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The Drupal Project has reorganized its documentation into a new set of documentation handbooks. Drupal’s documentation is already pretty good thanks to a robust community using and contributing to the software. The documentation team is now using a Zoomerang survey (results) and Web …

There is a new proposal for a standards based Services Oriented Architecture Framework for Interoperable Enterprise Content Management on the AIIM web site. AIIM is the “international authority on Enterprise Content Management.” The initiative is being lead by Paul Fontaine of the US …

The Bricolage project recently announced the launch of their community Wiki. The presence of the Wiki will help spread the load of managing user and technical documentation for Bricolage. Currently, documentation is pretty thin and difficult to navigate so the mail list is …

There is talk of new Open Source project to develop an application to migrate content from one CMS to another. The Exorcist is for content what ETL (Extract, Translate, Load) tools are for data. The design of the application uses custom import/export plugins …

A few months ago I was looking for a project planning tool (a la Microsoft Office) that would run on Linux. I found Planner by Imendio and have been using it for a while now. Here is what I think:
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The application is very …

Mitchell Levy, CEO of Happy About and author of the book Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2005 writes that Blogging and Social Networking will be a big trend in 2005.

8. Blogging and Social Networking Become Accepted Business Tools“Blogging will become a mainstream …

WYSIWYG editors are a key feature in most CMS products: both commercial and open source. These components add HTML controls to a web form field so that a non-technical user can apply their own formatting to the text that they enter. I think of WYSIWYG …

One of the things that we try to do at Optaros is leverage some of the best practices of open source projects in our own work with clients. There are many great articles about applying open source development principles to internal software development projects. …

Lauren Wood, of The Gilbane Report has an excellent introductory article on the corporate use of Blogs and Wikis (factoid: did you know that “Wiki” is a Hawaiian word for “hurry” or “quick”?). The article gives real world examples of companies using blogs and …

There is a good article on open source content management systems in the latest (January/February) issue of EContent Magazine. Here are some key points:

Frank Gilbane, of the Gilbane Report, is quoted: “If you have a spectrum where you build a CMS yourself …