Firespring, a marketing agency focusing on small and mid-sized organizations, introduced a new website solution for nonprofits. The new Firespring nonprofit website solution offers designs and online tools that are built with nonprofit organizations in mind, as well as segment-specific designs and content packages created for arts, advocacy and human service organizations. Website tools available include online donations, calendars, event registration, e-mail marketing, shopping carts, private member-only areas and automatic weekly updates on supporting nonprofits are built into the Firespring nonprofit website solution to help organizations engage their volunteers and their community. The websites all come with a content management system (CMS) allowing the nonprofit to update their own content, events and photos without a programmer. This solution will allow the nonprofit to add, remove or rename pages giving them the ability to customize their website without a technical specialist. http://www.firespring.com/
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FlashMoto.com, a start up that specializes in Flash website creation and provides a Flash CMS, launched an updated version of their Flash content management system with multiple language support. FlashMoto’s control panel has been translated into 12 languages, among which are: Spanish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Romanian, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Hungarian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Serbian, and Czech. The interface language can be changed once a user logs into the admin panel. Users may edit their Flash CMS website content, add new pages, edit and delete the existing pages, manage the website menu, galleries, contact forms, upload videos and music, etc. Other features include SEO support, ability to upload your own fonts and integrate external modules and widgets. All the data is stored in XML files instead of a database. FlashMoto flash content management system features a basic navigation interface and WYSIWYG editor. In its next version, expected to be launched towards the end of March, FlashMoto will add 4 more languages: German, French, Turkish and Polish. http://www.flashmoto.com/
EMC Corporation and FatWire Software announced that they will jointly offer solutions for Web experience and brand management to help manage online experiences and brand consistency. The strategic partnership between EMC and FatWire includes reciprocal reseller agreements, joint innovation, sales, marketing and services activities as well as a minority equity investment by EMC in FatWire. Under the reseller agreements, EMC will resell FatWire’s WEM product set as its WEM solution and FatWire will resell EMC’s digital asset management software including EMC Documentum Media WorkSpace and EMC Documentum Content Transformation Services as its digital asset management offering. The two companies have also committed to joint product development to extend Documentum-FatWire integrations. http://www.emc.com http://www.fatwire.com/
Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) (TSX: OTC) and Nstein Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: EIN) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement by which Open Text will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Nstein through an Nstein shareholder-approved amalgamation with a subsidiary of Open Text under the Companies Act (Québec). Based on the terms of the definitive agreement, Nstein shareholders will receive for each Nstein common share, CDN $0.65 in cash, unless certain eligible shareholders otherwise elect to receive a fraction of an Open Text TSX traded common share, having a value of CDN $0.65 based on the volume weighted average trading price of Open Text TSX traded common shares in the 10 trading day period immediately preceding the closing date of the acquisition. This purchase price represents a premium of approximately 100 percent above the 30 trading day average closing price of Nstein’s common shares. The transaction is valued at approximately CDN $35 million. Based in Montreal, Nstein’s solutions are sold across market segments such as media and information services, life sciences and government. The transaction is expected to close in the second calendar quarter and is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval of two-thirds of the votes cast by Nstein’s shareholders and applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. A special meeting of Nstein’s shareholders is expected to be held to consider the amalgamation in early April, 2010. http://www.opentext.com, http://www.nstein.com
Omniture, an Adobe company (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced an integration with CrownPeak that combines Omniture Test&Target with CrownPeak’s content management system (CMS) through Omniture Genesis. Designed to allow marketers to manage content for tests and targeted campaigns from an integrated interface, the combination allows for the creation and deployment of content to drive A/B tests, multivariate tests, and content targeting. As a result, marketers could benefit from the speed and control of Test&Target as well as from the content creation and management workflow of CrownPeak. Through the integration, content is built within CrownPeak’s CMS, then deployed and managed by Omniture Test&Target from within the CMS. The integration should provide the following: Continuous testing and targeting that can automatically promote top performing content; rapid implementation of integration and ongoing deployment of tests without requiring IT involvement, putting control in the hands of marketers; API Integration allows one-step live deployment of offers; easy management of any testing scenario via an integrated interface. www.omniture.com www.crownpeak.com/
Day Software announced the immediate availability of its content management system (CMS), CQ 5.3. CQ 5.3 introduces enhancements for online marketing in Day’s unified Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), and Social Collaboration (SoCo) suite. New with CQ 5.3, Day also introduces its Targeting module, providing online marketers capabilities for customer segmentation and content targeting to optimize online communications and customer experience. CQ 5.3 WCM adds enhanced support for campaign management and optimization. Marketers can now schedule campaigns and target promotions in real-time based on customer site visit behavior. Multi-Variant Testing (MVT) support could help every online marketer to optimize campaign promotions. CQ 5.3 DAM provides Marketing support for site visitors to browse and access an online library of marketing assets. New lightbox supports enables pick lists of marketing assets – including presentation slides, documents, images, videos, and more – to be downloaded as a ZIP file. New drag-and-drop components for uploading, tagging, commenting, and rating assets open up digital libraries for community-generated content. CQ 5.3 DAM also adds MediaRSS support to provide three-dimensional visualization and fly-over navigation of large libraries of digital assets leveraging external service provider CoolIris. Social Collaboration adds new support for Social Calendaring. With an enhanced drag-and-drop calendar component, online marketers can create and target different displays of upcoming events. Targeting provides a library of potential segmentation criteria for both anonymous site visitors as well as registered users. Support for external site browser history, geo-location, and observed site preferences enables segmentation of even anonymous visitors to drive targeted promotions. For repeat visitors, profile-based criteria such as age, gender, past site visit history and others enhance marketing’s ability deliver tailored home page and landing page promotions to reach their target audiences. CQ 5.3. CQ 5.3 is available immediately to current Day customers and partners. http://www.day.com
Atex announced their content management system, atex content, supports direct publication to e-readers and tablet devices. Media companies can capitalize on these technologies to publish content without custom development. The functionality could also allow publishers to develop new digital revenue streams while increasing the level of customer interaction. As e-reader demand is expected to increase as the technology develops, consumers will require more of their content to be delivered digitally. Atex content could help media companies take advantage of this trend with functionality to streamline digital content publishing. Whether it’s from print or the Web, editors can take content and reuse it in digital devices without needing additional staff or hardware. Instead of relying on a few products, e-readers could help media companies diversify what they provide to consumers. Depending on the model used, a media company will be able to track the content customers like most and allow readers to leave comments and answer poll questions. These social features should help publishers build tighter relationships with their readers and understand what content will retain their interest. www.atex.com
Nuxeo announced that it will be introducing Nuxeo Studio. Nuxeo Studio, a configuration and customization environment for Nuxeo ECM, is available as a component of the Nuxeo Connect subscription service. Nuxeo Studio is available as a web-based administrative tool for Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (Nuxeo EP) and packaged applications such as Nuxeo Document Management (Nuxeo DM) or Nuxeo Digital Asset Management (Nuxeo DAM). With a graphical interface, Nuxeo Studio enables information architects and business analysts to configure both Nuxeo EP and Nuxeo DM to adapt to their organization’s requirements. Nuxeo Connect is the comprehensive subscription offering delivering software maintenance and support for Nuxeo ECM. In addition to Nuxeo Studio, Nuxeo Connect customers have access to other premium tools and support packages. The support packages target developers and operations, tiered by Silver, Gold, or Platinum service level agreements. http://www.nuxeo.com
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