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Agentic AI for Agencies in 2026

bmckeiver

The list building needs of large publications and high-traffic sites — the ones that get hundreds of thousands to millions of pageviews per month — are different from most websites.
Among all the other things, such sites require a <a href="http://digioh.com/">list building solution</a> that is scalable, speedy, and reliable. If you too are looking for a lead generation tool but don't really know what features to look for in it, run the options you’ve shortlisted through the following feature checklist. It lists the must-haves and nice-to-have features in a lead generation tool that actually gets results.
How do I know?
Well, at <a href="http://digioh.com/">Digioh</a>, we serve some of the biggest online publishers including the likes of <a href="http://www.healthline.com/">Healthline</a> and <a href="http://www.nascar.com/">Nascar</a>. We talk to publishers every day and work with them to help them meet their list growth targets with Digioh.
I hope I’ve got you on board now. So, let’s look at the features.
<h2>#1. Doesn’t affect ad revenue</h2>
Lots of publishers show interstitial ads (ads that cover the full screen). These ads generate a large part of their revenue. Publishers almost always reserve such ad slots for ads and don’t even consider showing opt-in forms in them because they view it as REVENUE LOSS. Which it is … but ONLY when there’s an ad to show. But the truth is that it’s not always that a publisher has an ad to feature.
In such cases where a publisher doesn’t have an ad to feature, the publisher doesn’t just not make ad money, but also loses an excellent chance to get subscribers because interstitials are awesome at getting subscribers.
The biggest publisher in the faith marketplace, Salem Web Network, <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-salem-web-network-averages-5k-engaged-subscribers-a-day-with-digioh/">lost thousands of subscribers</a> because of reserving the interstitial slot exclusively for ads. But when it switched to Digioh, it was able to use the same interstitial slot for showing both ads and signup forms. This became possible because of Digioh's ad suppression feature. Digioh can understand when an interstitial ad is about to fire, and it suppresses the signup form in all such instances. Likewise, at times when there are no upcoming ads, Digioh shows signup forms.
Samantha Royer, Senior Marketing Manager, Salem Web Network tells:
<blockquote>
“We’ve historically lost out on anywhere from 5-10k subscribers in a month having this suppression feature available to us. Now that we’ve more than doubled our email growth, that could cost us anywhere from 10-20k+ monthly subscribers pending the duration of the ad buy.”
</blockquote>
Feature check:
Ability to use the same interstitial slot to show ads as well as opt-in forms (and making sure no ad revenue is lost)
<h2>#2. Is mobile friendly (and has lead generation tools that are safe to use despite Google’s latest mobile lightbox guidelines)</h2>
Until now, publishers mainly complained about how browser-based ad blockers got in the way of their ads and signup forms (especially interstitials). However, they now have a new challenge to overcome to save their mobile subscriptions. From next year, Google will penalize <a href="https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html">sites that use intrusive lightboxes on mobile devices</a>.
So, your mobile organic traffic could get hit if you use wrong lead generation tactics on mobiles like:
<ol>
<li>
Show a lightbox that covers the full screen
</li>
<li>
Display an interstitial that a user has to dismiss to be able to access content
</li>
<li>
Use welcome mat kind of opt-in forms, where the fold area of your mobile site is nothing but an opt-in form
</li>
</ol>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/capture.png" />
While you’ll have to be cautious, you obviously can’t stop showing opt-in forms on mobiles because a big part of your audience could, in fact, be accessing your site from their mobile devices. The leading publisher in the trucking domain, Overdrive, <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-overdrive-collects-100-emails-a-week-on-mobile-alone-with-digiohs-mobile-friendly-lightboxes/">gets as many as 400+ subscribers a month from its mobile popups alone with Digioh</a>.
Digioh doesn't just have mobile friendly popups, but we’ve recently rolled out an entire suite of mobile lead generating tools to keep our users’ mobile list growth potential intact.
Feature check:
SEO-compliant set of mobile lead generation tools
<h2>#3. Can read cookie values to identify subscribers from other visitors</h2>
Publishers often have multiple offers to promote to their visitors. Not only that, they’ve several offers to cross-sell to their existing subscribers too. For example, if a visitor is a subscriber, you’ll try to cross-sell another complimentary subscription to them. Or, you might try to sell tickets to the latest online or local event. In case they aren’t a subscriber, you might want to give them a personalized subscription offer.
But to make the right offer to the right visitor, you need information about the visitor’s subscription status. This information can be found via cookie data.
A tool like Digioh can read cookie data to understand if someone has already subscribed. And you can use this knowledge to decide which offer to show — the cross-sell offer or the subscription offer.
Paul Daniel from the Overdrive team tells how Overdrive uses information about a user’s subscription status to determine the offer to make:
<blockquote>
“Right now, we are primarily segmenting non-subscriber visitors to our website so that we can target them for newsletter and magazine subscriptions. We have also run a limited amount of promotions to current subscribers that cross-sell paid products. The conversion rates have been excellent.”
</blockquote>
Feature check:
Cookie data reading
<h2>#4. Can make targeted offers</h2>
One of the biggest list building challenges that a publisher site faces is to engage a highly diverse audience. Even though the audience is specific to a niche, it still has many segments that have varied interests.
Take the popular gaming niche publisher GameRant, for example. Although the site is about gaming in general, its readers comprise lovers of different games. There are readers who love Pokemon, while there are those who’re fans of Call of Duty. When Gamer Rant showed a generic opt-in lightbox to its visitors, it got just 30 signups/day. Vic, GameRant chief, observed, “A generic sitewide pop up did not work very well.“
But once it started making targeted offers, i.e., personalizing opt-in offers on the content of the pages a user was reading, it saw its <a href="http://digioh.com/blog/how-game-rant-jumped-to-120-signups-a-day-with-digiohs-advanced-targeting-features/">subscriptions jump to almost 120 signups each day</a>.
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Digioh helps you make targeted offers based on:
<ul>
<li>
The posts or pages a reader lands on
</li>
<li>
Their browsing or site visit history 
</li>
<li>
Location
</li>
<li>
Referral source
</li>
</ul>
And many other parameters.
Of all these targeting parameters, the referral detection feature deserves a special mention because every publisher has online partners that send dedicated recurring traffic. Obviously, different referrals send different kinds of traffic that have different interests and content preferences.
Showing a generic opt-in offer to such a diverse referral traffic doesn’t get great results. To maximize the lead generation opportunities in these cases, it’s important to personalize opt-in offers based on the referrals.
Digioh offers referral detection right out of the box.
<h2>#5. Integrates with Google Analytics (or other analytics software)</h2>
Sometimes the biggest challenge that publishers face is not to get emails, but it’s to get quality subscribers. It’s to find subscribers who don’t just sign up for the free version but also upgrade to the premium one, or those who buy the recommended or advertised services and products.
Calculating a subscriber’s quality in terms of the money they spend or their engagement metrics with your site is possible with mapping their journey and tracking their purchases and interactions with your website.
Digioh can gauge such quality because it can fire goals in any analytics software and track them to conversion. These goals could be monetary values or ad clicks too.
Feature check:
Measuring lead quality
<h2>#6. Can create accounts for subscribers</h2>
Creating subscriber accounts helps publishers in monetizing their lists better. Moreover, when these accounts have a subscriber’s information like their city or country, they’re even more helpful in pitching advertisers or for giving them more insights into your lists (so they can pay you higher).
However, you’ll agree that it’s one thing to get an email … but getting someone to signup for an account is a completely different story.
But a well-thought-out lead generation tool like Digioh can dynamically create a user account once a visitor signs up for your list. Also, Digioh fetches the subscriber’s location from their IP address and adds this information to the account. (The account password is generated in real time by Digioh.)
Feature check:
Automatic backend account creation
<h2>#7. Can create thousands of personalized opt-in offers dynamically</h2>
Online publishers have thousands of articles contributed by hundreds of writers. Not only that, there are also tens of categories, and many more tags.
All these are excellent parameters for personalizing opt-in forms. For example, you can personalize an opt-in form based on the name of the columnist whose story a visitor seems to be reading.
But as you can imagine, this could mean creating 100s of opt-in form copies, which is almost impossible. Dynamic personalization is the solution here. In dynamic personalization, all you need to do is create a template opt-in form. You can create something like:
Sign up to get all our &lt;tag&gt; stories in your inbox.
And then the lead generation tool fills out this tag by fetching the relevant values from the content the user is currently browsing.
For example, in Digioh, a user can set Digioh to choose the value of the category a user is reading and fill it into the template. So, ‘Sign up to get all our &lt;tag&gt; stories in your inbox’ becomes ‘Sign up to get all our presidential campaigns stories in your inbox’ if the reader is reading a story from the presidential elections category.
You can use any value to set this rule. Tags, author’s name, anything.
Feature check:
Dynamic opt-in offer personalization
<h2>In addition to these features, you’ll also need a dedicated account manager…</h2>
Just checking a tool for its support options might not be wise. Because although most lead generation solutions of this scale offer good support, it’s not the same as having a dedicated account manager. A dedicated account manager can help you get started immediately and work with you to devise a personalized lead generation plan.
Digioh has been assisting lead generation of several thousands of publishers and is proud to offer a dedicated manager and priority 1-on-1 access to all our customers.
<h2>So are these all the features you need in your list building solution? And is Digioh perfect for your website?</h2>
Well, it turns out that no list of features can actually cover everything you need. At Digioh, we’ve custom coded a lot of features based on the needs of our readers.
In fact, our power users tell other users that “[they shouldn’t] be afraid to ask for help or pitch new ideas, because even if Digioh doesn’t have the capability to fulfill a specific need, they always have suggestions with suitable alternatives or are willing to help brainstorm how to make it possible.”
We understand that different publishers have different KPIs, and so we don’t just help them setup lightboxes according to their needs, but also help them optimize their lead generation efforts.
Now to find out if Digioh is the best list building solution for you, <a href="https://digioh.com/Demo">signup for a free Digioh demo</a>. Once you fill the form, our marketing team will contact you about the next step.

The publisher’s 7-point checklist to choosing a list building tool (and how Digioh scores on it)

mike-johnston

ZorinOS is an up and coming Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that has begun to really catch on with users everywhere. With a visually attractive appearance and plenty of personalization options, it is quickly becoming the next best thing since Linux Mint hit the scene. Today, I'm going to take a look at ZorinOS 12 – Ultimate Edition from a user perspective.
Before I get into this review, let me just say that this is not intended to be a review from a system administrator point of view but rather that of a user. I've been using Linux for over 20 years but I am no sysadmin so I won't pretend to be one and I want to make that clear from the get go. If, however, you are looking to see what ZorinOS has to offer from a user perspective, read on.
Installation is identical to that of Ubuntu so I'm not going to bore you by showing a bunch of screenshots of it, rather I'll just tell you that it's identical and worked without a hitch for me. One thing I did find surprising was that during installation I selected the “Install alongside Windows 10” option which, in the past, has never worked successfully for me on this machine. I was pleasantly surprised to see that upon reboot after installation, I had the option to either boot Zorin or Windows 10. Whether that's a fluke or whether the Zorin developers managed to get it to work a bit better, I was pleased to see I can now dual boot successfully. (On a side note, if the developers have indeed improved this functionality, let me know and I'll of course update this review accordingly).
Upon first boot, I was greeted with the screen below:
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As you can see, it's a nice, clean desktop with a single bar across the bottom. The menu, when clicked on looks like this:
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Zorin is powered by the Gnome Shell and as such has <a href="http://zoringroup.com/blog/2016/11/18/zorin-os-12-core-and-ultimate-are-here-our-biggest-release-ever-2/" target="_blank">similar functionality</a> with regards to window management, hot keys etc. Where it differs, however, is in the variety of customizations that have been integrated. Specifically, items such as desktop extensions to view thumbnails when hovering over minimized windows and music integration within the notifications panel, to name a few.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/familiarity.png" />
From a design aesthetics point of view, it's a beautiful desktop. Integration with one of my personal favorite icon themes, Paper, also helps give Zorin OS a modern, beautiful look.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/icons_1.png" /> 
Some Zorin OS specific apps are also included within the distribution such as Zorin Appearance which lets you customize panel arrangement, color schemes and a ton of other options allowing you to create a truly “uniquely yours” desktop experience.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/zorin_os_review_6-1_bbgnex.png" alt="zorin os 12 review" />
Here's a look at a couple of the other layouts available:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/zorin_os_review_7.png" alt="Zorin OS 12 Review" /> 
Or perhaps you prefer a dock style, similar to Mac OS:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/zorin_os_review_8.png" alt="Zorin OS 12 Review" /> 
What's also interesting about this release is the offering of both an Ultimate edition and a Core edition, a move that I think is a smart one. The Ultimate edition offers additional business apps, over 20 games, some additional layout options for your panels, video background wallpapers (which are very cool) AND premium support. The total cost of €19 make it a reasonable investment.
Some of the games included in the Ultimate Edition:
<ul>
<li>Airstrike</li>
<li>Armagetron Advanced</li>
<li>Brutal Chess</li>
<li>Extreme Tux Racer</li>
<li>Frets on Fire</li>
<li>Frozen-Bubble</li>
<li>Gweled</li>
<li>Minetest</li>
<li>Neverball</li>
<li>Neverputt</li>
<li>Pingus</li>
<li>Quadrapassel</li>
<li>SuperTux 2</li>
<li>SuperTuxKart and more.</li>
</ul>
All of these, during my testing, have run flawlessly and looked very good on my Alienware box that I use for testing. Of course, if you don't have the cash or don't want to support the developer without testing it first, you can always download the Core edition and try things out for free before upgrading to the Ultimate edition.
Overall in my testing, I've found the system to be very smooth and impressively functional. No major bugs have reared their ugly heads as of yet and in general, it feels like a solid release. I'd encourage anyone on the fence to give this distribution a try and see if it's something that may appeal. Being based on Ubuntu, you've got some helpful inclusions such as the driver manager and excellent hardware support. Leave a comment below with your experiences, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this release as well.
Website: <a href="https://zorinos.com/" target="_blank">https://zorinos.com/ </a>

Zorin OS 12 Review

Open source is the future
In 2016, any person who is well-informed about tech space will no longer engage in open source vs. proprietary arguments. While he or she can still take the side of proprietary software the trend is clearly seen: open source becomes mainstream, such IT giants as Google, Facebook, Apple use open source infrastructure; companies trust their content management to open source systems; at the same time its quality outpaces the one of proprietary code.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/opensourcelogo.png" />As of 2016 the following companies are investing deeply in open source: IBM, Cisco, VMware, Intel, Huawei, NEC, HPE, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Citrix, Oracle, EMC, AT&amp;T, Google, Facebook, China Unicom, China Mobile and Telefonica. (Source networkworld.com) 
Open source software advantages are numerous: the product is being constantly improved by thousands of developers all across the world, a business owner can clearly see “what’s in the trunk” and adapt the product to his or her eCommerce store needs anytime.
Nevertheless, for those who consider eCommerce systems to be just a tool for selling their goods or services, open source products can be still suspicious. Read on to see how we dispel doubts about open source by examining concerns related to it.
Open source doesn't mean free
Open source does not always mean free. There are paid open source solutions and so-called “freemium” products. “Freemium” models are used as a bait: they act as gateways to paid versions.
Some platforms come for free but have growing hidden fees like payment percentage, paid bandwidth, and cancellation fees. Moreover, the chosen plans tend to grow when the number of orders or revenue of your web-store increases, so expect something unexpected in your bills at the end of the month.
But be sure: nopCommerce is both free and open source. The only fee we accept is for removing “powered by nopCommerce” notice from the footer. And even this is a pure aesthetical decision not affecting the performance of the webstore in case of either presence or absence.
What should I look at in open source platforms
The head of CMS Critic, Mike Johnston, wrote a great article <a href="/how-to-select-the-best-open-source-cms/">“How to select best open source CMS</a>”, highlighting five points:
<ul>
<li>Stability: Is the CMS stable? Will it last for the long-term?</li>
<li>Support: Can I get the help I need?</li>
<li>Cost: What’s it going to cost me?</li>
<li>Flexibility: Can I move it, change it, or tweak it?</li>
<li>Security: Will my sensitive material be safe?</li>
</ul>
We think that the same points are equally fair for open source eCommerce platforms, so we will examine how nopCommerce fulfills these requirements.
Stability
nopCommerce is around since 2008 and is not going to leave the eCommerce scene. At the moment the system powers more than 27.000 sites all over the world and aims for more exposure. nopCommerce is being steadily developed and has a new version released every half a year. The system is developed in ASP.NET stack and closely follows Microsoft trends. Yet the nopCommerce team is well-aware that new technologies must be compatible with all old components, as well as secure and mature. That’s why nopCommerce is using latest technologies only when they become well-tested, connected and reliable, always keeping end users in mind.
Support
nopCommerce has two means of support, paid premium support in two languages, and free support from the product team and community on the forum. The premium support can be purchased separately and is also included in a Gold Solution partnership. As for the free support on the forums, it is also quite active with 1,700 new forum posts and 400 new topics per month.
nopCommerce also runs its own developer certification program, so there is a warranty of hiring a qualified person even for small projects. The nopCommerce team hosts an annual conference called nopCommerce Days since 2015 gathering partners and store owners from all over the world in order to exchange new ideas and support each other. The platform is far more than stable, it is rapidly developing and conquering new grounds.
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Security
We believe that an eCommerce platform must be secure both from external attacks as well as guarantee internal confidentiality, i.e. it must not store or collect shop-owners’ data.
Concerning the first point, nopCommerce immediately reacts with a free security patch for the community in case of any threat. Concerning the second one , nopCommerce, being a hosted solution, technically does not have access to platform’s merchants’ sensitive data like revenue and personal information.
Flexibility 
nopCommerce is a very flexible out of the box solution. It suits small businesses, yet store owners can have an access to the whole functionality close to enterprise shopping cart for free. That means they can manage the advanced catalog with no limits on a number of products and their attributes, apply different inventory methods, use a great variety of promotional tools like cross-marketing and tier prices, adjust local tax settings and much more. To switch between the advanced functionality and a simplified mode, it only requires to flick the “basic” and “advanced” switch. So no matter whether you are just a beginner in eCommerce or already managing a million-a-day visitors store, you can adapt all nopCommerce features according to your store needs.
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We also see no limits for custom work that can be done in nopCommerce. Just check out our <a href="http://www.nopcommerce.com/showcaseliveshops.aspx?utm_source=how-to-stop-worrying&amp;utm_medium=showcase-link&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritic">showcase</a> to find the deeply-customized corporate sites and sophisticated governmental portals, or watch the videos from nopCommerce Days 2016, where our solution partners present complex cases they solved with nopCommerce.
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nopCommerce supports a lot of country-specific features out of the box, like RTL-support or local EU taxation or specific country requirements like PanGv. If some extras seem to be missing in nopCommerce, they can always be found in our <a href="http://www.nopcommerce.com/marketplace.aspx?utm_source=how-to-stop-worrying&amp;utm_medium=marketplace-link-1&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritic">marketplace</a> with more than 1400 plugins and themes being supplemented daily.
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Price
Okay, let us give you a full picture. nopCommerce is free itself, but the price of running a store is also comprised of platform implementation prices and the price of plugins and themes you want to use. Yet, if one checks <a href="http://www.nopcommerce.com/marketplace.aspx?utm_source=how-to-stop-worrying&amp;utm_medium=marketplace-link-2&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritic" target="_blank">nopCommerce marketplace</a> and compares the prices with those of other popular eCommerce platforms, he/she would notice that nopCommerce can boast of generally lower prices on plugins and same prices for graphic themes. And we don’t even take into account enterprise carts with their far higher prices. nopCommerce paid services are also not that costly compared to competitors – premium support price, for instance, varies from $66 to $99 per month.
Conclusion
So, after this short journey into the world of open source software, we hope that it is well-seen that switching to or starting with nopCommerce is a wise choice, a well-made bet on the global open source trend. It is time for all business people to shrug off the prejudice that open source is done by “scruffy guys coding in their basements” and everything that is free is amateur-made. Running a business costs, but we can ease you from the burden of eCommerce platform fees and make you forget about what does “vendor lock-up” mean.
Explore the features of nopCommerce yourself on our <a href="http://www.nopcommerce.com/?utm_source=how-to-stop-worrying&amp;utm_medium=bottom-link&amp;utm_campaign=cmscritic" target="_blank">official website</a>.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Using Open Source Software

Learning about the origin of filing cabinet software can help us to understand it in its contemporary context. John Mancini, the president of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), is one of the world’s leading experts on information management: AIIM recently declared eFileCabinet user Chris Beebe as its paperless office hero for its <a href="http://www.aiim.org/wpfd">World Paper Free Day</a> event.
Mancini notes that the information landscape is comprised of five stages leading up to the development of Enterprise Content Management, document management software, and filing cabinet software as we know these information management mediums today:
1. The Paper-Based Information Era
Mancini maintains that this model was used before the 1950s and was, in large part, the method by which western civilization depicted and documented information in general for most its existence.
2. The Micrographics Era
Mancini asserts that micrographics emerged after the paper-based epoch—emphasizing the photography of paper documents, reducing them in form to microfilm or microfiche. This was arguably the first crucial step toward digitizing information in mass.
Documenting and recording emerged, but paper remained the primary intersection of “organizational processes, information, and people.”
3. The Electronic Records Production (ERP) Era
From the 1960s through the 1980s, the concept of automation was brought to light by leading tech pioneers and innovators. Despite this newfound innovation, paper still held supremacy over the business process. Mancini notes that these solutions, were discussed among and sold only to C-level executives, and were highly expensive and complex. Today, <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/paperless-office-infonomics/">filing cabinet software accomplishes a similar feat</a>, but is far more intuitive.
4. The Workflow Era
This is when documentation specialists emerged—and it forced people to look at information management not as something one merely does but as something one also understands–this is particularly true given the volume of information that proliferated during this time. Network area localization spawned this final section leading to our present era: the era where highly sophisticated information management methods were made available via filing cabinet software.
5. The Era of Information Management Sophistication
Mancini declares that beginning in the early 2000s, with the advent of the internet, filing cabinet software emerged to organizations’ benefit. However, it changed drastically throughout this era—beginning as a cluster of simple imaging technologies, with <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/the-differences-between-ecm-and-dms/">enterprise content management (ECM)</a> serving as an umbrella nomenclature for anything involving enterprise information management.
Within the past 5 years, however, ECM has become more so a verb (something you do) and less so a noun (something you buy), according to Mancini. As a similar technology, filing cabinet software beholds the same distinction.
For in its verb form, it is largely responsible for de-manual-laboring the organization. Despite blue collar environments being associated with manual labor and the many ills coming with it, relying on paper and disheveled, unstructured information imparts just as many if not more ills (including manual labor within the office) than typical manual labor environments.
With emphasis on visible processes and quantifiable bottom lines, many executives and administrators fail to identify the costliness of hidden processes within an organization—relying on shared drives and/or paper, which is a vessel for immensely multifaceted costs.
Document management technology, however, reduces the manual labor in the organizational process, putting traditionally manualized office processes into the automated, digital, and highly secure and compliance-adherent workflow, collaboration, and storage platforms inherent to the scope of filing cabinet software.
Most organizations relying on paper and traditional information storage processes never realize how inefficient these processes are until they purchase solutions to overthrow them. The time spent handling, sending, locating, and retrieving documents in physical form significantly detracts from the process and cost efficiency. Although this occurs independent of administrators’ consciousness, it is no less detrimental than organizational problems of which administrators are aware and determined to solve.
These demarcations throughout the historical development of enterprise technologies elucidates the difference between cloud storage and more sophisticated solutions: these two very different technologies that are oftentimes confused for the following reasons.
<ul>
<li>Unlike filing cabinet software, cloud storage does not offer workflow, collaboration, enterprise-grade storage capacity, automated deletion, indexing, multi-tiered security features to simplify compliance, all-encompassing role-based user permissions, content lifecycle management, and software integration capabilities</li>
<li>Additionally, the difference between these two technologies and cloud storage is the difference between a digital secretary and a digital filing cabinet—filing cabinet software being the secretary with the ability to handle, manipulate, and alter information on command.</li>
<li>As the enterprise tech era is brought to its fruition and peak growth, information technology will not reach consumerization. Once fully implemented into the <a href="http://giic.org/">organizational infrastructure</a> worldwide, it will no longer be common for consumers to have better technology in the home than they do in the office.</li>
<li>With wearables, mobile phone applications, and consumer-grade software at the helm of software innovation, organizations are asking how they can keep up with the rate of innovation consumers have access to outside of the office, and use of filing cabinet software is one of the many possible answers to this ever-important question.</li>
</ul>

Filing Cabinet Software: Its Role in Information Management's History

<a href="http://www.kentico.com/?utm_source=press_release&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=pr_g2crowd_Q12016" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kentico Software</a>, makers of an all-in-one CMS, E-commerce, and Online Marketing platform, today announced Kentico 10. The company’s flagship product features a long list of functional improvements all focused on getting digital marketing jobs done faster and more efficiently. It is by far the company’s most enterprise-ready solution to date.
<blockquote>“We see ourselves as being a very different kind of WCM vendor,” said Karol Jarkovsky, Kentico’s Director of Product. “Our view is that it’s not about how many features you can cram into a product, but rather understanding how digital marketers work and building a platform that’s easy for them to use and enables them to get jobs done faster.” He continues, “The last thing we want to do is bog marketers down with flashy but seldom used capabilities. We have, to the contrary, been removing lesser-used features and streamlining our software code for the past several years. The result is that Kentico 10 is a very clean, very elegant solution that’s ready for today’s business enterprise.”</blockquote>
KENTICO 10 FEATURES &amp; CAPABILITIES
Productivity
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<li>Kentico has spent months observing the way that digital marketers work and built much of what it has learned into Kentico 10. For example, more agile campaign management has been achieved by featuring a single unified control panel from which marketers can design, deploy, and evaluate digital marketing campaigns.</li>
<li>Responsive Images Management – In order to deliver a superior customer experience, personalized content must be delivered through multiple channels including phones, tablets, and a growing list of mobile devices. That means that images need to be resized and rendered in numerous resolutions, color profiles, layouts, and viewports. With Kentico 10, the company has introduced responsive image management. After some initial setup, that means you upload images just once and the system automatically adjusts them for various media.</li>
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Context
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<li>With Kentico 10, you can gain insights into activities of your customer base across multiple web properties, enabling cross-site lead scoring and contextual marketing projects. Complete view of visitor interactions across all brands is now supported.</li>
<li>With the Campaign Journey, we allow marketers to track interactions of visitors with the brand during the sequence of steps in the journey. Flexible campaigns allow marketers to change attributes of the running campaign without concluding the campaign or losing any of the data already collected.</li>
<li>The abundance of data makes it difficult for marketers to make sense of it all. During the development of Kentico 10, the company explored different ways to better glean and share insights to both Kentico and non-Kentico users. That’s important because often you are not the only one interested in the data. That’s why Kentico is leveraging its strategic relationship with Microsoft and offering advanced Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities through the Power BI Email Marketing dashboard. This ensures that everyone has access to the same channel intelligence.</li>
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Performance &amp; Scalability
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<li>Users will notice a dramatic 50% faster page load and response time of the Kentico environment. This means faster development of digital marketing campaigns and faster deployment of websites. This should be of particular appeal to digital marketing agencies, freeing them to take on more work within the same hours. The bottom line is that with Kentico 10, users will get more jobs done in less time.</li>
<li>Kentico 10 features a tenfold improvement in scalability, supporting over 100 million contacts and over 1 billion marketing activities. This new scale of work, in addition to built-in web farm support, makes Kentico enterprise-ready, and a much more viable option for Global Fortune 500 corporations.</li>
</ul>
Technology
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<li>Full Implementation of MVC – The <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ASP.NET</a> Model View Controller (MVC) is the fastest growing developer framework, helping companies to build better performing, more scalable websites. That’s why it was introduced in the last version of the product and is fully implemented in Kentico 10 in both the E-commerce and Online Marketing areas. That means total separation of concerns for all kinds of projects. By using the coupled REST API, Kentico 10 can be used in a variety of use cases as a content repository with the content consumed not only through traditional delivery channels, but also in native mobile apps, and by smart devices and machines to extend the pool of use cases.</li>
<li>Full Deployment of Continuous Integration – One of the challenges that digital agencies face is that every developer has their own instance of the development installation and their own instance of the development base – in effect, their own isolated environment. At the end of the day, they need to share that functionality with the rest of the team. Continuous Integration – the tool that makes this possible – is fully deployed and supports all object types in Kentico 10, enabling you to quickly and easily move objects between environments.</li>
</ul>
Ready for the Enterprise
<blockquote>“With the introduction of Kentico 10, the expansion of our service offerings, and our recent entry into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WCM, we expect that more Global Fortune 500 companies will take a serious look at Kentico,” commented Founder and CEO Petr Palas. “We have been anticipating that day, and have been working hard to make our products and our business enterprise ready.”</blockquote>
Learn more at <a href="http://www.kentico.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.kentico.com/</a>

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The company has been around for four years, and what started as a university project by the founders Gustav Degerman and Hamid Abouei today has nearly half a million users in 150 countries. The founders are now hoping to reach students around the world, with a new campaign which means that schools can register with Portfoliobox and offer their students the Portfoliobox pro account for free.
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<li>We know that a large part of our users today are students. This way we are hoping to reach even more of them, and hopefully give them a way to start establishing themselves online before they graduate. Portfoliobox is a great tool for marketing yourself as a creative professional, said Hamid Abouei.</li>
<li>We have also noticed that there is a great demand for a student solution. Even before we officially launched the project we had interest from both schools and students. We were contacted by someone at an Art School in the US the day after we held a seminar at a school in Stockholm – he had already heard that we were launching the campaign and wanted in, which is amazing, says Gustav Degerman.</li>
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Schools participate free of charge in the campaign, which will offer all students at registered schools the Portfoliobox pro account. Alumni are also able to use the service at a discounted price for the first year, it is all part of helping students establish themselves on the competitive creative market.
Read more at: <a href="http://www.portfoliobox.net" target="_blank">www.portfoliobox.net</a> or <a href="http://www.portfoliobox.net/students" target="_blank">http://www.portfoliobox.net/students</a>

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Fugue, Inc., announced today the immediate availability of the free version of its flagship cloud orchestration product, Fugue. Fugue simplifies common challenges enterprises face when operating in the cloud and mitigates the need for deep domain expertise required to manage massive infrastructure complexity and ensure regulatory compliance. Unlike existing cloud management tools, Fugue provides DevOps engineers with the ability to program and orchestrate the full lifecycle of their entire Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure service stack across compute, network and storage in a systematic and scalable manner. To access the free version of Fugue, visit <a href="http://www.fugue.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.fugue.co</a>.
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“The free version of Fugue is a fast and frictionless entry point for developers and cloud engineers to begin to easily experience the true benefits of the cloud,” said Fugue Co-founder and CEO Josh Stella. “It is meant to add immediate value to individuals who provision, maintain, operate and terminate cloud environments on a routine basis.” 
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The free version of Fugue is ideal for development, testing, and staging environments, and for those just getting started with the cloud. A single user can provision and orchestrate multiple cloud environments in an AWS account and Fugue actively manages infrastructure state and corrects for configuration drift. Free Fugue comes with email support and online documentation. There is an option to increase the level of support at-cost.
“There is broad agreement that the future of IT is cloud computing—Fugue is right in the middle of that future,” said Peter Christy, Research Director with 451 Research. Fugue is currently working with Fortune 100 customers to bring advanced cloud operations capabilities in the areas of team collaboration and next-generation enforcement of regulatory compliance and custom policies to market in early 2017.
“The free version of Fugue provides an elegantly designed way to explore achieving what we all seek: a high-confidence, codified, and orchestrated infrastructure,” said Rob Daly, CEO of Stelligent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. “Fugue and Stelligent share the same aims for our customers: We want them to be able to increase the speed of innovation delivery, eliminate infrastructure maintenance burdens and ensure enterprise IT standards are continuously met.”
Fugue works with today’s workloads and DevOps toolchains and significantly simplifies a wide range of cloud-native use cases, including immutable infrastructure, container-based and serverless cloud services, microservices and blue/green deployments. 
Fugue consists of three primary components: The Fugue Conductor, a cloud-side system for provisioning and continuously enforcing cloud infrastructure; the Fugue CLI for sending commands to the Conductor; and Ludwig, a compiled, type-safe domain-specific language for composing and validating cloud infrastructure-as-code. Fugue ships with a standard library which includes simple abstractions for declaring a wide variety of cloud infrastructure service configurations. 
Fugue is a Silver Sponsor at the AWS re:Invent conference from November 28 to December 2, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the conference, the Fugue team will be demonstrating how Fugue can be used to solve today’s toughest operational challenges in the cloud. To learn more, visit Fugue at booth #918 on the expo floor, or visit<a href="http://www.fugue.co/reinvent-your-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.fugue.co/reinvent-your-cloud</a>.
About Fugue
Fugue is an innovative system for orchestrating and enforcing cloud infrastructure that radically simplifies cloud operations. Teams can use Fugue to declare the desired state of cloud infrastructure and policies in a collaborative, human-friendly programming language and to automate the provisioning, management and teardown of complex cloud environments and continuously enforce infrastructure state and policy compliance. Fugue has eight patents granted and sixteen pending. The company is privately held and headquartered in Maryland, with investments by New Enterprise Associates, Core Capital Partners and the Maryland Venture Fund. To learn more about the company, visit <a href="https://fugue.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://fugue.co/</a>.

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If you’re reading this article, you already know about the <a href="/wordpress-is-a-cms-whether-you-like-it-or-not/">benefits of WordPress</a> and how popular this CMS is. Now you want to make money on the platform. The good news? It isn’t so hard. With the help of a WordPress developer and a few plugins, you can make money on WordPress in no time. Whether you want to run an ecommerce shop or a subscription-based content platform, you will need to create a WordPress membership site to set up a payment system and allow users to have membership profiles that let them access content or purchasing abilities.So what steps are involved in setting up a membership site, and what plugins do you need to use? Check out the guide below. We’ve got you covered.1. Choose the right hosting.The first step to creating a WordPress membership site is ensuring that your website can <a href="/8-wordpress-security-tips-to-help-you-secure-your-wordpress-site/">securely handle</a> payments. To do that, you need a WordPress host that offers an SSL certificate. Luckily, there are numerous WordPress host options to choose from. <a href="/products/wp-engine">WP Engine</a> is one of the most popular options. It’s pricey, but reliable and fast. If you’re on a budget, you could try HostGator or Bluehost, both of which offer SSL certificates as well. Do your research and find what hosting platform best fits your needs because each option has their own strengths and weaknesses. Once you establish what host you will use, you’re ready to move onto the next step.2. Install a membership plugin.Okay, this one is a bit obvious, but it’s crucial to creating a membership site. You’ll need to install a plugin that allows you to distinguish between visitors and members. Like with hosting platforms, there are numerous <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=membership">membership WordPress plugins</a>, so do some research and find out what fits your needs. Once you install the plugin, you’ll need to create a new user group. Go to the admin page, click Users/Roles, and then click “add new.” What you call this new group is up to you, “member” or “subscriber” perhaps, and make sure that their role capability is set to “read” and nothing more. Once you’ve established this new class, you will now be able to distinguish between different types of visitors on your site and restrict certain content or actions to your “member” class.3. Create sign-up and payment forms.WordPress isn’t known for its ability to create aesthetic fields, so you’ll need to install another plugin here. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=812809&amp;U=407830&amp;M=63061&amp;urllink=">Ninja Forms</a> is a popular and robust choice that uses a drag-and-drop tool to create customizable forms for user registration, payments, etc. If you need a more robust user experience, you can try <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/">Profile Builder</a>, a plugin that lets members edit their own profile/account information once they’ve created their account as well as customize your email campaigns for that extra personal touch. In many cases, you may even need both of these features (as Profile Builder doesn’t handle payment forms). Remember if you want to build your list of members, it needs to be easy for them to sign up, and that requires forms that are easy to fill out.4. Add forums and comment sections.If you’re creating a membership area of your site, allowing members to comment on your content or even review the products you’re selling is a nice way to create a greater sense of community around your WordPress site. <a target="_blank" href="https://bbpress.org/">bbPress</a> is a simple plugin that creates forums and allows members to communicate with each other over your content. <a target="_blank" href="https://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress</a> is a more robust option that allows members to directly message each other and form their own messaging groups, if the intent of your membership site is to provoke heavy member interaction. These plugins aren’t necessary to creating a membership site, but it’s features like these that convert consumers in the first place. Give them the whole package and make sure that your members have everything they want.5. Create a customized menu.If you are creating a members-only section of your website, then you’ll need a menu that reflects different navigation for members and for visitors. The plugin <a target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/nav-menu-roles/">Nav Menu Roles</a> allows you to add new tabs to your menu with ease, creating a streamlined navigation experience for whatever site you want to create. The plugin lets you set what menu users see, based on their profile behavior. For example, logged out users can see a “login” and “register” tab in the main menu, and logged in users could instead view tabs such as “profile” and “membership home page.” If you want to include a members area as well as a general content area for visitors, it’s important that you update the structure of your website and its navigation, so that none of these new pages get lost in the mix or your members have a hard time finding what they’re looking for.Have you created a WordPress membership site before? Share your advice and experience with us in a comment below!

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<a href="http://www.grayton-watches.com/" target="_blank">Grayton</a> introduces the Origin Mechanical watch: a classic self-winding timepiece with open-heart design plus a smart strap for activity tracking, phone notifications, music control and more.
Technology evolves but style is timeless 
As boutique watch makers, Grayton understands that there is no substitute for a beautifully designed and handcrafted automatic watch. The Origin Mechanical watch represents the perfect marriage of sophistication and smarts – the natural evolution of Intelligent Timepieces for a connected world.
Origin was designed to deliver the best of watchmaking and technology – a mechanical watch with a classic design and embedded electronics hidden in its leather strap that add convenient smart features.
The heart of the matter 
The Origin is finely crafted to exacting standards in a brushed 316L stainless steel case with polished accents. The open-heart dial and see-through back cover puts Origin’s intricate selfwinding mechanism on display, and keeps Origin infinitely wound. Its Japanese movement has 26,100 beats per hour and 24 jewels for superior timekeeping accuracy and a power reserve of 41 hours between wearings.
Activity tracking in the strap 
What makes Origin special, among other things, is the independent strap which instantly adds smart features. Designed to perfectly complement the Origin, the strap is refined, comfortable and slim. The smart strap is virtually indistinguishable from the best traditional leather straps of other fine watchmakers.
<blockquote>
“Fitness trackers are popular because they are affordable and offer useful functions. But they feel cheap, are often uncomfortable and become obsolete quickly. We are living in a new era where timepieces meet fashion and technology and there is no turning back! Origin is the first Mechanical watch that has connected features built directly into a classic leather smart strap. Now, people don’t have to choose between beauty and convenience” Sébastien Druvent, Product Marketing Advisor.
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Intelligent convenience every day 
This revolutionary watch connects to a smartphone for the most convenient features such as calendar reminder, alarms, phone notifications and more. The built-in battery allows up to 10 days of autonomy between charges. It’s ideal for receiving notification alerts in the office or recording workout fitness data at the gym. The Origin and the accompanying Grayton app are compatible with both iPhone and Android phones.
Make any watch smart 
For people that already have a watch that they love, the Grayton smart strap is interchangeable with standard watch straps to easily add fitness and intelligence to any watch from Daniel Wellington® to Patek Philippe®.
A watch ahead of its time
Grayton has raised the bar on what a classic watch can do. With Origin, fashion, technology and convenience coexist perfectly in a stunning timepiece for any occasion.
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Availability 
Origin is in pre-production for a commercial release in May 2017 on <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/at/origin-watch" target="_blank">www.indiegogo.com/at/origin-watch</a>
Origin will be exclusively available for pre-sale on Indiegogo.com beginning November 28st, 2016. Wholesale packages for distributors and retailers will be available during the campaign.

Grayton announces the launch of Origin: the	 First Mechanical Smart	Watch that connects to your phone for smart features.

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Solodev, winners of our “Best Cloud CMS” award are pleased to announce that their platform has been completely re-architected for the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud. As such, Solodev customers fully benefit from this incredibly secure, redundant, highly available environment. Customers now have immediate access to Solodev and can spin up new instances of the platform in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost, deploying business critical websites in minutes rather than weeks.
When told of their recent win of <a href="/awards/">Best Cloud CMS</a>, Solodev Founder and CTO, Shawn Moore had this to say:
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“We’re honored to have won the people's choice award for Best Cloud CMS. We know there are a lot of strong competitors in our market and our team worked extremely hard to build our state of the art cloud offering.” 
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Solodev will be attending the popular <a href="https://reinvent.awsevents.com/">AWS re:Invent 2016</a> conference next week to showcase their newly optimized platform so be sure to swing by their booth and touch base to learn more about their excellent cloud based offering.
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Document management systems are a mainstay for business everywhere and sometimes finding the right one can be a bit of a challenge. As such, I've decided to share with you my list of the top 5 document management systems, based on my experience.
These are listed in no particular order but rather as they come to mind. They are all equally excellent choices and I'd recommend exploring each before making a selection as your needs should be what determines the choice you make.
<h2>LogicalDOC</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/logicaldoc.jpg" />
LogicalDOC are the <a href="/awards/">recent winners</a> of our 2016 CMS Critic Awards – People's Choice for Best Document Management System. LogicalDOC is an easy to use, intuitive document management system that offers a wide breadth of features worth investigating.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.logicaldoc.com/" target="_blank">https://www.logicaldoc.com/</a>
<h2>eFileCabinet</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/efilecabinet-review-31137x0-is.png" />
When it comes to ease of use and beauty, nothing beats out eFileCabinet's document management system. It has perhaps one of the most intuitive interfaces I've ever seen and has been designed to function just like a filing cabinet, making it incredibly easy to adapt to for those who are not as apt with technology.
Learn more at <a href="http://www.efilecabinet.com/" target="_blank">http://www.efilecabinet.com/</a>
<h2>M-Files</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mfiles1478x0-is.jpg" />M-Files enterprise information management (EIM) solutions transform how businesses manage, secure and share information with a unique metadata-driven approach that organizes and processes document and other content based on what it is, rather than where it is.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.m-files.com/" target="_blank">https://www.m-files.com/</a>
<h2>Ademero Content Central</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/unnamed.png" />
Content Central gives organizations like yours quick and easy access to your information. The all-in-one, browser-based document management system provides what matters most to you: Access, Speed, Process Automation, and Security.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.ademero.com/" target="_blank">https://www.ademero.com/</a>
<h2>Dokmee</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dokmee_6.png" />
Dokmee is a secure, easy to use document management system designed for a variety of purposes including document capture and storage, search and retrieval, and file sharing. It adapts to any business model by maximizing accessibility and functionality in repositories of all sizes and has a user friendly interface available in 19 languages.
Learn more at <a href="https://www.dokmee.com/" target="_blank">https://www.dokmee.com/</a>
Do you agree or disagree with this list? Let us know in the comments below. Be sure to share your favorites as well and perhaps I will expand this list to include them.

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