http://contentedmanagement.net/blog Become contented about Content Management Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:05:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Delivery has been uppermost in my mind recently. My wife is expecting a second child but this one decided he doesn't want to head in the right direction. Next week he'll be "from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd". Consequently I've been thinking heavily both about caesarean delivery and about a ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/is-my-project-management-useful/ I've recently been working on a number of web content management system selections. My preference is to carry these out in a two-stage process (see the one-sheet guide to selecting a WCM). The first stage pre-qualifies suppliers according to client attitudes to cost, risk and technological preferences. The second stage ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/what-makes-different-wcm-different/ Janus Boye recently provoked an indignant response from the Twitterati when he proclaimed that he unfollows anyone with more tweets than followers. You should read the comments to gauge the general feelings about that view. It provoked some reflection on my part — which I guess Janus will say was ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings/ Jon Marks recently ran a CMS haiku competition on Twitter. It had some worthy winners, but the 140 character constraints proved too much of a limitation for other forms of verse. So, I thought I'd try a sonnet. Shall I compare thee to CQ5 Day Complete with JCR? Or to software Suites from EMC ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/from-bad-cms-to-verse/ Last week, Acquia launched Drupal Gardens in beta. Speculation might have been more feverish had this not been on the same day as some company in Cupertino launched a new gadget. Nevertheless, Acquia's offering is worth a second look. Gardens is effectively Drupal 7 as a service: WCM hosted on the ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/drupal-gardens/ How many websites these days are purely content-driven? It's hard to justify brochureware sites. How many people do business with you just because your website looks pretty? Organisations want websites that either generate an income or reduce pressure on more costly channels, like call centres. That means transactional web applications, not ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/when-wcm-isnt-enough/ The future of the web is mobile. And by mobile I don't mean mobile phones. I mean browsing through devices that people carry around with them. All these devices, irrespective of form factor, have a common problem: they are prone to lose connectivity to the internet. If you're on the move ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/the-future-of-the-web-is-javascript/ What sort of editorial model do you follow for your web content management? Do you try to get as many as possible hands-on, or do you run everything through a centralised editorial team? It's ironic that WCMS which enable you to perform more advanced content management provide tools that you probably ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/devolving-complexity/ J. Boye's 2009 Arhus conference was a learned and often humorous affair. The biggest lesson I brought back from Denmark was just how far away all of us who work in the industry — website managers, technologists, vendors, consultants — are from having good web content management. Alas, poor clients How many ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/something-rotten-in-wcm/ Google Wave is a browser-based collaboration tool that combines messaging, document writing and discussions in real time. I participated by proxy in an experiment with the tool last week that involved fellow content management professionals. These are my observations. Saying is easier than listening. In many ways the collaboration was too real ... http://contentedmanagement.net/blog/bove-the-contentious-waves-he-kept/