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Research and Markets, a research group that tracks the Enterprise CMS industry, has released a report that predicts the Enterprise CMS and Document and Records Management (DRM) markets will see drastic growth in the coming years, with sales numbers more than doubling from US$ 1.6 billion now to US $3.5 billion in 2012.

Gilbane has released a report that any organization catering to the global community needs to have a look at. It's entitled Multilingual Communications as a Business Imperative: Why Companies Need to Optimize the Global Content Value Chain -- don't be swayed by the less-than-captivating and very long title. It's chock full of qualitative research on how global businesses are creating, managing and publishing multilingual content. The short answer is that they're not.

When we wrote about the Trampoline research on social networking we were a little bit skeptical about the results that were being given. With 88% of respondents saying they were ready to implement social networking in their organization, the number seemed a bit high. And of course we questioned a survey that comes directly from a social networking company. Recently we had an opportunity to discuss the findings a little more with Rebecca Kemp of Trampoline Systems.

When it comes to copyright law, not knowing the rules can get you in a lot of hot water, but figuring out the rules can be just as frustrating. Luckily, the American Library Association has created a...

If you've ever wanted to archive the exact state of a dynamic web site and have that snapshot accessible from any computer, Iterasi is the service for you. We've covered how to browse old web sites...

Windows/Mac/Linux: If you've ever grown sincerely sick of the "Save Page As" prompt in your browser, iBreadCrumbs might be just the tool to gather your disconnected web research together. The free...

Thanks to The Wired Campus, I recently stumbled across this new wiki whilst looking for a visualization tool for a ccLearn research project. The new wiki is called Digital Research Tools, also known as DiRT. DiRT is edited by a team of librarians from Rice University’s Digital Media Center and Sam Houston State University’s Newton Gresham library. Basically, DiRT reviews the myriad research tools available for free (and some for profit) on the internet in a human-readable way, so that “professors, students, think-tankers, corporate intelligence gatherers, and other inquisitive folks [can] do their work better.” These “snapshot reviews” are immensely helpful for even seasoned researchers, since the web is always popping up with new open source tools. To see a list of tools in DiRT’s queue and to add your own, check out their del.icio.us page.

At a recent meeting of the World Association of Newspapers, one of the topics of conversation included the results of the second annual World Digital Media Trends report, which revealed that digital platforms of newspapers are growing at a double-digit rate worldwide, as the world increasingly goes on line.

We Web users are an interesting bunch. Inclined to support a bloggers' code of conduct while becoming more ruthless and selfish online -- it's easy to understand why it's hard to figure out exactly what we want. Case in point, a recent survey by the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), an independent British organization which deals with complaints from members of the public about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines, indicated that almost 80 percent of social networking site users would be more careful about the details they put online if they knew the media might use them.

Gartner's Emerging Trends and Technologies Roadshow is happening right now and they are espousing their views on the 10 most disruptive technologies they believe will shape the IT landscape over the next five years. No surprise that social computing and mashups make the list. But did they forget something?

It's often necessary to validate most business decisions, but never has proof been as demanding as it is with design. Design is still construed as a very arbitrary, hippy-dippy discipline and nothing gets the goat of a designer more than having to explain time and again that there are indeed standards for design. Enter the Designer's Guide to Research, courtesy of the HOW Design Conference presented by power couple, Jenn and Ken Visocky O'Grady, founders of Enspace, a creative think tank that works to enhance collaboration and communication among designers, writers and marketers, alike.

Linux may be a free platform for many and a reasonably inexpensive alternative to Unix and proprietary platforms for others, but make no mistake. read more

Scientists have long held that seven items—be they images, numbers, or tasks—was the best a brain could manage to hold at once, but LiveScience points out that, without specific practice,...

In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.

More info is always good, especially when it's about open source. So here's what sounds a worthy endeavour: My name is Zbigniew Braniecki and I'm a sociology student at Leon Koźmiński Academy in Warsaw. The goal of this survey is to extend our knowledge about nature of volunteer participation in the Internet open communities. To learn why people participate and what keeps them going. It will allow us to better understand how open communities (should) work and who the people building them are. The survey is made of two parts, socio and psychological. It will be most helpful if you make it to the end. The whole survey will take you no more than 12 minutes to complete.