From the category archives:

Governance

Too few people are talking about what it takes to manage and govern a successful CMS project and web platform.

Avoiding content migration train wrecks

We’re back again with David Hobbs, author of the Website Migration Handbook. The first part of our conversation covered the fundamentals of website migration, but we pressed David to give us some of the gory details on migrations run amuck. Here’s the second half of our talk. OK David, let’s say that someone didn’t read [...]

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Tackling website migrations: An interview with David Hobbs

Website migrations are one of the most misunderstood and underestimated parts of a CMS project. Thankfully we have David Hobbs to help demystify the process. David is principle at David Hobbs Consulting, and a self described ‘Large Website Consultant’  helping clients get control of their website transformations, from strategy through implementation oversight. I met David many [...]

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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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Internal CMS users matter (a lot)

I’m not sure what rock I’ve been hiding under, but it took a @McBoof retweet for me to discover Michael Kowalski’s blog on CMS and User Experience called CMSISH. I clearly need to get across the pond more often in my blog reading. Michael has some solid takes, including his most recent post, Hey, agile [...]

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CMS MythBuster Lands at EduWeb 2011

As often as we can, we like to get out and about and dispense some solid web wisdom. This week, it’s Jeff Cram’s turn. You can find him (there’s still time) if you’re at the EduWeb 2011 Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Catch Jeff’s talk on The Digital Strategy Report Card: Is Your .EDU Passing [...]

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When CMS training goes bad (and makes international news)

Adweek reported on how a reporter for The Sunday Times in Perth, Australia had some fake stories accidently go live while training on their Fatwire Content Management System. Oops is right. One of the fake stories reported that Rupert Murdoch was married for a fourth time in a shotgun wedding to one of the newspaper’s [...]

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Avoiding the CMS Death Spiral

We’re on the receiving end of a lot of calls and requests from companies that, frankly, find themselves in dire straits over their web content management software implementations post-launch. (And when I say companies, I mean the web development manager or website owner whose job is on the line over a problematic CMS project. Their [...]

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CMS Wisdom from the Trenches

Sometimes, if you want to hear the unvarnished truth about web content management, you just have to go directly to the source. No, we’re not talking about the web CMS vendors (who all tend to wear the same set of rose colored glasses). We’re talking about the content creators, website administrators, site developers, web marketing [...]

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