By Lisa Kirschner
The Joomla! Project is tentatively planning a developer conference that will take place in New York City this December:
Optimizing Your CMS for Search Engines–on a Dime
By Stephanie Bach
It seems that everyone is playing the SEO game these days, and with all the players out there (such as Google, Bing! and Yahoo!), getting swept up in the pay-per-click model can cost big bucks over time. How to make the most of your CMS tool and your budget–and still get great returns from search engine traffic? Start with ‘homegrown’ tactics before you tackle PPC.
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Winning Over Your CMS Content Contributors
By Stephanie Bach
Over the years, we’ve worked with numerous CMS tools–from enterprise-level to open source and homegrown tools. The bells and whistles may differ from product to product, but the challenge of training and managing content contributors remains universal: How to make the process of managing content easier and more compliant, even if users are not ‘technically inclined’?
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Webguild article: Nine Years After the Dot Com Bubble
By Lisa Kirschner
Earlier today, Daya Baran at Webguild Silicon Valley posted an interesting article entitled “Nine Years After the Dot Com Bubble.” She includes a rather dramatic chart showing the NASDAQ composite index from 2000 to present. Can you guess what it shows? Yep, a steep and significant decrease.
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Developing an Effective CMS Style Guide
By Barb Conway
You’ve selected a new content management system (CMS) for your Web site and you’re ready to start implementing it. One of the things you should really think about at this point is how to make sure all of your pages maintain a consistent style. Given free reign, everyone who sets up new pages and loads content could find a different way to do it–unless you’ve given them clear guidelines.
Great example of internal social networking tool
By Lisa Kirschner
WebProNews is reporting that Toshiba is launching eXCHANGE, a new social networking tool and online directory to be used by its internal sales, customer service, administrative and corporate employees in the U.S.
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J. Boye says “Who Should be on Your CMS Shortlist”
By Lisa Kirschner
The CMS industry has been up in arms since Janus Boye published a short list of CMS vendors that buyers should always consider yesterday.
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Don’t Miss Copywriting 101
By Lisa Kirschner
Copyblogger has just released a post entitled “Copywriting 101: An Introduction to Copywriting“. It’s a hands-on, practical list of things that you should do when writing copy (content) for online media.
Sunny Days ahead for Day Software with CQ 5 CMS
By Lisa Kirschner
Day Software has released better-than-expected earnings for the first half of ’09, following a lackluster end to 2008:
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What You Can Learn about Content by Riding a Unicycle
By Lisa Kirschner
Seth Godin has written a great post on learning to ride a unicycle:
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