Enterprise 2.0 adoption best practices
Bill Ives of the Portals and KM blog mused recently about about Yakabod, a knowledge management company's experiences in helping the U.S. intelligence community and other clients adopt their KM
Should IT run your CMS selection project?
Dorthe Raakaer Jespersen can't seem to make up her mind: One minute IT shouldn't run a CMS selection project, but the next minute, it should. Make up your mind! Of course there's valid issues on both
Can ECM organize the U.S. healthcare system?
It's impossible to read or watch anything these days in the U.S. without running into the issue of healthcare. Alan Perez-Sharpe, an analyst with CMS Watch, is concerned that any large-scale attempts
Google caffeinates its searches
Google is in the testing phase for the next generation of underpinnings of its internal search code, called Caffeine. They're asking for web developers and power searchers to check out a preview and
ROI is the talk of TAWPI
The economic pressure was palpable during a panel discussion at last week's TAWPI Forum & Expo in Washington, D.C., as panelists explained the competitive necessity to provide a solid ROI for
What type of web CMS project is yours?
Jeff Cram with CMS Myth has broken down web CMS projects into three major types. For each of these types you will have different needs and concerns. Article
Microformats take a step forward
If you have any interest in the semantic web, then you might be familiar with microformats. This method of embedding metadata within the XHTML and HTML of web documents has had a number of challenges
Rolling your own CMS
Just five years ago, many people's response to needing a content management system was to build their own. Companies small and large each had a custom, proprietary program that they built and
Content management and compliance
The issue of compliance is one part careful interpretation and one part voodoo. It's complicated by the fact that some regulations neatly lay out what's expected, while others are so vague that
How do you choose a CMS?
When evaluating the bidders on an RFP, or directly evaluating CMS products, how do you arrive at your decisions? If you've been talked into taking your requirements and using them to build an
Metadata as important as content
Many sites live and die by how well they're indexed by search engines. These sites also often rely on internal metadata such as tags in order to help people find what they're looking for. Add in the
Are software maintenance fees worth it?
Tony Byrne, an analyst at CMS Watch, shares his thoughts this week on software maintenance fees. They turn out to be a great revenue model, but are they a great deal for customers? Article
So you just launched your website redesign...
You've spent hours--or paid someone to spend hours--updating your corporate image for your CMS-controlled site, building new templates, creating new graphics and proofing and re-proofing everything
Some data must be secured
It's as sure as the ebbing and flowing of the tides. Eventually, some large organization gets caught with data flapping in the breeze that was never supposed to be visible. In a move that seems
SpringCM updates SaaS ECM platform
If you prefer to let someone else do all of the work installing, configuring, updating and maintaining your more complex systems, then you may be a fan of cloud-based software as a service offerings.
Manage mixed-media documents with eCopy PaperWorks
It can be frustrating to keep track of information when half of what you're working with is electronic, and the other half is on paper. Some people create entire filing systems to help them keep
Kazeon eDiscovery available for Lotus Domino
Some industry segments are required to have their ducks in a row, in case legal action requires thorough, defensible eDiscovery. Even if you don't, for many organizations it's just foolish not to
Should you consider Digital Asset Management?
This week, Hassan Kotob, who is president and CEO at North Plains Systems has a column on ZDNet. Normally when I see a vendor-generated piece I yawn because they are typically self-serving and
Lucene appears to pick up steam
Yahoo! may be making news in web search, but CMS Watch's Kaz Thomas writes about the rise of Apache Lucene, the open source search tool that has seems to be gaining widespread popularity. Thomas says
Yahoo! tries again with new home page design
Lately when you hear about Yahoo! in the news, it's been about changing CEOs or flirting with Microsoft. What it hasn't been about is their core purpose and that's as a search product. That's why it
