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Localization – Do You Know the Dutch?

February 15th, 2011 - 8:35 am in Content Management, Observations

Late last year, I was on a business trip to do a keynote speech Amsterdam. Over dinner the night before I was asked a really interesting question - 'Do you know the Dutch?' Notice the 'the' in the [ read more ]

Throwing The Vendor Baby Out With The Implementation Bath Water?

February 4th, 2011 - 8:11 pm in Observations

This is a post that I've been meaning to write for a while. having seen plenty of examples over the years of web content management replacement projects and a common perception that any problem is [ read more ]

The Answer to Every Web Content Publishing Problem Is a Bicycle?

January 12th, 2011 - 1:44 pm in Content Management, Observations

A couple of things have inspired this post, firstly Quora’s insistence that the answer to every CMS question is Drupal, (actually more correctly the communities answer to every question) and a [ read more ]

Who Will Buy This Web Engagement?

December 23rd, 2010 - 3:18 pm in Content Management, Gilbane, Observations, The Engagement Tier

As the holidays approach, my SKY+ hard disk (PVR/Tivo thing) is brimming with movies ready for the onset of quality time with my young family. Perhaps our viewing pleasure as I recuperated from what [ read more ]

Web Engagement – The Emperor’s New Clothes?

December 5th, 2010 - 7:09 pm in Content Management, Gilbane, The Engagement Tier

Recently I've been seeing 'an examination' shall we say of the term Web Engagement Management and the acronym WEM. There is a suggestion that it's a figment of the fervid imaginations of software [ read more ]

Content vs Conversation – no.. email is not a CMS…

November 9th, 2010 - 11:04 pm in Observations

I've just had a great conversation with a new Gilbane client (a really switched on bunch of folks) and one of the guys used the expression "content vs conversation" when talking about the way [ read more ]