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Jake DiMare

How to staff a winning CMS team

Our beloved Red Sox pitchers and catchers just reported to spring training in sunny Florida. As the team starts to assemble its opening day roster, it begs the natural question for a CMS Mythbuster: Who is on your CMS roster? Anyone planning a web content management system implementation has to think through who needs to [...]

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Why project management matters…

Last weekend I and fellow CMS Mythbuster John Eckman braved a snowstorm to attend the 2012 Western Massachusetts Drupal Camp. John gave a talk on a recent higher-ed project using Drupal and Kaltura. The day was filled with informative sessions on a number of different topics including a fantastic hour on the basics of Linux and [...]

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What can millennials teach us about the future of content management?

I recently had the opportunity to spend time discussing content management systems with a group of millennial students at a large prestigious university. We are building a new CMS driven website for one of the institutions on campus, and the students will be regular content contributors. My objective was to determine their expectations for the [...]

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Clichés and the cost of content contributors

We recently kicked off the first phase of a project to migrate a massive web property from one CMS platform to another. The site, a publishing platform for a widely recognized codes and standards organization, houses dozens of unique content types and tens of thousands of individual content items. An important client stakeholder recently indicated [...]

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Rethinking Online Video Content Management

A couple of weeks ago CMS Myth attended the 2011 FutureM conference in Boston/Cambridge, MA. The event kicked off with a well attended Higher Ed panel moderated by none other than head CMS Mythbuster and ISITE Design Chief Strategy Officer, Jeff Cram. The official title of the panel was  “Beyond the University Website: The Future of [...]

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CMS MythBuster Report @DevCon2011

I recently attended the DevCon5 conference in New York City. Although billed as an HTML5 Developers and Designers conference, it had very little to do with HTML5 specifically. Instead, there were a number of useful and informative sessions on a variety of new technologies transforming the intersection of web and mobile. While there I divided [...]

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