Posts Tagged ‘Content Management Systems;’
Gilbane 2011 – All the cool web kids are social, is your CMS ready to hang with them?
This week I had the pleasure of returning to an old haunt as I was asked to present at Gilbane Boston.
I say ‘old haunt’ as I was actually completely blindsided by the fact it was not at the Westin in Copley Place – which, by my reckoning, it had been there since before Vignette was founded (or when we were all children). Therefore my cunning plan to stay in my current favorite reasonably priced hotel in Boston (the Colonnade), positioned just outside the Copley place action was a bad one.
Anyway, besides my mistake, the venue was actually great and better than the half mall/half hotel that is Copley...
.....but this is not a travelogue, I am here to write about my presentation.
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Throwing The Vendor Baby Out With The Implementation Bath Water?
February 4th, 2011 - 8:11 pm § in Observations | | 6 Comments
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 a tools problem.
Also, I confess having been in sales situations as a vendor that have preyed on the fact that an organization perceived that their incumbent product couldn't do x, y or z when, in truth you can be fairly sure something has gone wrong along the way.
Yes, we are in an industry that is driven by change, of the next best thing, but.. I just want to take a moment and think about the merits of sticking with what we have...
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The Answer to Every Web Content Publishing Problem Is a Bicycle?
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 chance encounter of a fellow simultaneously riding a bicycle, carrying a suitcase dicing with death in the Oxford traffic.
Which kind of encapsulated a few thoughts I’ve had recently about all this big community generated hype. Now, calm down drupalists I am not suggesting that Drupal is as limited in purpose as a bicycle, I'm using it to represent popularity, ubiquity and availability.
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Who Will Buy This Web Engagement?
December 23rd, 2010 - 3:18 pm § in Content Management, Gilbane, Observations, The Engagement Tier | | 11 Comments
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 I anticipate to be a fine lunch could be an old movie that I think will entertain the girls - the musical Oliver!. In it they sing “Who will buy”, something I have been hearing on blogs and twitter about Web Engagement.
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First Gilbane Paper and Dirty Plates
August has been a busy month, hence this neglected blog – but I have been unchained from my desk as I am pleased to say that my first paper for Gilbane has been published. In a departure from my normal web engagement wittering, I have the opportunity to get serious with the meaty subject of website governance / content compliance.
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Taking the W out of CMS?
June 24th, 2010 - 10:46 pm § in The Engagement Tier | | 8 Comments
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.
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CMS – The Knowledge Workers Industrial Revolution?
April 12th, 2010 - 4:11 pm § in Observations | | 1 Comment
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.
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Is WordPress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?
March 3rd, 2010 - 2:54 pm § in Observations | | 12 Comments
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''?
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On Strategy, Twinterviews and Haiku
I think we can safely say that the last two week have been quite lively for Alterian Content Manager, as after an incubation with partners, customers and analysts we took our product strategy and roadmap to the social web. I've tweeted, interviewed, commented, posted and now (finally) blogged our message to the CMS community – I say “we took” but @janusboye certainly had a hand in igniting it.
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Joining the Trend for WCM Trends
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.
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About Me
Hi, I'm Ian Truscott, VP Products, North America - SDL Tridion - passionate about web content management and how we engage with folks on-line.
Yes, my work defines me - or does it? Read more about me here or get in touch.
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