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Highlights of the Week

• #GilbaneBoston: The Rise of Open Source in Content Management. One of the hot topics at the Gilbane Boston conference this year is open source. The event program features several OSS-focused sessions, signaling its wider adoption and growing popularity.
• Social Media Minute: Facebook Usage Surges and Google Wave Gets A Competitor. Going forward, we are likely to see new usage of social networks and social media in advertising and brand outreach.
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 2). In Part One, we discussed the first two reasons why executive SharePoint ignorance is not bliss, here are the remaining three.
• Alert: What’s Coming for Open Source CMS in December 2009. Welcome to the December 2009 installment of our what’s coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.
• Nuxeo Enters Open Source Digital Asset Management Market. Open source Enterprise CMS provider Nuxeo continues to grow its product suite by adding DAM to the existing ECM and DM capabilities.
• A Look at Automated Content Migration: Part 1 – Kapow Technologies. When it comes to migrating your content to a new content management system, the only way to go is automated content migration tools.
• #GilbaneBoston: Content Migration, Dirty Little Secret of Content Management. The 6th annual Gilbane Boston conference featured a session called "Content Migration, the Dirty Little Secret of Content Management" that aimed to investigate the real stumbling blocks of content migrations and shed light on some techniques on how to avoid them.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn’t get enough of during the past week — if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? Drupal, HTML 5 and SharePoint.

• HTML 5 Supersedes Web Forms 2.0. HTML Working Group has announced that Web Forms 2.0 have been superseded by HTML 5.
• Drupal vs Joomla: Which CMS is Best? Anyone trying to evaluate open source content management systems is aware that there aren’t a lot of recent, useful comparative reviews.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7.One of the best kept secrets from Microsoft regarding SharePoint 2010 was something that SharePoint developers around the world were for crying for: the ability to run SharePoint on a desktop environment and not a VM.
• 5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss (Part 1). The job of how to implement SharePoint in an organization should not be in the hands of the IT department. It belongs with the business and the backing of executive decision makers. Here’s why.
• SAP Betas 12Sprints.com, A Google Wave Competitor? The private beta version of the cloud-based application (codenamed Constellation) is called 12Sprints, and promises to expedite the decision making process for business users with pre-defined tools.
• SharePoint vs Alfresco: A Platform Perspective. When we posited that Alfresco Share was after SharePoint Services’ marketshare, it sparked a bit of chatter — some positive, some not so much.
• EContent Magazine Lists Top 100 in Digital Content. As usual this year’s lot includes a ton of familiar faces. As much as we’d love to cover everyone’s viability in the market, we simply haven’t the time, but here’s a quickie on some of the names and categories that stood out.

The Economy is in the Dumps but Content Management is Booming

If you’re looking to advance your career, or if your org has got empty seats in need of savvy CMSers, you’re in luck. Catch the best fish of the season on our on our content management job board.

Featured Jobs:

• Part-Time Freelance News Writers at AOL
• Field Sales Solution Engineer at Kapow Technologies
• Technical Sales Engineer at Attivio
• Sales Representative at Equilibrium
• Senior Inside Sales Representative at Coremedia
• Drupal/PHP Developer at Achieve Internet
• Technical Specialist at Ephox

Whether Traveling or Virtual, There are Events to Attend

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

Featured Events:

• Do it With Drupal 2009 — Dec 9-11 (New Orleans, NY)
• Webinar: Achieving Harmony Between SEO and WCM Strategies — Dec 15 (Online)
• Empower 2010 Laserfiche Institute Conference — Jan 11-13 (Los Angeles, Ca)
• Intelligent Content 2010 — Feb 18-19 (Palm Springs, CA)
• Virtual Edge Summit 2010 — Feb 22-23 (Santa Clara, CA)
• CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston) — May 3-5 (Evanston, IL)

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Yes indeed, another week is winding down. And just before we step out into a lovely autumnal Friday we want to extend a big thanks to the current CMSWire sponsors (follow them on Twitter). It’s you who have kept our gears greased and the keyboards merrily clacking. We are thankful.

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Current Sponsors

• Acquia — Providers of enterprise support and hosting services for the Drupal CMS.
• Ademero — Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
• Alterian —  Social media monitoring, web and email engagement.
• Bridgeline iApps Content Manager — A SaaS Framework for applications, content management, commerce and analytics.
• CMS Watch — The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• Day Sofware — Winner of the 2009 Infoworld Best Web CMS award.
• Ektron — Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management systems.
• EMC – Sophisticated document management systems for departments and mid-sized organizations.
• Ephox — Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with an enterprise API.
• eTouch SamePage — The enterprise-grade wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• eZ Systems — Makers of the eZ Publish open source web content management system.
• Gilbane Group — Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry talking, meeting and informed.
• JBoye Events — High impact gatherings and reports for web practitioners. 
• Kapow Technolgoies — Tools for automating content migration tasks.
• Open Text — Realize the full power of SharePoint enterprise content management via Open Text integration.
• Quest Software — Smart systems management software for SharePoint.
• SDL Tridion — Enterprise web content management for multi-lingual and multi-national organizations.
• Sitecore — Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Siteworx — A full service interactive agency, Siteworx designs scalable systems for human interaction.
• Telerik Sitefinity — A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
• Vignette — A grandfather of web content management, now part of the Open Text family.
• …and of course dear old uncle Google

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Open source Enterprise CMS provider Nuxeo (news, site) continues to grow its product suite by adding DAM (Digital Asset Management) to the existing ECM and DM (Document Management) capabilities.

This announcement came out at the just wrapped Gilbane Boston conference (see our coverage here, check Twitter activity).

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EPiServer (news, site) has been working diligently to spread its Web CMS love throughout the world via partnerships with a handful of digital agencies and consultants. From the U.S. alone, Imano, Kohorts, Level 2 Marketing Group, Lightmaker, Orckestra, Oshyn, MarketNet and Yoodle are just a few that have recently latched onto EPiServer’s platform.

The rapid expansion has been made possible in part by EPiServer’s  U.S. office, which opened its doors last June. At the time, the company reported more than 2,500 customers using EPiServer CMS around the globe. With even higher present numbers, it looks like EPiServer has found a way to compete in a cutthroat market.  

“Companies worldwide are seeking to improve their connections with customers, partners and the community at large on the web," explained AJ Harring, President, EPiServer U.S. "This shift towards a more engaged web creates a tremendous opportunity for EPiServer to expand its global footprint. Our flexible, cost-effective platforms enable EPiServer and our partners to uniquely address this need for customers by creating compelling online experiences that enhance brand, foster customer loyalty and drive revenue, helping them more efficiently turn website visits into sales.”

EPiServer currently delivers its platform through a network of over 330 partner companies in 30 countries. Their offices are located in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom. 

If you’d like to jump on the EPiServer bandwagon, you can get started here. 

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Google is so quick to fire out similar solutions after a rival has, we’re beginning to wonder if this is some sort of game they just play for fun. Maybe they have a stockpile of them somewhere, labeled and ready to go? Who knows. What we do know is that less than a day after Facebook announced their linkup with Facebook Connect and Yahoo, Google busted out with a trendy integration of its own.

If you use Google’s Friend Connect site, you now have the option to log in with your Google or Twitter credentials. This means you can login to any of the nine million sites that utilize Friend Connect and, if you have a Twitter account, can tweet new memberships with friends, interesting content etc., with just a click. See here:

Facebook has made a name for itself, and has managed to touch almost every corner of the Web with the Facebook Connect feature. That level of success mixed with a company as large as Yahoo is certainly a recipe for a favorable outcome, but Google and Twitter are giant giants as well. What we’re seeing is a war for the Web, no doubt, but whose pool of power will reign supreme? It’s hard to say. 

Right now, the numbers tell us that the Facebook/Yahoo duo has the advantage, thanks to the social platform’s massive amount of users (somewhere around 350 million). But then again, Twitter’s simple mission took the Internet by storm, and is now so ubiquitous that it’s odd to think there are people and companies out there that haven’t signed up. 

In any event, the battle for the throne will be an interesting one to watch. 

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Vyre (news, site) has recently announced the latest version of their web content management system now supports Portlet Standards 2.0. But that’s not all that is new.

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Zoho (news, site) has taken its desire to integrate with Google to a new level. Along with single sign-on integration, Zoho now integrates with Google Docs.

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Advertisers are always looking for a better way to target business buyers and now they can thank Demandbase. The goal is to give publishers a new tool with which they can promote their businesses while helping advertisers improve the quality and relevancy of their web site traffic from their online advertisements.

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Upping the ante for control of the ediscovery services market, Xerox Litigation Services (XLS) (news, site) has just announced that it has opened a secondary data storage center in Rochester, New York.

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StoredIQ (news, site) is giving the gift of insight this December. With its new StoredIQ Assessment Services, users can see into unstructured data from across the enterprise.

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