Hovering Over The Back Button

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 accustomed to change, in the last twenty two years (OK, I started young and didn't get an education!) I've only worked for five different employers (and the first eight years was as a public servant) - every year has thrown up new opportunities and change. (I've written a little bit about the start of my career here). But this is different, I am really excited about making a significant, possibly life changing move - having spent the last 15 years representing a vendor - I'm leaving the tribes and just maybe becoming a real boy. [ read more ]

At the beginning of last week a CMS 'meme' broke out, where CMS vendor bloggers were challenged to reveal something about their products functionality and then tag other vendors to do similar. Day kicked this off from their developer site using a set of questions posted by Kas Thomas at CMS Watch, In this post, I make a belated Alterian contribution. [ read more ]

After a short period of fevered speculation our potential acquirer was announced on Friday as Alterian plc - I say potential as it's subject to all the customary closing conditions which are likely to take six weeks to complete. [ read more ]