Bill Ives brought to my attention ECMHUB 2.0 “described as the world's largest mashup focusing on the ECM and KM industries and married it to web collaboration.”

While Tony Byrne and CMSWatch.com are good places to start for intelligence on enterprise content management (ECM), Ives explains the size and importance of ECMHUB 2.0 is:


”First they created a generic Yahoo Pipe that reads Google Spreadsheet information that lists hundreds of ECM industry RSS feeds including blogs, news, webcasts, questions, RFPs, and videos. Then they take the feeds and caches them into Google. Using Google App Engine they built an "on demand" feed caching and refresh application. This means the latest articles are instantly retrievable within only a few seconds and the individual feeds are automatically rebuilt with a push of a button. They then built "cloud communities" around the feeds adding comments, ratings, web conferencing, and 3D chat. Currently, they have support for over 40 communities with over 5,000 daily articles. Finally they wrap the entire application using Javascript with an AJAX foundation. The site says that "this means instead of navigating from page to page like a traditional website, you navigate by retrieving web page data on demand. When you click on a community, for instance, the main page area will clear and show an animated star indicating that new data, such as the latest news, is currently loading."

 

Many people are still confuse about ECM and whether or not they need it. My presentation 2 weeks ago on CMS Trends Traps & Tips 2008 provides a decent summary and explanation (follow the link to the presentation on SlideShare.net)

 

Also Read Jed Cawthorne’s full article and comparison tables on CMS or ECM - What is the difference?

 

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