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

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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Pain-Free CMS, UX Wisdom and Measurement Magic at Gilbane Boston

The CMS Mythbusters here at ISITE Design have our bags packed and are ready to take the not-so-long trip across the Charles River to the Gilbane Boston 2010 Conference this week. If you’re going, look us up: we’ll be holding court on Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 1-2) at our ISITE booth in the Expo Hall, where [...]

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Share your CMS wisdom (and win an iPad)

As CMS Mythbusters, we’re not shy about speaking up about the ups and downs of working with web content management. We’ve been blogging about it for the last few years here. And now we want to hear from you. We’re organizing our first annual CMS Wisdom Report, a collection of stories, tips and lessons learned [...]

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Introducing the Home Page GM

We’ve written a lot here at the CMS Myth about how senior execs must be tuned in to their company’s digital strategy, and not just offer lip service. It requires an organizational shift in mindset. It needs a real budget commitment. And it needs the right people in new positions to make an impact and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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