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The Open Melody Software Group is pleased to announce the availability of Melody 1.0 for beta testing today.
For those of you who are not familiar with Melody, it is an open source content management and publishing system derived from the popular blogging tool Movable Type. Melody is for those who find value in belonging to, supporting and contributing to a community of helpful, passionate and devoted users, but it is also for people who want a secure, proven and high quality publishing environment for their personal web site or their business.
So what sets Melody apart from its predecessor, Movable Type? In a word — everything.
What makes it different and sets it apart is not just the name, the code or the features, but something much more fundamental. The software has been developed, maintained and supported through a proven process of open and transparent community based collaboration, a process that has produced so much of the great software we use everyday.
Melody is not your usual 1.0 release. Having been based on the Movable Type 4.34 code base it is a proven content management system that is highly extensible and customizable and has inherited the same secure, scalable and rock solid platform traits and benefits.
The new features include:
<ul>
<li>Comprehensive theme management and development</li>
<li>A new default theme, DePo Clean by <a href="http://powazek.com/">Derek Powazek</a></li>
<li>Revision histories for entries, pages and templates</li>
<li>In page publishing of entries, pages and templates via AJAX</li>
<li>Numerous screen and menu revisions to make it faster and easier to navigate</li>
<li>Easier customization and extension of the system — no Perl or PHP needed</li>
</ul>
That process has already led to hundreds of commits and thousands lines of code contributions to continue the development of Movable Type 4.34 that Melody was forked from. Among these many contributions from our community are nearly 100 outstanding submissions from MT and the integration or bundling of a dozen plugins.
Download it or learn more: <a href="http://openmelody.org/">http://openmelody.org/</a>

Melody 1.0 Beta 1 is here!

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A new release of the popular open source CMS, Textpattern, has been made available. This release is said to be the last before the release of 5.x.
There are a number of changes to this release including items removed and new features added.
The full outline of changes is available here: <a href="http://textpattern.com/weblog/349/textpattern-cms-430-released">http://textpattern.com/weblog/349/textpattern-cms-430-released</a>

Textpattern CMS 4.3.0 released

Ephox Corporation, a leading provider of software for optimizing web production processes, today introduced the latest release in its web authoring solution set, EditLive! 7.5. Key highlights in the release include faster loading speeds, new commands for editing tables, enhanced API features and a new option called Select Edit. The company will demonstrate the latest version of EditLive! at Open Text Content World in Washington, D.C., November 7-12, 2010.
Select Edit combines the market's two leading rich text editors, EditLive! and Ephox Enterprise TinyMCE, into a single integration. Select Edit offers an optimum combination of features and compatibility with Java and Javascript integrated into one complete solution. The new option is designed to auto-detect the best rich text editing experience for virtually any environment.
“The integration of EditLive! and Ephox Enterprise TinyMCE is an exciting milestone for the company, and for the web production market,” said Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox. “Now, business users can work with their editor of choice on a project-by-project basis, without having to change editing environments, which leads to increased productivity. Our customers will be able to realize greater efficiencies in the web production process that ultimately contribute to an improved bottom line.”
EditLive! is licensed by some of the leading web content management (WCM) vendors, including Open Text Web Experience Management (formerly Vignette).
“Companies use Open Text Web Experience Management to provide them with innovative and effective ways of creating highly dynamic websites that give them a competitive edge,” said Marci Maddox, Director of Product Marketing at Open Text. “By offering EditLive! and Ephox Enterprise TinyMCE in a single editing environment, we see a benefit for business users to easily select the best tools for directly creating and managing web content that drives superior online experiences.”
For more information on Editlive! 7.5, please visit http://editlive.com/what-new.
About Ephox Ephox is a fast-growing software company focused on transforming the web production experience by enhancing the productivity and quality of website authoring and management. The company’s technology is licensed by leading web content management vendors including EMC|Documentum, IBM, Oracle, Open Text and Percussion. Ephox products are used by hundreds of thousands of web content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.ephox.com">www.ephox.com</a>.

Ephox Launches EditLive! 7.5 at Open Text Content World

Proventeq, the innovative content analysis and migration solutions provider, today announces the release of several new components for the Migration Accelerator, the enterprise-level solution for automated document, web and application data migration.
The release focuses on the Oracle legacy product platforms – helping customers move to the latest releases of Oracle’s UCM and WebCenter product suites. These connectors allow for the seamless migration of content from: •	Oracle Content DB into Oracle UCM (10g and 11g) •	Oracle Collaboration Suite into WebCenter Interaction, Spaces or Oracle UCM •	Oracle Files to Oracle UCM •	Oracle iProjects into WebCenter Spaces or Oracle UCM •	Plumtree / AquaLogic portal content into Oracle UCM •	Legacy Oracle Portal Platforms to WebCenter and Oracle UCM
“The goal of this release is to continue our close relationship with Oracle as they move to consolidate their variety of content and portal products and platforms. The Migration Accelerator provides an easy alternative for their customer base as they look to move to Oracle’s flagship products – Oracle UCM and WebCenter,” says Balu Herbert, one of the founders of Proventeq. “Customers are looking to see the return on their ECM investments quickly – and the Proventeq product suite provides this to them,” he continued.
The Migration Accelerator is designed to focus on automated discovery and configuration of the migration – avoiding the necessity of writing custom scripts for migration. This has allowed our customers to build and execute on complex, high-volume content migration projects – greatly decreasing the time of the projects and the amount of associated effort as compared against other products and manual efforts.
The latest release of the product features an intuitive user interface and improved scalability functions. The product and connectors are available immediately and can be licensed on-site or on a subscription basis.
For further information on the Migration Accelerator, visit <a href="http://www.proventeq.com">www.proventeq.com</a> or by phone at +44 (0)118 965 3870 in Europe or +1 617 217 2007 in North America.
About Proventeq Established in 2007, Proventeq provides a complete range of software and services to enable companies and organizations to leverage and enhance their existing content stores into new enterprise content management systems quickly and easily. Proventeq's solutions allow the world's largest organizations to discover and transform all types of content within a framework of best practices. These companies and government organizations see a significantly faster implementation of the ECM systems and a quicker realization of the promised ROI of these applications. Headquartered in Reading, UK, the company has offices in Boston, Massachusetts USA and Pune, India. They have provided solutions and services to multiple sectors, including government, financial services, technology and human capital.

Proventeq Migration Accelerator Enhancements Increases Product Flexibility

Internet banking continues to grow, spurred by competitive pressures and rising customer expectations. In support of their online banking businesses, financial institutions must build and manage rich consumer and business Web sites.
Further, industry deregulation and the financial meltdown of 2008 have led to a complex and somewhat unique set of challenges at financial institutions. In essence, it is especially critical to have the right CMS tools for the job that comply with industry standards.
Magnolia CMS comprehensive new white paper examines the key challenges faced by financial sector companies in using Web technology to reach customers, develop new value-added services and differentiate themselves from competition. Drawing upon real-world implementations at ING Bank, Lloyds TSB International Private Banking and other customers, the paper details how Magnolia’s powerful editing interface coupled with best-of-breed Java technology helps to meet these new challenges.
The white paper, “Spurring Innovation and Increasing Customer Satisfaction in the Finance Industry,” can be found on the Magnolia CMS web site at <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/finance-white-paper.">http://www.magnolia-cms.com/finance-white-paper</a>

How Financial Institutions can use CMS to stand out from the pack

Gutensite has an interesting new contest underway.  How does it work?
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Who knows if the beta's will ever end, but honestly, you have to admit you're having fun testing right? Then you'll be pleased to know that beta 13 is now available.
Now snap on it and get this cleaned up so we can have an RC release will you? ?
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Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 12 release on October 18, we have fixed approximately 71 issues in the tracker. We have closed an additional 28 tracker issues. At the present time, we have 13 issues that are blocking the release 1.6 Release Candidate 1.
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More info: <a href="http://www.joomla.org">http://www.joomla.org</a>

Latest Joomla beta available - Joomla 1.6 beta 13

This update includes a number of bug fixes and general improvements to make Pligg CMS compatible with the latest version of the EVB module as well as the new Karma module. There has been at least one security fix applied to this version of Pligg, so it is highly advised that all users make the upgrade in an appropriate amount of time

The Karma module will allow sites to update member karma values as users perform actions such as logging in, submitting stories, or adding a comment to an article. Previously karma was only being calculated when websites would manually set up a crontab on their web server, telling the server to crawl a karma update script every X number of hours. Now all of the updates are generated on the fly, making user karma counts up to date at all times and requiring no additional thought from the site administrator to set it up. Administrators will however have the option to manually configure karma values, by setting up how many points they want to give users for performing actions like submitting stories and comments, or voting on articles.<a href="http://www.pligg.com/blog/1174/pligg-cms-1-1-2-release/#ixzz13aWkmzC7"></a>


<h3>New Features and Fixes</h3>
For a non-condensed update information, you can read our <a href="http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg/trunk/?view=log" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SVN update logs</a>.
<ol>
<li>Security fixes</li>
<li>New “User Ranking” system. Karma now determines a user’s rank. The more active a user is, the higher their rank.</li>
<li>Advanced search page now allows you to find posts by the date they were submitted on.</li>
<li>Support for the new EVB Module</li>
<li>Support for the new Karma Module. This release also includes the Karma module.</li>
<li>Failed login previously lost redirect data. Now it will remember your destination if you fail authentication.</li>
<li>Fixed Voting Method 2 (5 Star Rating) system.</li>
<li>Fix for searching for duplicate stories by URL</li>
<li>RSS fixes</li>
<li>Fixed HTML tags to allow feature</li>
<li>Spam trigger fixed</li>
<li>Fix to allow god level users to edit admin users</li>
<li>Fix for duplicate content (ex /category1/story-title and /category2/story-title show the same story). http://tinyurl.com/2vkenk8</li>
</ol>
Website: <a href="http://www.pligg.com">http://www.pligg.com</a> <a href="http://www.pligg.com/blog/1174/pligg-cms-1-1-2-release/#ixzz13aWq9Na8"></a>

Pligg CMS 1.1.2 Released

The Asbru Web Content Management system v7.3.1 for .NET, PHP and JSP/Java has been released. This version adds: Fixed remote HTTP response header status code (.NET).
<ul>
<li>Added check links and validate content API script support to Browse &amp; Edit mode.</li>
<li>Added indirect access to images, files and links through the content item title or file name (i.e. “/file.jsp/myfilename.pdf” or “/link.jsp/MyLinkTitle”).</li>
<li>Added handling of filename-based links (i.e. “/file/myfilename.pdf”) for “Use database tables to check content dependencies” configuration option.</li>
<li>Added “http-equiv” custom meta information attributes.</li>
<li>Added @@@list:…..@@@ sorting by “metainfo_XXXXX” and “productinfo_XXXXX” content item custom meta information and product details attributes.</li>
<li>Added Do Not Check For Orphans option for Check Links report.</li>
<li>Added special configuration setting (/config.static.aspx|jsp|php) to limit links checking to specific domains.</li>
<li>Added Parent-Group Of / Parent-Type Of attributes to user groups and types configuration pages.</li>
<li>Added special configuration setting (/config.static.aspx|jsp|php) to digest encode user passwords stored in database.</li>
<li>Added “All Images/Files folder files” option for Database Backup &amp; Export.</li>
<li>Added Database Backup &amp; Export of files located outside of the “/image/” and “/file/” folders.</li>
<li>Added Database Restore Backup options to (re)download and delete previous backup &amp; export database files.</li>
<li>Improved handling of international characters.</li>
<li>Various other improvements.</li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://wcm.hardcoreinternet.co.uk">http://wcm.hardcoreinternet.co.uk</a>

Asbru Web Content Management v7.3.1 released

Xyleme® Inc., the leading provider of 100% XML, open and standards-based learning content management solutions today announced the release of their new mobile learning product for the iPad. Built on the award-winning Xyleme LCMS, a powerful single-source, multi-channel publishing platform, Xyleme Mobile Learning on iPad (www.xyleme.com/iPad) allows users to deploy a complete range of course materials which are fully navigable by the student/learner. The product will be available for demonstration at DevLearn10 in San Francisco at Booth 118.
Most learning today is blended with a combination of classroom materials, self-paced eLearning and assessments. Xyleme Mobile Learning on iPad consolidates the delivery of these materials into a single tablet platform and leverages the best the iPad has to offer: ease of distribution, powerful e-reader functionality, rich multi-media and unparalleled navigability. Content created with Xyleme LCMS is presented on the iPad for personal preference by the student/learner:
• READ ME: robust eBook style with rich formatting, bookmarking, highlighting and notes.
• TRY ME: eLearning courseware that includes interactive multimedia such as videos and animations.
• QUIZ ME: Interactive assessments, quizzes and remediation.
• HELP ME: Performance support in a browseable and searchable knowledge base to quickly zero in on specific content.
“The ability to instantly repurpose your existing base of classroom and on-line learning materials takes advantage of Xyleme’s inherent XML foundation,” commented Mark Hellinger, Xyleme’s President and CEO. “The need to build all learning content in modular, reusable components has never been clearer. With the flexibility to pivot in any desired way through content, Xyleme Mobile Learning on iPad will allow our client base to offer educational iPad applications unmatched by their competitors.”
Also at DevLearn10, on Wednesday, November 3 at 1:00pm, Mark Hellinger will be presenting a session on Single-Source XML, the Secret behind Mobile and eLearning. With continued investment in both eLearning and mLearning, coupled with rapidly evolving mobile platforms and devices, learn why you need XML now more than ever!
About Xyleme Xyleme, Inc. is the leader in standards-based learning content management solutions that enable single-source publishing of training content. Xyleme is 100%XML-based to create massive efficiencies through modularity and reuse. With Xyleme, organizations improve collaboration in content development, reduce time-to-market for customized training and minimize costs of supporting blended learning. <a href="http://www.xyleme.com">www.xyleme.com</a>

Xyleme introduces Mobile Learning on iPad at DevLearn10

OmniUpdate, Inc., the leading web content management system (CMS) provider for higher education, has released version 9.4 of its OU Campus(TM) CMS. This release contains a new Asset Manager that allows for the creation and use of reusable assets (e.g., text, images, media, code blocks, links, etc.) within the WYSIWYG and source code editors.
The creation and editing of assets is integrated into the OU Campus permission system, allowing administrators to manage them through group access levels. Asset Tagging is used to classify, describe, and support use of each asset within the CMS. When a user publishes an existing asset, the system will automatically update pages that utilize the asset, subject to any preferences set by the administrator to ensure optimal performance. The ability to share content across multiple websites is core to the Asset Manager’s purpose, and administrators will realize increasing benefits as their users create and share reusable content found throughout multiple websites.
Lance Merker, President and CEO of OmniUpdate, states, “Our clients are excited about version 9.4 and the Asset Manager, which was developed based on feedback received at our 2010 User Conference. The new release gives administrators much more control over reusable content, marketing managers more control over the brand, and content contributors a hands-free way to ensure content consistency across sites.”
About OmniUpdate, Inc. OmniUpdate provides higher education institutions with enterprise-class web content management system (CMS) solutions to easily and cost-effectively manage and enhance their web presence and take advantage of the latest web technologies. The company's flagship web CMS, OU Campus, is a secure and scalable solution offering a complete feature set, extensible tools, and deployment flexibility supported by remarkable customer service and extensive community resources. More than 550 college and university websites are managed using OU Campus.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.omniupdate.com/">www.omniupdate.com</a>

OmniUpdate Releases Version 9.4 of Its Web Content Management System

Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) company, achieved record quarterly revenue results in Q3 2010 driven by large wins in public sector and financial services in Europe and North America. Among the significant new customer wins is the Solon 2 project – an initiative with the Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information of the government of France to consolidate the management of laws and regulations and unify the legal publishing processes. Powered by Nuxeo Case Management Framework (Nuxeo CMF), the advanced case management routing and document review application will handle up to 500,000 cases per year.
This latest government win shows continued momentum in the adoption of open source in the Enterprise Content Management space. Previous successful projects in government with Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP) and related document and case management applications include: Ministry of Education, which adopted Nuxeo CMF to handle correspondence control across the school districts of France. Implemented to improve efficiency in the education system and allow school administrators to better respond to parental inquiries, the application facilitates better citizen-government engagement in line with open government principles.
Security and management of sensitive data was central to the selection of Nuxeo EP for case management with the Ministry of Justice. The “Messenger Project” in France sought to streamline the management of issues and correspondence across ministries, and ensure research and response times, all while diligently managing privacy issues. Full transparency into tasks and work performed by authorized Ministerial staff, inside the parameters of a granular access control model for electronic content, as well as flexible workflow and managed audit trails were requirements met by the Nuxeo platform.
Nuxeo CEO Eric Barroca will be speaking at the GOSCON10 conference, October 27-28 in Portland, Oregon on the topic of “Using Open Source to Create Efficiencies with Shared Application Development,” tapping into his extensive experience with public sector content management deployments to share some of the practices that government agencies can use to share code and reduce overall application development costs, as well as take control over their own technology priorities.
VP and Distinguished Analyst Andrea di Maio of Gartner notes that “Open source has certainly gained its place in the portfolio of solutions that most government agencies utilize,” and that “Government CIOs should consider program areas where joint development with peer agencies would be possible.”*
Shared services, such as application development to solve common information and content management problems, can be solved once and shared with peer agencies, demonstrating consistency of process and better stewardship of tax dollars. Notes Barroca, “our government client successes have proven that open source development methods create an environment to exchange best practices, reuse good technology and identify common needs specific to unique complexities of public sector. Nuxeo sees tremendous continued growth potential in North America helping government agencies deliver the content management applications needed to improve and streamline service delivery to citizens and internal stakeholders.”
*Gartner, Inc. From Modernization to Survival: Radical Cost Reduction in Government, Andrea Di Maio, July 22, 2010.
About Nuxeo Nuxeo provides a modular, extensible open source ECM platform for managing information. A pioneer in the open source ECM market, Nuxeo is used by hundreds of customers worldwide, including The Press Association, Agence France-Presse (AFP), EllisDon and Cengage. Companies of all sizes across all industries, including media, government, transportation, education and energy sectors, use the Nuxeo Enterprise Content Management offerings to meet their specific vertical and horizontal content application needs. Support, training and professional consulting services are available to customers and partners worldwide. Founded in Paris, Nuxeo has offices in North America (Boston), Western Europe (Paris), with strategic partnerships supporting its global install base. More information is available at <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.nuxeo.com</a>.

Public Sector Adoption of Open Source Helps Nuxeo Achieve Record Quarter

EntropySoft, a specialist of Enterprise connectivity, released today an IBM Lotus Connections connector. By making this connector available, EntropySoft is increasing again its capacity to provide full access to information.
The Lotus Connections connector has read/write capacities and supports all item types: files, collections, activities, blogs, communities, wikis, collections and bookmarks.
When using the connector, any third-party product or line-of-business application can retrieve, create, delete, and update all above items. Full-text search in the repository is possible using the EntropySoft SQL language. The retrieval of users and permissions is fully supported.
With this new connector, EntropySoft extends its family of IBM connectors which already includes connectors for IBM Content Manager, IBM Content Manager OnDemand, IBM FileNET Content Services and Image Services (Panagon), IBM FileNET P8, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus Quickplace, IBM Lotus QuickR, IBM Lotus WCM and IBM WebSphere Portal PDM. This family of connectors allows a quick and easy connection with the repositories. With this addition to EntropySoft connectors’ portfolio, software vendors, IT Services companies and large organizations can seamlessly integrate with almost forty different repositories.
“Thanks to the 40+ connectors that we now have, we are effectively increasing interoperability between document repositories” said Nicolas Maquaire, CEO and co-founder of EntropySoft. “By adding yet another enterprise connector to our list, we are moving closer to our corporate goal: connecting applications to information.”
The IBM Lotus Connections connector is designed to be easily integrated in third-party applications and exposes the same API as the 40 other EntropySoft connectors. It is web-service based, so that no server installation is needed. Connection to an existing Lotus Connections repository can be achieved in a matter of seconds. The connector can also be used in conjunction with EntropySoft’s other products, Content Hub Appliance and Content ETL.
Content Hub Appliance is a single platform that provides out-of-the-box connectivity for over 30 applications and comes with the ability to easily transfer documents. Thus, any document management system can be easily connected to any archiving platform, in-the-cloud or on-premises. Furthermore, document repositories can be automatically synchronized in near real-time.
Content ETL is designed to Extract, Transfer and Load documents to and from connected repositories. It can handle the most advanced document transfers, preserving all metadata. Thanks to the IBM Lotus Connections connector, the Lotus Connections repository can now be included in these document processes.
EntropySoft is a global connector supplier. It has more than 40 read/write enterprise connectors for unstructured data. The extensive support of features and the number of connectors available make EntropySoft technology perfect OEM material for many software industries. In the last 18 months, EntropySoft signed more than 20 OEM contracts with some of the largest global software companies. EntropySoft partners also benefit from in-depth expertise on the same content-centric systems, so as to facilitate the proof-of-concepts and roll-out.
All major Enterprise Content Management Systems are present in EntropySoft’s portfolio: Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum Content Server, Interwoven TeamSite, Alfresco and more. All connectors have been fully tested on large implementations in critical business projects.
EntropySoft brings Content Management Intelligence to its customers.
About EntropySoft EntropySoft is a specialist of content integration. EntropySoft’s mission is to connect applications to information.
EntropySoft technology is used by software vendors and large companies to simplify integration of their products with Enterprise Content Management solutions and cloud repositories. Application fields are numerous: Enterprise Search, BPM, e-discovery, Records Management, Collaboration, Data Loss Prevention, Multi Function Printers etc…
The following leading global organizations chose EntropySoft products: Alfresco, EMC Kazeon, Endeca, IDS Scheer, Kroll Ontrack and Symantec.
For more information, visit <a href="http://www.entropysoft.net">www.entropysoft.net</a>

EntropySoft releases an IBM Lotus Connections read / write connector

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