Published on Tuesday, September 19 2006
Open Source Content Management Webinar
Begins: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 1:00 PM
Ends: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 at 2:00 PM
Location:
Link: Interactive Webinar: Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management
Update 10/24/06 – The audio from the event is available on the Optaros site or at this direct link (MP3, 14.5MB).
(Sorry for duplicate postings – I’m testing Microformats using the Structured Blogging plugin for WordPress. This post contains an Event notice microformat).
The latest trends in Internet technologies and the rise of the knowledge worker have put pressure on the enterprise to be more responsive and deliver more usable technologies for collaboration and improved efficiency. To meet these challenges and capitalize on new opportunities for growth, content management technologies must be agile and innovative. Flexible and typically lower in cost, open source content management technologies have the potential to quickly deliver targeted solutions that answer immediate needs and can evolve to the changing demands of the enterprise. At the same time, many new questions need to be answered when considering open source content management solutions.
Join leaders in the open source content management space from Optaros, Alfresco, and ZEA Partners as they offer multiple perspectives to address such questions in a panel discussion. Audience participation is encouraged by submitting questions for discussion prior to and during the event.
Panelists include:
Seth Gottlieb, Content Management Practice Lead, Optaros
Matt Asay, Vice President of Business Development, Alfresco
John Eckman, Next Generation Internet Practice Lead, Optaros
Paul Everitt, ZEA Partners
Tags: Open Source Content Management
Published on Tuesday, September 19 2006
Next week I’ll be participating in an interactive, panel discussion webinar sponsored by Optaros: “Ask the Experts Your Questions About Open Source Content Management Solutions.” It’s Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 1PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT – 04:00).
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Published on Monday, September 18 2006
Social networking and user-contributed content sites are increasingly forming partnerships with traditional media companies, as the media companies try to retain their place in the attention-economy.
One recent (and significant, in terms of size and who the players are) example of this is the black carpet service from MySpace. By adding “Black Carpet Screenings” as a friend to your MySpace profile, you join 82196 (and counting) other MySpace users in opting in to receiving marketing messages from the studios about premieres at local theaters.
I have to say I’m conflicted about the whole phenomenon. I can understand the enthusiasm of those who see this as a major validation of social networking and opt-in marketing is certainly better than the alternative.
But is the metaphor in which “Black Carpet Screenings” needs to accept me as a friend the best we can imagine?
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Published on Friday, September 15 2006
Earlier this week, I participated in a round table at the Software Development Best Practices Expo.
Surprisingly (to me anyway) it was the only section specifically talking about Open Source. In addition to Andy Oram from O’Reilly, who was the organizer/moderator, the other participants were:
It was an interesting discussion ranging over a wide variety of topics around open source and software development.
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Published on Monday, September 11 2006
A number of interesting things in the Open Source ECM arena over the last week or so.John Newton, the Co-Founder and CTO of Alfresco, posted this excellent blog entry on the commoditization of ECM and the thinking behind Alfresco’s strategic direction. In the post, he argues that “the scene is set for real standardization in content management and commoditization to the point of real replacement and swap out of existing systems.” The strength in Alfresco’s corner is its basis in open source: “Facing an aging, commoditizing Enterprise Content Management market, Alfresco has used open source to provide a new approach to ECM. This open source platform accelerates the development of an ECM solution and can ultimately outdistance the ECM laggards. I have no fear for our future.”
He goes on to describe the various open source frameworks they leverage (including Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, EHCache, jBPM , Chiba, Open Office and ImageMagic) and the functionality they’ve used those frameworks to deliver. It’s really an outstanding read as an example of the compression of development time and flexible customization possible through an open source approach.
Additionally, Alfresco last week released the community preview of version 1.4 of their ECM suite. The focus in this version is on Business Process and Lifecycle Management, though functionality increases show up in a number of areas.
Finally, there’s also a podcast in which Newton discusses the release.
