http://contentedmanagement.net/blog Become contented about Content Management Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:46:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en L'enfer, Jean-Paul Sartre tells us, c'est les autres. This is so commonly and simplistically mistranslated as "hell is other people" that it's become something of a fallacy. Hell for Sartre is not other people; it's others. It's about our faulty relationship with others and most particularly our psychological other, our ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/project-hell-is-others/ When you reach the end of a sprint, you look back and consider what went well, what went badly and what can be improved. There's a similar process for waterfall projects when you produce a lessons learned report to share with the rest of the PMO. While I'm sure you ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/2011-retrospectiv/ Some people seemed a bit miffed by my last post. All that silence and then I say their product's not as beautiful as some others. But as Arsène Wenger said, "Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home." Well I’m not in the business of software-bashing. I deal with clients ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/content-strategy-online-engagement/ SDL – who supply Tridion web content management – first announced it wanted to take over Alterian – purveyors of the CMS formerly known as Morello (Mediasurface) and Immediacy – in October. This week the Financial Times confirmed that an offer had been accepted. You can get the financial background ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/sdl-alterian-takeover/ The recent superinjunctions cases in England have highlighted one particular issue: you may have content that you want people to come to you for, but they can get it in lots of different places on the web. In this case a number of celebrities have sought to protect their privacy in ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/how-are-you-managing-your-reputation/ I can't help myself. It's New Year and that means some kind of retrospective, and indeed preview. I've been working a lot less with off-the-shelf CMS and doing a lot more work involving custom-built web applications. I've no idea if this is reflective of a wider market trend but I ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/my-threepence-for-2011/ I am going to make a point about content management and better websites, but bear with me. The web can be a really annoying place. But I found this tweet from Alain de Botton particularly ill-conceived: A chief effect of the internet is to boost the already unhelpfully strong sense that the ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/the-truth-about-content-management/ There are so many large websites which bear the curse of being CMS-driven rather than people-driven. It hangs like an albatross around the neck of visitors. We know that navigation structures and labels should reflect your audience rather than your organisation. But there's more to it than that. If you design ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/the-curse-of-wcm/ Austerity is on the agenda. Across Europe, business and governments are making cuts in spending. In the UK, this means a further "clampdown" on the number of central government websites, while many private sector organisations are looking to reduce the total cost of their web presence. Shareholders and taxpayers will applaud ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/culling-web-projects-in-the-age-of-austerity/ The new Premier League season is upon us in England and it was with some surprise that I noted Tottenham were being sponsored by Autonomy, purveyors of Bayesian probability and content management systems. Professional integrity dictates that I shouldn't exclude Autonomy from shortlists just because of who they sponsor, but this ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/wcm-season-preview/