2012 CMS Expo Session Presentations

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2012 CMS Expo Spotlight Awards

Congratulations to all who won at the 2011-2012 CMSA Spotlight Awards! Over 40 entries submitted nominations this year, by far the most active year to date. If you want to be included in next year's CMSA Spotlight Awards, be sure to subscribe to our news updates. Below, see a slideshow of all this year's winners!

T Shirts and CMS Expo

by Scott Liewehr
Founder, Digital Clarity Group

T-shirts. CMS Expo. What do they have in common? To me, they represent seamless practicality. They're both informal, yet they're both desirable. When you look in your closet and decide what to wear in the morning, is there anything more comfortable, more practical, more unpretentious or liberating than that favorite t-shirt?

You may be forced to wear something more formal, but you'd probably rather not. What if you could just wear what you wanted? What if you didn't have to put on a facade or play a part for anyone?

I've had the pleasure of attending CMS Expo each of the last two years, and I have not attended another conference like it...

CMS Profile: Megan Valentine

SiteGround, a CMS Expo Silver Sponsor, shares a recent conversation with a long time hosting customer, Megan Valentine. SiteGround nominated one of Megan's Joomla! websites, The Peorian, for a CMSA Spotlight Award. We are grateful to Megan to have taken the time to share her thoughts about her experience with Content Management Systems, the importance of web hosting for her business and her expectations for CMS Expo.

Content Management Systems - Suitable For Any Level of Proficiency!
As a web designer and programmer, there is always the fear that a CMS will become so easy to use that my skills will become obsolete. However, as time has passed I have seen CMSs evolve in a different direction. There was a time when it seemed to make sense to give each CSS class a user-friendly name and a color-picker field, but that method becomes quickly overwhelming no matter what skill level you’re at.

Nowadays I see more CMSs separating functionality in ways that make sense to both content managers, who are more interested in editing text, swapping out photos, and rearranging sidebar modules, and developers, who just want to dig into the code. Just because you can do everything doesn’t mean you want to see the hundreds of options available all at once. Read more... Link  

Rackspace Cloud Sites: A Look At The Numbers

Hosting over 400,000 sites across 112 countries, the Rackspace Cloud Sites product is the Platform-as-a-Service many advertising agencies and web design shops go to for creating sites that are stable, scalable and backed by support that is available in a moment’s notice.

During the recent Apple iPad announcement, Cloud Sites customer, gdgt.com, handled 55,697,141 requests for the event and over 110,000 concurrent connections. It’s examples like these that web agencies turn to Cloud Sites for the scalability and reliability of the Cloud Sites platform. Take a look at the numbers in the infographic below...

What You Publish Is Far More Important Than How You Publish It

As a Content Management System (CMS) provider, we Hannon Hill folks consider ourselves experts on all things content--content publishing, content marketing, content strategy, content promotion, content optimization, and so on and so forth... I’m not going to tell you that it doesn’t matter which CMS you use--it certainly does--but what matters even more is what you publish using your CMS.

If you’re in the market for a CMS, you’ve probably already figured out that there’s more to using a content management system than publishing words on the internet. You want those words to have meaning, you want them to generate traffic for your site, you want them to get you noticed, you want them to be timely and relevant, and most importantly, you want them to persuade people. Welcome to content strategy.

The most important reason for getting a CMS is to help you execute a content strategy. Read more... Link