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<a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> has won the top prize in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards that are put on every year by Packt Publishing from the UK.
This year, it has been granted the title “Best Overall Open Source CMS”
WordPress now has some additional credibility in the CMS market instead of just being considered a blog platfom.
From the announcement:
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We are pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. WordPress has won this Award for the first time in the past four years, earning itself a place in the Hall of  Fame category for the Award next year.
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More info at <a href="http://www.Packtpub.com/award">packtpub.com/award</a>

WordPress wins top prize in 2009 Open Source CMS Awards

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<a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> has won the Hall of Fame award in the 2009 Packt Pub CMS Awards.
From the announcement:
We are pleased to announce that Drupal has won the inaugural Hall of Fame Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. With this award, Drupal has won two categories this year, the other one being Best Open Source PHP CMS.
Here's the distribution of the prize fund for this category:
Drupal: $4,000
Joomla!: $2,000
More details at <a href="http://www.Packtpub.com/award">Packtpub.com/award</a>

Drupal wins Hall of Fame award in 2009 CMS Awards

<a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> has won the Packt Publishing 2009 Open Source CMS Award and been granted a prize of $2000.
From the announcement:
We are pleased to announce that Drupal has won the Best Open Source PHP CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. This category featured a very close contest between the top three, Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! in which Drupal ended up as the overall choice for the judges and the public.
While Drupal and Joomla! have always consistently featured among the top three in this category, WordPress made its way into the top five for the first time. The fact that it was outranked by Drupal by a very slight margin indicates how popular it has become with users as well as developers over the past year.
Runners up this year were WordPress and Joomla! who each were granted $500 prizes.
Congratulations to Drupal and it's developers.

Drupal wins 2009 Open Source PHP CMS Award

Congratulations are in order for the <a href="http://www.impresscms.org">ImpressCMS</a> team as they are the winners of this years <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/award">Most Promising Open Source CMS Award</a>.
From the announcement:
We are pleased to announce that ImpressCMS has won the Most Promising Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award.
While ImpressCMS took first place in this category, Pixie and Pligg weren’t far behind and settled for a tie in the first runner up spot.
ImpressCMS has featured in the top three in this category for the second time in a row, and has lived up to its reputation this year by winning the top spot.
Pixie and Pligg, on the other hand, featured in this category for the first time and managed to impress a lot of judges with their quality and support.
ImpressCMS has been awarded a prize of $2000 with runners up <a href="http://www.getpixie.co.uk">Pixie</a> and <a href="http://www.pligg.com">Pligg</a> getting $1000 each. Congratulations to all of the winners!

ImpressCMS wins Most Promising Open Source CMS Award!

<a href="http://www.plone.org">Plone</a> has won Packt Publishing's Best Other Open Source CMS Award and been granted a prize of $2000.
Second place went to <a href="http://www.dotcms.org">dotCMS</a> and third to <a href="http://www.mojoportal.com">mojoPortal</a> who walked away with $500 each.
We are pleased to announce that Plone has won the Best Other Open Source CMS Category in the 2009 Open Source CMS Award. Plone retains the Award it won in 2008 and takes away $2,000 in the prize money.
Since the introduction of this category in 2007, Plone has consistently featured among the top three, having won it in 2008. In another close contest, dotCMS had to settle for the first runner up position, finishing ahead of mojoPortal in the second runner spot.
Congratulations to <a href="http://www.plone.org">Plone</a>.

Plone wins Best Other Open Source CMS Award

So far, November has been a slow month for news but looks like <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla</a> has seen a new security release with 1.5.15.
Full release notes can be found here: <a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5249-joomla-1515-released.html">Joomla 1.5.15 release notes</a> but to summarize, some of the changes are:
Two security issues were fixed in this release:
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<li>Moderate Priority – Core – Front-End Editing. <a href="http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/305-20091103-core-front-end-editor-issue-.html">More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – XML File View. <a href="http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/306-20091103-core-xml-file-read-issue.html">More information »</a></li>
</ul>
Download from <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla.org</a>

Joomla 1.5.15 has been released

Further polishing Tiki3, the TikiWiki developers have released version 3.3.
This release includes wiki syntax and plugin fixes, strengthened security, and improvements in language translations and visual display, among many others.
For the list of major enhancements since Tiki2, please see: <a href="http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki3">http://doc.tikiwiki.org/Tiki3</a>
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a full-featured, tightly integrated, open source, multilingual, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, written in PHP and actively developed by a very large international community. Major features include articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a wiki, bug &amp; issue tracker (form generator), a calendar, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced user, group and permission system and more.
About Tiki: <a href="http://tikiwiki.org/%20">http://tikiwiki.org/ </a>

TikiWiki CMS/Groupware 3.3 has been released

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

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By now, many of us are excited to see the finalists for this year's Packt Publishing Open Source CMS (Content Management System) Award competition, the annual contest in which dozens of companies compete to be highlighted as the year's finest Content Management System.
Entering its fourth year, this competition has grown nearly five-fold and is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the CMS industry. But as successful as the competition has become, it sadly suffers from inherent issues which prevent it from truly presenting today's gamut of CMS choices in a valuable way.
Here is the reason: to even be considered as a finalist in the competition, each CMS is judged on exactly one condition: community vote counts. Granted, this can be a valid measure of a CMS's success, however today's CMS environment is very polarized. We see large majorities of people using Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, often simply because those are the CMSs in the headlines.
As a result, these CMSs are naturally going to have far more votes in every competition – they are votes from people who already use these CMSs and who rarely branch out to explore alternatives. This self-fulfilling cycle ensures that these few CMSs continue to dominate our headlines, simply because they were the early winners and can rely on their present install-base for votes, rather than relying on the merits, features, and usability of their own systems in comparison with other CMSs.
Consider the reasons the 3 aforementioned CMS's became so well known, prior to the Packt competition: – Joomla grew because there was a lot of news coverage over several months when the developers of Mambo split to create Joomla. Since then Joomla cemented their position by encouraging commercial development of addons and now has a lot of companies incentivised to promote it and ready to come up under general Google searches.
– WordPress got a massive boost from the most vocal group of people you could hope for: bloggers, due to its blog-positive simplicity.
– Drupal has developed a massive ecosystem of web development agencies and regularly gets noticed as a side-effect of the business activity of these agencies- for example, there are countless conferences held each year.
Much of the above is good (it's good that WordPress is user-friendly, and that Drupal and Joomla have large support networks), but it should also clearly show how CMS popularity was based on headlines, the size of business networks, and incentivization, rather than a full range of factors such as usability or features. The problem we see is that the Packt competition now sustains this further.
In a way, the problems Packt creates are the problems of a two-party system in politics, and the reason why many people now promote the concept of having second-choice votes on ballots.
Put another way: The Packt Competition isn't really about finding the best CMS. The mechanics of it ensure the winners are simply those with the largest communities.
Case in point: everyone has acknowledged a need for easy theme creation but hardly anyone is doing anything about it. But the CMS I work with (which I won't mention here as I want this to stay neutral and not an advert) has had a feature to generate all-new theme stylesheets and image colors for years, and we are only now starting to see other CMSs add this.
Marketing is never free, and we understand this: we've made marketing efforts and wanted to compete in this year's competition, but realized we can't afford the high resources needed to compete on a per-vote count with the more established players. Specifically (assuming none of our users offers to do this for us) we'd need to spend a couple of weeks campaigning very hard, kind of like running a political campaign, which would be very distracting, diverting our resources. The established players, on the other hand, have to do very little to be nominated highly.
There are a lot of very good CMS's that won't do well in the Packt competition, that in many use-cases are probably better choices than those that will win.
The Solution ————
So how can we recognise the power of all CMSs in a more valuable way, and nurture more competition within the market?
The key is to rely on the best and most fair indicator we have: human experience. Imagine if the competition were to judge each entry on factors that really matter – which can't ever be measured by a machine. This would remove ‘majority rule' as the primary factor and replace it with votes based on real experience – producing far more valuable results.
We suggest the following: allow people to nominate any CMS as they currently do, but then present the top 30 nominees for public voting. Then, instead of just tallying unscreened and anonymous votes, expand the voting process by requiring each voter to have personally used at least five of the nominated CMSs. Allow them to vote for as many of those five as they like, by writing a few sentences to a paragraph describing why they believe that particular CMS is the “best” among its competition in that category or writing why they are not giving that particular CMS a vote.
This fresh approach solves the previous issue by bringing back a vital concept: accountability. Like a salesman who has never used anything except his own product, that old system discourages voters from doing any research, and to vote up “their” CMS based on what may be a very narrow viewpoint and doesn't take into account less-known CMSs, despite how well those would actually compete.
A panel of judges would compile the results and decide on the winners.
This way, the competition does not need to be a popularity contest for the masses – a few dozen voters are enough. This change embodies the belief that it's better to present 100 good votes than 10,000 bad ones.
The best part is that these changes are very do-able and, at least in my mind, would bring some much-needed competition back to this industry. In my opinion Packt can add a lot of value to the CMS community at large, truly presenting valuable new information.
If you agree, please take a moment to share your thoughts with the Packt Publishing Award team [<a href="mailto:cmsaward@packtpub.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cmsaward@packtpub.com</a>] or by continuing this discussion in the comments below or on your own websites. I'm sure there are a lot of ideas out there, and that if we truly intend to present an alternative we should share ideas.
Hopefully we can all see that a newer and fairer method of choosing the winners of the Packt Publishing CMS Award competition would lead to a more diverse and competitive CMS market – with more obvious choices for those looking to create a CMS-driven website. It would also increase competition within the industry, thus improving features and usability across the board.
And lastly, that all lesser-known CMSs should be given the fair chance to shine against their competition (if they're worthy), and not just languish in obscurity.
Disclosure: this article was written by Allen Ellis, Creative Director for a CMS (<a href="http://www.ocportal.com">ocPortal</a>) which did not compete in this year's competition.

Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It

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:
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<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

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