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Welcome to the weekend. The hyped SXSW is in full swing, check out our coverage from Texas. More interesting content management events are coming up: J. Boye Philly and GilbaneSF. But first let’s take a look back and see what’s been cooking in the Enterprise CMS/Web CMS kitchen this week. Beware of strong social media flavors and spicy debates.

• Selecting a CMS: Managing Product Demos. If you followed the advice from the first two articles in this series (How to build a short list and Developing scenarios), you are now ready to move to the next step and start evaluating products against your defined requirements.
  
• 5 Things to Consider when Integrating your Content Management System and Portal. Portals and content management systems are widely used in organizations today. For many, the desire to integrate them into a single collaborative environment is critical. But there’s a lot to think about before moving forward.
• CMS Review: Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM). Not all products deserve your attention when you’re in the process of selecting a CMS. Here’s a detailed review of Oracle UCM to help you decide if this Enterprise CMS is a good fit for you.
• Enterprise Software: To Be or Not To Be Like Facebook. A war has been waged in the name of the future enterprise. On one side, Marc Benioff. On the other, a crowd of naysayers who don’t like the idea of mixing business with pleasure.
• Clickability Extends SaaS Web CMS With Integrated IDE. While Clickability has long claimed to be accessible to a non-technical audience, it can now appeal to developers and web designers.
• Hippo CMS 7.3 Brings Facets, Surf-and-Edit, Pretty URLs. Since version 7.3 was expected in the fall of 2009 (per Hippo’s roadmap of 4 scheduled releases per year) you’re probably anxious to try out the new goodies.
• From Twitter to Yammer to Buzz, 10 Microblogging Must Reads. We’ve put together some must-read happenings that have occurred so far this year. Whether you’re in the mix for business or pleasure, these points are worth the read.
• Telligent Analytics 3.5: New Support Analytics, Updated User Analytics. Telligent Analytics is almost three and a half years old and there’s no sign that this solution is joining the market of basic analytic solutions.

These articles were what you fancied most this week, according to Uncle G’s analytics data.

• How Document Management Has Evolved in SharePoint 2010. Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, gives us a tour around new DM features in SharePoint 2010.
• SharePoint Portal Alternatives - A Credible List. We took a look at some of these "SharePoint Alternatives" and let you know what SharePoint functionality they replace. Here’s what we found.
• Installing SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7. Did you know you can run SharePoint 2010 environments on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP1?
• Google’s Marketplace Spells Trouble for Microsoft. Google set off an enterprise-tastic bomb when they announced the opening of Google Marketplace, an online store for business apps. Now, we can’t help but wonder, is Microsoft an impending casualty?
• Google Opens Marketplace for Google Apps: Box.net, Zoho on Board. After weeks of rumors, Google finally launched Google Apps Marketplace, their new online store for business applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps.
• Prepare for a May 12 SharePoint 2010 Launch. The official launch date for SharePoint 2010 is circling the net and like everyone else interested in SharePoint, we have marked our calendar with a great big exclamation mark.
• Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Oracle. March 8 turned out to be Simon Phipps’ last day at Sun/Oracle. What does that mean for his pet projects, and Oracle’s plans for Sun’s open source properties? Timing is everything, as we just recently pondered about what the Oracle + Sun merger could mean for content management.

The release date for SharePoint 2010 is around the corner. So we asked you about your plans, and so far the majority of votes seems to indicate that SharePoint 2010 is not at the top of priorities list.

Do you agree? Click the link below and let us know.

• Poll: Is Your Organization Planning to Implement SharePoint 2010?

Also, check out our previous poll results:

• Poll Results: Web Analytics Need More Love
• Poll Results: Usability is Top DAM Challenge

Here’s what’s been brewing lately in the CMS jobs and careers field. Both seekers and employers, catch the best fish of the season on our content management job board.

• Analyst, Serving Customer Intelligence Professionals at Forrester Research
• Senior Sales Rep at Clickability
• Project Manager/Digital Media at http://www.tmgcustommedia.com
• LiveServer/RedDot/OpenText - CMS Developer at LP Associates
• Lead Developer (Drupal) at Sandusky Newspapers, Inc

Wondering how to spend your time in the next few weeks or months? Attend a conference, or maybe just a webinar or two. Have a look at our Industry Events Calendar to see what’s happening in your area.

• Mar 16, 2010 – Webinar: Smart Fixes for Slacker Web Pages
• Apr 21, 2010 – Drupalcon San Francisco 2010
• Apr 22, 2010 – AIIM International Expo 2010
• May 5, 2010 – CMS Expo 2010 (Evanston)
• May 20, 2010 – Gilbane Conference San Francisco

This is the first time that I have attended SXSW and after yesterday, I can say that it definitely lives up to its billing and all of the stories that you have heard are true.

The networking opportunities are tremendous. Yesterday I ran in Pete Cashmore CEO and founder of Mashable in the Hotel lobby and Dharmesh Shah, founder of Hubspot, provider of Inbound Marketing Software at an event sponsored by Oneforty, which is a company that helps to people find, rate, collect and share twitter applications.

There are sessions here for everyone and the tracks are well organized. However it can be a little overwhelming if you do not prepare your tie in advance. I was told that I should try to pick out 3-4 sessions — 1 per day — that you really want to attend and make sure to get to those, but other than that, try to find out where others are going, or just play it by ear, because you never know who you will run into and what information that they have to share with you.

During registration they hand out a 256 page booklet that has everything that you need to know about SXSW — except for the “off of the grid” networking opportunities and parties that are pretty tough to find out about. The booklet helps to set the tone of each day, but thankfully they also provide you with a ‘Pocket guide” to all of the sessions and you don’t have to lug the 3 lb booklet around.

So what am I expecting out of the conference? I am hoping to validate my feelings and thoughts around Social applications for businesses, both for internal and external purposes. I am hoping to learn from thought leaders in the industry and see what their current and future thoughts are. I am also hoping that I can reconnect with people that I have met over the last 10 years.

I am happy to say that so far the conference is meeting and exceeding my expectations. I hope that you enjoy my perspective of the conference and please look for daily updates on this site.

Spring just days away and even closer is the SXSW Interactive event in Austin — stay tuned for some live coverage out of Texas.

And for now we’re busy bidding farewell to the working week. But just before we do so, here’s a big thanks to the current CMSWire sponsors (follow them on Twitter). It’s you who have kept our wheels turning and the keyboards merrily clacking. We are thankful.

• Acquia — Providers of enterprise support and hosting services for the Drupal CMS.
• Ademero — Affordable document management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
  
• Bridgeline iApps Content Manager — A SaaS Framework for applications, content management, commerce and analytics.
• Bitrix CMS — Full-featured content management and Enterprise 2.0 solutions for small and medium size businesses.
• CMS Watch — The analyst firm covering and uncovering the details of the content management industry, including an in-depth SharePoint report.
• CoreMedia — CoreMedia’s enterprise-class web content management system enables organizations to manage customer engagement across a range of touch points.
• Day Sofware — Winner of the 2009 Infoworld Best Web CMS award.
• Ektron — Makers of one of the leading .NET web content management systems.
• EMC - Sophisticated document management systems for departments and mid-sized organizations.
• Ephox — Rich web content editing which blends ease of use with an enterprise API.
• eTouch SamePage — The enterprise-grade wiki solution that combines the best of wikis and blogs to effectively support and streamline collaborative team efforts.
• eZ Systems — Makers of the eZ Publish open source web content management system.
• Gilbane Group — Conferences, reports, webinars, consulting and more. Gilbane keeps the industry talking, meeting and informed.
• JBoye Events — High impact gatherings and reports for web practitioners. 
• Kapow Technolgoies — Tools for automating content migration tasks.
• Open Text — Realize the full power of SharePoint enterprise content management via Open Text integration.
• Percussion — The Percussion CM System empowers enterprise marketers to create, manage and optimize content across multiple channels.
  
• SDL Tridion — Enterprise web content management for multi-lingual and multi-national organizations.
• Sitecore — Enterprise grade web content management with a strong eye towards .NET friendly tools and APIs.
• Siteworx — A full service interactive agency, Siteworx designs scalable systems for human interaction.
• Telerik Sitefinity — A light-weight, modular and accessible ASP.NET web content management system that pleases both the developers and the marketers.
  
• TERMINALFOUR — An enterprise class web content management and portal system targeted at medium to large organizations.
• …and of course dear old uncle Google

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The Interactive portion of SXSW kicked off today and we start our coverage with the UX of Mobile. Thanks to the iPhone we now have a whole new benchmark on the user experience of smartphones.

While most of us have been preoccupied with game-changing releases from Google, a war has been waged in the name of the future enterprise. On one side, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, leads those who believe enterprise software should be more like Facebook. On the other, a crowd of naysayers who don’t like the idea of mixing business with pleasure.  

MediaCore is ramping up towards v1.0, offering a free video and podcast management tool for digital delivery and encouraging social content.

You might’ve written off Google Buzz by now and, admittedly, we could’ve had a little something to do with it. But Google hasn’t given up on the microblogging tool just yet. In fact, the team’s latest announcement may wash over some of you in an awesome, relief-tinted wave.   

The recently release v9.2 of Hyland Software’s (news, site) enterprise content management system continues the development of solutions both on-premise and SaaS and focuses this time on users that work remotely but still need full access to the OnBase ECM suite.

pTools (news, site) gets a little bit social with the introduction of new social media and social networking capabilities including an easy way to update your favorite social networks.

Erm, remember Google Wave? You know, that thing with all the things, and the chatting and the e-mailing, and the collaboration. Well, it just got more things. Google introduced the Google Wave Extensions Gallery bright and early this morning. Developers? For the sake of Wave, please get on this.  

They acquired Funnelback back in June, now Squiz (news, site) has taken the next step and integrated the enterprise search engine into it Web CMS MySource Matrix

Last year, Telerik (news, site) brought out betas of two new products. Now, those products have come out of beta, joining an updated .NET toolbox. There’s something here for every developer.

Many of us have wondered if and when social media will knock out the need for e-mail, but a survey from Econsultancy suggests that we’re far from losing touch with our inboxes. In fact, Econsultancy says social media is being used to enhance the effectiveness of e-mail.

There are indications that e-books and the reading devices, like Kindle and the Nook, are becoming more mainstream and as a result they are having an interesting impact on the way we interact with content, both online and in print.

There are indications that e-books and the reading devices, like Kindle and the Nook, are becoming more mainstream and as a result they are having an interesting impact on the way we interact with content, both online and in print.

Maybe it’s because of the growing popularity of SaaS, but Virtual Moment, LLC has announced that it is changing its ‘Doing Business As. . ‘(DBA) name from Spitfire Photo Pro to WebDAM, and said it will concentrate its resources on SaaS digital asset management (DAM).

So, the announement of the Google Marketplace was a pretty big deal, wouldn’t you say?

The excitement revolving around the new development goes to show how ready and willing most of us are to pack up and move to the cloud, and the Google brand is obviously going to play a major part in getting us there. 

With new versions of Telligent’s (news, site) Community and Enterprise Collaboration solutions out the door last February, the only thing left to know was when would we see an updated version of their analytics. While we still don’t have a firm date in hand, we do have a look at some of the new capabilities coming in it.

In what looks like an attempt to make RSS more fun, Google has released a little tool called Google Reader Play. The Google Reader alternative allows users to browse headlines one at a time in an image-heavy environment, rather than wade through streams of text.