Updated Site!

We've updated the Blue Hue CMS site. You can check it out here: http://bluehuecms.com

We've also started rolling out the rest of the microsites. First out is BlueHueVideo.com Head on over and check out our award-winning video services.

The Internet Marketing and 1:1 Marketing sites are rolling out as well as Blue Hue Commerce. Closely followed by SEO and finally Web Design. I'll keep you posted with launches and URLs soon!

The Microsites Are Finally Arriving

Well, after an insane effort on everyone's part, we are going to start rolling out microsites this week. The first will be BlueHueVideo.com followed closely by a revamped(slightly) BlueHueCMS.com. I will post again once we have the final release schedule ready.

We've also started to solidify plans for CMS 2.0 and I'm very excited for what is coming(and you should be too!). Again I will post more when we have all the details worked out internally.

I will also be doing some minor upgrades to the current CMS once the microsites are up and running and we have the roadmap done for 2.0.(yeah, I'm a busy fellow). I will be adding in a "Tweet This" option, as well as social medial link options for the publisher(digg, delicious, retweet, etc) so i'll keep you posted on all that as well(i'll probably sleep sometime in july i would bet.)

Quick update on things

I've been out of town this last week getting some seriously needed r&r but I'm back on the job. We are taking time to work on some internal marketing initiatives that include putting all of our internal sites into Blue Hue CMS. After that I'll be sitting down to iron out the CMS roadmap. Not sure if that is something we'll be posting on the site or not but it's getting done this week and I'm pretty excited about some of the unique functionality we'll be adding in 2009. In the coming weeks we'll also be posting some sort of knowledgebase/wiki about the CMS. Not exactly sure on the actual method yet, but either way we'll be getting some sort of documentation up on the site very soon and a way users will be able to get more detailed info on the how's/why's of everything.

That's all for now.

BlueHueCMS.com

Well the site is at about 90% right now but I'll say it's close enough for jazz at this point. You can check it out at http://www.bluehuecms.com

There is a lot to be done still, mainly a demo subdomain where you can go log-in and play around with the ever-growing feature set. The best part about being a smaller development team is flexibility and speed to market. Last week social networking was months away on the roadmap, today we're only a couple weeks away from total integration with Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Blogger, Wordpress, and more.

I'll keep you posted about the demo site, as well as the big 2.0 framework update that we'll be pushing out sometime relatively soon.

Twitter Integration?

Why yes, it looks like that is happening sooner than later. I started playing today and it seems as if the Twitter API is much easier to use than I had imagined. I already have a test page where I am able to update a twitter status, so it won't take much to integrate that basic functionality into the CMS.

"...ok, but why??"

Well, my main reasoning behind this is simple. You just got done posting a new page for..whatever, a sale, an event, fun pictures, whatever it is you do anyway, and you need to let people know. so? simple solution, put a "tweet this" button there that will post the url to that page. you can even add a quick description before posting it. easy. you don't even need to leave the CMS to let people know there is new content on your site. That is the whole point after all ;-)

Blue Hue CMS

It's the first official blog post from Blue Hue CMS! My name is Jeremy and I'm the lead developer for Blue Hue Interactive's content management solution. I'll be maintaining this just as a means to connect with current users, as well as people interested in Blue Hue CMS, and anyone who has a general interested in content management. The content will be varied and will include everything from product announcements to programming issues and solutions to general content management information. I will try to post here at least a couple times per week if not more so check back often for updates, or simply add this to your RSS feed. You can also follow us on Schmownce and Twitter.