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I seem to collect a number of books each year.  A few of the books I receive from publishers with intent to review or as appreciation for my involvement with events related to content management systems.  Other books just peak my interest so I can't help but buy them for my personal library.  The following are five books I plan to read in 2009 and are available in CMS Report's Amazon Store. Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Windborn

Seattle (PRWEB) January 7, 2009 -- DotNetNuke® Corporation, the creators of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework, today announced a deeper collaboration with CodePlex, Microsoft's premier open source project hosting website. Beginning with the DotNetNuke 4.9.1 and 5.0.0 product releases, DotNetNuke is now leveraging CodePlex's expansive infrastructure for its core product distribution. In past collaboration with CodePlex, DotNetNuke Corporation announced the availability of the DotNetNuke Forge in February 2008. The DotNetNuke Forge is a premier destination for open source collaboration on the DotNetNuke platform. The DotNetNuke Forge has grown in breadth and popularity over the past year and now represents a vital part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem.

Minerva is largely a services company providing a variety of web design and development solutions. Based in India, the organization is now moving in a product direction, targeting new ways to develop income sources and retain client relationships. Now for the sake of our credibility, we're not convinved that their latest project,  Minerva Infotech CMS 1.0, is going to make ripples in the web cms pond, but perhaps it will sprout some legs. So on a slow news day in early January we've decided it's worth noting.

The XOOPS China team has won a prestigious award at the 2008 China Open Source Software Contest (OSSContest) in Beijing. XOOPS China won the main award for excellence in creative application. The award will be accepted by Taiwen Jiang, the XOOPS Lead Developer and his team at the 2008 Open Source Software Development Summit, China. It is the latest recognition for the XOOPS China community website and project development.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Drupal that acts as a practical guide with instructions for setting up a home page, product catalog, blog, events calendar, etc. using the Drupal CMS platform. Written by prominent Content Management expert Mark Noble, Drupal 6 Site Builder Solutions helps developers build powerful website features for their business.

In keeping with tradition, the following are seven articles that were posted here at CMSReport.com and received less attention than I had hoped.  Either the reader didn't show up to view the article or there was little discussion on the subject matter.  I'll let you be the judge on whether these articles deserved the obscurity they received in 2008.

A new tool that makes it simple to place Outlook emails into SharePoint and share those files within a document library has been released by nSynergy.  eMail management has become a high priority for all businesses, both large and small, with most written correspondence being delivered in email form. Businesses can use tools like SharePoint to manage most of their important business documents, but the inability to easily place emails into SharePoint and share those files within a document library is a problem that many SharePoint users have encountered. nSynergy developed a tool called myDocs to integrate SharePoint and Outlook, and finally solve the problem of managing email within SharePoint.

mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 was released over the weekend.  The main purpose for the release was to fix a bug in the MS SQL version of the blog that was introduced in version 2.2.8.0.  Yet, one thing I've learned about mojoPortal is that in many of their bug fix releases...they almost always add some new new or enhanced features.  This release is no exception. New items in mojoPortal 2.2.8.1 that are worth mentioning include:

CMS Report was recently toying with the idea of including paid advertisement in our news feed.  Instead we decided that our readers would be better served by seeing a "thank you" to our sponsors.  A monthly thank you from CMSReport.com seems to be fitting as just a few weeks ago we launched new sponsorship opportunities here at the site. CMS Report wants to thank the following sponsors for their support.

Occasionally, I see a post that I have written as a reference in a white paper, a book, or somewhere else online.  I actually started CMSReport.com as a place for me to learn more about Web content management systems and information systems.  Whenever someone references CMS Report it signals that we have gone full circle where someone is also learning from me.  There is not a more awesome feeling than this. One thing I have yet to achieve is being a legitimate reference at Wikipedia.  Until now!  CMS Report is being referenced on the wiki page for Frog CMS.

Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner’s Guide is a new book from Packt that provides the quickest way for teachers and trainers to turn their familiar teaching materials into a Moodle e-learning course. Written by Ian Wild, this book helps to add multimedia, and incorporate existing sounds and videos to improve a course by converting the existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses. Advertisement: read more

Introduction If you work in education you will know only too well what an LP is (and for our older readers, it's not made of vinyl). Otherwise you probably have no idea, ditto the near synonyms VLE and CMS. They respectively stand for: Learning Platform,Virtual Learning Environment, and Course Management Software. For our purposes I will use the collective acronym, LP. But, before plunging into [...]

Zimplit.org has released a new version of Zimplit CMS, an Open Source web-based content management system. Unlike most CMS applications that require advanced technical skills, Zimplit enables to create professional websites, without any skills. Content management systems are too complicated or unflexible for normal users. The majority of people who create websites or change them don´t know much about programming and they don´t need it. It is more than clear that installing most of the content management systems as well as new themes for websites is too difficult. Zimplit is created to resolve these problems. Releasing first version of Zimplit shows that people need this kind of content management systems, says Co-Founder Mattias Lepp.

Earlier today, Matthew Mullenweg announced the official release of Wordpress 2.7.  This new version of Wordpress is a dandy with significant improvements made to the Wordpress administrative interface and dashboard.  The choices you now have to customizing our blogging workflow is almost endless. While we could start reading off from the changelogs for all the new features in Wordpress 2.7, It's probably just as easy to show you the video.

Earlier today, Matthew Mullenweg announced the official release of Wordpress 2.7.  This new version of Wordpress is a dandy with significant improvements made to the Wordpress administrative interface and dashboard.  The choices you now have to customizing our blogging workflow is almost endless. While we could start reading off from the changelogs for all the new features in Wordpress 2.7, It's probably just as easy to show you the video.