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Web Content Migration: Don’t Cry Over Sour Milk

I really like Gerry McGovern (why didn’t I look him up while I was in Ireland?); he always hits the nail on the head. And he drove it home again in his recent post Web content migration: disastrous strategy.
So many organizations think that a new technology solution will fix an old business problem. The only [...]

Preserving Media

As we (OK, me) get older we start to think about the stuff we accumulate. Personally, I have 4 large totes (those plastic boxes with the two-part lid) filled with my life’s work. It goes back more than 20 years to television programs I shot in grad school. I’ve always kept them in the house, [...]

Your Lean, Mean Web Content Management Machine

(The following is derived from conference proposal I submitted.)
Implementing a web content management system can be a long and painful process. By the time you send an RFP, review vendors, make a selection, refine requirements and specs, configure the tool, develop custom functionality and, well, everything else, you’re done. You’re really finished! When you hear [...]

User Generated Content is a Myth

Who thinks of these terms? And why do we let them? User Generated Content (UGC) is less the buzzword than it was, oh say, 6 months ago. But I have yet to read anyone setting the record straight. So here goes: User Generated Content is a Myth. Beyond being a myth, User Generated Content is [...]

Tending Your CMS Garden

Jim Howard at CMS Watch has written the article I wished I had all about operating a content management system once it has been implemented. Here here! (CMS Watch is a great resource for this kind of stuff. That’s why it’s over in the ‘roll.)
Not all too often, (actually almost always,) a CMS is installed [...]

Choosing a Content Management System

Seth Gottlieb over at Enter Content Here has a very good, succinct post on choosing a content management system (CMS). Don’t know whether this topic is getting some recent traction because people are trying to spend money at the end of the fiscal year or planning to spend money next fiscal year.
I think an important [...]

What to Know About Your Audiences

Bob Boiko, author of the Content Management Bible, has an excerpt from his forthcoming ebook about audience analysis in the latest Content Management Professionals (CM Pros) August 2006 newsletter.
I’m not sure I could have added much to his take on audience analysis. But without a good answer to “What do I want achieve?” you can’t [...]