Posts Tagged ‘United States;’

Back Up to the Plate

March 5th, 2011 - 4:59 pm § in Observations | | 9 Comments
So… around a year ago I was merrily blogging that I had left the vendor tribes and become a real boy as I became an affiliate analyst for Outsell’s Gilbane Group and looked forward to a change of life and a future of evangelizing and commentating on our business. Slightly shy of a year, I am again blogging about a change of life, as this week I re-joined the vendor community to become VP Products, North America for SDL Tridion. [ read more ]

On Shanty Towns, Bulldozers, Cats and Website Consolidation…

September 21st, 2010 - 7:10 pm § in Content Management, Gilbane | | 1 Comment
This blog post is inspired by an excellent conversation I had with my colleague Scott Liewehr a few days ago, about the challenges of managing multiple sites – that ended with the comment “that sounds like a great blog post”. So here we are, while the inspiration is still warm - allow me to wheel out an old hobby horse of mine and give it a couple of laps of the yard – not sure I can claim great blog post but.. here goes… [ read more ]

Christmas.. I mean Holiday Blog Post

December 24th, 2009 - 1:18 pm § in Persuasive Content, Web Engagement, Writing Content | | No Comments
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 ]

Personal Brand or Not Wanting to Looking Like a Total Cock

July 22nd, 2009 - 6:39 pm § in Observations | | 2 Comments
When reading and talking about Social Media I see a lot of conversations about Personal Brand. Discussion about strategies, building and maintaining your 'PB', of who you should try to be, who defines your PB (is it you, your audience, your company?), when, in real life, whisper it quietly, the aspiration for most people I talk to is, "Not wanting to looking like a total c**k". [ read more ]

A Meme Challenge – 10 things about me

April 15th, 2009 - 9:09 am § in Observations | | 7 Comments
Kas Thomas has been at it again, this time throwing down a personal meme gauntlet, by sharing 10 things about himself and tagging his blogroll to do the same, but I carelessly tweeted about it and soon him and Irina Guseva tagged me and having been double dared - now I am in. So... here are 10 things about me... [ read more ]

The Green Content Management Machine

February 13th, 2009 - 2:54 pm § in Content Management | | No Comments
Having been quoted in EContent magazine, discussing the positive impact of CMS on Green Computing strategies, I thought I'd develop this into a fuller blog post. - How do Content Management Systems help with today's green IT strategies?  In a break to my recent focus on my experience with the Social Web.... it's back the the CMS.  [ read more ]

Who am I – Part II

February 7th, 2009 - 5:49 am § in Observations | | 2 Comments
Inspired by a tweet by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) about people creating two Facebook accounts for business and personal, plus the resulting feedback from my colleague Joe Stanhope (@joestanhope) got me thinking about my previous post on who is the online me? [ read more ]