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Is the vendor solely responsible for WCM project failure?

Janus Boye is hosting the J Boye Aarhus '09 Conference this week in in Aarhus, Denmark. Boye wrote a post on his blog ahead of a session he is hosting on web content management called Inconvenient

One on One with Michael Seifert of Sitecore

Michael Seifert is CEO at web content management vendor, Sitecore. In 2002, Seifert was President of a successful multimillion dollar custom software development company when he came up with the idea

Bing and Google announce Twitter Search

Last week, only hours apart, Microsoft and Google both announced deals with Twitter to bring results from the live Twitter stream into their respective search engines. This is in addition, to

Jive introduces Social Business Software 4.0

Jive is having a big week holding its first Jive World Conference in San Francisco and announcing its new version of its Social Business Software, version 4.0 (which some would call an Enterprise 2.0

Three industry veterans join forces in new Enterprise 2.0 consulting firm

With any new technology comes anxiety for firms trying to implement it, and this is probably more true with Enterprise 2.0, which has the potential to flatten the power structure in an organization.

Top Five Open Source Content Management Systems

It's always so difficult to make a "top" anything list. There are so many good candidates and you know that no matter which ones you choose, you're going to make somebody unhappy. My publisher asked

White House continues to get value from social networking

During his successful campaign for the White House, Barack Obama was able to harness the power of social networking in a way that no other candidate had ever done. As I wrote in an Editor's Corner

Sitecore 6.2

On Monday, Sitecore released the latest upgrade to its web content management system. The new release boasts tighter integration with Microsoft Office including getting workflow notices in Outlook

One on One with Tim Young of Socialcast

Tim Young is CEO and founder at Socialcast. Prior to that, he spent more than eight years helping develop other companies including Event Robot, a company that developed online communities for

SharePoint conference news roundup

This week is the annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas and the news has been coming out fast and furiously. Steve Ballmer delivered the keynote address and talked about the increasing role of

Barnes & Noble introduces Nook: Wireless, color eBook reader

Barnes & Noble became the latest eBook reader player today, introducing the Nook, a wireless eBook reader with a color screen. At $259 it's the exact same price as Amazon Kindle US wireless

Zoho Projects integrated with Google Apps

Zoho announced that their project management product, Zoho Project, is now fully integrated with Google Apps. This means you sign onto Zoho using your Google credentials. Further, you can add Google

Nuxeo releases DM 5.3 with open social support

Nuxeo announced last week, the latest version of its open source content management system. The new version boasts integration with SharePoint along with support for Google Open Social widgets. The

EMC introduces product for managing SharePoint repositories

EMC announced a new product this week, EMC Documentum Repository Services for SharePoint, which lets companies manage multiple SharePoint sites inside a Documentum content management repository. The

Interview with Cheryl McKinnon, CMO at Nuxeo, at ARMA

While I was ARMA09 last week I took the opportunity to interview Cheryl McKinnon, the chief marketing officer for Nuxeo. I asked her about the differences between working for an open source company

Can we control records in the cloud?

While at the ARMA 09 Conference last week, I learned about a range of issues related to records management, and I must admit I don't think about this end of content management as much as I probably

Google brings shared folders to Google Docs

This week Google introduced a new feature that could take Google Docs to an entirely new level, and one that has to give Microsoft pause. Google announced on their blog this week that they now

Open Text CEO not interested in open source companies

Martin Veitch of CIO.com (a site I've written for occasionally in the past) has an excellent write-up based on a conversation he had with Open Text CEO John Shackleton (someone we should definitely

Quark and Microsoft team up on multi-channel publishing solution

This week at the IFRA Expo in Vienna, Austria where the newspaper industry executives from around the world gather to see the latest in publishing technology, Quark and Microsoft announced a new