What is CMS? Content Management Systems are defines as software designed to simplify the publication and editing of Web content. CMS simply enables content creators to submit content without requiring the knowledge of HTML coding or the uploading of files. A CMS is most commonly used in establishing a presence on the Web. CMS software keeps track of all of the content on a Web site. This Content can include simple text, photos, music, video, and documents. The greatest advantage of using a CMS is that it virtually requires little skill or knowledge to manage a website.

Here are The Top 10 Content Management Systems to Help you Maintain your Website with Ease:

1. Joomla: The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, printable versions of pages, RSS feeds, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

Joomla! is used to power all different types of Web sites including corporate intranets, online magazines, newspapers and publications, as well as e-commerce, and government applications. Non-commercial usage is also popular. Key features include: completely database driven site engines,News, products, or services sections fully editable and manageable, topics sections can be added to by contributing Authors,fully customizable layouts including left, center, and right Menu boxes, browser upload of images to your own library for use anywhere in the site, and dynamic forum / poll / Voting booth for on-the-spot results.

2. WordPress: Not just used for blogging anymore, WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. It is free to use for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee or design price.

3. Drupal Platform: Drupal is a free and open-source platform and content management system written in PHP for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content sharing purposes.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features and configurability, Drupal can support a diverse range of web projects ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven sites.

This software can be used for community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites, personal web sites or blogs, E-commerce applications, resource directories, and social networking websites.

4. CMS Made Simple: CMS Made Simple is an easy-to-use content management system (CMS) for simple, stable content sites. It is used all over the world for simple websites, as well as more complex corporate applications.

It provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents. Unlike many other CMS packages, it is not overly complex, and the software is not just for blogs. The software provides the ability to manage news articles, search functionality a contact form, a WYSIWYG editor (for your customers or editors) and numerous other built in functions. Additionally, there are hundreds of third party add-on tools that are quickly and easily installable to allow building websites with many different capabilities.

5. dotCMS- include features you might expect in a complete CMS, including true separation of content and design, ease of editing, page caching, advanced templating, this software also includes many features you might not expect such as a Web2.0 calendar and events management, e-communications tools and more. This is truly CMS at its best.

dotCMS is fully supported and has been deployed by thousands of companies, news organizations, Web 2.0 sites, universities, associations and foundations.

6. miaCMS: Lets you build powerful and standards-compliant Web sites in a matter of minutes. It features simple installation, graphical content editors (with automatic code generation), RSS content syndication, an extension system, flexible site theming capabilities, site searching, user management, and multilingual support.

7. Mambo: This sofware can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It is used to power government portals, corporate intranets and extranets, ecommerce sites, nonprofit, schools, church, and community sites. The great features of this software include: easy to install, hundreds of extensions, plugins and add-on products, simple for non-technical users to create and update content through an intuitive, web browser-based editor, fully localised with language management, and customizable.

8. Textpattern: Designed to help overcome the hurdles in publishing online, and to simplify the production of well-structured, standards-compliant web pages. The features of this CMS is endless, but here a few; Unlimited site sections, integrated link management system with unlimited article, link, file and image categories, browser-based file and image upload & organization, fast intuitive editing of articles, links, comments, page elements Posting, editing & design privileges hierarchy, unlimited site authors, browser-based plugin installation and maintenance, import content from other content management system, and built-in search engine.

9. Pluck: This CMS focuses on user friendliness and enables non-technical people to manage a website. Key features include: create an unlimited amount of pages, Insert images in pages, create your own blog, create an album to show images or photos to your visitors, keep in touch with visitors by including email forms on pages, and the ability to change site information, for better results with search engines

10. Frog CMS: This program is known as CMS Simplified. Some of the great features include: unlimited hierarchically structured page navigation menu, drag and drop page ordering, flexible page content (body, sidebar, extended, summary), per page layout customization, simple and reusable content snippets, password protected administration, Simple user and permission management, and much more.

You may dismiss it as a website for attention-deprived teenagers with an interest in strange cats, but YouTube, and other video sharing services like it, have the potential to change the way you communicate.

As well as opening up a new and exciting channel for corporate communicators, these sites are part of an online revolution that will place great demands on organizations over the coming years and will, for some, threaten their very existence. Think I’m exaggerating? Read on…

YouTube, the king of the video sharing websites, is a phenomenon. Just look at the numbers – every day 100 million videos are viewed and 65,000 new clips are added to the website. It boasts 20million unique users every month and is estimated to account for 60% of all videos watched online. And before you dismiss it as a site for American kids, note that more than a third of the site’s users are over 35 and upwards of 3.5million of them are British.

Those statistics are reason enough for communicators to sit up and pay attention.

Another reason is its enormous impact. The site has been around for just few years and, during that time, has shown millions of people what to do with a packet of Mentos and a bottle of Diet Coke, turned a lonely teenager into a global celebrity, been used by unions to attack big business, embarrassed the Scottish First Minister and claimed the scalp of a US senator. Whilst much of its content may be pure titillation, some of it is very serious indeed.

In less than two years YouTube has gone from being a bright idea at a Silicon Valley dinner party, to being named Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year for 2006. And although the business has yet to make a profit, it has already made two twenty something guys very rich indeed – in October YouTube was sold to Google for a staggering $1.65bn. Not bad for a new media toddler.

It’s a viral thing
So what has made YouTube such a runaway success?

For many, the answer is its viral nature – people discover obscure videos they like, alert their friends by email and these messages are then forwarded again and again, driving impressive viewing figures. It is this ‘virtual chatter’ between contacts that keeps the internet buzzing.

YouTube is part of a phenomenon that has become known collectively as the social media or ‘Web2.0′. The buzzwords are used to describe the current generation of web-based services that emphasize online collaboration, user-generated content and file sharing. In contrast to the static, brochure-ware web of the past, the new style ‘conversational web’ is being created and driven by ordinary people. As such, video sharing is an extension of the same trend that has seen an explosion in the number of blogs (written word) and podcasts (spoken word) that are being produced.

The popularity of online video has been fueled by the rapid growth in broadband internet access (about a third of UK households currently have broadband access, with that figure set to more than double by the end of 2009) and the availability of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices (video-ready iPods and mobile phones are now becoming commonplace).

These developments show no signs of slowing down and it won’t be long before web-based content begins to threaten the traditional/mainstream media (one of the reasons Rupert Murdoch recently forked out $580m for the social networking site MySpace). Make no mistakes – online video is here to stay and it will quickly become a core communication channel for all sorts of organizations.

Have you ever heard of Hubpages? You know I probably should have, but I had not heard of them until I happened to open up an email that looked intriguing and read about HubPages – hubbers and a whole range of interesting things.

So if you have heard of this phenomenon then your one step ahead of me on this one. If you haven’t let me explain what the rage is all about…

HubPages is an Internet community (web2.0) where users can publish content and gain information about specific subjects. It was first rolled out in 2006 and has been gaining popularity at quite a rapid rate.

As a matter of fact:

? HubPages has a Google Page Ranking of 6

? Google Loves HubPages – it is looked at as authoritative.

? HubPages has more than 56,000 links coming in from yahoo

? Alex Ranking is 220

What does this mean to you?

When you become part of the community on HubPages you will be able to increase the SEO standing on your websites and blogs by strategically placing back links to your online businesses.

You can also pump up your affiliate marketing revenues – and make extra money with AdSense…

But how, you may be asking?

You do it by going onto HubPages, registering and making Hubs of your own. Hubs are essentially articles on virtually anything you would like to write articles on. You can write articles on your interests, your business, your expertise…

I am sure you can see where I am going with this, in a marketing sense this is as good as gold, you are establishing yourself as the expert while gaining a following and linking back to your website – blogs and RSS Feeds…

This makes you a hubber, HubPages is user friendly, which is something I cannot say about a lot of the web2.0 sites I am looking into.

One of the unique things about HubPages is its ranking system. Each hub or article have a ranking between 0-100, hub scores and total number of hubs created are taken into account when the hubs are ranked.

Oh no, I can just hear you now, how can I write yet another article I have the answer !! You can recycle some of the articles you write in your blogs and make them into hubs, that will make your life a little easier and perhaps get the word out about you a little faster.

As a matter of fact, that is exactly what I have done on a few my hubs…

As with learning anything it is great to be able to look at the actual item and see what I am talking about below you will find a list of hubs I have really enjoyed, and may be profitable for you as well!

Sign-up you too can earn money take a look, go to http://www.hubpages.com my name on the site is Creating Wealth look me up and say hi!