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

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<a href="http://www.sdl.com/">SDL</a> plc (LSE: SDL; “SDL”), a leading provider of Global Information Management (GIM) solutions, today announces that it has completed the acquisition of Alterian plc (“Alterian”). SDL has acquired Alterian, a leader in marketing analytics, social media monitoring and campaign management, for a net cash consideration of £69.7 million.
The SDL Board believes the addition of Alterian’s integrated marketing platform capability will bring strong synergies and enhancements to SDL’s Global Information Management strategy that helps global businesses engage with their customers in the language, the media and at the moment they choose. There is an excellent strategic fit in combining the marketing analytics, campaign management and social media capabilities from the Alterian product suite with that of SDL’s leading global Web Content Management, eCommerce and Structured Content capabilities.
Mark Lancaster, Executive Chairman of SDL commented:
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“Understanding what your customers are interested in by analysing what they are looking at, and for how long, is key in developing your web and customer engagement strategy. We already have best-of-breed web content management technology, user guidance content management technology and leading language technology. Adding Alterian’s marketing analytics, social media and campaign management technology will provide customers with a superb integrated solution for managing customer engagement and improving customer experience. We are very pleased to have completed this acquisition and look forward to working with Alterian employees, partners and customers.”
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SDL acquires Alterian

mike-johnston

concrete5 today announced that it has redesigned the company’s admin dashboard to leverage Twitter Bootstrap.
An early pioneer of in-context editing, concrete5 gained popularity due to its ease of use for managing the content of websites. With this in mind, the company has leveraged the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit to offer a completely redesigned, centralized dashboard for backend administrative tasks with the release of concrete5.5.1.
While concrete5 is frequently used by webshops to deliver sites to clients who want to make edits on their own, many people who use concrete5 are DIY websites on budget webhosts where concrete5 is acting as a self-publishing platform. Over two-thirds of the traffic hitting concrete5 servers isn’t coming to its public facing community concrete5.org at all. The company knew it needed to improve the learning experience from within the concrete5 application itself.
“We started just wanting to make it easier to get around the Dashboard and browse our marketplace from within your own site, but we quickly realized we were going to have to touch every part of the interface to do it right,” said concrete5 designer Robert Huston. “Twitter Bootstrap gave us an amazing style guide, and much of the infrastructure we needed right out the box. With some addition icon work and thoughtful application of the rules the Twitter team devised, we were able to accomplish months of work in just weeks.”
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“A lot of time has gone into tuning things under the hood with this release,” added Andrew Embler, CTO of concrete5. “Performance on a default install of concrete5 has improved dramatically in this version, and new features like Stacks and Global Block Areas provide best-practice solutions to problems that had been solved organically in the past.”
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New installs now include a wizard explaining how people can get started, and a daily news feed laid out like a magazine helping people learn more over time. The browse marketplace functionality has been dramatically improved, and users can now even purchase add-ons and themes without ever leaving their own sites.
About concrete5  Concrete CMS Inc. is a leading developer of next- generation open source solutions for web sites. The company's flagship product, concrete5, combines the ease-of-use of a blogging platform with the flexibility and power of a web development platform. To date, hundreds of thousands of advertising and creative agencies and web developers around the world have downloaded concrete5 for free and used the technology to quickly and inexpensively build enterprise-quality web sites that can be updated by end users. concrete CMS is a privately held company based in Portland, Oregon, and manages the concrete5.org project. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.concrete5.org/">http://www.concrete5.org</a>.

Concrete5 Gets a Facelift With Twitter Bootstrap

<a href="http://expressionengine.com">ExpressionEngine</a> 2.4.0 is now available for download.  This release provides a broad array of changes, including stability and security improvements, a faster control panel, the addition of popular feature requests and new libraries and hooks for third party developers.
This release offers improved stability and performance with over 80 bug fixes, including an obscure but theoretically possible MySQL injection exploit.  The control panel is noticeably faster in most environments, with much snappier rendering of filterable tables.  And an expanded approach to ‘Remember me’ functionality that’s optimized for multiple sites and/or devices results in a nicer frontend user experience.  In addition to improvements to general functionality, both users and developers will find lots of goodies as we continue to develop existing features and set the groundwork for upcoming additions.
File management continues to improve in this release, with a number of nice additions.  The browser has been beefed up to allow sorting and filtering by keywords, greatly improving the ease with which you can find a particular file.  The browser has also been added to the category editor, for use when populating the category image field.  File access via the browser has also been seen increased security checks, limiting access through the browser to the CP.
File ‘credit’ and ‘location’ metadata can now be added through the file modal, and file fields can display all data associated with a given file through frontend tags.  It’s now easy to show any of your image options with native tags.  The ability to watermark an image without requiring resizing has also been added.
Improvements designed to make updating and/or moving ExpressionEngine sites were also a focus of this release.  File upload paths can now be overridden via a hidden configuration variable, making updates after a move or syncing a developer site and a production site easier.  A third_party_path configuration variable was also added, allowing you to keep your third party add-ons folder outside of the system folder.
A number of smaller feature requests were also addressed in this release, including the addition of an ‘active’ status indicator to the Channel Categories tag; the ability of the Channel Categories and Category Archive tags to accept multiple channels in the channel parameter; the addition of a url_title parameter to the Channel Next and Previous tags; the expansion of improved control over pagination output to search pagination; the ability to choose a specific channel from the main control panel dropdown menu when editing and a lot more.  Check the Changelog for a full list of what’s new!
Developers will also find a number of significant additions in this release.  Two new constants, URL_THEMES_THIRD and PATH_THEMES_THIRD, have been added with the goal of allowing users to fully customize the location of third party folders. These two constants point to the URL and the path of the themes/third_party/ directory. We’d like you to start using these right away and have your add-ons using them by our next major release because we’ll be introducing two new config variables that allow users to override these settings.  In conjunction with the new third_party_path config variable, users will then be able to keep third_party folders completely out of the system/ and themes/ directory, making upgrading easier.
It’s also not too soon to start paying attention to our new Developer Log.  This feature records deprecated functions that are called during normal operation of a site.  This allows ExpressionEngine to send a warning that functions or behaviors currently in use on a site will be removed at some point in the future, thus giving third party developers time to future proof their code.
A new File field library should also be of particular interest to third party developers.  The library makes it easy for developers to use the native browser for their own needs.  For a look at the library in action, just take a peek at how it was used to enable file browsing for the Category Image field in the control panel.
EE’s Pagination library has also seen significant improvement, reducing the amount of code needed to implement pagination parsing and providing a method for handling pagination_links as a tag pair.  All developers are encouraged to make use of the library for parsing of pagination tags.  Hooks also received their share of love in this release, with new hooks available when deleting members, modifying template data, defining template types, and pulling in rows for the content edit page.

ExpressionEngine 2.4.0 Released

I review a lot of Web Content Management Systems but I've never done a review of a Document Management System (something that I've been meaning to do for some time) until today. Ademero is one such vendor and produces a browser based document management platform called Content Central. Today, I'm going to take you on a tour of this powerful but easy to use system.
Before I dig into the software itself, it's relevant to point out that anyone can test out the software by simply visiting their website at <a href="http://www.ademero.com/">http://www.ademero.com/</a> and downloading a trial version. Ademero works on any Windows machine but, once installed, can be access from browsers on any platform.
Let's dive into the interface shall we?
First, I'm going to show you the interface as seen by the average non-administrative user.
When you first connect to the system through your web browser, you'll be prompted to log in. Once you've done that, you'll be taken to the dashboard where you are treated to a quick overview of all of your queue's and messages from within the system.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_25_01-pm-450x189.png" alt="Content Central - 1" />
Let's assume you're looking for a specific document within the system. Clicking on the search button at the top of the screen takes you to a full context search screen where you can create a fine grained search for the document in question.
Once found, you simply click on the document and it's shown the screen below allowing you to quickly confirm that it's the one you are indeed looking for.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_26_04-pm-450x305.png" alt="Content Central - 2" />
Perhaps you need to share the document, download a copy or email it to a colleague? Clicking on the File menu will present you with a number of options for working with the document.
Choosing email brings up a quick dialog allowing you to fire it off to whomever you need.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_26_55-pm-450x317.png" alt="Content Central - 4" />
One thing I'd like to comment quickly on while we're on this screen is the ever present Help button the you see in the screenshot above. More often than not, I've found that in a large number of CMS I've reviewed, the Help just never seems to be quite good enough. In this case, however, it's excellent and caters to each specific screen. For instance, should you click it on this screen you'll see:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_27_04-pm-450x262.png" alt="Content Central " />
What I especially like is the referenced document and click links to the full user guide. They didn't just stop there though, they even added a Get Live Help feature which, you guess it, connects you with their support team. Now, in the case of a full deployment,  the Live Help is always directly linked to Ademero but it could be changed if required, although it's rare to do so.
When attempting to work with documents, if you try to use a feature that you do not have access to, you will simply get a denial message such as this:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_27_19-pm1-450x132_sly80x.png" alt="Content Central - 3" />
Any time you are viewing a list of documents and wish to see the history of the document, you can do so by clicking View, History which brings you to a screen such as this.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pagespeed_ejgzha.png" />
Clicking on the Folders button on the menu bar along the top will take you to each section you have access to.
The Folders button takes you to the Personal Folders view where you can view messages, queues, and of course, browse the catalog of files available on the server.
From this view, the Catalog Browser will let you explore each file on the server and it's directories that you have access to.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/typo3-logo-webdesign-duisburg1-1_400x0_uq4pje.png" />
To add documents to the library, you would use the Capture button on the top bar. This will take you to a screen where you can choose which method you'd like to use from the configured ones for importing your document. You'll then be guided through the process of adding and classifying your document. This isn't something I can show in this review but trust me, the process is slick and very, very functional and easy to do.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-2_06_33-pm.png" />
Let's take a look at some of the more administrative functions of the system now. To start off, once installed on your server, you'll have three icons from which you can access various components of Content Central.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/weebly_for_enterprise_img-scaled_cpwazt.jpg" />
First, we'll take a look at the Catalog Manager. Launching it will bring you to a screen such as this.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-2_09_14-pm.png" />
From this dialog, you can manage each individual Catalog's configuration. Let's take a look at the Accounts Payable catalog..
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/reimagine4_ebr6zi.png" />
As you can see, we can set various options such as the location of Indexes, catalog description and much more. You can also set schedules as to how often the catalog is updated with new content.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-2_09_46-pm.png" />
Now let's take a look at the Configuration Manager module and walk through what options it contains. At launch, you are presented with the following menu of available options.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/ja_elastica_gbuzmi.jpg" />
From here, you can configure the majority of system options quickly and easily. Here is an example of what you can expect to find under the SQL Settings option.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/magazine_lxrxyo.jpg" />
That should give you a decent idea as to what you can expect to find under the configuration manager. We explored Content Central itself as a non-administrator user, so let's take a quick look at what options become available as an admin.
Once you log in as an administrator, you'll see a new button on the toolbar at the top called, you guessed it, admin. Clicking on this will present you with the following set of admin functions.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/meet_gavern_vxjlu8.jpg" />
One of the key items I wanted to show you here is the ability that Content Central gives you to add and manage fields for your documents. Once you enter the Global Fields menu, you can choose to modify the details of the fields and change formatting, types and more.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/radon_pjsqst.jpg" />
It doesn't stop there, however. There's simply too much to show and the best I can suggest is to try it out and see if it suits your needs or the needs of your organization.
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
Content Central is a complex piece of software that is both easy to use and feature filled. The fact that it functioned without issue in every browser I tried (Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE) was a testament to the amount of work that the team at Ademero have put into it.
The layout of the system makes it incredibly user friendly and provides an interface that is both pleasing to use and fast while maintaining a high degree of functionality. The help system that Content Central provides is quite simply, perfectly implemented and provides just enough assistance to not be overwhelming while still giving you just what you need.
I highly recommend Content Central and would strongly advise you try it out if you are in the market for <a href="http://www.ademero.com">document management software</a>.

Ademero Review - An exploration of Content Central Document Management Software

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular open source content management systems (CMS) used for everything from websites to blogs to Intranets, today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 2.5.
Along with new features such as advanced search and automatic notification of Joomla core and extension updates, the Joomla CMS for the first time includes multi-database support with the addition of Microsoft SQL Server. Previous versions of Joomla were compatible exclusively with MySQL databases.
<blockquote>“Multi-database support is a huge step forward for Joomla, which is already powering more than 1.6 million websites worldwide. It ensures companies and organization, both large and small, will save even more money and time by adopting Joomla,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a non-profit created to provide organization, legal and financial support to the Joomla project. “No longer will Joomla developers be tied down to a particular database or have to spend more money and time integrating other software to get Joomla to communicate with their database. This enhances Joomla’s scalability immensely.”</blockquote>
Other key features in Joomla 2.5 includes:
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<li>Automatic notification when a Joomla or extension update is available. When logged into the control panel, site administrators will instantly have access to new notification buttons that allows them to see and act on the latest updates. In addition to updates for the Joomla CMS, a second button offers third party extension notification updates.</li>
<li>A better natural language search engine to the Joomla core. Complete with auto-completion and stemming (for example if you type “running” in a search field you also see run), it is faster and more versatile than the standard search.</li>
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“We literally received thousands of pieces of input at ideas.joomla.org into what functionality should be added to Joomla 2.5, and overwhelmingly enhanced notifications and more elegant search topped the list,” said Mark Dexter of the Joomla Production Leadership Team. “In fact, the automatic notification for core and extension updates received the most votes for a feature that people wanted in 2.5. But we didn't stop with just those two. Joomla 2.5 is a major overhaul with more than 24 new features that we have highlighted at joom.la/25features.”
Joomla 2.5 adheres to Joomla’s newly-adopted six-month release cycle that began with the previous Joomla CMS release of Joomla 1.7 in July, 2011. Downloading the latest version of Joomla is the best way to ensure organizational and personal security needs are being met since it will have the most recent updates to protect against the latest security threats.
Joomla 2.5 is truly a collaborative community-driven software project developed with the feedback gathered from more than 2.5 million Joomla forum posts, 540,000 Joomla forum members and data from more than 8,800 Joomla extensions. To download Joomla 2.5, go to <a href="http://www.joomla.org/download.html">http://www.joomla.org/download.html</a>.

New Joomla! 2.5 Released; Open Source Content Management System Now More Scalable Than Ever

<a href="http://www.smartlogic.com">Smartlogic</a> has released the latest version of its pioneering Content Intelligence Platform, Semaphore, offering more features to enhance enterprise search, drive business workflow and organize enterprise metadata, as well as providing capability for much closer integration with SharePoint 2010, the widely used corporate information management system from Microsoft.
The new features available with Semaphore 3.3 include:
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<li>multi-lingual information management capability that enables users to switch between languages, allowing documents to be classified and labeled in different languages using the same authority model</li>
<li>a ‘semantic visualization’ tool for contextual navigation, which enables users to navigate the structure of information, rather than the information itself, boosting the enterprise search user experience and improving information discovery</li>
<li>an ‘ontology review’ tool that allows clients to feedback on the terminology being used by an organization to label its information assets</li>
<li>a ‘publisher’ function that ensures that all aspects of an organization’s many information navigation and classification systems are synchronized</li>
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At its core, Smartlogic’s Semaphore Content Intelligence Platform enables enterprises to turn unstructured content into actionable information by enhancing the capabilities of existing information management systems such as SharePoint and OpenText. As a Content Intelligence Platform, Semaphore assists organizations in identifying, classifying, extracting, analyzing and utilizing hard-to-find information assets such as research papers, plans, proposals, presentations, meeting notes, strategy documents, reports, memos, web copy and emails.
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Jeremy Bentley, Smartlogic’s chief executive, commented: “This newest version of Semaphore enables us to provide the most complete Content Intelligence solution available out of the box. At a time when most organizations are struggling with information overload, information governance issues, the limits of existing information management systems, and an increasing need to monetize and repurpose information, what clients are asking for is a Content Intelligence solution they can easily implement alongside their existing information management systems without the need for a costly ‘Rip and Replace’ program.
“At Smartlogic, we have been doing this since the first release of Semaphore in 2006 and have listened to our customers as we have fine-tuned it. With Semaphore 3.3, we’ve further innovated our solution and added many new features, making it more straightforward to implement and operate than ever – and giving the market what they’ve asked for.”
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The launch of the newest version of Semaphore comes just two months after the application received the 2011 European Frost &amp; Sullivan Technology Innovation Award. Charanya Balasubramanian, research analyst at Frost &amp; Sullivan, said of Semaphore: “This technological innovation endows existing enterprise systems with capabilities to find, organize, process, monetize, control and govern unstructured content in an efficient manner. Encompassing four modules, Semaphore radically changes the search, navigation and content intelligence capabilities.”
The release of Semaphore 3.3 also follows the recent acquisition of one of Smartlogic’s chief competitors, Seattle-based SchemaLogic – giving it clear market leadership. Smartlogic, which was founded in 2006, has more than 300 customers worldwide and offices in San Jose and London.

Smartlogic release Semaphore 3.3, a new version of their pioneering content intelligence platform

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Recently, I was contacted by the author of an incredibly detailed analysis of open source CMS security. As part of this breakdown, the analysis goes into detail about which systems have had the most vulnerabilities and the severity of them, coming up with a number of rather intriguing conclusions.
Take a look at this graph for instance:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/qualitative-450x345.png" />
As you can see, certain systems perform better than others and what I found especially interesting is that contrary to what you might hear on the ‘net, Joomla actually shows quite well from a security standpoint.
As part of the interpretation of this analysis, the author came to this conclusion:
<ul>
<li>WordPress only had a single serious vulnerability (in case I interpreted that correctly) — impressive.</li>
<li>Drupal did also well, only the percentage is a little higher due to the low number of overall issues.</li>
<li>In contrast to the first two, TYPO3 appeared to not do well at all. It has by far most serious vulnerabilities both in absolute numbers and the percentage. However, I would attribute part of the difference compared to the other projects to TYPO3's stricter rating of vulnerabilities. One should probably add a CVSS comparison to Drupal to get a more balanced result.</li>
<li>Joomla, while having the most vulnerabilities overall, did very well with serious ones (meaning it had few of those).</li>
<li>SilverStripe seems to be floating somewhere between the other projects, neither being exceptionally good or bad.</li>
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You can read the report here: <a href="https://github.com/xeraa/cms-security/blob/master/README.md">https://github.com/xeraa/cms-security/blob/master/README.md</a>
I'd love to hear YOUR thoughts on this report, do you think the author is accurate or not? Do you have any suggestions for improving the gradings?

In Depth Analysis of Open Source CMS Security

<a href="http://www.endplay.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">EndPlay, Inc.</a>, a leading SaaS provider of Web Content Management (WCM) solutions, announced today a partnership with The Banyan Solutions Consulting Group (TBSCG), marking EndPlay's international expansion into the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) market. TBSCG builds and maintains online-centric solutions for some of the largest brands in the UK, France, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland, including Electrabel, Shell, LEGO, Felco SA and Bucks CC. Through the partnership, TBSCG will become the preferred hosting provider and official reseller of the EndPlay platform — meeting EMEA customer demand for cloud-based WCM solutions.
The strategic partnership will create new revenue and growth opportunities for both companies via solution licensing and support initiatives, with EndPlay leveraging TBSCG's regional expertise to expand internationally. The partnership further cements TBSCG's status as an innovative leader in content management, hosting, design and support services provided to some of the largest global brands.
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“We've seen the need for cloud-based Web Content Management solutions firsthand in the EMEA market,” says Mark Andrews, CEO of TBSCG. “EndPlay is one of the most visionary companies in this space, and we look forward to hosting and implementing the EndPlay platform for our clients requesting a SaaS solution.”
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EndPlay's cloud-based WCM platform integrates, automates and intelligently delivers audio, video, text and rich media across brand websites and to virtually any end-user device for companies across media and entertainment/education spaces as well as retailers and CPG manufacturers. As an established reseller, TBSCG will support customers in migrating to or adopting the EndPlay platform. TBSCG will also work closely with EndPlay in building and maintaining localized hardware infrastructure.
“EMEA presents an incredible growth opportunity for EndPlay, and this partnership will enable us to establish an immediate and significant presence in the region,” said Dr. Christos M. Cotsakos, Founding Chairman, CEO and President of EndPlay. “We're bringing TBSCG to the cloud and, with more than a hundred established client relationships and a demonstrated understanding of content and Web presence, TBSCG is bringing EndPlay across the pond.”

EndPlay Expands Internationally via Strategic Partnership With The Banyan Solutions Consulting Group

Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced the 2012 Kentico Most Valuable Professional Awards. The Kentico MVP Award is a one year industry recognition given to individuals based on their community participation and evangelistic activities in the CMS and .NET communities.
The Kentico MVP awards for 2012 were presented to:
• Brian McKeiver, Partner and Senior Developer at BizStream, a Kentico Gold Partner from Michigan; 
• Bryan Soltis, Director of Research&amp;Technology at Bit-Wizards a Kentico Gold Partner from Florida; 
• Jeroen Furst, Kentico Lead Developer at IBL-Software a Kentico Gold partner from the Netherlands.
Each received this prestigious honor for their passion about the tools and technologies of Kentico, .NET and the CMS community worldwide.
Brian McKeiver was honored with his first Kentico Most Valuable (MVP) Award, for his exceptional contributions to the Kentico community, represented by his blog about ASP.NET and Kentico technology. His blog can be found at: http://mcbeev.com.
“The Community is a vital part of Kentico CMS and .NET, and MVPs are the heart of this community”, said Thom Robbins, Kentico Chief Evangelist, “The consistent and valuable contributions of Bryan Soltis and Jeroen Furst this year are an example of this. Recognizing Brian McKeiver as a Kentico MVP is a natural extension for his outstanding contributions to help the worldwide community.”
Brian McKeiver has over 12 years experience in web development. Brian has been using Kentico CMS since version 3.1a. “It sure has come a long way since those days. I am still impressed with how quickly you can build blocks of content, create custom forms on the fly, and integrate with existing databases all with the same product.” says Brian McKeiver, newest Kentico MVP.
“I am extremely excited about being selected as a Kentico MVP. I feel honored and proud to receive this award, and hope that my contributions to the community have helped other developers overcome their hurdles. It’s easy to be passionate about Kentico CMS because it is such a great piece of technology with a great group of people behind it. I will do my best to keep contributing to the community and growing the use of Kentico CMS,” adds Brian McKeiver, Senior Developer at BizStream.
Kentico MVPs are selected from hundreds of Kentico CMS experts located within any of the 87 countries where Kentico CMS is used. To receive the Kentico MVP Award status, individuals can submit their application at the Kentico web site. These submissions are then reviewed by a board of Kentico executives. More information about the MVP Award can be found at: <a href="http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Thomas-Robbins/January-2010/Announcing-the-Kentico-MVP-Award.aspx">http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Thomas-Robbins/January-2010/Announcing-the-Kentico-MVP-Award.aspx</a>

Kentico CMS Announces the 2012 Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Awards

In today’s world customer relationship management systems are used by millions of businesses, have many applications and can provide extremely valuable information to companies. A good CRM information system will cover a number of areas within an enterprise, ranging from tracking and analytics to streamlining all areas of the sales process and marketing. This in turn allows business leaders to focus and fine-tune all aspects of commerce, leading to a reduction in unnecessary overheads and an increase in profitability.
A website should always be integrated with the business it serves, providing the consumer with a greater insight to the firm. With CRM software effectively merging the various areas of business, the incorporation of a content management system will provide the customer with a more personalised experience and a longer, more profitable relationship for the vendor.
With both systems being able to organise, sort and store large volumes of data, one may wonder how CRM differs from CMS. Whilst CMS is fantastic for information distribution, CRM systems allow for more personal content segmentation and analysis. When used in tandem, an integrated network delivers a targeted and effective distribution of information. This concept may come into play for example with an online clothing and fashion company. The CRM system will collect and hold information regarding the various aspects of the customers past purchases such as styles, sizes, brands and costs. These details can then be used for personalised email campaigns, focusing on the client’s shopping habits based on history. Synchronising the two platforms will also enable easy inventory management, using the CRM application to log item sales whilst the CSM software will track what is in stock.
Content management systems have allowed the separation of the technical and practical aspects of maintaining a website. Applying changes and making adjustments is now a lot simpler. This is highly useful in a world where quick decisions regarding areas such as marketing need to be made. There are many new CRM solutions that are now easy to manage yourself or companies that can help. With <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/crm/">CRM solutions</a> able to follow the spread of information, tracking “clicks”, “shares”, “likes” and responses, one is able to monitor and tweak on site campaigns and offers in real time. Synchronization between the two platforms also negates the necessity to manually transfer data, leading to a faster, cheaper and more accurate shift of information.
If your system is not yet merged or you are in the process of rethinking in house software solutions, it is well worth thinking ahead and bringing the two applications together. With greater competition, reducing profit margins and increased customer awareness, there may not be a more important time to take action.

The Importance of Integrated CMS & CRM Systems

Agility is proud to announce its latest development in content management for the media and entertainment industry. With many years’ experience working with broadcasters, the Agility team has been able to boil down the core foundational elements that most broadcast companies are looking for into an affordable, turn-key digital publishing solution.
“Broadcasters produce enormous text, image and video content, and require an efficient platform to carry out faster delivery of content online in an easy and flexible way”, stated Michael Assad, CEO of Agility.
The Agility Broadcast Solution provides a robust website for broadcasters that previously would have required a costly custom build. “We have utilized a wide variety of industry best practices in order to optimize everything from the management of content all the way through to SEO, user experience, and site-wide performance,” says Andre Gaulin, Director of Agility Solutions.
Broadcasters can monetize their media assets by integrating the ad functionality.  “The new Solution Package leverages ad infrastructure and resources “, said Andre. “Broadcasters can easily upload, manage and insert ads, and generate incremental revenue.”
“Broadcasters are increasingly looking for integrated solutions that deliver business benefits and streamline information. Our solution gives an added advantage over other players in the industry”, Michael added.
Key capabilities and benefits include:
–          Default setup with out of the box functionality
–          Easy to customize unique features
–          Rich text pages: blogs, newsletters, video content and user generated content
–          Multi-channel publishing
–          Google search integration
–          Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
–          Advertising integration
About Agility
Agility is a cloud-based content management system for managing internally produced and user generated content across web, mobile and social media.  Agility is designed to be easy for developers, editors, designers and marketers.  It integrates with best-of-breed solutions for video management, ad serving, search, analytics, email marketing and more.  Their Perfect Fit Guarantee ensures that you will be satisfied with your CMS implementation, or the license fees are free.  You can implement Agility internally, or work with their implementation partners.  Agility powers sites for Uncle Ben’s, Campbell’s, Subaru, Whiskas, Cineplex, CTV and Shoppers Drug Mart.
<a href="http://www.agilitycms.com/" target="_blank">www.agilitycms.com</a>

Agility CMS Unveils Turn-key Digital Publishing Solution for Broadcasters

The latest release of MODX Revolution has been made available. Version 2.2 promises to be one of the biggest releases yet. According to the MODX development team, they've spent alot of time working to refine the manager and administration interface to make the system more aesthetically pleasing and easier to use.
A highlight of some of the new features:
<ul>
<li>Media Sources unlock the possibilities of where you can store your site files to include Amazon® S3 or potentially something like Dropbox® (development required)</li>
<li>Static Elements enables developers to store site elements on the filesystem</li>
<li>Custom Resource Types allow developers to move beyond one-size-fits-all documents and create custom types such as blog posts, events, biographies tailored to the content type.</li>
</ul>
Taking the publishing side of things even further is the introduction of a new blogging, news and publishing add-on called <a href="http://modx.com/extras/package/articles" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Articles</a>, something they claim will make you ditch your old stand-by blog tools. Complete with built in importers to enable you to import WordPress, Blogger and other MODX blogs with more importers coming soon, this certainly sounds like an impressive new set of functionality.
There are far too many changes to write about here and for that reason, I suggest you peruse the <a href="http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Upgrading+to+2.2.x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">upgrade notes</a> for more information.
A quick summary of the new features:
<ul>
<li>Media Sources: You're no longer restricted to your local server. Media Sources allow you to connect your File tree to anything – a separate directory, Amazon S3 bucket, and more</li>
<li>Static Elements: Store all Elements (Chunks/Snippets/Templates/etc) on the file system or elsewhere, allowing you to edit them wherever you please</li>
<li>Custom Dashboards: arrange and specify a custom welcome page in the manager, as well as create and get new dashboard widgets</li>
<li>Major User Interface (UI) Improvements including a much cleaner look and feel and much faster load times</li>
<li>Added Import/export of Access Policies and Policy Templates for site builders and administrators. This means you'll be able to set them up once and reuse policies on other sites and projects.</li>
<li>Script or command line based installation and upgrades for folks who really want to get their geek on.</li>
<li>Many under-the-hood improvements to manager making it easier and a better experience for developers to extend.</li>
<li>Added ability to develop Custom Resource Types-no longer just the default resource types you can have resources specifically based on purpose such as a blog post type, gallery type, forum type, events and more</li>
<li>Added search to enable you to quickly locate any documents by keyword—right from the top the Resources Tree, no more scanning and hunting for those old articles.</li>
<li>Improved parser efficiency and execution, added over 600 Unit Tests, other core optimizations</li>
<li>Over 160 issues resolved, tons more bugs fixed</li>
</ul>
Check it out here: <a href="http://modx.com/">MODX Revolution</a>

MODx Revolution 2.2 release brings a refined Manager, easier Blogs and News Posts

Atex announces its new browser-based content management system designed to help media companies manage their entire workflow with one cloud-based publishing environment which delivers content across multiple channels.
Atex Content features Atex Web CMS integration, which offers media companies a single view of all digital and print content. This enables newsroom and production tasks to occur simultaneously, reducing the expense and manual effort associated with meeting production deadlines.
The browser-based high-performance system has a flexible and role-relevant user interface framework and provides a unique ‘mash-up’ capability to integrate Atex applications directly within other third-party software programs. Atex Content is available on a wide variety of platforms, including the PC, Macintosh, or any device with a web browser and the plug-in installed, meaning it can be used both in-house and remotely.
Atex Content supports all journalist functionality including easy access to wire content. Integrated text mining creates greater content consistency and improves the accuracy, speed and relevancy of users’ search experience.
“At Atex we strive to help companies grow their business with tools to simplify workflows and reduce ownership costs,” said Stewart Bowley, VP of Product Management, Content at Atex. “With its ability to provide an integrated, single user interface to handle the entire workflow, from content gathering to pagination to online delivery, Atex Content offers a complete end-to-end solution that will improve efficiencies by eliminating unnecessary steps in the process.”
Please visit <a href="http://www.atex.com">www.atex.com</a> for further information.

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