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Atech in the Blue

My newly upgraded iPhone is bringing 'live blogging' to the Ephox blog for the first time. I am at Ascendant Technology's after-conference party at Buddy Guy's Legends Chicago that Ephox is sponsoring.

Today we heard from IBM WebSphere Portal's Chief Architect that 3-4 years ago that 'web content management was dead' and that now it is 'hot'.

Tomorrow I give two talks about why, if you think WCM is hot, that you should be thinking about EditLive! to make your WCM system really fly.

Quarterly Product Update Recording Available

Below is the recording of the July Quarterly Product Update for those who missed it. This was a recording of the North American time slot, hosted by Michael Fromin our Director of Products.

Ephox Webinars - EditLive! for IBM Workplace WCM

We will be running a series of webinars presenting the key features and benefits of EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management.

See the benefits of incorporating EditLive! in the IBM Websphere Portal 5.1 and 6.0 environment. Improve the ease of collaboration, speed up content creation, improve content quality and reduce webmaster workloads.

Attendees will see how simply and quickly they can use powerful features such as track changes, accessibility checking, spell checking, table editing, list editing, font styles, image insertion and hyperlinking. 

The presentation will run for approximately 25 minutes followed by 15 minutes for questions. 

 

9 am Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8hrs) Tuesday 17 April 2007 Register now 

 

Technorati tags: Ephox, webinar, WYSIWYG editor, IBM Workplace, Content management, CMS, WCM

Ephox Webinars - EditLive! for IBM Workplace WCM

We will be running a series of webinars presenting the key features and benefits of EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management. 

See the benefits of incorporating EditLive! in the IBM Websphere Portal 5.1 and 6.0 environment. Improve the ease of collaboration, speed up content creation, improve content quality and reduce webmaster workloads.

Attendees will see how simply and quickly they can use powerful features such as track changes, accessibility checking, spell checking, table editing, list editing, font styles, image insertion and hyperlinking.

The presentation will run for approximately 25 minutes followed by 15 minutes for questions.

 

9 am Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8hrs) Tuesday 13 March 2007 Register now 

5 pm Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8hrs) Tuesday 13 March 2007 Register now

 

9 am Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8hrs) Tuesday 20 March 2007 Register now 

5 pm Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8hrs) Tuesday 20 March 2007 Register now

 

 

Technorati tags: Ephox, webinar, WYSIWYG editor, IBM Workplace, Content management, CMS, WCM

Ephox Wins Best at Lotusphere

Exciting news from Orlando! We are exhibiting at Lotusphere, the annual get together for the Lotus software group with IBM with over 7,000 attendees.

This morning at the opening general session, Mike Rhodin announced that Ephox beat out 130 other exhibitors to win the grand prize of Best in Lotusphere Showcase.  This award was won for EditLive! for IBM Workplace WCM! Ephox was also a finalist in the CTO award for Asia Pacific.

Marco, Andrew and Jim at Lotusphere with our award

At the opening keynote, IBM also announced a new, interesting product "Quickr" that integrates collaborative document management capabilities including blogs and wikis. Hmm, EditLive! for Quickr anyone?

And finally, Neil Armstrong delivered a fantastic speech.

Neil Armstrong Keynote

 

Technorati tags: lotusphere2007, lotusphere, ephox, iwwcm, ibm, lotus

Ephox at Lotusphere 2007

UPDATE: Ephox wins Best of Lotusphere award!

On Saturday afternoon we fly out to Orlando for Lotusphere 2007 to introduce our latest release of EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management. Lotusphere is the annual event with some 5,000 attendees from around the world.

We are looking forward to the event for many reasons, not least of which of the forecast of temperatures in the high 70s in Florida. A nice change from the freezing weather this past week in California!

It will also be a fun week for awards - we have learned that we have reached the finals of the Lotus CTO Award and the semi-finals of the Best of Lotusphere Showcase.  And there is still more... our partner Ascendant Technology were the North American winner of the already announced Distinguished Achievement Award.

We of course hope to catch up with many customers and partners over the course of the five day event. We have a booth (#631) in the Product Showcase area where you can look us up and get a demo of our new track changes capability.

Update: IBM announced that Lotus sales are up 30% year-over-year, which makes Lotus the fastest growing part of their software group. And at 14 percent growth, their Software group is the fastest growing part of IBM

 

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Latest EditLive! release brings track changes to IBM Workplace Web Content Management

We are proud to announce the release of Ephox EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management version 3.0.  This major release brings improvements to the integration with IBM's WCM platform and to the editor itself.   

The EditLive! editor offers 50 more commands and 17 more dialogs than the default editor that ships with IBM's Websphere Portal and Workplace Web Content Management.  As others have noted you cannot over emphasize the importance of a good authoring environment! 

Improvements to the integration include: 

• Supported for IBM Workplace Web Content Management: 2.5, 5.1, 5.1.0.1 and above and 6.0 
• Support for EditLive! Productivity Pack (track changes, thesaurus, equation editor) 
• Improved image and hyperlink dialogs 
• WYSIWYG integration with authoring template style sheets 
• Improved role-based personalization architecture 
• Automatic installer 
• Content preservation

Most importantly, we have upgraded EditLive! to version 6.0. Version 6.0 includes extended styles support, new table commands and many more features and compatibility with the EditLive! Productivity Pack.   

With the Productivity Pack authors can create, review, update and publish online documents more quickly and more easily with the new track changes feature.  There is no need to resort to e-mail, third party applications, meetings or phone calls.  The entire workflow can be handled by IWWCM.  As you can imagine, track changes is going to save your authors a lot of time; and by making the review process so painless, your content quality will improve.  We proved this by using track changes in our most recent update of the Ephox web site. 

See also: 

• What's new with IBM Websphere Portal 6.0 and WCM
• IBM Workplace Web Content Management Version 6.0
Technorati tags: IBM, WCM, ECM, CMS, track changes, HTML editor

What's new with IBM WebSphere Portal 6.0 + WCM

Janus Boye of CMSWatch notes IBM's quiet release of version 6.0 of their all important WebSphere Portal, noting its improved user interface (aka AJAX goodness) and the :

embedded Web content management system has been re-based on the JSR-170 compliant Java Content Repository included with the portal

A more comprehensive outline of what IBM have included in the biggest release in a long time is included in the DevelopWorks What's New article that Janus links to by Stefan Hepper, Stefan Liesche, Gregory Melahn and Thomas Stober.

Regarding WCM they note that a free, restricted license is included in Enable and Extend editions of WebSphere Portal. I am not sure how many Portal customers are aware of that.

This release of WCM adds a lot tighter integration with Portal. IBM's article adds some more colour:

In keeping with IBM's commitment to open standards, the Web Content Manager has been re-based on the Java Content Repository (JCR) included with WebSphere Portal. This repository is based on the JSR 170 standard. It is the same repository used for Portal Documents and enables the Web Content Management component to provide greater scalability and performance than in earlier releases. Having content in the JCR also makes it easier to personalize the content using business rules created with WebSphere Portal’s personalization component.

For administrators:

Web Content Management administration is simpler because its nodes can now share the same repository, allowing full clustering support in both production and authoring environments. The use of WebSphere logging and caching services and WebSphere Portal access control management also help to simplify administration.

The JCR provides a way to better organize content into content libraries. This capability had already been used by Portal Document Manager and is now used by Web Content Manager. Libraries help you to better manage Web content, making it easier to control access rights, separate test content from production content, organize multi-language content, and share content between sites.

For authors

The user experience for content authors has been simplified and enhanced. New data types such as links, numbers and dates, searching, custom help, limit checking, improved navigation, views and better rich text editing have been added. You can now easily author live content directly within a site by employing a new inline authoring component.

Both content authors and end users can more easily search content. Portal search collections can include Web content, and you can include a new search component into sites designed with Web Content Management.

As noted previously, we have upgraded our EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management to work with version 6.0 and it offers over 50 more commands and 17 dialogs for enhanced productivity and standards compliance than the default available with WCM.

tags: websphere, portal, workplace, ibm, ibm workplace, iwwcm, wcm, cms

IBM Workplace Web Content Management Version 6.0

EditLive! for IBM Workplace Web Content Management (see www.ephox.com/ibm) is our pre-packaged integration of our EditLive! rich text editor with IBM's Workplace Web Content Management system.

In July, IBM announced version 6.0 of their product. You can view a webcast of their new features by Julie Gerstle and Megan Moyer.

Last week we released an update to our integration which has support for version 6.0.  This update has:

• Support for version 6.0 of IBM Workplace Web Content Management
• Updated build of EditLive!
• Improved images and hyperlink dialogs
• WYSIWYG integration with authoring template style sheets
• Improved role-based personalization architecture
• Automatic installer

We have also updated previous releases with the integrated site-based style sheet functionality as well as the automatic installer.

You can download a free trial of the integration to try the new version.

tags: cms, content management, web content management, ibm, iwwcm, ibm workplace, editlive, ephox