What is Web Content Management (WCM)?

Over the years, web site visitors have come to expect more and more from web sites. While so-called “brochureware” sites were the norm in the 1990’s, by the early2000’s, web sites began to provide a more compelling web site experience. In addition to conducting commerce through web sites, visitors have an expectation that today’s web sites know who they are and adapt themselves to the type and context of the device that the visitor is using. Businesses around the world have experimented with personalized web site experiences and have found that they dramatically enhance sales, customer retention and customer satisfaction with a web site.

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Building High Performance Web Sites using Ektron

Ensuring that your web site is ready to scale for thousands and potentially millions of customers is a critical component of any web site development project. Factors that affect scalability are incredibly diverse, including hardware hosting configuration, the use of caching, performance testing, architecture of the CMS and its accompanying implementation and many others. It’s critical to understand that simply purchasing and installing Ektron won’t result in a highly-scalable web site. The site has to be architected, built and maintained according to high performance best practices. 

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Brian Browning joins Ameex Technologies

On November 1st, 2012, Brian Browning joined Ameex Technologies, a leading provider of web content management consulting and staff augmentation services, as Vice President. In this capacity, Mr. Browning works with customers to select WCMS platforms, supports pre-sales efforts, oversees the implementation of WCMS solutions and provides guidance and support to the rest of the executive management team. Additionally, Mr. Browning provides strategic guidance to Ameex clients in determining how to evolve their WCMS platforms to maximize their online effectiveness. 

More information about Ameex can be found at: 

http://ameexusa.com/

Ektron SYNERGY Presentations Posted

I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to present 2 presentations to this past year's SYNERGY Event. To download copies of the presentations, please click below:

Content Migration: Do we HAVE to? (PPTX File) 3.8 MB

 

The Content Migration presentation was a lot of fun to put together and share with the audience. Addressing manual and automated approaches to content migration, the deck included sample formulas to help users size their content migration efforts and resources. It concluded with a presentation by Jason Arden explaining how to leverage Ektron's API to automatically upload transformed content into Ektron.

Link to online webinar: http://www.ektron.com/web-content-management-solutions.aspx?id=7436

Enterprise Architecture and Ektron (PPTX File) 5.9MB

This presentation focused around the unique needs of enterprise-level organizations when it comes to hosting infrastructure, integration with third-party and legacy tools, applications and data sources and provided best practice tips on configuring e-Sync within an enterprise environment.

Ektron Book Released

I am excited to announce that the official Ektron Developers Guide has been released. Authored by Bill Rogers, Aniel Sud and Bill Cava, the official Ektron Developers Guide is a fantastic guide to all aspects of developing Ektron-powered web sites. I contributed chapters on the Ektron web development methodology and how to develop the CMS Implementation Guide.

Published by Wrox, the Ektron Developers Guide is available now at Amazon.com at:

http://www.amazon.com/Ektron-Developers-Guide-Building-Powered/dp/0470885696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296403479&sr=8-1

It is also available for the Kindle platform from the same location.