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

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Today, <a href="http://www.sitecore.net">Sitecore</a> announced the availability of a new version of its Web Content Management (CMS) software. Sitecore CMS 6.2 offers features including native RSS feeds, Microsoft Outlook based workflow management, drag and drop media and document management, authoring enhancements and advanced marketing Web forms, offered as part of the CMS solution with the latest product upgrade.
Many organizations are successfully expanding their revenue, membership and service levels with Sitecore’s CMS solutions. Sitecore offers the architecture, power and personal usability to work within any organization to deliver results through Web properties and campaigns.
“To keep pace and excel in today’s marketplace, websites have to provide more than just content and marketers and content editors demand more capabilities to stay competitive,” said Darren Guarnaccia, VP Product Marketing, Sitecore. “The latest version of Sitecore CMS gives our customers the tools to deliver websites that compel visitors to take action”
New in Sitecore CMS:
Web Forms for Marketers: The new Web forms puts marketing teams in complete control of the forms creation, campaign integration and optimization processes. The tool allows non technical users to build rich interactive forms, configure campaigns and conversion goals and provides a suite of reports to better understand user behavior for usability analysis and optimization. The tool also allows marketers to capture incremental data from abandoned forms and track form dropout statistics. 
Outlook Based Workflow Management: New Outlook integration allows users to receive workflow notifications from within Outlook in real-time, and take action on those workflow requests without ever having to log into the CMS. All workflow actions, status and version comparison information is provided to the user, and dynamically adjusts should a workflow state change.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV"> </a>
<a>(</a>WebDAV) Media and Document Management: Drag and drop image uploads are now available – upload files from a users local computer to the media library without upload wizards. Files can be uploaded directly in the page editor and can be stored within Sitecore CMS. Files can also be edited with native applications such as Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PowerPoint and version controlled automatically.
Inline Word Editing: Natively edit content inline using full Microsoft Word functionality with full support of rich content pages.
More info: <a href="http://www.sitecore.net/News/Press-releases/2009/Sitecore-V62.aspx?sc_camp=908E3CD924894E708DA80ECF47A88F40">Sitecore Announcement </a>

New Sitecore Release Provides More Functionality to Build Compelling Web Experiences Easier and Faster

mike-johnston

With the second alpha in the works, Joomla! 1.6 appears to be getting that much closer to release. What are your expectations for 1.6?
Over the years, there have been a number of claims, whether substantiated or not, that <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla!</a> has suffered from security issues and/or is overly complicated for beginners. How do you feel about this upcoming release? Do you think some of these issues will be addressed? Do you foresee a change on the horizon or just another basic update without any significant impact?
We want to provide as much feedback as possible to the Joomla! developers to help them make this the best release yet, so let's start tossing out ideas and suggestions.

What are your expectations for Joomla! 1.6?

The second alpha release of what will become Joomla! 1.6 is now available.
From the announcement:
The Joomla project is pleased to announce the immediate release of Joomla 1.6 alpha 2. This release contains many new features requested by the community; most notably, ACL. Other features are listed below as well as what you can expect in the future for Joomla 1.6.
This is an alpha release. It is intended to be a developer/hobbyist preview and is not intended to be used on a production web site.
New improvements/features since alpha 1 include:
<ul>
<li>ACL: access management for global permissions as well as content item specific permissions, variable usergroups, users member of more than one usergroup, permissions are inherited, really fast</li>
<li>Extendable user profile, profile view in frontend, extendable user parameters</li>
<li>Tableless com_content layouts</li>
<li>Improved com_content modules (mod_articles_archive, mod_articles_latest, mod_articles_popular)</li>
<li>Article linker plugin for editors</li>
<li>New frontend template (atomic)</li>
<li>New backend template (bluestork)</li>
<li>New uploader for media manager</li>
</ul>
Other Joomla 1.6 improvements that existed in alpha 1:
<ul>
<li>Mootools 1.2</li>
<li>Refactored backend</li>
<li>JForm</li>
<li>Nested Categories and category parameters</li>
<li>New views in frontend: categories, category</li>
<li>Lots of small code improvements, almost cut the code size in half while adding to the functionality</li>
<li>PHP 5.2 required, huge performance improvements, partially eaten up by new features =&gt; 1.6 will be faster than 1.5</li>
</ul>
What's next?
After alpha 2, the Joomla community can expect a beta release. There are no intentions for a 3rd alpha release.
You can also expect to see the following future improvements:
<ul>
<li>Commenting solution is going to be added</li>
<li>Additional DB drivers</li>
<li>Lots of small performance/UI/code improvements</li>
</ul>
We would like to thank all those involved who helped make this release possible.
Download here: <a href="http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&amp;frs_package_id=3585">http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/?action=FrsReleaseBrowse&amp;frs_package_id=3585</a>
Discuss here: <a href="http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=454211">http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=454211</a>

Second alpha release of Joomla 1.6 available

A new point release of MODx evolution has made an appearance on the MODx website.
This is, according to the blog post announcing the release, a pretty substantial update. Here are some of the feature highlights for MODx Evolution 1.0.1:
Security Multiple areas have been improved to help protect against unlikely but possible CSRF attacks in the Manager. In addition, Ajax Search has been updated to version 1.8.4 which prevents content injection when JS is off in the browser and the Manager password reminder has been updated to prevent forged logins under different usernames.
ManagerManager Manager Manager is now a part of the core distribution. This Plugin leverages jQuery to allow developers to completely customize the Manager experience for end users. Some useful input widgets are included by default (tagging, color picker, image TV preview) and new widgets can be developed to streamline your daily content management. ManagerManager gives you the benefits of a fully bespoke/custom CMS, coupled with the support of large Open Source Community and maintaining an upgrade path for future releases.
Transalias plugin Welcome to multilingual SEO: Our transalias plugin further enhances MODx's robust capabilities as a SEO site platform, our URL transliteration plugin automatically creates human-readable URLs from the page titles of each Resource in the MODx Site Tree. additionally, Transalias can be configured to handle your exact rules for characters allowed in URLs. With MODx it's easy to mix Russian Cyrillic, Japanese Kanji and typical English URLs all in one site. This is a dream for Site Owner that operate multi-language websites and are working on optimizing Search Engine results for each translation.
Installer The new MODx installer adds the time- and task-saving ability for developers to install MODx with their favorite and customizations of the Add-ons it handles.. Simply drop your snippets, chunks, plugins and modules into the relevant directories as .tpl files, add a phpDocs formatted header, and the installer automatically presents the choices for you to install the Elements directly into the MODx database.
The MODx installer supports multiple languages including RTL languages, while installing the main application in the same or an alternate language. (The default language can be overridden a per-user basis in the Manager.)
QuickManager+ QM+ brings additional improvements have made this elegant front-end content editor even better for daily use.
Upgrading from Evolution 1.0 or earlier releases should be fast, simple and straightforward, and is highly recommended. We look forward to your feedback and continuing to improve MODx.
You can download this release from the <a href="http://modxcms.com/download.html">MODx website</a> or read more about it <a href="http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/board,380.0.html">here</a>.

New MODx CMS release available

The award winning content management system, CMS Made Simple, reached an important milestone today.
CMS Made Simple surpassed 750,000 downloads since it's 0.1 version release in July of 2004. CMS Made Simple is known across the world by developers for it's simplification of web site deployments.
In their blog article CMS Made Simple thanks it's user community for their outstanding support and the communities enthusiasm is credited for giving the development team the energy to continue developing the system.
<a href="http://blog.cmsmadesimple.org/2009/10/22/750-000-downloads/">CMS Made Simple Blog Post – More Info</a>

CMS Made Simple Reaches 750,000 downloads

The WordPress development team have released a security update to the 2.8 series of the popular blog platform. 
A number of the changes that are outlined below were back ported in order to provide enhanced security for the 2.8 series while the team works hard on 2.9.
The headline changes in this release are:
<ul>
<li>A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.</li>
<li>Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.</li>
<li>Switched the file upload functionality to be whitelisted for all users including Admins.</li>
<li>Retiring of the two importers of Tag data from old plugins.</li>
</ul>
You can learn more <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2009/10/wordpress-2-8-5-hardening-release/">here</a>.

New WordPress release enhances security and prepares us for 2.9

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Campsite 3.3.3 has been released and brings with it a number of new features for web publishers.
The main enhancements <a href="http://campware.org">Campsite</a> 3.3.3 brings are:
<ul>
<li>Online template editor (EditArea) now highlights Campsite template language properly</li>
<li>Topics attached to an article are displayed in a tooltip on mouseover in section view</li>
<li>Smarty template engine upgraded to the latest stable version</li>
<li>HTML anchors are now insertable via the TinyMCE rich text editor</li>
<li>Updated Russian, Belarusian, and Spanish localizations</li>
<li>Online Interview and Blog plugins are now fully localizable</li>
</ul>
Bugs fixed include:
<ul>
<li>Several upgrade process bugs (autopublish,.httaccess and plugin related)</li>
<li>A table is no added within paragraph when inserting images via the TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Image resize ratio field is no logner mandatory in System Preferences</li>
<li>Quality of automatically generated nails has been improved</li>
<li>TinyMCE text editor no longer filters the anchor tag</li>
<li>Topic objects are now cached properly</li>
<li>Long image captions no longer cause images to occupy wider space than necessary</li>
<li>Search indexer now properly filters out invalid words and does not leave out valid words</li>
<li>Image resizing ratio is no longer reset when editing an article</li>
<li>Topics with names that contain digits are now properly recognized in the template language</li>
<li>The Blog plugin now works well with APC cache</li>
<li>The code that sends Campsite system notifications has been fixed, so Campsite no longer floods admin mailboxes in case of noncritical problems</li>
<li>Several localization bug fixes (including the Author field label)</li>
<li>Order option for topics list and article switches now work as documented</li>
<li>The obsolete PHP function split() has been removed from Campsite code</li>
</ul>
For a full list of new features and bug fixes, please <a href="http://trac.campware.org/campsite/query?status=closed&amp;milestone=3.3.3">see this Trac report</a>.

Campsite 3.3.3 ushers in a number of new features

We had the pleasure recently of interviewing Bill Rogers, founder and CEO of the popular content management system company, Ektron.
CC: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today, could you give us a bit of an outline as to your history with Ektron and your background?
BR: Ektron was founded in 1998 in the basement of my house in Hollis,NH. In the late nineties it was becoming apparent to me that the Web was going to impact dramatically how everyone did business. With that realization in mind, I started Ektron with the idea of eventually building an operating system for the Web, to empower business people to be able to effectively manage their Web presence.
As part of the initial effort we created a WYSIWYG editor, eWebEditPro which was OEMed by several of the leading players in the CMS space. Through eWebEditpro’s success and the selling of our own CMS offering we gained additional exposure to the world of content management and we have consistently applied the knowledge we gained throughout these experiences to our efforts which culminated in the release of Ektron CMS400.NET.
Now, a decade later, Ektron has grown to over 200 people with office locations across the globe and more than 7,500 CMS customers.
CC: Having recently been identified in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2009 in the Visionary’s quadrant is quite the compliment. Why do you think they chose that section?
BR: This placement reflects the fact that Gartner sees an alignment between Ektron’s technology, our product roadmap and where Gartner’s clients are going to be looking to take their Web sites both in the near-term and over the long haul.
In the near future we believe that Web sites will transform into mash-ups that pull data and functionality from other Web sites into one location where clients can access and interact with that content and functionality as well as add their own content and functionality.
We have been building the technology to power this new type of Web site for several years. For instance, our social media platform allows developers to build mash-ups using widgets that pull information from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube or business applications like SalesForce or TestTrackPro. These widgets can then be deployed by business users using our PageBuilder functionality on-the-fly.
CC: What do you say to their comments that Ektron “…may be perceived as only marginally better than SharePoint?”
BR: That perception compared to the reality of the problems we solve is different. If you are talking about document and group collaboration, SharePoint and Ektron are both strong products. If you are talking about building a branded Web site that’s public facing you have to take into consideration dealing with things like site deployments and the management of user generated content (synchronization), localization and the ability for marketers and business users to easily manage their organization’s online marketing and branding efforts. Ektron provides the technology to fully develop and manage a company’s online presence whether it is an intranet, extranet or public-facing Web site.
CC: To what do you attribute Ektron’s success in the market?
BR: The number one thing that Ektron is focused on is the success of the Web project as opposed to just a software sale. We understand that a Web project is about solving a critical business issue and we work closely with both our end clients and our Partners to ensure the project is successful and the end goals are met.
In addition to being committed to the success of their Web projects Ektron always asks our customers the question, “What do you want your Web site to do?” and we take action on the answers. Our ability to quickly bring to market the type of digital marketing functionality that our customers ask for combined with our own experience and understanding of where the Web is taking today’s businesses is another key factor in our success.
CC: Do you have any plans to widen your reach and branch into other market segments? If so, which and why?
BR: As I mentioned, we have had success at Ektron because we constantly ask our customers the question “What do you want your Web site to do?” and we take action on the answers. Because we continue to ask this question we continue to develop new tools and applications that our customers need to take their Web strategies to the next level.
For Ektron, it’s about more than just content management, it’s about listening to our customers’ and Partners’ needs and building the tools they need to align their Web sites with their business goals and their vision. Beginning with version 8.0, you are going to see Ektron continue to move into areas like social networking, online marketing and business intelligence.
CC: What have been your biggest successes for 2009 to date?
BR: When others have said to cut back we have significantly pushed forward with growth and it is paying off. We released game-changing technologies like PageBuilder and eSync. We have also added key personnel and built out our services organization to support the type of enterprise deals we are consistently winning. This commitment to developing our technology and growing our company has led to growth in revenue of 35 percent so far this year and I expect this growth to continue as we come to the end of 2009.
CC: What separates Ektron from its competitors?
BR: The most important thing to Ektron is customer satisfaction and therefore we differentiate ourselves by focusing on more than building great out-of-the-box functionality on a scalable Web development platform that allows for customization. We have built a complete services infrastructure to ensure the success of our customers. No other vendor can deliver the type of Web project support Ektron does to both our end clients and Partners.
We are also committed to innovation around what customers need to deliver engaging user experiences rather than strictly Web content management functionality. This innovation has led to the development of some truly differentiating technologies like our bi-directional synchronization engine and PageBuilder functionality.
CC: Do you have plans to expand into any other geographical locations?
BR: We recently relocated our Australian office to Sydney and opened an office in Singapore. We are always keeping our eye on other geographical locations as we continue to expand. In addition to physical office locations we have a large partner program and distribution channel that is also growing.
CC: What do you think is the biggest misconception about content management systems?
BR: People say the word CMS and the definition that they will receive from each of the vendors is completely different. We more broadly define the term than any other vendor in the marketplace. We believe that anything that interacts with your Web site should be able to be managed through your CMS.
CC: How do you personally define a CMS?
BR: A CMS is no longer about just managing a piece of content on your Web site. A CMS should be able to allow a non-technical user to manage any asset on a Web site that they wish to interact with, whether that is a piece of content, a picture, a video or information that is pulled from other sources. The CMS should allow marketing teams to launch online campaigns and manage rich internet applications. As I say, in the future Web sites will be mash-ups of information and functionality pulled from multiple locations. A scalable Web CMS solution should be able to display and manage that information regardless of where it is coming from.
CC: What situations do you feel best suit the use of Ektron over other CMS platforms?
BR: There are many different situations where a client would look to implement Ektron CMS400.NET. Some of the big game changers for Ektron that truly differentiate our solution from others include our PageBuilder and eSync technology. When organizations have the need to not only allow non-technical employees to be able to manage the content and assets on their Web site but also build new Web pages and add functionality on the fly, they look to Ektron. Similarly, if an organization is looking for a scalable platform with geo-synchronization capabilities they look to Ektron.
In other instances, organizations look to Ektron for social software and community expertise on both collaborative intranets and public-facing online communities. We also offer more out-of-the-box functionality than other vendors but still allow our clients the ability to easily customize the solution to fit their needs.
CC: Do you have any insight you can provide as to what can be expected from the next release?
BR: In the next release you will see a lot of new Social features, completely rebuilt calendaring and event management functionality, PageBuilder enhancements, eCommerce engine improvements, analytics and multivariate testing and a new user interface. In addition, we will also be including more tools on which marketers can build their online Web strategies.
CC: Thank you for your time, Bill.
To learn more about Ektron, visit their website at <a href="http://www.ektron.com">http://www.ektron.com</a>

Interview with Ektron CEO and Founder, Bill Rogers

<a href="http://www.nuxeo.com">Nuxeo</a> have released the latest rendition of their popular Document Management software. Version 5.3 heralds some interesting changes such as support for increasingly social business applications; streamlined information access and flow of content across diverse repositories and sites; and enhanced tagging services to enrich metadata used by information workers (suggest deleting used by information workers, repetitive).
According to CEO, Eric Barroca:
The latest release of Nuxeo DM demonstrates that we are continuing to execute on our strategy: be a disruptive force and instigate change to (eliminate inefficient practices in the mainstream software industry.) inefficient practices. Nuxeo's success is measured on the strength of our product and community: high customer satisfaction rates, strategic partnerships and collaborative approaches to content-centric applications. Our product roadmap is being driven by our commitment to standards, interoperability, better integration to the Microsoft suite and integration of of the social business infrastructure. We're building content applications for 21st century business needs.
Key aspects of Nuxeo DM 5.3 include:
Standards for Social Business: Support for OpenSocial allows the creation of gadgets to build web mashups within enterprise applications. Nuxeo DM 5.3 can serve as both publisher of gadgets as well as be an OpenSocial container, allowing the Nuxeo DM repository to host and participate in enterprise mashups.
Windows Sharepoint Services support: Access Nuxeo DM 5.3 via Microsoft Sharepoint for basic library services. Native integration with Windows Explorer ensures information workers can use familiar browsing habits to access Nuxeo DM content and perform common file operations. Microsoft Office integration allows files to be opened or saved directly to/from Nuxeo DM and lets users see information about their content directly from the Document Panel in Microsoft Office.
SaaS-ready with Nuxeo DM Cloud Edition: Nuxeo DM 5.3 is also available in a secure, on-demand cloud ECM offering. Organizations can get a deployment up and running in minutes with no need to invest in any costly IT infrastructure.
Federated publishing: Centrally control and publish content to remote Nuxeo applications, file systems, HTTP servers, web portals, and more thanks to a pluggable and unified Publishing Service. It is suited to deployments with a distributed information architecture, balancing ease of publication with requirements to for content control.
Tagging Services: Enhanced metadata capabilities ensures information workers can categorize their content in ways that make sense for average users. Tagging recommendations and tag cloud support enrich an organization's ability to describe and retrieve their information assets.
New Performance Record for Large Deployments: Faster search and retrieval benchmarks for Nuxeo DM repositories holding several million items for hundreds of concurrent users using inexpensive commodity hardware specifications.
Email Capture Enhancements for MS Exchange and Gmail: Improved support for email folders. Fetch email from Microsoft Exchange or Gmail to/from the Nuxeo DM 5.3 email archive folders to ensure contextual management of business communication.
CMIS Support: Ensure true interoperability across multiple ECM, ERP and search systems, Nuxeo DM 5.3 offers a CMIS Server via an add-on component, based on the CMIS draft 0.62.
Search/Indexing Improvements: Granular metadata search and indexing allows users to find and retrieve content based on one or more fields.
Nuxeo DM is a packaged application based on the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP), an extensible and highly-flexible open source software platform for enterprise content management . With a deep feature set and rich functionality, Nuxeo EP is increasingly being used to replace cumbersome, costly and proprietary ECM platforms. Nuxeo EP is the ECM foundation layer of the Nuxeo product suite. Organizations requiring custom content applications, software vendors wanting to embed ECM into their product offering, or development organizations building new content-enabled applications can adopt the platform, Nuxeo EP, and build upon it. The complete platform is available under popular, business-friendly LGPL open source license.
Pricing and Availability Nuxeo Document Management is also freely available under standard LGPL. Nuxeo provides expert developer and production support subscriptions for Nuxeo DM to simplify ongoing maintenance, increase IT productivity and reduce deployment risks. These support subscriptions are available through the Nuxeo Connect program. Customers subscribing to Nuxeo Connect are assured of service level agreements for problem resolution, access to certified patches, value-added monitoring and management tools, and full updates in accordance with our product release lifecycle policy.
For more information <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/en/products/dm/nuxeo-dm-5.3" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nuxeo DM 5.3</a>
Extensive options are available from MindTouch, such as <a href="http://www.mindtouch.com/products">product document management </a> and help desk solutions.

Nuxeo releases latest version of popular document management software

There is a new version of <a href="http://www.elxis.org">Elxis CMS</a> available for download from their website. Elxis has been a favourite of our for some time due to it's incredibly solid SEO performance.
This new version brings the following changes (<a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Elxis_2009.1_release_notes">see full release notes here</a>.):
<ul>
<li>A new <a href="http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Search_system">component search</a> which re-orders the results returned by the bots giving the results a global ordering. It also provides pagination and better html mark-up.</li>
<li>Elxis e-blog component is now more powerful. Added daily posts support, linked post titles, included posts to site's search results, pagination for the archive pages and social bookmarking support.</li>
<li>plus many others.</li>
</ul>

Elxis CMS 2009.1 released

The ImpressCMS Project (<a rel="external noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.impresscms.org/" target="_blank">www.impresscms.org</a>) proudly announces a stable release of ImpressCMS 1.1.3. This release is a security update for the PHP OpenID and Smarty libraries included with the ImpressCMS core, no new features have been introduced.
Since its beginning, the developers of ImpressCMS have made security a  priority – continually auditing existing code and testing new code for stronger security measures.
Some of the security ‘best practices' that have made their way into ImpressCMS are:
<ul>
<li>Creating a trust_path outside the web root (when possible) during installation, making sensitive database credentials inaccessible to a web browser</li>
<li>Using a 2-part encryption key to protect passwords stored in the database</li>
<li>Using HTML Purifier to filter input and output and remove malicious and unauthorized code</li>
<li>Providing a version checker for the core, allowing you to keep your site up-to-date much easier</li>
<li>Providing multiple methods of password encryption to increases the difficulty of decrypting passwords</li>
</ul>
Source: http://www.impresscms.org

ImpressCMS 1.1.3 has been released

<a href="http://www.knowledgetree.com">KnowledgeTree</a>, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) provider focusing on affordable document management software that is easily installed and used by business professionals, today announced the launch of a green IT promotion benefiting Food &amp; Trees for Africa to promote environmental sustainability.
As part of this initiative, for every new sale over $4,500, KnowledgeTree will plant a tree in Africa on the customer’s behalf.
Established in 1990, Food &amp; Trees for Africa (FTFA) embraces best practices in sustainable environmental activities that empower poor communities while also playing an important role in reducing the carbon emissions that are threatening the planet.
FTFA brings trees to impoverished areas through its National Tree Distribution Program, which relies on help from corporate sponsors like KnowledgeTree.
“Although KnowledgeTree helps customers reduce paper waste through electronic document management, we want to do more,” said Daniel Chalef, CEO, KnowledgeTree. “By supporting FTFA and donating trees to disadvantaged communities, KnowledgeTree is furthering its commitment to help offset carbon emissions and build a greener, more sustainable planet.”
KnowledgeTree solutions help organizations manage the document lifecycle, promote collaboration, ensure compliance and reduce paper with electronic document storage and retrieval. KnowledgeTree’s commercial offerings are available as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution or an on-premise product.
KnowledgeTree provides an easy-to-use, secure platform that enables access to documents anytime, anywhere – reducing both paper dependency and carbon footprint. Each planted tree will be documented with a certificate issued to customers outlining the details of their contribution.
To date, over 3.5 million trees have been distributed through the National Tree Distribution Program to schools, clinics, retirement homes, hospices, police stations and parks. “Sustainable development is about people, participation and common purpose,” said Jeunesse Park, Founder of Food &amp; Trees for Africa.
“FTFA is pleased KnowledgeTree is demonstrating a commitment to environmental sustainability and social welfare by participating in the program.”

KnowledgeTree Launches Green IT Promotion to Benefit Food & Trees for Africa

<a href="http://www.ptools.com/">pTools</a> today announced that it has further developed its content management software (CMS) as an embedded application for Microsoft SharePoint.
Organizations can now use the enhanced web content management (WCM) capability of pTools directly within the SharePoint interface and framework.
The latest release will be launched at Microsoft's worldwide SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this October 19th to 22nd, where pTools will also link up with partners and customers from the North American market.
Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, commenting on pTools participation at the conference, says: “pTools has very successfully developed their web content management software on the SharePoint platform. Through participating in the SharePoint event the company will gain access and exposure to a vast number of customers and partners interested in connecting, sharing and collaborating on some of Microsoft's fastest growing product lines – including SharePoint Server, SQL Server and Office 2007.”
The development is part of the ongoing extension of pTools suite of CMS products and alignment to Microsoft's .NET applications framework.
Key enhancements delivered by pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint include:
<ul>
<li>Enterprise level out-of-the box WCM functionality</li>
<li>Seamless SharePoint-to-web replication and publishing</li>
<li>Guaranteed accessibility web content compliance</li>
<li>Multi-language web content management</li>
<li>Multi-channel web content personalisation</li>
<li>Rich media web content applications</li>
<li>Improved SEO web optimisation</li>
<li>Linked-up social networking and web content syndication.</li>
</ul>
Commenting on the development Tom Skinner, Managing Director of pTools says: “Continual product development based on customer and partner expectations is a key strategy for pTools and this extension puts our software at the leading edge with Microsoft SharePoint and web content management. Not only is our software now better integrated with SharePoint, but the out-of-the-box capabilities of pTools web content management are now greatly improved. This development of an embedded application gives an over-the-horizon view of what's coming in web and enterprise content management for pTools and pTools customers on the SharePoint platform.”
pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint gives the flexibility, rapid deployment and enhancements necessary for rich web content management initiatives within the overall SharePoint application architecture. Organisations can extend content management functionality to enhance SharePoint web content management deployment and integrate content management tasks easily within a single application user interface.
Furthermore it allows seamless interoperability between pTools, SharePoint and other Microsoft server and desk-top applications. pTools content element architecture allows presentation of content across multiple delivery channels from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules demanded of enterprise level initiatives.
Content compliance within pTools uses sophisticated audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. pTools deploys to Microsoft SQL database and enables content management professionals to use the pTools application programming interface and development tools to deliver solutions for Intranets, Extranets and Internet applications.
Key features include: advanced workflow and content compliance; rapid deployment and in-built Web 2.0 features; Microsoft SharePoint integration; clean code accessibility standard; pTools ‘content element model'; content security marking; SEO optimisation; and multi-site content syndication.

pTools Launches Embedded WCM for Microsoft SharePoint

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