Tag: wyona

Beyond Brochureware

Attorneys in small and medium-size practices are discovering that the Internet is an essential medium for nurturing their businesses in an online world. From simply being visible on popular search engines like Google, to offering valuable online information and resources, more law firms are using the Web as a powerful and economical marketing, productivity, communication, and even service delivery tool. At this seminar you’ll learn from other attorneys with hands-on experience about how to increase the value of your practice with a resource-rich website. You don’t need any special computer skills or background to enjoy and derive real value from this practical, business-oriented presentation.

let me know if you are interested to attend.

Learning from the masters

i just got back from las vegas, via a (less than satisfactory) detour through NYC. apachecon 2003 was a great time to learn, meet and geek out. i haven’t been to a conference (besides our own) in a while where i felt so at home and had such a vibrant network right from the start.
now, the real challenge strikes me as enabling this level of interaction for the interested conference goer who is not fortunate enough to be associated with apache. clearly, that is almost unattainable, but some measures we tried at OSCOM 3 may be helpful.
attendees never do the sensible thing before the conference, it seems, and most calls for a good self-preparation (in the interest of a better conference experience) are not widely heard.

Magnolia


a swiss company released a new CMS yesterday: Magnolia is the first open-source content-management-system (CMS) which adheres to the upcoming standard of Java content repositories. a first look did not impress me that much, the exposed functionality is quite spartan at this point. on the other hand, the repository abstraction is something to look into. also, the ability to move content around with the mouse (see screen shot 2) is neat.

cms lessons from the best of the intranet

This year’s winning intranet designs emphasized workflow support, self-service content management, and offloading tasks from email to collaboration tools. On average, companies spent 3 years between redesigns, and 1 year on the redesign itself.

conclusions:

  • move from top-down publishing to bottom-up: more weblog, aggregation technology, xml fragment support, xlink leverage
  • reduce email load, make it easy to use intranet as part of PIM
  • provide rss feeds for workflow to do lists
  • enable trackbacks on any content type

xml.gov

If you take Paul Ford’s article on xml in the government

In April, 2002, the General Accounting Office (GAO), published Challenges to Effective Adoption of the Extensible Markup Language. This document recommended that the US government as a whole “develop a strategy for government wide adoption of XML” to ensure that the technology is used across agencies.
In addition, the Government Paperwork Elimination Act of 1998 requires federal agencies to use electronic documents and accept electronic signatures as of October, 2003, another potential use of XML. Taken together, all of this means that not only is there a certain historical pressure to use XML that comes from the historical use of markup in organizations like the IRS and the DoD, but there’s also a legal requirement for agencies to pay attention to XML and deploy it to manage their documents and data.

and this news item

Massachusetts, the lone holdout state still suing Microsoft Corp. for antitrust violations, will become the first state to adopt a broad-based strategy of moving its computer systems toward open standards, including Linux.

together, it makes for some interesting possibilities. It gets even better with semantic technologies for eGovernment

honorable mention

Neue Zuercher Zeitung mentions Wyona again:

Eine Vielzahl von Schweizer Software-Entwicklern leistet so ganz im Stillen einen betraechtlichen Beitrag zur Open-Source-Gemeinschaft. Zu nennen ist etwa die Zuercher Firma Wyona, die ihr urspruenglich fuer den Online-Auftritt der NZZ entwickeltes Content-Management-System der Apache Foundation, einer der wichtigsten Open- Source-Organisationen, uebertragen hat.

A multiplicity of Swiss software developers make a considerable contribution to the open source community. Such as Zurich-based company Wyona, who transferred their content management system, originally developed for NZZ, to the Apache Foundation, one of the most important open source organizations.

internet-powered journeys

i arrived in NYC this morning, after a journey that went like this: ride to palo alto caltrain from stanford university – figure out where i REALLY have to go – call cab – drive to stanford shopping center – take bus into milbrae – hop onto bart – change at west oakland – take air bart to oakland airport – hop onto jetblue plane – get off at jfk – take bus to subway – get off at 34th street – orient on the street grid – find cafe – search for wifi
most of this would not have been possible without either notebook or wifi. technology has allowed me to be much more last minute than i ever was. no long planning, figure out your journey on the road, check the net if you are lost etc. i will try to coin a phrase for this experience, “wifi enables real time travel planning, and reduces anxiety.” will do for now.
i have to run, client meeting.

dinner with gavin nicol

michael and myself were treated to awesome sushi by gavin t. nicol who turns out to be a very likable guy with an incredible depth of experience with XML technologies. He coauthored most of the specs i use on a daily basis. He is eager to work together with us, which i’m very much looking forward to. thanks again gavin.