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On the Jon Marks EPFDW Dilemma

April 22nd, 2010 - 3:20 pm in Observations

Jon Marks (@mcboof) has set a challenge to vendors on his blog - to prioritize various elements of what makes a great CMS product, to choose between Editors, Performance, Features, Developers and [ read more ]

CMS – The Knowledge Workers Industrial Revolution?

April 12th, 2010 - 4:11 pm in Observations

Last week it was reported in the UK press that journalists for a local newspaper are going to strike over the implementation of a Content Management System. I found this really interesting and it [ read more ]

Leaving the Tribes and Becoming a Real Boy

April 8th, 2010 - 8:24 pm in Observations

As you probably know, last week I left Alterian, a marketing platform vendor (who just over 18 months ago acquired my previous WCM vendor employer Mediasurface) for The Gilbane Group. Whilst, I'm [ read more ]

Onboard the Board at CMPros!

March 11th, 2010 - 12:08 pm in CMPros

Last week I was proud to be voted onto the board at CM Pros, to join a pretty new board under the presidency of Scott Liewehr to take this respected community of practice organisation forward. It's [ read more ]

Is WordPress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?

March 3rd, 2010 - 2:54 pm in Content Management, Observations, Web Engagement

The perennial "what is a CMS" debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, "I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system." that many of our CMS [ read more ]