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What Ben Franklin Can Teach Us About Web CMS

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Philadelphia is a city dominated by the memory of Benjamin Franklin. Statues, memorials, tourist stops – seemingly everything in town honors this notable Founding Father. (The rest? That’s reserved mostly for the Philly cheesesteak.)
At the UPenn Wharton UI Conference I attended in late July (Big Ben founded UPenn, too) Franklin spoke from the hereafter to [...]

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How many CMS systems in YOUR organization?

I spent time last week at the UPenn Wharton UI Conference 2010 in Philadelphia, where I was treated to a session that was music to my ears.
“Your CMS is Not a Toaster,” led by Jen Yuan, an IT communications analyst in Penn’s IS and computing department, hit the nail on the head: CMS is NOT the [...]

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CMS is now feature complete

Great news folks, CMS is now officially complete. Stick a fork in it, it’s done.
Perhaps I’m reading too much here, but this tweet just came across my desk.

If you’re not familiar with Bryan Ruby, he tirelessly covers the CMS technology landscape on the CMS Report. From Alfresco to Zope, he channels a mountain of [...]

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The proverbial phase two

Part three in a four part series on the post launch paradigm
One of the hardest parts of a website project is figuring out what’s in scope and what’s not. If only we had an infinite supply of time, money and resources.
But hey, there’s always phase two, right?
Battle-tested web veterans let out a collective chuckle when [...]

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The Post Launch Paradigm

More than two weeks have passed since I spoke at J.Boye 2010 in Philadelphia on The Post Launch Paradigm with Lou Rosenfeld and Jeff MacIntyre. Our presentation was so hot, the fire alarm went off one slide into my bit. Unfortunately, that’s not a joke.
An ill timed distraction, but the building was in fact not [...]

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The ultimate CMS mix tape

After hours of tedious research across decades of music spanning all genres, we are proud to release our CMS Mix Tape (think John Cusack in High Fidelity). We believe it can go Platinum, but we’ll settle for Gold.
Our 15 handpicked songs strike at the emotional core of a web content management rollout. From the [...]

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Is CMS the Jan Brady of the C-Suite?

Organizations working toward web content management success often struggle with a management disconnect. CxOs are too busy driving the business to care about the nuts and bolts of the web or how it’s all governed. Meanwhile, folks in the trenches – marketing, IT, brand people – are doing heroic work, but often without the upper [...]

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Is WordPress a CMS?

So, here’s a question…is WordPress a CMS?
And be careful how you respond.
The debate hit Twitter tonight triggered by a relatively harmless Tweet from Dirk Shaw:

I’ve been a part of similar discussions on how WordPress can or can’t scale to support larger sites. It wasn’t until another vendor and a CMS evangelist piled on in [...]

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Our Department is Different!

If you’ve been through an enterprise CMS rollout, you’re probably familiar with these four simple words.
“Our department is different!”
This is a common and legitimate response from groups used to managing their own websites. They argue that their needs are so specific there is little chance a common template can work.
After all, while the CMS adds [...]

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Be thankful for your CMS

Ok, there are certainly more important things to be thankful for than a piece of technology.
But in the spirit of the holiday it’s nice to recognize all the good things web content management does for you.
Sure, CMS implementations are hard. Documentation may be less than stellar and those pesky WYSIWYG editors can give you anything [...]

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