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Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Here's Why CMS Is Your 'Unsung Hero' in 2025

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Hippo, a leading vendor of open source Enterprise Content Management Software, has launched version 7.5 of its Content Management System, Hippo CMS.
Hippo CMS 7.5 is an enterprise-class open source software product designed to empower your audience. Consumers of Web content are now coming to expect context-enriched experiences that use location, presence, language, behavior, social attributes and other environmental information to anticipate their needs.
But Web content management solutions haven’t changed to meet this expectation. They still focus on pushing content out to static Web sites, and expect their customers to optimize their Web content based on a slow iteration of publish, test, review, re-design.
What if you could easily open your entire content repository to new channels as they emerge? What if you could optimize your content in real-time so that no matter how your customer engages – their experience is as good as it can possibly be? What if you could empower your audience to engage with your business on their terms?
With Hippo – the answer is “now you can”.
Hippo sets the standard for how organizations empower their audience to engage with content. Hippo CMS powers some of the largest and most visited Web properties in the world and is the first Web Content Management solution to deliver context-aware content for its customers. Whether it’s a Web site, a mobile app, intranet portal, e-commerce, social media or even print, Hippo’s software is a powerful tool for organizations to create, deliver and optimize content to create business value.
Hundreds of organizations use Hippo’s content platform to manage and deliver thousands of web properties including Hewlett Packard, Thomson/Reuters, Dolce &amp; Gabbana, The University of Southern California, Incisive Media &amp; The Government of the Netherlands.
And, empowering people is more than just software – it’s part of Hippo’s DNA. Hippo was one of the early pioneers of the Open Source movement, and the Hippo team has built and cultivated a community that fosters innovation and development of world-class software solutions. The Hippo platform is based on open source standards such as Java and Apache and what began as a better way to develop content management, has now transformed into the next generation of content delivery and audience empowerment.
Arjé Cahn, CTO of Hippo, said “Hippo CMS 7.5 is designed to help organizations that want to empower their audience. It provides them with an intuitive, flexible and enterprise-class content management system that will meet the unique content management needs of their business, with no data lock-in or excessive costs. The product was designed with ease of implementation and extensibility in mind.” In the coming months, Hippo will further expand on the new concept of empowering your audience, focusing on context aware content &amp; personalization. Hippo CMS 7.5 is open source software that is free to download at http://www.onehippo.org, you can try Hippo CMS at http://www.onehippo.com/try or check our the video at: http://www.vimeo.com/19272293
About Hippo
Hippo sets the standard for how organizations can empower their audience to engage with content. Hippo CMS powers some of the largest and most visited Web properties in the world and is the first Web Content Management solution to deliver context-aware content for its customers. Whether it’s a Web site, a mobile app, intranet portal, e-commerce, social media or even print, Hippo’s software is a powerful tool for organizations to create, deliver and optimize content to create business value.
The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as government agencies. Part of the Deloitte EMEA Fast 500 in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Hippo has over 60 employees located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, California.
For more information visit: <a href="http://www.onehippo.com">http://www.onehippo.com</a>

Hippo launches Hippo CMS version 7.5 to empower your audience

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Webfactories launched its reseller system in the beginning of the New Year for people seeking to provide white label, or self branded service to their clients. The service is backed by a robust CMS engine with 60 plus professionally built modules, including a state-of-the-art e-commerce function. The background services allow for creating sites for everyday needs to multilingual corporate portals. Support services Webfactories provides include domain registration, SEO, SEM, or custom template design upon request among others. With these services, the full spectrum of a client’s online needs can be fulfilled.
Webfactories states that using their system, a fully functional and well designed website can be created in less than three days by only CSS customization. This is well below the usual website development times of other CMS’s.
Becoming a reseller, one gains a management interface where sites, users and sub-resellers can be controlled. Through this same interface the reseller can request SEO, SEM, content upload, site development and other services. The reseller can set unique prices for their end-users or sub-resellers.
Learn more at <a href="http://www.webfactories.biz">http://www.webfactories.biz</a>

Webfactories launches CMS reseller system

Packt today announced that its donations to open source projects have surpassed the $300,000 mark. Following its first donation to the phpMyAdmin project in April 2004, the company has gone on to provide sustained support for over 70 different open source projects.
Packt has introduced initiatives such as the annual Open Source Award and Open Source Project Royalty Scheme to provide sustained donations to projects over the last six years.
“Most of the money that we've used, donated from Packt has gone towards running jQuery conferences for the community and bringing together the jQuery team to do development work together.” said John Resig, the founder of the popular JavaScript library, jQuery. “The financial contributions have been very valuable and in that regard, have resulted in a team that's able to operate much more efficiently and effectively.”
The Open Source Awards, now in its fifth year, has been adapted from the established Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award with the wider aim of encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding all open source projects. “The support that Packt has shown, through its book royalties and awards, has contributed to that success and helped the Drupal project handle its growth” added Dries Buytaert, founder of the CMS Drupal, winner of the 2007 and 2008’s Overall CMS Award, and a project which also benefits from Packt’s Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.
The Open Source Project Royalty Scheme allows projects to benefit from the publication of a Packt book, as they are allocated a percentage of every copy sold. “This is a support system that we provide to every open source project that we publish on” said Julian Copes, a spokesperson for Packt Open Source. “Packt is proud to have reached this significant milestone and remains committed to keeping donations at the heart of its long-term publishing strategy.”
Open source software is freely available and free from restrictions. Open source projects survive largely on financial donations and support to cover the essential costs of running an open source project. Therefore, regular donations are vital for their ongoing development and relevancy. “Moodle is grateful for the royalty donations that Packt have volunteered to send us as part of their Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.” said Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle the hugely popular open source course management system. “The money donated helps us fund a developer for a few months a year and thus contributes directly towards Moodle core development, support and improvements in the future.”
Are you an open source project that Packt has published a book on? Packt believes in Open Source and your project may be able to receive support through the Open Source Project Royalty Scheme. Simply contact Packt: royalty@packtpub.com.
Interested in which projects receive support through the Open Source Project Royalty Scheme? <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/open-source">Click here to view all projects involved</a>.

Packt Publishing Believes in Open Source, Donates Over $300K to Projects

Veolay is one of the most promising Light CMSs in the market today. Having released just 2 months ago Veolay is already loved by developers and mostly designers for its ease of use, simplicity and freedom to white label. Most importantly the fact that Veolay is powerful enough to bring any static website to an online content editable state within a few minutes stunned everybody.
What is new with Veolay 1.1?
 
• Supports Repeatable Regions: 
Yes, now any designer can use this tool to manage common content such as news, menus and much more by simply adding, thats it. No more code work.
• White Labeling Enhanced :
Veolay has a Branding section in admin to help any designer change admin interface colors, upload their clients company logo. Simply make the admin match your own branding within a few clicks and most importantly without any coding at all.
• Completely redesigned admin interface.
• Non JQuery solution for any user who has a JQuery conflict.
• Enhance Automated Backups System &amp; Version Controller
Screenshots:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/editmode-veolay-580x476.png" alt="editmode-veolay" />
<img title="veolay-admin1" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/veolay-admin1.jpg" alt="veolay-admin1" />
<img title="veolay-admin2" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/veolay-admin2.jpg" alt="veolay-admin2" />
<img title="veolay-admin3" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/veolay-admin3.jpg" alt="veolay-admin3" />
More information: <a href="http://www.veolay.com">http://www.veolay.com</a>

Veolay releases 1.1

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, announced its intention to shift the primary core development language for its award-winning DotNetNuke core platform from Visual Basic (VB.NET) to C#.
The first official release of the DotNetNuke platform available in C# will be Version 6.0 which will be publicly available for users of the DotNetNuke Community, Professional and Enterprise Editions in Q2 2011, with the first Community Technology Preview available in early March.
In recent years there has been a much greater emphasis on the C# language in the .NET ecosystem in terms of innovation, tooling, and examples. In switching to C#, DotNetNuke Corporation believes its developer community and install base will benefit from greater access to development resources, source code examples, and enterprise acceptance.
A Community Technology Preview will be available in early March which will provide the opportunity for users and developers to get early access to the recently converted C# platform. Community participation and feedback will play a vital role in ensuring a high quality final release.
The .NET Framework provides design-time, compile-time, and run-time support for multiple programming languages. As a result, the DotNetNuke API will preserve full compatibility through this transition. This means that all platform extensions will continue to be fully compatible with the C# DotNetNuke 6.0 core.
DotNetNuke extensions developers, commercial or otherwise, will not be negatively impacted by the change as they will continue to be able to develop and deploy custom extensions in their preferred software development language including VB.NET or C#.
DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever on .NET with over 1,100 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered customers, 400 percent year-over-year growth, and more than 600,000 production web sites worldwide. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.
According to Shaun Walker, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of DotNetNuke Corp., “As a long-time Visual Basic developer, I have personally witnessed the gradual shift in the .NET developer market as C# has become the dominant choice for the enterprise. After extensive technical and business analysis, I believe the time is right for DotNetNuke to make the move to C#. I believe this migration will accelerate the adoption and deployment of the DotNetNuke Web Content Management Platform and make our product more attractive to a wider audience.”

DotNetNuke Corp. Announces Migration of the Core Platform to C#

Jease is the Java based CMS which is easy to install, easy to use and easy to customize. If you ever wanted to create websites with the power of Java, but without any headaches, Jease is the right choice for you. You are up and running in a minute with Jease.
The main new features for Jease 1.8 are:
<ul>
<li>Gallery with automated thumbnails for images</li>
<li>Impoved user management with role system</li>
<li>Improved usability for maintaining large sites</li>
</ul>
Read a complete list of changes or download Jease directly:
<a href="http://www.jease.org/download/1.8/">http://www.jease.org/download/1.8/</a>
For a demo, visit:
<a href="http://demo.jease.org/demo">http://demo.jease.org/demo</a>

Jease 1.8 released - the Java CMS with Ease

Do you want to add a custom form (however complex and whatever number of pages) on your site at the speed of thought? Look no further than Tiki Trackers.
With fields like images, dates, files, custom lists, and more, Tiki makes the creation of structured content a pleasure — while other CMS applications just leave you with a bad headache. And Tiki accomplishes this with simple, on-screen, browser-based configuration. There's no need to code even a single line.
Content in Trackers is searchable ”automagically”. In addition, Trackers are sortable, embeddable in any other content page, and secured with Tiki's robust permission set.
<ul>
<li>You can interlink them</li>
<li>You can navigate through a life-cyle</li>
<li>You can use them to create wiki pages using a standard, common style.</li>
</ul>
When it comes to creating, managing, and deploying structured content, Tiki Trackers are a powerhouse. There's no doubt that Trackers are one of the most powerful and versatile features in Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.
When used to collect, store, and organize data, they rock. “Under the covers,” you can think of trackers as a miniature database or spreadsheet that runs inside your Tiki site. With Trackers, you can easily build a “Contact Us” form, a customer relationship system (CRM), or anything in between.
Let's look at some use cases:
<ul>
<li>A simple “contact us” form:</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://tiki.org/image554" alt="Contact Form" />
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<li>A searchable dataset:</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://tiki.org/image556" alt="Searchable Dataset" />
<ul>
<li>A database of reference guides:</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://tiki.org/image555" alt="Publications" />
Starting in version 4, Trackers could handle complex formatting, in addition to simple tables. With “Pretty” Trackers, developers can apply Smarty templates or use wiki pages to display Tracker output in any way imaginable. And in version 7 (planned for April, 2011), the Tiki Community plans to begin moving Trackers to the next level, providing improved performance and even tighter integration with other Tiki feature.
To learn more about Tiki trackers, see <a href="http://doc.tiki.org/Trackers">http://doc.tiki.org/Trackers</a> .
About Tiki
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery, and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>.

Tiki Trackers: The Easy Way to add interaction

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Nibbleblog is a blog platform that uses XML databases as opposed to MySQL and others. It is small, weighing in at less than half a megabyte and easy to install with a simple 1 step installer. Today, I bring you my Nibbleblog Review.
Some of the main features of this blog engine include:
<ul>
<li>Video posting (for video blogs)</li>
<li>Multilanguage support</li>
<li>XML database, no MySQL or similar DBMS needed</li>
<li>Plug-in support</li>
<li>Template and themes support</li>
<li>WYSIWYG Editor ( elRTE http://elrte.org )</li>
<li>Simple file manager ( elFinder http://elrte.org/elfinder )</li>
<li>SEO Optimized</li>
<li>Open Source. Free under the GPL license</li>
</ul>
Not bad for less than a meg is it? Is it worth checking out? Read on to find out more.
The default look of the blog once installed is pretty good. You get a decent looking template with a single right sidebar ready to be customized for your needs. Heck, for the most part, you could probably get away with just using the template as is if you just wanted a quick and easy blog that's ready to go.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_18_37-am-580x372.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
There aren't many options for available templates / themes available ( 3 total ) but for those who are willing to put a little bit of work into customizing (or just using one of the 3) this is not a major detractor.
The dashboard is very well put together and is snappy and responsive:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_18_56-am-580x313.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" /> It's clean and easy to navigate with all of the options on one page.  Working from the top down, you get your content editing functions first.
Adding a post is easy to do with a resizable Wysiwyg editor:<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_19_52-am-580x376.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
All of the typical options are available and work as expected. Overall, it was a pleasant experience to use this editor.
What I especially liked is the next option available.. Video blogging.
Adding a video post is very, very easy. Simply add the URL and the system goes out and grabs the description automatically.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_21_04-am-580x394.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
You can of course modify these should you wish to do so. You can also add tags.
Here is what a published video post looks like with no modifications, just plug in the URL and publish:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_21_40-am-580x525.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />You also have the ability to modify your user profiles within the system as well, including adding your social network links:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_22_39-am-580x454.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
Last but not least, the settings page allows for a good set of configuration options. In the top section, you will find the basic blog configuration.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_22_56-am-580x344.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
The next are your more technical settings:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_23_05-am-580x306.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
Next come permalink settings (including suggested htaccess rules, which is a handy option), comment options and theme selection.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_23_15-am-580x359.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
Plugin management is well done with an easy drag and drop interface:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-02-26-at-11_23_37-am-580x439.png" alt="Nibbleblog Review" />
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
After testing our their demo, I was impressed with the amount of functionality that is present in this tiny software package. Not only does it feel snappy and user friendly but it just works as one would expect.
I think this product is a great option for those looking for a quick and easy to setup blog. It would be nice to see more themes and plug ins but this only comes with the community expanding more.
If you are a developer, a curious user or just someone who wants a quick and easy to set up free blog alternative to traditional platforms, check out <a href="http://nibbleblog.com/">Nibbleblog</a>. I think you just might like it.

Nibbleblog Review

The Symphony CMS development team have announced a huge new update with version 2.2 (which is now available on their site). Some of the new features in this release include:
<ul>
<li>All core code has been fully documented!</li>
<li>Symphony now has a core email API (details below and <a href="http://symphony-cms.com/discuss/blog/entry/a-guide-to-email-gateways-in-symphony-22/">here</a>).</li>
<li>There are dozens of new delegates for extension developers, including: delegates to add custom columns to the Publish index; delegates for the creation, editing and deleting of data sources, events, pages, sections, and utilities; delegates for Login and Password Reset; delegates for the enabling/disabling/uninstallation of Extensions; new delegates for appending content; and more! (Official list forthcoming)</li>
<li>not-regexp support is now included in all core fields</li>
<li>The section index now supports batch-changing of navigation groups</li>
<li>Any field that uses the Section Associations feature now has option to hide/show the linked section column</li>
<li>Field collapsing is now enabled in the section editor</li>
<li>New Symphony jQuery plugins: Pickable and Orderable</li>
<li>Accesskeys are now supported (details forthcoming)</li>
<li>New entry forms will now autofocus the first field</li>
<li>jQuery 1.4.4</li>
</ul>
Not to mention, a huge list of bug fixes and minor changes (you can read the entire release notes <a href="http://symphony-cms.com/download/releases/version/2.2/">here</a>)
Check it out or grab a copy here: <a href="http://symphony-cms.com/">http://symphony-cms.com/</a>

Symphony CMS dev team announce huge new update with version 2.2

Xyleme® Inc., the leading provider of 100% XML, open and standards-based learning content management solutions, has hosted a number of standing-room only seminars, most recently at Learning Technologies 2011, on ‘Single-source XML: the secret behind mobile and e-learning’. Due to overwhelming demand, a video recording of the presentation has been made available to the general public. These sessions, presented by Mark Hellinger, President and CEO of Xyleme, explore why content development is fast becoming a strategic initiative within organizations. Mark discusses how leading companies are facilitating rapid development across multiple formats using existing content, resources, and technologies rather than using multiple redundant tools. The video, which can be accessed here: <a href="http://www.xyleme.com/news-events/videos">http://www.xyleme.com/news-events/videos</a>, provides a preview of Xyleme mLearning on iPad and how it leverages existing training content to enable blended learning on a single tablet. You will also learn: • Why taking the same separate content development processes and technologies approach for mLearning that we did in the move from classroom to eLearning is unsustainable, • How training content should be delivered in both eLearning and mLearning environments to adequately meet each learner’s specific informational need and preferred learning style, • How to structure content for reuse and filtering, and, • Why XML is critical for single-source publishing, content reusability, and future-proofing learning content. To learn more about Xyleme’s learning content solutions, join us for one of our regular live product demonstrations. During these monthly webcasts, we provide a detailed look into our award-winning products and open the floor to your questions and comments. Sign up at <a href="http://www.xyleme.com/news-events/lcms-webcast">www.xyleme.com/news-events/lcms-webcast</a>.

Xyleme CEO Mark Hellinger Presents Multiple Seminars on ‘Single-source XML: the Secret Behind Mobile and eLearning’

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft.NET, announced its intention to migrate its award-winning DotNetNuke platform from Visual Basic .NET. to C#.
Since 2004, Active Modules has offered ecommerce and social collaboration solutions for the DotNetNuke platform. The acquisition will provide DotNetNuke users with more access to the Active Modules product features and the ability to seamlessly integrate social features into their web sites.
Highlights
<ul>
<li>The award-winning Active Forums module allows users to easily build a complete online community and quickly setup a feature-rich user forum. Most of the Active Forums technology will become open source and will replace the existing DotNetNuke Forums module, making it available for users of the DotNetNuke Community, Professional and Enterprise Editions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Active Social allows web site visitors to interact with each other individually and in groups. Key features include user profiles, groups, private messaging, journals, events, links, Twitter integration, notes, user and group photo galleries, comments, comment notification, friends as well as public, private and invite only settings. Some Active Social functionality will be integrated into the DotNetNuke open source core framework, making it available in all DotNetNuke Editions. Some Active Social technology will be used as a basis to build new social media features for the DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Active Purchase simplifies ecommerce for SMBs and is ideal for organizations that need a reliable, easy to implement and maintain ecommerce solution for selling a small to moderate number of items on their web site. Active Purchase will be integrated into the DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever on .NET with over 1,100 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered customers, 400 percent year-over-year growth, and more than 600,000 production web sites worldwide. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.</li>
</ul>
According to Navin Nagiah, President and CEO of DotNetNuke Corp., “Today, more than ever, organizations need to maintain their presence within and market to multiple channels including the traditional open web and the newer social and professional webs. This requires a content management system that helps companies holistically manage content and their presence across these channels.
Our vision is for DotNetNuke to be the fully integrated and exhaustive content management system that helps organizations manage information across all these channels. Active Modules has some great intellectual property and people that will help us realize this vision. We are very excited about what this acquisition means for our users and customers in the future.”
Website:<a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com"> http://www.dotnetnuke.com</a>

DotNetNuke Corp. Announces Acquisition of Social Collaboration Solutions Provider, Active Modules

A new stable release of the popular TYPO3 Enterprise Content Management System has been made available to the public.
TYPO3 version 4.5.1 is a maintenance release and contains only bugfixes. Users of 4.5.0 are strongly advised to upgrade.
For details about the release, on how to upgrade and what bugs were fixed with this release, please visit the following website:
<a href="http://wiki.typo3.org/TYPO3_4.5.1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.typo3.org/TYPO3_4.5.1</a>

TYPO3 CMS 4.5.1 released

There is a new release candidate for what will be e107 0.7.25 stable available on their website. According to the release announcement, the e107 team “believe it's stable enough for most experienced users to upgrade immediately.”
We still recommend caution when upgrading to release candidates, however.
This new release includes a number of bug fixes and new features which are outlined in the <a href="http://wiki.e107.org/index.php?title=Release_Notes_0.7.25">release notes</a>.
You can download the latest release from the <a href="http://www.e107.org/news.php?item.879.1">e107 website</a>.

New release candidate from the e107 CMS team

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