Hovering Over The Back Button

Next in my occasional series where I refer to a different to letter to the one in a TLA (after discussing the R in ECM) - I wondering if it's time we took the W out of CMS and thought about management and delivery as separate disciplines. I am not the first to think like this, obviously, but it's something I wanted to explore in this blog. [ read more ]

Last week was my first Gilbane conference as a Gilbane analyst, having in previous years only served variously as vendor booth bunny, guest speaker or panellist  and it was great to focus on meeting folks, listening to some great sessions and participating as a moderator and speaker.  Two and a half packed days, that stretched long into the evening  felt like a week and my new resolve to keep my blog posts short, could be tested - but I'm going to stick to a couple of key things... honest. [ read more ]

In the discussion of what ECM is, we've seen a few analogies lately of comparing ECM (Enterprise Content Management) with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)- me included. Most of this discussion is around the 'E' (such as this by Jon Marks) but I thought I'd have a look at the M. Management. Yes, yes.. I know there is no 'M' in ERP - but bear with me.. [ read more ]

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 sparked a Twitter conversation with the most learned of my fellow content management professionals - Philippe Parker (@proops) and Zahoor Hussain (@izahoor) and I started to feel that 140 chars wasn't cutting it and was inspired to blog. [ read more ]

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 something we've been talking about for six months or so and  one look at the industry heavy weights that have been there before gives me an idea of the responsibility ahead for all of us and these are exciting and challenging times for both membership organisations and the discipline of content management. [ read more ]

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 community waded into and included this post on CMS Myth arguing in favour and just about everyone arguing against... and crikey I might  not be standing next to my on-line friends on this - now Dirk knows what he's talking about, as a Vignette alumnus and blogger, maybe the key to the phrase he used is the word 'hardly' - could I suggest we should say 'barely''? [ read more ]

Forgive the cheesy title, but yes I gave a presentation at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TfMA) show last week where I talked about the place of content and in web or digital engagement. Or as marketing put it in the show guide synopsis:  "The importance of good content management and governance as a platform for engaging your website visitors" [ read more ]

It was recently reported in New Media Age, picked up by the Hubspot blog that Coca-Cola were moving their campaign sites from "traditional" websites to social media platforms and they are not alone, Pepsi recently created a stir as they announced a move from big budget Super Bowl ads to investing in their social media community. So what does this mean for "traditional" web content management? [ read more ]

I'm going to kick off 2010 with a blog post about Web Content Management, enough for now of my wittering on about my place in the social web or even web engagement. Content is still king and as I catch up with three weeks or so of my RSS reader, it seems that at the end of last year - the decade - that there was a new CMS blogging trend and it's for talking about trends, the CMS blogosphere was alive with predictions. All worthy of comment and I thought maybe I can chuck in some thoughts of my own. [ read more ]

I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don't normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest - cheesy - but, if you bear with me, I think I can do it. So, web content management, persuasive content, customer engagement and the holidays.... hmmm... [ read more ]