Quickly Noted: MooFlex CMS

New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast).
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Serena Collage Customer Sites

Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:

Boston College
Northeastern
Bristol Community College
UMass Lowell

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The Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite Demo

We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT’s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well.
Here’s what we learned in the demo:
It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the [...]

Kim’s CMS Shortlist

With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four:

Joomla, a derivative of Mambo 
Collage appears to have good content reuse features 
OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients 
Drupal: open source and turning heads

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Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite

We’re looking at the Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). The real demo comes later, but the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. Hmm.
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1,800 CMS Vendors!

CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty.
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CMS Pitfalls

Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. Even knowledgeable people often find themselves struggling for an answer before giving up and defining a CMS by example.
The problem is that we know we want better websites, and we know technology should help, but [...]

Editing WordPress “Pages” Via XML-RPC

WordPress’s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. This might be a good thing, but I’m foolhardy enough to try working around it.
Here’s how:
Find a text editor you like and open up the wp-includes/functions-post.php file.
in the wp_get_recent_posts() function, change [...]

WordPress As CMS

A friend and I have been talking about what it would take to turn WordPress into a CMS. We both have our doubts, but today I found this job ad that suggests we’re not alone in at least thinking of the possibility.
Needed: Web Designer/Programmer For Our Sites
We’re growing very fast, and have outgrown our current [...]