Mediasurface announced the release of Mediasurface 5 and Morello, a Smart Client Office application for content management. Morello is a desktop application with a graphical interface enabling business professionals to deliver sophisticated websites; requiring no knowledge of HTML. Presented through a Windows client environment, Morello users can select template, explore content and using a choice of views, organise the site in a way that makes sense to them. The Mediasurface Knowledge Module extracts meaning from a piece of content and uses the meaning to make sites easier to maintain and search. For example, as new content is entered, it can be classified and automatically attached to the relevant part of the site. Once complete the content is then available for searching by its genuine meaning, making finding information an easier task. Browser based access to edit and manage content across the web is available via the Mediasurface Content Management Console (CMC). The Mediasurface web based contribution and management layer contains tools such as “to do” lists, rich text editing, content searching and workflow visualisation. www.mediasurface.com
Category: Content management & strategy (Page 371 of 482)
This category includes editorial and news blog posts related to content management and content strategy. For older, long form reports, papers, and research on these topics see our Resources page.
Content management is a broad topic that refers to the management of unstructured or semi-structured content as a standalone system or a component of another system. Varieties of content management systems (CMS) include: web content management (WCM), enterprise content management (ECM), component content management (CCM), and digital asset management (DAM) systems. Content management systems are also now widely marketed as Digital Experience Management (DEM or DXM, DXP), and Customer Experience Management (CEM or CXM) systems or platforms, and may include additional marketing technology functions.
Content strategy topics include information architecture, content and information models, content globalization, and localization.
For some historical perspective see:
https://gilbane.com/gilbane-report-vol-8-num-8-what-is-content-management/
Verity Inc. announced the availability of release 5.5 of its Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E) advanced search, classification and recommendation software. The latest version includes five capabilities that will enable intellectual capital management system administrators to better monitor and manage their systems and users to locate or uncover information with greater ease, speed and accuracy. The new features are: Advanced Query Analytics, that enable real-time analysis of how an ICM system is being used and performing; Event-Driven Indexing, to provide users access to new, time sensitive documents in real time; Session-Based Recommendations, to suggest relevant documents, experts or other entities based on the user’s profile and most recent search activities; Query-Based Summaries, to assist users in identifying relevant content without opening the document; and, Spelling Suggestions, to improve search results with alternate spellings, even for words not found in standard dictionaries. www.verity.com
Venetica announced the availability of its second generation Content Bridge for IBM Lotus Notes. The new Content Bridge, used in conjunction with Venetica’s ECI platform VeniceBridge, enables customers to leverage distributed Notes content, together with content stored in other repositories. The new Content Bridge supports Lotus Domino 6.0 and 6.5, provides enhanced capabilities for displaying Lotus Notes information, and improves performance for bulk extraction of Lotus Notes documents. In addition to providing XML and meta-data-based versions of Lotus Notes documents, the Content Bridge now makes available a web-based display of Lotus Notes documents that mirrors what an end-user would see in the Lotus Notes client. Venetica’s technology has been deployed in IBM customer environments on multiple IBM operating systems including AIX, Linux and zOS.
Progressive Information Technologies announced that its Vasont content management software applications and service offerings will now operate under the name “Vasont Systems,” a sister division of Progressive Information Technologies. The new name better reflects Vasont’s range of applications and services and is a result of the product’s growth and brand recognition in the content management software market. Since Vasont was initially developed, it has evolved into several applications including: Vasont Client/Server, Vasont Web Application, Vasont ASP, and Vasont SG (a low-cost version designed for small editorial groups). Additionally, Vasont Systems markets a variety of services, including data analysis and modeling, document type definition (DTD) writing, and Vasont software training services. www.vasont.com
Macromedia announced that Macromedia RoboHelp X5 has added support for Microsoft Word 2003. RoboHelp X5 customers will now be able to utilize Word 2003 as their authoring environment, import Word 2003 documents into help projects, and generate printed documentation using Word 2003. www.macromedia.com
W3C announced the advancement of three Candidate Recommendations for the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. A snapshot of CSS usage, CSS 2.1 adds a few highly requested features, fixes errata and brings CSS2 in line with implementations. CSS Print Profile works with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost devices. CSS3 Paged Media Module adds pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with page numbers. Comments are welcome through 25 August. www.w3.org/Style/CSS
Global Moxie released Big Medium 1.3, a major update to the company’s web content management system. New features include WYSIWYG text editing, document uploads, 20 new widgets for webpage templates, and fixes for a number of reported issues. The new WYSIWYG editor requires Internet Explorer 5.5+ (Windows only), Mozilla 1.4+ (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) or one of many Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 0.6.1+, Netscape 7.1, and AOL for Mac OS X. Users of other browsers can still continue to use Big Medium, but without the WYSIWYG editing features. The new “download” article type allows documents to be added to websites. (A tabbed interface allows users to select from four article types: Text, Link, Download, Raw HTML). Twenty new template widgets provide enhanced control over the design of Big Medium’s custom page templates. New settings in the Big Medium Setup and Site Setup dialogs allow administrators to set max-size limits on document uploads. Big Medium 1.3 is available now from the Global Moxie website. The suite of Perl scripts is $129 for web servers running Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD and other Unix-flavored operating systems. (A beta preview version is also available for Windows servers.) www.globalmoxie.com
Atomz WebSideStory announced an integration that combines hosted site search and Web analytics to provide marketers with a holistic view of online behavior. Through the integration of search and analytics, searching and browsing information is correlated and available in one Web-browser interface for reference. Internal search reporting is one of the new capabilities within HBX, WebSideStory’s on-demand Web analytics service which was just announced. HBX’s Internal Search capability delivers reporting on search terms across categories, related searches, failed searches and search term conversions. The HBX Internal Search functionality captures search actions such as search terms entered in the search box, search results clicked on by visitors, and up to four “attribute” information strings. The capability also drills down to an array of reports, such as a top keywords report, Integration of search term reporting with HBX’s conversion events, and search attributes tied to conversions. www.WebSideStory.com, www.atomz.com
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