Everybody says metadata and classification schemes are great, but there remains a dearth of good knowledge about how to apply them effectively in web content management.

For years, developers have been working on better search engines, but with only modest progress against a backdrop of exponentially-exploding information.

One of the bigger conundrums in single-source, multichannel publishing is roundtripping: getting changes that you make on a particular rendition of a document (usually in Quark or some other layout tool) back into the original source repository from whence that content came, to retain a sole source of the truth.

Interwoven is quietly spinning longtime deployment product OpenDeploy off as a separate product line, decoupled from its TeamSite CMS offering.

It's time again to review selected publicly-traded CMS vendor financial submissions.

Amid all the hub-bub about Sarbox and new SEC regulations in the USA, let's not forget that European firms, especially in the financial sector, also face serious regulatory compliance challenges.

CMS Watchtm is now two words instead of one, following a short spat with Swatch AG over our trademark.

A short white paper from directory integration vendor Radiant Logic nicely summarizes the value of hierarchical information (via Phil Windley).

Every year, someone gamely tries to estimate the marketshare of various content management vendors.

After a string of noisy acquisitions, OpenText found itself inconveniently in possession of no less than 3 Web content management solutions -- Obtree from Ixos, Gauss, and the Web Publisher within its own collaboration tool, Livelink.

One measure of the maturity of content management as a discipline is that professors are beginning to teach it in universities.

Every web content management package has its merits and quirks.

The U.S. federal Interagency Committee on Government Information (ICGI) has put out draft web content policies for review.

James Robertson's Step Two Designs maintains a useful list of Aussie CMS vendors.

Recently a reporter called out of the blue looking to distinguish content management from knowledge management in 50 words or less.