The issue of lack of scale is resonating with social strategists –as a result, the market is developing new tools that will help them manage them. Solution: As a Result, Social Media Management Systems are Emerging Like CMS and WMS for centralized website management, Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) empower social media teams to manage multiple distributed social channels from one location –enabling the opportunity to build deeper relationships by being in more places at once. Can Social Media really be managed in this way??? MORE >>

Managing these multiple login systems from all these social networks is cumbersome due to changing APIs, protocols. Social Sign On enables visitors to register to your website using their preferred credentials increasing the opportunity for contextual content, website engagement, and conversion] Value Statement Social Sign On offers a variety of benefits: Increase conversion rate as users use existing Social Network logins (in a few clicks) rather than filling out long registration pages. Registration pages go away …much to the approval of consumers. Expect more now. MORE >>

More customers, buyers, and consumers are creating content everywhere they go. I started a list in 2006 , yet now there are over 145 indexed by E&Y employees. They don’t want to end up being trilobites and have become part of a larger system:  Recent acquisitions include Scoutlabs+Lithium(community), Filtrbox+Jive(Community), Techrigy+Alterian(WCM) and others. Right now, systems are just aggregating content to make meaning out of it, yet there’s no clear set of companies that are able to truly provide predictive recommendations. Not here, yet. MORE >>

Prior to starting gShift, Chris was a co-founder of Hot Banana Software, a search engine-friendly web content management system that was acquired by Lyris Inc. in August 2006. An award-winning inventor of social technologies and customer services operations, Afshar is considered a pioneer in cloud computing, social collaboration, business intelligence and customer relationship management (CRM). Director of Global Integrated Marketing and Content Strategy for SAP. Patrick Schaber is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Communications Systems, Inc. MORE >>

But that doesn’t negate all the strengths Joomla brings to the table as a content management system. Well, without turning this post into a debate over the merits of Joomla versus WordPress, or any platform for that matter, let me just say this: Joomla is a powerful, mature content management system utilized by millions of websites worldwide. How do users share your content? However, if you’re looking to do a lot of publishing on your site and need more flexibility with your content, K2 is definitely worth the extra effort. Comments. MORE >>