Recent Real Story Group Blog Entries

Hack Your Clients

OSCOM (Open Source CMS association) is organizing another hackathon to encourage development and -- dare we hope! -- inter-project cooperation on open-source client tools.

A CMS Party?

Information Architect Lou Rosenfeld pointed out in these pages that technology vendors dominate idea-making in the CMS marketplace.

ECM? Actually, they mostly want WCM

The ECM industry's major trade association (and all-around cheerleader), AIIM, recently polled 333 end-user attendees at its CMS seminar series.

A Standard Web CMS for German Government

The German government has launched the first site managed by a new Web content management system, Government Site Builder, which was built by a local integrator, Materna, on top of a product from German CMS vendor CoreMedia.

Percussion Offers Workgroup Portal

It's tempting for CMS vendors to develop or resell portals, too, since many of their customers lack a robust content delivery environment.

Think Globally Before Acting Locally

The desire to publish your website in multiple languages -- or more appropriately, to localize it for different international audiences -- is well-taken and seems increasingly important.

Making WYSIWYG More Standard

It's an old problem: how do you allow users to format text, but still keep the data standards compliant -- in particular XHTML compliant?

Online Content Still Mushrooming...for better or worse

The University of California-Berkeley has updated its landmark report on digital content and found that the volume of information online has tripled during the past three years (though voice and e-mail still dwarf the Web in terms of overall throughput).

Does a sticky Wiki make a CMS?

Wikis -- collaboration environments where visitors can edit pages -- are becoming more popular and could provide some interesting models for content management projects at a time when many organizations are looking for more ad-hoc collaboration on content than a linear workflow engine can typically provide.

CMSWatch Goes to London

CMSWatch is pleased to present a day-long workshop, Selecting web content management technology at the prestigious Online Information 2003 conference in London.

New CMS Conference Series

If you've noticed a dearth of good CMS-oriented conferences over the past few years, you're not alone.