HTML has come a long way since its first incarnation by its author Sir Tim Berners-Lee back in 1990. The first generation coding had an elegance and simplicity. But its reworking to meet the demand of publishers now means that it’s not meeting the needs of the majority of its users. Malcolm Davison of writingfortheweb.co.uk suggests that returning to an idea that the inventor first introduced - an editor / browser and preventing direct access to coding would be a more satisfactory way forward.

Source: writingfortheweb.tumblr.com Posted by MDavison 124 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes ago

Everyone knows that intranets are a great way to collect and distribute information and content throughout an organisation. But exactly what types of content should the intranet be used for and how does this content add value to an organisation?

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 313 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

Lately (actually the last few years) I have been thinking about what features a new “next generation” Web Content Management (WCM) system should have.

What should it be like in order to work well on the intranet, so that we can take the information creation/updating to the next level. A few things that I think would be importan

Source: sys64738.se Posted by bee 372 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes ago

Ten new technologies and tools are incorporated into Version 10.0 including:

1. BitrixMobile: for development of mobile sites and apps with support of iOS, Android and BlackBerry OS on the basis of HTML5
2. A ready-made mobile internet shop, created with BitrixMobile technology and an application for one-time passwords (OTP)
3. Web clusters, a complex solution for scalability and reliability of an entire web project (database, search module, etc.), can be applied in high availability (HA) or high performance (HP) configurations
4. Integration with social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Google
5. Sticky web-it notes for simplifying collaborative work in web project creation and content management
6. Instant search with query suggestion
7. Support of SKU in the e-commerce module
8. Rating and influence systems in the social networking module
9. A ready-made InfoPortal for municipalities and media outlets
10. A "Live session" feature, providing a more convenient experience to the daily user

Source: bit.ly Posted by bitrix 411 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

This is the second installment of a series of articles on content management assessments.

Nearly all content management systems have flexible repositories that allow you to control how content is structured. This is important because every organization’s content is different just like every website is different. But this flexibility can also be a liability because it creates opportunity for bad design as well as good design. Content can be under-structured, over-structured, or wrongly structured. Asking the right questions will help you assess how effective your content was modeled.

• Do your contributors spend a lot of time formatting content?
• Do your content contributors feel like data the entry aspect is overshadowing the creative process?
• Do you frequently find yourself wishing for a global (as in site-wide) search and replace?
• Do content contributors find themselves duplicating the same text over and over again?
• Do content contributors overload or misuse content attributes?

Source: www.contenthere.net Posted by Helen79 431 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes ago

Many organizations cannot afford $50 to 150 per user for a top flight intranet. Enterprise content management systems (ECMSs) and portals such as SharePoint, and the like, traditionally cost a pretty penny up front, and a shocking amount in annual licensing, support, maintenance and staffing.

The costs of these systems have naturally created a niche for small market solutions that have grown and evolved considerably in the past 10 years.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 473 days, 5 hours, 58 minutes ago

In a previous contribution I made suggestions about how to use scoring in an effective way in selecting a vendor shortlist. Now, based on the observations made at around 150 presentations I have endured over just the last four years, let's talk about the management of vendor presentations.

It is so easy for these to degenerate into simultaneous Q&A sessions between individual members of the evaluation team and the vendor team. Only a few days later does the evaluation team realize that they still do not have a clear idea about which vendor to select.

Here are ten recommendations to make sure that the evaluation meetings are win-win for both parties.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 498 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes ago

Every CMS implementation is different, but every one is prone to the most common mistakes. I scratch the surface with just 10 of them (my little Xmas present for you ;) plus tips on how to avoid simple failures as well as fiascoes of epic proportions.

Shoes, CMSs and Fiascoes

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 522 days, 9 hours, 19 minutes ago

Later this month, IBM is releasing the next version of its social collaboration product, Lotus Connections.

When it was first launched in June 2007, Connections provided a sort of electric shock for the enterprise collaboration software market, showing that an industry giant can indeed be innovative and market defining, and of course in the three years that have followed we have seen the social collaboration market explode around it with small, medium and large players keen to get in on the action.

With its combination of communities, social networking and task-based activities, as well as a host of supporting social capabilities, Lotus Connections is unusual in that it spans both the people-centric, social side of collaboration and the (currently less fashionable, and yet perhaps more valuable from a business justification viewpoint) project-centric side which is more commonly associated with document-focused team workspaces.

Source: www.mwdadvisors.com Posted by support 553 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes ago

A challenging issue for many intranet managers is whether to use the Web CMS selected for the corporate website as the Web CMS for the intranet. In this column I have summarised just some of the issues that need to be considered.

1. Development and Technical Support
2. Multiple Content Publishers
3. Application Integration
4. Document Management
5. Language Support
6. MS Office Support
7. There are Users and Users

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 585 days, 5 hours, 37 minutes ago