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Agentic AI for Agencies in 2026

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<p>Global video creation platform <a href="https://clipchamp.com/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Clipchamp</a> today announced it has been named one of Dropbox’s new Extensions partner apps, as the company continues to scale its presence in the US market and plans to open an on-the-ground office to manage high-calibre partnerships locally.</p>
<p>Dropbox introduced Extensions in late 2018 to reduce app switching for its users by enabling them to take action on files stored in Dropbox. Now, Dropbox has expanded and updated its partner apps to include a new Clipchamp integration. Users can utilize Clipchamp to efficiently and seamlessly create, edit and publish high-quality videos right from Dropbox’s new desktop app and dropbox.com.</p>
<p>With over eight million registered users worldwide, Clipchamp provides all the tools needed to produce beautiful and impactful video content without relying on expensive equipment, complicated software or any previous video production experience.</p>
<p>Based in Brisbane, Australia, Clipchamp has seen significant customer growth in the US among SMEs, mum-and-dad businesses, influencers and creatives, and it is the largest market for the company.</p>
<p>Co-founder and CEO of Clipchamp, Alex Dreiling, said: “Creating video does not have to be an intimidating or overwhelming experience. Clipchamp is empowering anyone and everyone to create something they didn't believe they could do themselves. Add Clipchamp to the modern workspace offered by Dropbox and users have the ultimate video creation, sharing and collaboration platform.”</p>
<p>“It is full steam ahead for Clipchamp as we look to grow our company’s presence in the US. We have had impressive traction to date in the market and we are excited to continue to build our user base locally and further develop valuable partnerships with highly notable companies, such as Dropbox,” Mr Dreiling added.</p>
<p>“At Dropbox, we’re focused on connecting users with the tools they love so they can get the most out of their work, said Billy Blau, Global VP of Business Development and Partnerships at Dropbox. “With the launch of our latest Extensions partners, we’re continuing to deliver on that promise — integrating key tools to help our users navigate their workflows more seamlessly right from Dropbox.”</p>
<p>For more information visit: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/app-integrations/clipchamp" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/app-integrations/clipchamp</a></p>
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Video creation platform Clipchamp becomes part of Dropbox Extensions, scales US presence

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<p><a href="https://elementor.com/?ref=7501" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elementor</a> today announced that over three million sites have been built using its platform. The platform reduces the need for web creators to code with its cutting-edge platform on WordPress. Elementor serves a rapidly growing customer base of web professionals including builders, designers, and marketers in 147 markets, and boasts a new website created every 10 seconds on its platform.</p>
<p>Elementor's open-source platform offers both a feature-rich free version for aspiring web creators and a premium version for web professionals – combined, they currently support over 1 million users. Elementor is the fastest growing platform on WordPress, which now powers over 30% of all websites worldwide. As both WordPress and Elementor continue to grow, those numbers are rapidly increasing.</p>
<p>Founded by Yoni Luksenberg and Ariel Klikstein, Elementor aims to radically simplify web building on WordPress, enabling web professionals and agencies to unleash their creative and business potential. Elementor's 50,000 strong, vibrant community and educational programs have been its primary growth engines. The platform currently ranks 9th on WordPress.org's most popular plugins, rating highest among website editor platforms.</p>
<p>Recognizing its central role in the WordPress community and its exponential growth, Elementor will become for the first time a Platinum sponsor in US WordCamp, the world’s biggest WordPress conference to be held in St. Louis, Missouri on November 1st.</p>
<p>“Web professionals want to build flexible, customizable websites that convert and look amazing,” said Yoni Luksenberg, Elementor's Co-Founder and CEO, “I’m proud we facilitated the creation of over three million sites in just three years. As a designer at heart, I'm extremely excited by the engagement level of pros all over the world that use us as their number one platform of choice. We will continue to empower our growing global community of web creators by developing more innovative tools and solutions that will help them unleash their business potential.”</p>
<p>For more information visit <a href="https://elementor.com/?ref=7501" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">elementor.com</a></p>
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Elementor Hits 3 Million Sites, Becomes Fastest-Growing Web Building Platform

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<p>Voyager Live, for those of you who have never heard of it before, is a heavily customized Ubuntu 19.10 with the Gnome desktop.</p>
<p>They have just released a new version with Voyager Live 19.10 that brings a ton of tweaks, new software and other adjustments to Gnome making it more usable according to the project creator.</p>
<p>Here's a video highlighting the features of this release:</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MMEbwQaiZy8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Here are some of the additions you can expect in this release:</p>
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<li>Gufw (Firewall)</li>
<li>Bleachbit</li>
<li>Mintstick</li>
<li>Conky</li>
<li>Zenity</li>
<li>Yad</li>
<li>Testdisk</li>
<li>Deja-dup (for backups)</li>
<li>Caffeine (gnome extension)</li>
<li>Grub customizer</li>
<li>25 different extensions</li>
<li>and more.</li>
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<p>For a full list of everything in this release, check out the <a href="https://voyagerlive.org/voyager-ge-19-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">release announcement</a>.</p>
<p>I've used Voyager Live (their XFCE edition) in the past and have found it to be pretty solid with some pretty cool tweaks and software additions although admittedly, I haven't used their Gnome version much as it's not my desktop environment of choice but I'd love to hear if any of you have and what you think.</p>
<p>Let us know in the comments below.</p>
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Voyager Live 19.10 Released

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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">Contentful, the leading enterprise headless CMS provider, today announced the release of a new <a href="https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/extensibility/apps/optimizely/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Optimizely application</a>, which allows developers to build content experimentation into <a href="https://www.contentful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Contentful</a>, enabling faster experimentation and more efficient content delivery.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">The new application allows marketers to test critical marketing content without leaving Contentful. This enables more and faster content experimentation, resulting in increased customer conversions and improved customer experiences.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">“Time is money for all digital products and experiments. Contentful takes pride in helping customers deliver great experiences quickly, and the new Optimizely application will only make this even more possible,” said Sascha Konietzke, CEO and co-founder of Contentful. “Not having to leave the Contentful platform to create and run content experiments will give our customers yet another competitive advantage when it comes to the speed, agility and flexibility of the types of content they can deliver.”</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">The Optimizely app removes hurdles for users by integrating the two products so practitioners can focus on the creation and testing of great content instead of configuration. Experimentation with variables like branding, messaging and user experience is critical to boosting customer conversions, driving more revenue. The new application also minimizes context switching and mistakes by reducing manual copying. It adds content variations to reference fields, assigns content variations to experiments  and monitors experimentation status.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">“Successful brands integrate experimentation throughout the customer journey to ensure they maximize every digital touchpoint to drive engagement, increase advocacy and grow their businesses,” said Byron Jones, director of product at Optimizely. “Our latest collaboration with Contentful makes it even easier and more efficient for marketers to use data-driven decision making to scale their experimentation programs and eliminate the guesswork to deliver the best digital experience for their customers.”</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">The Optimizely application also makes it easier for users to supercharge their experiments with structured content by connecting it with Contentful. Users can ask the Optimizely platform to select a variation based on targeting criteria, which allows them to pick matching content from Contentful.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">Contentful and Optimizely have a history of collaborating on technical projects to improve content management. Last September, Contentful joined forces with Optimizely to help form <a href="https://www.contentful.com/blog/2018/09/12/contentful-joins-dxsalliance-delivers-digital-experiences-faster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Digital Experiences Stack</a> (DXS), a group dedicated to creating a cohesive way for companies to use best-in-category technologies to deliver digital products. The companies also collaborated to build a modernized marketing <a href="https://www.contentful.com/blog/2019/03/20/building-a-modern-marketing-stack-with-contentful-optimizely/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">software stack</a> earlier this year to fuel deeper experimentation and personalization processes.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">The new Optimizely application for Contentful is available as a public beta for enterprise customers starting today, via the Contentful web app. For more information, visit the documentation <a href="https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/extensibility/apps/optimizely/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature"><b>Additional Information</b></div>
<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">● Learn more about <a href="https://www.contentful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Contentful</a></div>
<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">● Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/contentful" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@Contentful</a> on Twitter</div>
<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">● Explore resources on <a href="https://github.com/contentful" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Github</a></div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature"><b>About Contentful</b></div>
<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">Contentful provides the essential content infrastructure for digital products and experiences, making content accessible via APIs and editable in an intuitive web app. Companies including Spotify, Red Bull Music Academy, Xoom/Paypal, Lenovo, Nike and many others rely on Contentful to author, manage and deliver digital content to any channel or platform. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.contentful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.contentful.<wbr></wbr>com/</a></div>
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<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature"><b>About Optimizely</b></div>
<div class="m_-7301575464470174534gmail_signature">Optimizely’s leading platform offers a complete set of digital experience optimization technologies, including AI-powered personalization and experimentation, which encompasses A/B testing, multivariate testing, and server-side testing. We take out the guesswork to enable brands to deliver relevant experiences driven by data. The world’s greatest brands choose Optimizely to win and compete in the digital economy, including Gap, StubHub, IBM, The Wall Street Journal, and many more.</div>
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Contentful Launches New Optimizely Application that Enhances the Content Delivery Process to Drive Great Digital Experiences

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<p>Today EvoWeb Technologies released EWCart, an entirely new eCommerce solution designed for small businesses that want a reliable, secure, fast eCommerce platform with the added bonus of their own web development team at no extra charge. This affordable, full-featured new platform will include full maintenance and support, and top-of-the-line servers, while also providing customers with a bespoke website and a personal account manager, giving them the tools they need to succeed.</p>
<p>While other eCommerce platforms will only include the platform itself, EWCart aims to stand-out by providing users with a full-fledged eCommerce solution. They provide small businesses with everything they need to sell, update inventory, track orders, and accept payments, as well as their own web development team that can tailor their business website to their needs. This will save businesses thousands in seed capital and maintenance fees, as EWCart takes care of that as well.</p>
<p>EvoWeb Technologies has discovered the high cost of starting an eCommerce website, notably the fees to hire a developer to redesign a template to suit sellers business after paying eCommerce platforms fees. “The eCommerce industry is growing faster than we can all imagine but the cost of set-up is preventing lots of sellers from leveraging on this fantastic market,” the CEO of EvoWeb Technologies, Mustafa Hussaini, noted.</p>
<p>Statista estimated there are no lesser than 1.6 billion digital buyers worldwide and predicted there will be 2.14 billion in 2021. Buyers are reportedly tapping into these customers base and most of them get discouraged due to the cost of designing and hosting their online store.</p>
<p>According to Atlantic Business Technology Inc., the cost of starting an eCommerce website can range from $5,000 to $100,000. On careful analysis, this cost always starts from $20-$60 and can escalate due to the cost of hiring developers to customize the website.</p>
<p>In response to the cost challenges and difficulty in management, the EvoWeb Technologies group of programmers designed an eCommerce platform, EWCart, which offers fully customizable eCommerce platforms that are affordable and easy to manage by all sellers.</p>
<p>To access the platform claimed to be the best and most affordable for all sellers by its parent company, visit <a href="https://www.ewcart.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.ewcart.io</a>. To check their plans, packages and other offers, use this URL https://www.ewcart.io/pricing. To speak with one of their support team members, email hello@ewcart.io or call +1 (323) 607-5424.</p>
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EvoWeb Technologies Releases EWCart, First eCommerce Platform to Provide Free Dedicated Developer Along With Platform

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<p class="responsiveNews"><a href="https://www.sitelock.com/" rel="nofollow">SiteLock</a> today announced new feature enhancements to SMART® Database (SMART/DB™) which extends monitoring and scanning support for Joomla! and any other web platform using a MySQL database in addition to existing WordPress capability. With this industry-first offering, 90 million global small and medium-sized businesses can now automatically protect their website databases from various types of malware that could steal customer data, allowing them to conduct online business safer than ever before.</p>
<p class="responsiveNews">A database controls, writes, and processes all dynamic data that is collected and stored on a website including form completions, online purchases, and various types of content. While a database is a powerful piece of a website’s infrastructure, according to SiteLock data, 30% of malware cleaned was located within a website’s database. These types of attacks can threaten customer data, potentially impacting a small business’ reputation, or worse, its ability to stay afloat.</p>
<p class="responsiveNews">“Given that most small businesses do not have the budgets or resources to constantly monitor every aspect of their websites, including their databases, they are at an even greater risk of potential compromise,” said Neill Feather, Chief Innovation Officer at SiteLock. “If left undetected, a compromised website database can have a devastating impact on a small business – exposing customer data and potentially impacting its bottom line. Should anything malicious occur in the database, the entire online history of a small business, such as posts, comments, and customer records– may be lost forever. SiteLock is the first security provider to solve this problem by delivering automated database monitoring and remediation that is affordable and accessible to any small business.”</p>
<p class="responsiveNews">The threat landscape continues to evolve at an alarming rate. The average website is attacked approximately every <a href="https://www.sitelock.com/resources/cybersecurity-report" rel="nofollow">23 minutes or 62 times per day</a>. It’s no longer a matter of if you’ll be attacked, but when. The updates to SMART/DB provide a way for any small business owner, or even bloggers who aggregate an audience, to fortify against these growing threats with an advanced level of detection.</p>
<p class="responsiveNews">To learn more about SiteLock and SMART/DB™ please visit: <a href="https://www.sitelock.com/" rel="nofollow">sitelock.com.</a></p>
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SiteLock Announces the Industry’s Only Solution to Automatically Scan For and Remove Malware and Spam From Website Databases

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<p>To facilitate technological innovation within media organisations, nonprofit software developer Sourcefabric z.ú. has launched a new roundtable to help news agencies share development costs and improve the tools that deliver their journalism to clients.</p>
<p>Called the <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=0c90aef04e&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Superdesk Wire Club</a>, the forum will serve as a development steering committee for news agencies that use Superdesk, our open-source newsroom management solution. Through the club, members will identify features or functions that are of shared interest and then decide on collectively funding their development. Founding members of the Superdesk Wire Club include <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=cf036374a2&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Norwegian news agency NTB</a>, <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=73c25bda85&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Belgian news agency Belga</a>, and the <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=7b6c354dc1&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Australian Associated Press (AAP)</a>. Additional agencies are expected to join soon.</p>
<p>“This is about people talking to each other, but it’s also about coordinating solutions,” says Karel Petrák, Sourcefabric project manager and Wire Club organiser. “What do Superdesk users need and want most? The Wire Club will help us answer that question.”</p>
<p>Since Superdesk’s public release in early 2016, nearly a dozen publishers have adopted the CMS or are transitioning to the software, including some of Europe’s leading news agencies. Every month, the platform delivers more than 300,000 news items to over 80 million readers on four continents. Because Superdesk is built on <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=e01c897b52&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">open-source code base</a>, users can collectively make improvements; the Superdesk Wire Club will facilitate this collaboration.</p>
<p>Geir Terje Ruud, NTB’s chief development officer, said: “It's a good idea to build a system for cooperation between customers and users on systems like Superdesk. If we, as customers, can pull or push in the same direction, development will be faster, more efficient and definitely closer to the needs of the customers.”</p>
<p>Tom Wuytack, Belga’s CIO, added: “The Wire Club will allow us to sit in the driver’s seat to ensure that further evolution of the Superdesk software remains relevant for Belga. It will also give us direct insight into useful innovations and integrations from other agencies.”</p>
<p>With journalism still facing difficult economic times, news agencies have begun to cooperate to improve efficiencies and address shared technological challenges. For instance, a group of six European news agencies – led by Dutch agency ANP – is working to develop a system to determine <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=6e63ab7d4c&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">what content users find most engaging</a>. Another initiative, a collaboration between the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur and STT, the Finnish news agency, aims to help news agencies track and match content to reader preferences.</p>
<p>But the Superdesk Wire Club is one of the only forums in the world for news agencies to partner on the development of a common newsroom CMS.</p>
<p>Aslan Aslanov, President of the News Agencies World Congress, says disruptive technologies – particularly social media and mobile platforms – have made technological cooperation among media organisations all the more vital. Any network that brings news agencies together “can help agencies find significant solutions to [shared] challenges,” he said.</p>
<p>Wolfgang Nedomansky, Managing Director of<a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=97dfd378cc&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> MINDS International</a>, one of the world’s leading networks of news agency CEOs, CTOs, editors and business professionals, concurs. “Efficiency and collaboration are keys for the success of news agencies in the future,” <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=dec3935257&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he says</a>.</p>
<p>Club membership is open only to news agencies. With many of the world’s news agencies facing a variety of<a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=ba79ccd16e&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> commercial, political, and technological challenges</a>, the club’s initial aim is to strengthen this key part of the media industry.</p>
<p>Sourcefabric’s Karel Petrák says: “We want our news-agency partners to have a seat at the Superdesk development table, and the Superdesk Wire Club is one way to do that.”</p>
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Sourcefabric launches initiative to help news agencies develop a common newsroom CMS

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<p style="font-weight:400">Contentful, the leading enterprise headless CMS provider, today announced an <a href="https://www.contentful.com/use-case/agile-ecommerce/">agile ecommerce solution</a> designed for enterprises to drive online sales by empowering retailers to more efficiently manage content across multiple channels.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">To engage customers with more seamless and localized online shopping experiences, Contentful’s <a href="https://www.contentful.com/content-infrastructure/">content infrastructure</a> solution for ecommerce gives retailers the ability to update content on all digital platforms at once, and to deploy that content at massive, enterprise-grade scale. As a result, retailers can better align content across channels, repurpose existing content to improve its impact, and ensure the right message reaches each target audience.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">“Retailers are rethinking their approach to managing content because too often, it’s locked down in a traditional CMS. They need the agility to constantly iterate on campaigns to drive sales. Contentful gives them four to seven times greater speed to market for digital experiences, so they can truly stand out,” says Alyssa Meritt, Director of Content Operations Strategy of Contentful. “For any company hoping to maintain a competitive advantage in retail, a cloud-native agile ecommerce platform is mandatory.”</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">Agile ecommerce allows retailers to optimize and repurpose their content across multiple channels, and enables developers to swiftly integrate their solutions stack with new technology. Achieving digital maturity means understanding that a good ecommerce solution for content doesn’t stand alone — it needs to be supported by a modern stack of integrated solutions, made possible by open APIs.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">Contentful’s integration with existing ecommerce tools, including integrations in the works with CommerceTools and Commerce Layer, accelerates the content and development process for both developers and editors.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">With Contentful, brands can build and manage both ongoing and targeted personalized outreach for any seasonal or event-driven campaign, from Black Friday to Superbowl Sunday to Times Square Billboards, and localize this content for markets across the world. Contentful’s Content Delivery API allows editors to update all content through a web app that syncs with any desired platform for consistent, multi-channel campaigns.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">“Publish once, sell everywhere is the new standard for successful ecommerce,” says Meritt of Contentful. “The value of moving quickly, without being held back from the development constraints of traditional CMS platforms, is critical for any brand looking for great conversion rates. We’ve seen smaller, nimble brands beating much larger brands, translating to millions of dollars in additional revenue on a single campaign.”</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">Contentful customers have already achieved significant success in integrating the headless CMS approach to ecommerce needs. Nordic travel operator TUI saw bounce rate decreases by 31% and mobile conversion increase by 11% when it brought its agile ecommerce content to Contentful. With Contentful, <a href="https://www.contentful.com/case-studies/tui-nordic/">TUI delivers new customer touch points five times faster</a> than when it was using a traditional CMS platform.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400">Xoom, a PayPal service that provides worldwide money transfers, <a href="https://www.contentful.com/case-studies/xoom/">used Contentful to personalize content across 37 languages and more than 80 locations</a>. Xoom now needs only 30 minutes to update content across channels versus the two-week time frame required by legacy tools.</p>
<p style="font-weight:400"><strong>Additional Information</strong></p>
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<li>Read the <a href="https://www.contentful.com/resources/forrester-wave-web-cms-2018/">Wave Report for Web CMS</a></li>
<li>Learn more about <a href="https://www.contentful.com/">Contentful</a></li>
<li>Request a <a href="https://www.contentful.com/sign-up/">free trial</a></li>
<li>Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/contentful">@Contentful</a>on Twitter</li>
<li>Explore resources on <a href="https://github.com/contentful">Github</a></li>
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<p style="font-weight:400"><strong>About Contentful</strong></p>
<p style="font-weight:400">Contentful, the leading enterprise headless CMS provider, offers content infrastructure that enables enterprises to deliver digital products and experiences at greater speed and scale than with a traditional CMS. Contentful unifies content in a single hub, delivers it via APIs to any digital platform, and makes content immediately editable in an intuitive web app. Companies such as Spotify, Urban Outfitters, Red Bull, Jack in the Box, The British Museum, Xoom, Lenovo, Brandless and many others rely on Contentful to author, manage and deliver digital content to any channel or platform. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.contentful.com/">https://www.contentful.com/</a></p>
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Contentful Unveils Headless CMS Ecommerce Solution for Faster Content Delivery and Improved Sales

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<p>Sourcefabric z.ú., Europe’s largest developer of open-source technology for the news media, is doubling the size of its Prague headquarters and merging its German for-profit subsidiary, Sourcefabric GmbH, with its Czech commercial arm, Sourcefabric Ventures s.r.o.</p>
<p>Established in April 2010, parent organisation Sourcefabric z.ú. is a nonprofit developer of open-source software and digital solutions and works to strengthen the editorial and economic independence of media organisations worldwide. This mission-driven development is supported with income generated by Sourcefabric’s subordinate commercial companies, along with donations and project-related funding.</p>
<p>After the organisational merger is completed, global commercial activities will be centered in Prague, where they will be managed by Sourcefabric Ventures s.r.o. The German market, and Sourcefabric’s numerous German customers, will remain a key priority going forward.</p>
<p>With independent media organisations facing a variety of technical and economic challenges, Sourcefabric’s software has been developed to improve newsroom efficiencies. For instance, by automating certain tasks in the news production and distribution processes, news organisations powered by Sourcefabric solutions can free up editors’ time to produce quality journalism.</p>
<p>The core technology powering that vision is Superdesk, a content management and newsroom workflow system <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=4d0ccd629f&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">developed in partnership</a> with leading news organisations – including the Australian Associated Press (AAP) and the national news agency of Norway (NTB). Since Superdesk’s public release in early 2016, nearly a dozen other publishers have adopted the CMS or are transitioning to the software, including some of Europe’s leading news agencies. Every month, the platform delivers more than 300,000 news items to over 80 million readers on four continents.</p>
<p>Among Superdesk’s strengths is its open-source code base, which allows partner media organisations to collectively make improvements, share development costs, and redistribute needed resources for other journalistic endeavors.</p>
<p>To facilitate this innovative media partnership, Sourcefabric has just launched a news agency collaborative called the <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=f0808fc581&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Superdesk Wire Club</a>. The goal of this new forum is to bring together Superdesk clients from around the world to guide the system’s future development in line with the particular needs of news agencies. Founding members of the Superdesk Wire Club include Norwegian news agency NTB, Belgian news agency Belga and Australian Associated Press.</p>
<p>Beyond Superdesk, Sourcefabric’s software is used to strengthen journalism and foster media innovations in some of the world’s most restrictive environments. Other tools in its portfolio of solutions for independent media include:</p>
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<li><a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=b940f3acb1&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Superdesk Publisher</a>, a native extension of Superdesk used to manage news websites and other forms of digital publishing. Current Superdesk Publisher projects include two independent news organisations in the Balkans – <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=413f4a4da9&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Insajder.net</a>in Serbia, and <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=0907d51779&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vijesti.me</a> in Montenegro – and <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=ad432ca08b&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brasil247</a>, one of Brazil’s leading independent media outlets.</li>
<li><a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=f7ffcec5c5&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Airtime Pro</a>, an all-in-one Internet radio automation and broadcasting platform used by DJ hobbyists as well as professional radio stations around the globe.</li>
<li><a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=2816c58efb&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Live Blog</a>, a live online blogging tool, is being used by major media outlets (such as German news agency dpa) to diversify coverage and develop new revenue streams.</li>
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<p>To broaden its range of media activities, Sourcefabric has partnered with Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), which invests in independent media in challenging environments. A Sourcefabric-MDIF joint venture, SFS Ventures s.r.o., <a href="https://sourcefabric.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6b1ad01fc31dc6604968e6439&amp;id=3e44573a93&amp;e=651952ac7d" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recently acquired a majority stake</a> in Poland’s Eurozet radio station.</p>
<p>Sourcefabric’s renovated headquarters will occupy two floors of Štenc House, an Art Nouveau building near Prague’s Old Town square that housed a printing press and artist studios in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century.</p>
<p>“Our client base is expanding, and so, too, are our ambitions. Quality journalism is the lifeblood of democratic societies, and open-source technology is the backbone of quality journalism,” said Sourcefabric Managing Director Sava Tatić. “Our goal, therefore, is to ensure that journalists everywhere, operating under any circumstance, have the tools they need to do their work.”</p>
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<p>To celebrate WordPress’ 16th birthday, Namecheap is offering all three yearly plans of their popular WordPress hosting platform, EasyWP, for only $16 each. The limited three-day birthday sale will run from May 27 to May 29.</p>
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<p>You may fail to justify the time and resources invested in developing a good website design or redesigning your business web. However, the benefits you reap from a well-designed website are worthwhile. It ensures a good user experience, improves brand loyalty, and increases traffic as well as revenue.</p>
<p>Most branding and marketing strategies depend on web design to succeed. Your website is the first place where users establish contact with your business. The layout of your site will influence users to either use/buy a product from it or leave for another better one. Poorly designed websites affects the initial perception of your brand and UX of potential customers.</p>
<p>A terrible design will also affect your rankings on search engines making it difficult for visitors to find you. Read on to find out the most common mistakes in web design and their influences on users:</p>
<h2>1. Poor first impression</h2>
<p>If the first page of your website is ineffective and unattractive, you will experience high bounce rates thus affecting your ranking on search engines. A user will take at most 10 seconds to decide whether to stay or leave a site. Yours should create an excellent first impression to ensure it grabs the attention of users so that they remain on site and have time to convert them.</p>
<h2>2. Non-responsive website design</h2>
<p>A poorly designed website does not respond well on small devices such as smartphones. With eCommerce becoming a part of daily life, most online transactions are being completed by the use of mobile devices. Thus if your site is not mobile device-friendly, then you are losing a lot of opportunities to those with responsive sites. Besides, the number of users who would leave a website if it is not responsive is over 40%.</p>
<h2>3. Takes too long to load</h2>
<p>The best user experience is achieved when a website loads quickly. Businesses that do not invest in optimization of their site for speed risk providing poor UX, low search rankings and low conversion rates. 40% of website users will leave a site if it takes more than 3 seconds to load.</p>
<h2>4. Cluttered homepage</h2>
<p>Providing all there is to know about your business on your homepage is an overkill and a red flag to rank your site among those that have a terrible web design. An overcrowded site is not pleasing to the eye and makes the site lose its credibility. Your homepage should only carry the information that is valuable for your business. Even so, such information should be arranged in attractive layout that respects the white space rules. Ensure the page looks orderly and easy to navigate. Having a website with too much information will increase your bounce rates as users leave to look for other clean, professional, and simple websites designs. Here is a great example of non-cluttered homepage.</p>
<h2>5. Fails on content</h2>
<p>Poorly designed websites provide users with content that is irrelevant, provide no frequent content updates and content format is incorrect. If a user lands on your page but lacks the information they expected to find, they will leave to look for more search results that will provide them with the information they were looking for.</p>
<h2>6. Mystery Meat Navigation (MMN)</h2>
<p>MMN appeared mostly on websites in the past but is still prevalent in some modern designs. It refers to links that are invisible unless the user clicks on it or points the cursor at it. What is the point of creating links on your website if they are not visible? It is not a recommended practice for web designs. It leads to users abandoning your site to find an alternative one with clearly labelled links and call-to-actions.</p>
<h2>7. Uses too much animation</h2>
<p>Animations serves a professional purpose and are known to improve UX and UI on a site when used in moderation. But when you place animations everywhere that are mostly out of topic, you make your site look unprofessional and hilarious. This causes users to lose the credibility of your brand and leave for alternative website design.</p>
<h2>8. Uncalled for pop-menus</h2>
<p>Many websites users will not tolerate some pop-up menus that appear on their screens immediately when they enter the site. Pop-ups are confusing, annoying, and results to slow load speed which leads to increased bounce rates since a user cannot access the homepage directly thus lacking the information they wanted.</p>
<p>The impact a web design has on the users should not be taken for granted. Terrible website design is bad for your business. Ensure your users are getting the best experience by cleaning the above messes on your website. Always perform regular testing on your site to confirm users are enjoying the site. Read feedback and comments from your users frequently to determine if they are having problems using the website and address the difficulties if any.</p>
<p>Do everything in your site with moderation to avoid losing the credibility of your business and in the worst case scenario, destroy your reputation. If you build your website right, it can be your greatest asset to your brand's success, so invest in it.</p>
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<p>Almost every company publishes some form of content, so every company needs a content management system. But there’s a more strategic question to ask than simply, “Which content management system should I use?” The key question is whether to build your own tools, buy an all-in-one CMS, or assemble a stack of best-in-class services to power your content.</p>
<p>Content drives much more than websites. Websites are table stakes. To be competitive, companies must leverage content for an interactive web presence, as well as for innovative products, services and digital experiences.</p>
<p>For this to happen, content has to be managed. The challenge: Not only is content being used in myriad new ways, but it comes from a wide variety of sources in a wide variety of forms. Further, more stakeholders need access to the content to make it responsive to constantly changing customer and market demands.</p>
<p>Organizations have essentially three choices to handle these new demands: buy, build or assemble.</p>
<h2 id="buildyourowncms">Build your own CMS</h2>
<p>Many companies have gone the build-your-own route, to ensure that their CMS will meet the specific needs and workflows of their organization. This approach might have made sense when CMSes were used almost solely for pushing content to websites, but, even then, the build option was fraught with issues.</p>
<p>To say that it’s challenging to develop a content workflow and templates that meet the needs of all stakeholders is putting it mildly. Companies that choose this route attempt to take everyone’s needs into consideration, but in doing so end up compromising and satisfying no one. With so many of these systems built on custom code, making changes typically causes a cascade of problems — especially if the staff who originally built the system leave the company.</p>
<h2 id="buyatraditionalcms">Buy a traditional CMS</h2>
<p>Companies that want to buy a CMS have many choices, but these systems tend to force organizations to follow a particular workflow or framework. This can be expensive and time-consuming to modify to create outside-the-box digital products and unique, interactive web pages. As a result, developers must hack existing code, and these customizations make the CMS difficult to scale and prone to breakage, especially when updating the system.</p>
<p>All of this assumes that the organization has in-house development talent in the first place. Companies that don’t have these resources — and companies that have deployed these resources to other, more critical tasks — must rely on the vendor or an agency to make changes. This takes time and money, and significantly slows a company’s ability to respond to shifting customer demands.</p>
<h2 id="assembleyourowndigitalexperiencestack">Assemble your own digital experience stack</h2>
<p>Neither the build nor the buy model works very well in a dynamic business environment. Companies see the need to reinvent their websites as products, and to build these sites using the same best practices they use when building other software applications. DIY and out-of-the-box CMS solutions just can’t cut it.</p>
<p>This is where the assemble option comes in.</p>
<p>To provide the kind of agility product teams need, organizations need to move away from the model of websites as monolithic systems that get increasingly complex over time. They need to adopt a microservices approach that composes web apps using separate services that seamlessly work together to create a unified user experience.</p>
<p>For example, a website could be composed of a messaging service powering chat, a translations service for localizing content, and an authentication service for account login and a data handling service, all seamlessly tied to the front end. In this model, changes can be made to a single service without impacting the others.</p>
<p>Cloud-native, API-first, “headless” CMSes are progressing toward this goal. To realize the true power of platform software, we need to think more about PaaS, and less about CMS.</p>
<p>That’s where content infrastructure — a specialized platform as a service — comes in. It enables organizations to quickly assemble their “dream team” of services to manage their content. Content infrastructure’s role in this digital experience stack is to unify content in one place, making it ready for developers to handle with code. It also provides a simple and customizable web app that lets creators write or edit any content without going back to developers to ask for content changes.</p>
<p>This liberates both teams, developers and content creators, to do their work in parallel and deliver faster in an agile development framework.</p>
<p>To deliver modern apps and websites on demand (or, better yet, in anticipation of demand), organizations need a platform that powers the flow of content to any number of digital products and applications, one that provides a central content repository to unify content from disparate sources, and one that offers tools to easily access and manage their ever-evolving content.</p>
<p>The model of assembling a digital experience stack also enables teams to create modular, reusable content components, with APIs governing how content can be accessed, viewed, handled and delivered.</p>
<p>Companies need to build, ship and iterate on digital products faster. By choosing to assemble a digital experience stack, companies can create an ever-growing portfolio of new websites and web experiences — faster than ever.</p>
<p><em><strong>Contributed by Paul Biggs, of <a href="https://www.contentful.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Contentful</a>.</strong></em></p>
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<p>Extron, the leader in <u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2424288-1&amp;h=2366076751&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.extron.com%2F&amp;a=integrated+AV+solutions" rel="nofollow">integrated AV solutions</a></u>, and Panopto, the leading enterprise <u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2424288-1&amp;h=2397631793&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.panopto.com%2F&amp;a=video+platform" rel="nofollow">video platform</a></u> provider, today announced a strategic partnership to seamlessly integrate Extron's configurable AV control systems with Panopto's media capture software and video content management system.</p>
<p>For businesses and universities, the partnership will dramatically simplify the recording and management of presentations, lectures, and events. Starting today, Extron is making available certified drivers for its in-room control systems, which now integrate with Panopto's video capture software, enabling presenters to start and stop Panopto-compatible remote recorders with a single click. Second, in the coming months, Extron's SMP (Streaming Media Processors) will also be directly integrated with Panopto, enabling ad hoc and scheduled video streaming from SMP products through the Panopto video content management system. The integration will support live, scheduled and on-demand publishing workflows.</p>
<p>“This is a very exciting time as Extron integrates solutions from our uniquely broad AV product portfolio with Panopto's powerful enterprise video streaming platform to provide robust turn-key video solutions for the modern classroom and meeting space,” says Casey Hall, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Extron. “Whether it be simple push-button control to hands-off, fully-automated streaming and recording for any environment, we are jointly taking media capture and management to a new level of simplicity for the industry.”</p>
<p>“Extron and Panopto share a belief that AV technologies should simplify how organizations communicate and share knowledge,” says Sean Gorman, Chief Operating Officer of Panopto. “With today's announcement, we're taking the next step toward that goal, bringing together Extron's room control hardware and expertise with the leading video platform for businesses and universities.”</p>
<p>The Extron-Panopto integration will provide the industry's first unified solution for AV control, media capture, video content management, and delivery.</p>
<p>For more information on Extron streaming media technologies, click <u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2424288-1&amp;h=2362906682&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.extron.com%2Farticle%2Fsmp351ad%3Futm_source%3Dpressrelease%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3D1194-panopto_partnership-ge&amp;a=here" rel="nofollow">here</a></u>.</p>
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