Social Media Publishing Decision Tree

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As I mentioned before, I use many different social media services for different purposes. I realized that I have been unconsciously operating an elaborate decision tree of what to post where. On a whim, I tried …

CMSWire and Water and Stone are conducting a survey of open source CMS users and implementers for an upcoming report on Open Source CMS Market Share. I don’t generally put much stock in CMS popularity contests because they tend to favor products that address …

Web content management systems are very good at capturing, managing, and rendering semi-structured content. They give the contributor tools for controlling the organization of a web site and the layout and composition of pages. However, when it comes to strictly relational, tabular data, …

Even in this down economy, finding technical talent can be extremely difficult. Résumés are worthless. It comes down to this: programming is a craft but we don’t get to see the craftsmanship and creative process when we hire programmers. At least not before we narrow …

Readers of Drupal for Publishers know that Drupal has been very successful in the small to medium newspaper market. In fact, the Newspapers on Drupal group is assembling a list of modules commonly used by newspapers. This effort has been going on for some …

When a company builds a business case for acquiring a web content management system, a key selling point is this vision of business users being capable and willing to build the website of their dreams. In this dream, the webmaster and other technical staff …

I was catching up on my blog reading and noticed that the Plone community has announced what features will be in Plone 4. Version 4 will incorporate 40 “PLIPs” (“Plone Improvement Proposal:” the Plone project’s issue/enhancement tracking system). You can see the list …

When I first got interested in open source software there was a lot of talk about the restrictions and liberties of various licenses and the risk that free-riders posed to the system. I have to admit that I never found these topics very interesting …

One of the primary functions of a web content management system is separating content from layout. Authors create semi-structured content in a display-neutral format and then the presentation templates transform that content to web pages for regular browsers, mobile browsers, RSS feeds, email, and …