In a note to their visitors, Eric Hellweg, Editorial Managing Editor of HarvardBusiness.org, highlighted some of the new site features:

“At HarvardBusiness.org, here are some of the new elements:

A sharper focus on the topics you care most about. You’ve told us a lot in the last couple years and have helped us hone our editorial focus on the topics of most interest to you. You’ll find expanded coverage in the core areas of Leadership, Strategy, Innovation, and a new section we’re calling “You at Work,” that will help you advance your ideas, your career, and your team.

Easier navigation through our full range of product offerings. We’ve organized the site with a more intuitive layout so that you will be able to see more of what we are creating on a daily basis. The new design makes it easier to access all of our offerings at Harvard Business Publishing including books, expert voices, interactive tools, case studies, video interviews, and podcasts.

Faster and more comprehensive search. Our new search functionality should allow you to find what you want a lot faster and more intuitively than before. By placing the search field front and center with an additional drop down menu we’ve streamlined the ability to narrow your search, eliminating a couple clicks.

Richer graphics. We’ve created room for richer graphics on the site that we hope will bring out the human element found in most management ideas.

Here’s what’s new at HBR.org:

Easier, faster access to more content. The “shuffle deck” navigation and “Current Issue” index front and center on the home page should make it easier to navigate the site and discover the content that’s most useful to you. Improved search functionality and new article collections will make it easier to tap into HBR’s 2,500 + digital article archive and new interactive elements.

More up-to-date content. You’ll see more timely and frequent updates to the site that will help you apply HBR concepts to your daily business and management challenges. Regular perspectives from the HBR Editors’ Blog, podcasts, and videos will help you stay current–even when you’re short on time.

New features to help you use HBR ideas more effectively. In the redesigned article pages, you’ll find In Brief summaries that help you grasp key ideas quickly and apply them in your own company or career. Interactive tools and video interviews give additional perspective and guidance.”

In the months ahead, we plan on rolling out additional improvements to both HarvardBusiness.org and HBR.org. These will include a streamlined shopping and checkout process, a further enhanced search, community offerings, and more.

Another major victory for enterprise-grade, commercial open source software.

As Matt Asay points out, this is a community effort that will combine Red Hat’s efforts with that of its most experienced JBoss system integrators, as no one tool or process can cover the gamut of app server/portal/content migration. This type of communtiy effort represents the essence of collaborative open source development.

So it’s always great to see public recognition of leading enterprise open source platforms, especially when it comes from the likes of Gartner.

As Liferay’s CEO Brian Cheung points out, Gartner has recognized Liferay in two of its Magic Quadrants, Horizontal Portals and Social Software.

Well deserved.

Rivet Logic Selected as Alfresco Surf First Wave Partner

We’re proud to be selected by Alfresco as a Surf First Wave Partner. Our engineers have been looking under the hood of a pre-release version of Surf for the last few months, and are quite excited about what it brings to the table for developing certain types of dynamic websites and content-centric web applications. Russ posted his initial thoughts on Surf here.

To learn more, we’ll be hosting and leading an Alfresco Surf Code next month. Register here.

A few months ago we first announced the start of this project, which was partially funded by a grant to our client (New Gravity Ventures) from the Facebook Fund.

Leveraging open source software from the likes of Alfresco, JBoss, and Ingres, Connected Weddings offers engaged couples on Facebook:

- Free Personal Wedding Website
- Seating chart that uses your Facebook Friend List!
- To-do list with over 150 of predefined tasks
- Gowns, tips, articles and much more

In addition to the Facebook version, there’s also an iPhone edition as well.

Learn more from our recently published Case Study: ConnectedWeddings: A first-of-its-kind
Alfresco-based application for Facebook

Learn more from our new Case Study: CCSSO Increases Project Efficiency Through Open Source Content Management and Collaboration.

Should be a great show.

- Next Generation Web Applications with JBoss Seam, Richfaces, AJAX, Facelets, Portal, and more.
- Integration and SOA with JBoss’s new SOA platform that includes JBoss jBPM, ESB, and Rules
- Core technologies such as EJB3, Hibernate, and Cache
- Security and Management of large-scale, enterprise deployments

This is the largest JBoss World event yet, with almost 800 attendees. In our booth we’ve been showing off new web applications built with JBoss Seam/Facelets backed by the Alfresco content management platform and jBPM. Definitely a lot of excitement about using these technologies for next generation Enterprise 2.0 applications.

Working with the outstanding team at Kaplan, we used the JBoss Application Framework (including JBoss Seam) and the Alfresco Web Content Management platform to dramatically improve web operations, increase website performance, and decrease cost.

 Read more about it here.

It took IBM/Filenet over 25 years  to get close to this number of installations, whereas Alfresco has done it in 2 years.

What an awesome testament to the power of open source.