“Blogging has been declared dead at least five times. But that’s like saying creativity is dead, or personal expresion is dead. Ultimately some percentage of the people who get a taste for it through Facebook and Twitter want their own space. And for the most part, that’s a blog.”

-Matthew Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, Quoted by Bobbie Johnson, New ‘radically simplified’ WordPress is on the way, paidContent, May 23, 2012

For a long time MotoCMS was trying to create Flash templates whichcan be displayed on common computers as well as mobile devices. Everybody knows that Flash doesn't make friends with iPhones, iPads, Androids, etc. But from now on, that's done with this sad tradition. Within this major update MotoCMS is glad to present you the advanced Mobile Editor.

The ProcessWire team is thrilled to announce the latest release of ProcessWire, version 2.2. This is the third major open source release of ProcessWire CMF/CMS and includes a broad range of great additions and improvements like multi-language support, repeater (matrix) fields, multi-site support and more. 

Tiki.org: The Tiki Admin Team is proud to announce the nominations of three new members: Rodrigo Primo,Jean-Marc Libs, and Jean-François Bilger. All three are active members of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project and have contributed countless hours to the ongoing development of Tiki. As members of the Tiki Admin Team, they will continue to help shape the future of Tiki.

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Responsive Web Design is without a doubt one of the Web's biggest buzzwords for 2012. The Web is changing fast and even though the importance of CMSs addressing mobile devices was well predicted, I suspect even the tech gurus are surprised at the current growth rate of smartphones. If you don't know it by now, there is a lot of pressure on web designers and site builders to ensure that their client's websites are responding to the changing Internet.

Organizations deal with a lot of confidential information every day, information that is typically managed using business applications, like SharePoint. That means that properly implemented and managed security is critical to these applications.

With SharePoint, you can implement effective security, but managing it with the tools you get out of the box isn’t the easiest. Here we look at the challenges you will face managing security and permissions within SharePoint and discuss why you should make it a key element of your Information Architecture plan.

One of the benefits of conferences such as last week's CMS Expo are the opportunities to come across content management systems you know nothing about. Such was the case for me when I was introduced to Wondercode, a content management and e-commerce solution developed by a Norwegian company. My introduction to Wondercode was in a showcase session with Sven-Erik Knoff as the presenter. 

"Innovation is an art, but it is an art where “managerial” interventions can accelerate or retard the rate of progress. Much of this concerns the sources from which ideas originate, the speed by which ideas move through an organization, the invitations to participate, the attitudes of the key decision-makers and the sources of inspiration that they draw from."

- Bill Fischer, The Virtues of Having Strange People Close By, Forbes.com, May 17, 2012