile CMS creation: device agnostic and device specific development. Device agnostic basically means that the CMS is not tied to a particular device, or it is machine-independent. This means that it won’t need manual modification in order to make it work across devices and platforms. Device specific mobile CMS development provides unique mobile experiences depending on the device your target customer is using to access your site or app.Device Plans and MatrixesWhen you’re developing a mobile CMS, you need to have a device plan right from the very start if you’re going to ensure that people accessing your content or platform have the best possible experience. For example, the device matrix for mobile browsers stretches from A to F, meaning that you will need to do due diligence from the data you’ve collected so you can know what class of browser your audience is using to access your mobile site.User InteractionUser interaction should also be another thing that needs to feature in your plans while creating your ideal mobile CMS. Your CMS should thus have this functionality or allow for a plugin to be used to provide it. At the very least, your CMS should give you the ability to post forms and record responses even on a mobile platform. If you’re shopping around for a good mobile CMS provider, Magnolia is a great option given its popularity, ease of maintenance, flexibility, and scalability.Do you have any questions or comments regarding mobile CMS development? Please take some time to leave your thoughts in the comment box below.

A No-Frills Guide to Choosing Your Mobile CMS

SEO is and always will be important, regardless of how loudly the “SEO is Dead” crowd howls. Because SEO is important, your CMS's ability to do SEO matters. If you haven't thought much about the convergence of SEO and CMS, this article will alert you to this crucial touchpoint, and give you insight into how your CMS may be performing in the area of SEO.<h2>The Importance of SEO</h2>You may not be an SEO professional, and that's fine. But that doesn't mean that SEO is any less a part of your job, regardless of whether you're a designer, a developer, a coder, or a content writer. If you work on, in, or around a CMS, you automatically play a role in SEO.How well you do SEO doesn't merely depend on your knowledge of the SEO field. It also depends on the quality of your content management system. Some CMSs make SEO really difficult, even contributing to damaging SEO practices. Other CMSs, by contrast, were built with SEO in mind, making the process simple and rewarding.You use a content management system, and you want great Google rankings. It should be fairly obvious that you want your CMS to facilitate improved SEO. Does your CMS make it easy, or are you ruining your SEO due to your CMS?<h2>What SEO functions should your CMS be able to do?</h2>Let's assume that your CMS does what every CMS should do — help you create content. Basic onsite SEO best practices include using good keywords and synonyms and maybe sprinkling in a few links and anchor texts. Beyond that, your CMS should allow you to do the following.<ul><li>Create intuitive navigation. Simple site navigation allows you to optimize a user's experience, which improves search engine rankings. Navigation is important because it influences how long visitors stay on the site, whether or not they convert, and how your site gets indexed by the search engines. Make sure your CMS provides an easy way to simplify, restructure, or otherwise organize your site navigation.</li><li>Easily create links. Every page on your site should have a link to some other page on your site. The goal of inbound links is to increase the time spent on your site. Most CMS editors contain quick-and-easy ways to insert links and customize the anchor text. If your CMS requires you to code every link by hand, it creates an unnecessary SEO obstacle.</li><li>Keep your Robot.txt clean. Most content editors stay away from messing with a site's robots text file (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/robotstxt">Robot.txt</a>). This file, which contains important instructions for the search engines, is crucial. Your CMS should give you access to this file in order to ensure that the site is cleanly indexed, and to remove any disallow or nofollows, which can corrupt a search bot's attempt to index the page.</li><li>Easily edit file and image information. Inserting a file or image into a site is standard practice on most sites. Less common, however, is naming these images with search engine friendly names. Your CMS should enable you to upload custom-named images, and then change the alt text and tags on the image for SEO power.</li><li>Create titles and descriptions. Two of the most important SEO features on a page are title and description. Some proprietary CMSs make it impossible, believe it or not, to change this information. Still others make editing it a chore. Either way it's a major strike against SEO. Make sure that your CMS allows you to add page titles and meta descriptions for every single page.</li><li>Use headline tags. Although WYSIWYG editors are nice, they sometimes create a hurdle for strategic use of header tags. These HTML tags, known by their abbreviations (H1, H2, H3, etc.) are helpful search engine signals, notifying the crawler what's important on your page. The presence of keywords in headline text can improve your SEO. Any CMS should allow easy editing of the header tags.</li><li>Customize URLs. Often, a CMS creates new pages with default URLs that are pure gibberish and absolutely horrific for SEO. If something like www.examplesite.com/12/18/h18r+&amp;83.aspx appears in the search bar when you create a page, a red flag should go up. This is a no-no for SEO. Your CMS should give you control over the URL, to ensure that it contains readable text and relevant keywords.</li></ul>This may seem like a tall order for a CMS, but it's not out of reach. Some CMSs come with built-in power tools for such SEO customizations. Others, however, require labyrinthine paths for editing this information, or involve complicated code editing, which may be out of reach for the average content creator.When you go back to work on your CMS today, find out how easy it is to do some of the functions above. If you're in trouble, you may want to think about installing plugins or extensions on your <a href="/four-features-you-should-know-about-the-top-five-cmss/">open-source CMS</a> to improve your SEO editing. You may even need to consider a new CMS.

Can your CMS do SEO?

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In keeping with <a href="/kentico-8-2-release-date-set/">Kentico's announcement last year</a> pointing to an early 2015 release, Kentico 8.2 has now officially arrived.With its headquarters in the Czech Republic, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kentico.com/">Kentico</a> is a respected Enterprise Web Content Management System and Customer Experience Management solution, available on-premise or via the cloud. Founded in 2004, Kentico offers solutions for website building, intranets, community sites, and e-commerce websites.<a href="/kentico-8-1-release-date-revealed/">Kentico 8.1 was recently released</a> back in August 2014, and that version brought about its own set of features, including SharePoint integration and social marketing improvements. Kentico 8.2 has built upon those marketing features somewhat.<h2>Kentico 8.2 Enhances eCommerce, Marketing &amp; Collaboration</h2>Kentico 8.2 allows marketers to quickly deliver the right marketing message, at the right time, via the right digital channel. Here's an overview of what's new.Bi-Directional SharePoint Synchronization: Kentico’s new SharePoint Integration module streamlines collaboration while facilitating better file sharing. Kentico’s new bi-directional SharePoint synchronization feature means that all changes made in Kentico will be made automatically on the SharePoint server. So, your files are always up to date, and everyone has the latest versions.Easy Shipping Calculations: With shipping costs affected by order value, size, weight, geography, shipping provider, and customer, providing shipping discounts and free delivery to certain customers can be difficult to calculate. One-size-fits-all solutions are not for everybody, so Kentico has made it easy to create a shipping module that presents all the tools you need to calculate shipping costs in your own custom user interface.Enhanced Contact Management: The newly introduced Kentico Contact Management module provides a 360-degree view of all your website visitors and customers as well as their behavior across all channels and devices. If you are using multiple tools to manage your leads, contacts and recipients, it can be a headache to sync them, import them and reuse them across all the platforms in use. With Kentico 8.2, you can easily import Contacts from a CSV file, segment them, and leverage them in the system.Upon the release of version 8.2, Kentico's CEO and Founder Petr Palas made the following comments.<blockquote>“With the new features contained in Kentico 8.2, we continue to show we not only listen to our customers, we respond to their needs.We are constantly working to enhance our product to bring our customers the easy-to-use and affordable set of tools they need to launch and manage integrated digital marketing activities that are highly personalized, dynamic, and effective.”</blockquote>To find out more about Kentico, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kentico.com/">visit their website</a>, or check out their <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kentico.com/Company/Press-Center/2014/Kentico-8-2-Features-New-Collaboration-and-Ecommer">Kentico 8.2 announcement</a>.Plus, you can explore more of <a href="/products/kentico/">Kentico via our CMS Directory</a>.

Kentico 8.2 Released With eCommerce & Marketing Improvements

If you aren't used to using an open source CMS, then you may have fallen victim to several popular myths. Even those who are familiar with the open source environment believe some of these myths. For both avid open source users and proprietary CMS users, we offer fair warning regarding the four worst myths about open source CMSs. 1.  Open source CMS are much easier to use than proprietary systems.This is sheer myth. The person who declares that open source X is easier than proprietary Y in has a lot of explaining to do. We need a more detailed explanation in order to make “easier” or “harder” comparisons. There are tons of open source CMSs, untold numbers of proprietaries, a million or so hybrids, and an infinite number of “easy” or “hard” things that you can do with them. This sweeping “easier” declaration is firmly founded upon the speaker's lack of knowledge regarding his or her subject matter.Perhaps the real downer to a statement like this is its ramifications. Believing that one CMS is “easier” than another may contribute to further mistakes.<ul><li>It may cause a business to choose said open source CMS without being prepared for the learning curve.</li><li>It may lead to a business being shorthanded on developers or IT, once they discover that it takes more than just someone handy with Microsoft Word to run the thing.</li><li>It mistakenly leads some to conclude that “easier” means “cheaper” in terms of talent acquisition and/or training.</li></ul>On the flip side, it's dangerous to think that proprietary systems are easier. Before we talk about easy or hard, let's just make sure we're making it really clear what we're talking about.2.  Open source is free. The fact is, WordPress, Joomla, TYPO3, or Drupal won't ask you to pay for their system. Yes, the system itself is free. But what about everything else? Hosting, design, plugins, themes, extensions, tools, implementation, support, maintenance, adoption costs, programs, designers, developers and whatever else is involved in a CMS are usually not free. The buzzword “free” leads many astray with the assumption that they're getting something for nothing. That's just not how life works, not even in the promised land of open source CMSs. In the end, the total cost of ownership does not necessarily land lower than the TCO of a proprietary system. You're going to pay for something, even if it's not the CMS itself.3.  Open source costs more than proprietary.Some have reversed the above myth (#2) to postulate another myth that is equally untrue. They say, with a glint of disdain in their eye, that open source CMSs actually have more hidden costs than proprietary systems. The furtive word “hidden” likely denotes such things as development, maintenance, etc.Here's the grain of truth in the myth:  Somewhere, in the distant passages of past time, a company did a cost-survey analysis and discovered a proprietary system might actually cost less overall than some open source alternative. Fair enough; end of story.My chief carp against this myth is its lack of legitimate comparison. It is never appropriate to say one type of CMS is superior to/cheaper than/ easier than/ more powerful than another type of CMS. (See myth #1.) There are a bajillion more factors to consider. A better approach is to survey your TCO, and to make no decisions based on that one lonely datapoint — the cost of the CMS itself.4.  There is no training or support if you choose open source. Um, no. Any developer who has spent time honing his open source craft can tell you that this is untrue. Just because some well-funded proprietary CMS hosts an annual conference doesn't mean that the open source users lacks support. Open source users can find online help, forums, paid classes, local meet ups, YouTube how-tos, expensive manuals, more expensive consultants, and whizz-bang contract developers. The support and training are there; they just don't get packaged into some monthly fee along with the CMS itself.A white paper published by a proprietary CMS developer discussed the downside of open source with a teary-eyed tale of someone who had been there, done that with open source:  “As a service provider looking for support for critical applications, I don't want to depend on the equivalent of begging in the street for answers — that is what support is like with open source content management system [CMS]. I want to know that I'll get a real person, whose job is on the line, to help me.”The slant of this statement is evident. We don't know what this gentleman was doing, cryptically referred to as “begging in the street for answers,” but we know that online support manuals, sophisticated training programs, up-to-the-minute forums, and easy Google searches are not begging in the streets. The answers are there; the support for your critical applications is there. You can stay off the streets.Choosing a CMS is an <a href="/contact">important decision</a> — too important to fall prey to these myths. As long as you're doing your homework, comparing CMSs in the right way, and getting a broad survey of CMSs, you'll be fine.

The Four Worst Myths about Open Source CMS

An interesting idea came to fruition from the comments on my popular, <a href="/wordpress-joomla-and-drupal-are-not-the-best-cms/">WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are NOT the Best CMS</a> post.The idea was to pit a number of solutions against one another for a specific use case. I think this is a great idea and I'd like to ask all of you which CMS you'd like me to start the series with?Pitting different content management systems against one another in specific scenarios is a great way to identify the strengths of the various products on the market. Please do not feel restricted to popular products either, the point of the post will be to help identify alternatives.I'd ask that you please leave a comment below with the CMS' you'd like to see pitted against one another and the scenario and I'll choose one to kick off the series with.Thanks for your input!

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It's been a great day for Linux geeks (and those of us with <a href="/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-a-distro-hopper/">distro hopping issues</a>) because Canonical has released Ubuntu 16.10 to the public. This version, dubbed Yakkety Yak, is now available for all to download from the <a target="_blank" href="http://ubuntu.com">Ubuntu website</a>.Ubuntu 16.10 will be supported for 9 months until <a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases">July 2017</a> therefore if you are looking for an OS with long term support, stick with 16.04 for now. Ubuntu 16.10 brings with it the following improvements / changes:<ul><li>MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning</li><li>Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0</li><li>Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence</li><li>OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performance and containers</li><li>Snapd 2.16 delivers apps to a wide range of Linux servers, devices, and desktops</li><li>More than 500 snaps published, with updates directly to end-users from ISVs</li><li>Performance improvements in network and virtualisation for throughput, latency</li></ul>One of the things that Canonical is touting with this release is a sneak preview session of Unity 8 (available if you log out of the desktop and select it before logging in). I'll be honest though, I personally don't like the way it looks or feels but since it's in the early stages, I'm hoping that changes.Here's a quick video showing off the Unity 8 preview: What do you think? Are you impressed / upset / excited for Unity 8? I'd love to know your thoughts in the comments below.

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This is just a quick thank you post to all of our Movember sponsors for their generous donations. Combined, we were able to raise over $500 for cancer research!We truly appreciate your donations.In addition to our <a href="/movember-update-cms-critic-does-movember/">previous donors </a>, we also have the following to thank:<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.thexyz.com/">Thexyz</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://revaluate.com/">Revaluate</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="http://crayon.co">Crayon</a></li></ul>Thanks for supporting us. For those interested in getting in a donation before the period ends, please use this link to do so: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.movember.com/ca/donate/payment/member_id/10406853/">https://www.movember.com/ca/donate/payment/member_id/10406853/</a>

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JahiaOne kicks off tomorrow and to give you some insight into the men behind the vision at Jahia, we've taken the opportunity to sit down with two major players in the executive team.This second interview is with Jahia's Chief Operating Officer, Emmanuel Garcin.With a <a href="/growth-expansion-jahia-receives-22-5-million-round-of-funding/">massive cash injection</a> earlier this year, it seems like Jahia is destined for some pretty substantial growth over the next few years.Tune in to find out how they are making use of this opportunity to steadily and intelligently improve their user experience platform for existing and future customers. To learn more about Jahia, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jahia.com">visit their website</a> or tune into our <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/cmscritic">Twitter profile</a> starting tomorrow to see live tweets from the event under the hashtag <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jahiaone&amp;src=typd">#jahiaone</a>.

CMS Critic Interviews Emmanuel Garcin of Jahia ahead of JahiaOne

Jahia has officially announced the release of Jahia Digital Factory 7.1 today. This new release brings with it a host of improvements focused on scalability, stability and performance.According to Jahia CEO, Elie Auvray:<blockquote>“After the introduction of Digital Factory 7.0 last year, our customers and partners showed a huge enthusiasm for the new realm of possibilities it allowed for. As our flagship product becomes everyday the foundations of more and more highly-critical online initiatives – underlining how critical infrastructure UXP now is – this year, we concentrated on further strengthening it. Hence this new version, that will really help our customers expand their online projects safely and with virtually no limit.” says Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solutions Group SA.</blockquote>Digital Factory 7.1 focuses on stability through additional performance enhancements in all areas:<ul><li>The fastest and most reliable “User eXperience Platform”<ul><li>​Performance, stability and scalability now reach new heights with Digital Factory 7.1: browsing and editing operations are faster than ever. The new platform handles twice the load as the previous one with the same configuration, making it Jahia’s fastest and most powerful Digital Factory yet.</li><li>In addition, a new Frontal search engine based on Elasticsearch provides higher scalability without compromising access control or sacrificing publication capabilities.</li></ul></li><li>​Enhanced authoring productivity<ul><li>​Digital Factory authors now leverage a new “Work In Progress” feature that prevents publication mistakes in a far more flexible way than simple content locks but still fully integrated with Digital Factory core capabilities.</li><li>In addition, authors now can publish content in all languages at once with a simple click at a site, page, section or content item level.</li></ul></li><li>​Even more developer agility:<ul><li>​Powerful improvements to Digital Factory’s Rest API allow developers to perform very sophisticated operations and query using the JCR-SQL2 language, thus accelerating, for instance, IoT implementations.</li><li>The new Jahia Studio accelerates development even more: solutions builders can now, for instance, save time by duplicating modules or control dependencies and downloaded sources more tightly.</li></ul></li><li>​Peace of mind for architects and administrators:<ul><li>​Digital Factory now supports Java 8, IBM Websphere 8.5 and JBoss Application Server 7.x and provides the additional flexibility to externalize data and configurations.</li><li>User and Groups service redesign : administrators will now seamlessly manage their preferred authentication providers through a dedicated administration panel, further unifying the Jahia user experience across all products and services and for all audiences.</li><li>Additional enhancements for architects and administrators include new multi-tenancy administration capabilities as well as Jahia instances chaining capabilities, allowing administrators of large Jahia deployments to orchestrate any type of instances (Digital Factory, Workspace Factory, …).</li></ul></li></ul>For more information on Digital Factory, check out the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jahia.com">Jahia website</a> or watch my recent interviews with Jahia executives, <a href="/cms-critic-interviews-emmanuel-garcin-of-jahia-ahead-of-jahiaone/">Emmanuel Garcin</a> and Christopher Justice.

Jahia Digital Factory 7.1 Release offers more Scalability, Stability and Performance Improvements

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sitecore.net/">Sitecore</a>, last years winners of the Critics' Choice and People's Choice Awards for <a href="/2013-critics-choice-winner-for-best-enterprise-cms/">Best Enterprise CMS</a>, today announced that MongoDB, the database for modern applications, will power the Sitecore® Experience DatabaseTM, an infinitely scalable experience repository that collects and connects customer data in real-time to provide marketers with a single view of every individual customer that can be actioned in real-time to deliver highly personalized experiences.It’s no secret that marketers are dealing with a deluge of customer information coming from diverse online and offline sources, creating an unwieldy patchwork of customer data for IT to unravel. Sitecore  helps marketers and technologists meet this challenge, providing a “no limits” solution with MongoDB to access, store and analyze customer experience data in real-time that also scales out as customer data grows.Built on MongoDB, and available on premise or in the cloud via Microsoft® Azure®,  the Sitecore Experience Database integrates seamlessly with the Sitecore® Experience PlatformTM, collecting all data from every customer interaction in the moment, and connecting that data to a single-person profile summary, viewable through the Sitecore® Experience ProfileTM. Now, marketers can access a complete view their customer’s entire brand engagement history to understand the experiences that matter most and action these insights in real-time to continually drive highly engaging and relevant experiences.Thousands of organizations use MongoDB for its agile and scalable approach to data management. Common use cases include operational and analytical big data, content management and delivery, mobile and social infrastructure, user data management and data hub.“Marketer’s need to be able to manage a wide variety of ever changing data sources and types as they interact with prospects on their preferred platforms,” said Max Schireson, CEO at MongoDB. “MongoDB enables Sitecore to stand out from the competition, using flexible modern data infrastructure that easily adapts to its customer’s requirements.”“Marketers are eager for an elegant solution that enables a complete picture of each individual customer from deep customer data,” said Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director of Open Source Communities at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. “Using MongoDB combined with Sitecore products and Microsoft Azure provides a new level of scalability for real-time customer insights from NoSQL data.  We are excited to build upon a strong partnership with MongoDB and see Sitecore help marketers know every customer and shape experiences in the moment, really improving on customer experience management.”“For the first time, marketers no longer need to limit the volume of data gathered and managed from each channel,” said Michael Seifert, CEO at Sitecore. “With MongoDB’s market-leading technology, the Sitecore Experience Database can scale to store all data from any channel and any touchpoint in real-time. This ‘no-limits’ approach means marketers are now unconstrained in data collection and analysis. And with a real-time view of their individual customers available on-demand through the Sitecore Experience Profile, marketers can deliver the personalized brand experiences that win customers for life,” added Seifert.Today, global brands are increasingly handling terabytes of customer information, so having an experience database that can readily and cost-effectively scale is vital. Non-relational databases are a proven technology architecture designed to support exactly this kind of big data capability. In cloud deployments, Microsoft Azure’s elastic scaling architecture complements MongoDB’s high-performance data management capabilities. Azure’s global data centers enable customers to put their data close to their users for speed, reliability and redundancy.    Key benefits include:Scalability and Agility: MongoDB is uniquely suited to support high volumes of data and flexible record structures, enabling the Sitecore Experience Database to scale as the volume of data grows, and to run in real-time at the pace of real-world conversations. By being able to easily and cost effectively scale out, customers can grow smoothly and economically with no limits on data capacity.Real-time Performance: The best customer experiences respond in real-time to the data received in the moment to tailor and fine-tune each next step. Sitecore delivers true real-time experience management.Flexibility and Fast Deployment: With a flexible data model, the Sitecore Experience Database can run either on premise or in the cloud via Microsoft Azure.Native Integration: The Sitecore Experience Database integrates seamlessly with the Sitecore Experience Platform, providing a single source of customer intelligence that powers every interaction across every channel.About MongoDB, Inc.MongoDB makes development simple and beautiful. For tens of thousands of organizations, MongoDB provides agility and the freedom to scale. Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, hospitals, governments and organizations of all kinds use MongoDB because it is the best database for modern applications. Through simplicity, MongoDB changes what it means to build. Through openness, MongoDB elevates what it means to work with a software company. Please visit<a target="_blank" href="http://www.mongodb.com/"> www.MongoDB.com</a> to learn more.About Sitecore<a target="_blank" href="http://www.sitecore.net/">Sitecore</a> is the global leader in customer experience management software. The company delivers highly relevant content and personalized digital experiences that delight audiences, build loyalty and drive revenue. With Sitecore’s experience platform, marketers can own the experience of every customer that engages with their brand, across every channel. More than 3,500 of the world’s leading brands – including American Express, Carnival Cruise Lines, easyJet, Heineken and L'Oréal SA– trust Sitecore to help them deliver the meaningful interactions that win customers for life.

Sitecore and MongoDB Partner to Solve Big Data Challenges for Marketers

The latest release of phpFox is upon us with the announcement of phpFox Neutron 4.4. This new release focuses heavily on speed optimizations, security optimizations, new features and layout improvements.Some of the improvements and optimizations available in this release include:<ul><li>Security<ul><li>Security checks to today’s standards. This is done periodically as a normal practice for our script. This is an in-depth review of all systems for any issues.</li></ul></li><li>Optimizations<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.phpfox.com/display/FOX4MAN/Redis">Redis support</a> (Optional) for the feeds, friends, sessions, forum, profile and more!</li><li>Major SQL improvements!</li><li>Removal of unused code, settings, etc.</li><li>More Cache options directly in AdminCP!</li><li>Bundle <a target="_blank" href="https://docs.phpfox.com/display/FOX4MAN/Bundle+JS+and+CSS">JS &amp; CSS</a>!</li></ul></li><li>Full NGINX support.</li><li>Theme system improvements and tweaks.</li><li>Layout improvements and tweaks.</li></ul>Additional changes include:<ul><li>Groups Groups are separate in this version as customers asked for Pages and Groups to be separate. This makes them more private for those that needed better privacy options. Users can make Secret groups, closed and public groups.</li><li>Default Cover Images As requested, you can set your site’s default cover photos for User, Pages and Groups! No more blank, empty cover images now!</li><li>CDN Increased CDN options are now available within the AdminCP.</li></ul>Get <a target="_blank" href="https://www.phpfox.com/">more information about phpFox</a>.

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