Thoughts & Laughs from Gilbane Boston 2014
We're winding down a terrific first day at Gilbane 2014 in our hometown, Boston. With no promise of being complete or chronological, let's revisit some of the more thoughtful, interesting, and funny moments of the day! See you tomorrow? [View the story "Thoughts & Laughs…
$10,000 in free CMS consulting that could save your next project
One of my favorite panels at Gilbane is Stump the CMS Consultant where the audience poses hard questions to a battle-tested panel of CMS experts. The 2014 edition was especially good, moderated by Jarrod Gingras of Real Story Group and featuring Praveen Ramanathan, Anne Casson and Deane Barker.…
Gilbane 2014: Day One Best Bets
Many in the CMS industry mark their years by counting Gilbane conferences. I have fond memories of my first event in 2005, which means the 2014 edition will officially make it a decade of taxonomy talk and oversized vendor claims. Mainly I can trace Gilbane to some…
The “Not My Job” Myth
Personalization. I'm sure you've been hearing about it for a while now. But are you doing it? Lots of organizations have struggled to really embrace personalization. There are lots of misconceptions and few people willing to own and organize a new initiative. Personalization doesn’t happen by…
What Happens in Vegas Won’t Stay In Vegas!
We're in Vegas, baby! If you follow the world of CMS and haven't been glued to Apple's news all day, you surely know it's for Sitecore’s North American Symposium. The conference brings together Sitecore experts, developers, partners and customers from around the globe for two…
There’s no crying in content management
The team from Loyola University of Maryland gave a fantastic presentation at eduWeb 2014 in Baltimore about empowering authors for success with web publishing. April Arnold, Kimberly Hall and Amy Filardo co-presented on the case-study-driven story about how they wrangled more than 200 content authors from what was described…
174 days without a CMS incident
We welcome guest CMS Mythbuster Clint Lundmark to the blog. Clint oversees some large-scale CMS platforms in Portland, Oregon and literally has a sign in the office announcing the number of days without a CMS incident. Where there’s a sign, there’s a story and we…
Running First Meetings with Prospective Agency Partners
Part 3 of a 10 part series (The right digital agency partner can make or break your organization’s online success. And yet, unless you’re extremely lucky, your partner will only be as good as the process by which you find and select them. In this 10-part…
What You See Is Scrambled Eggs
As if this Friday couldn't get any better, Paul Ford just published a wicked-amusing account of his trials and tribulations wrestling with a WYSIWYG editor -- complete with a 484-character headline and some utterly necessary animated GIFs. Don't even bother reading our longwinded thoughts on why people hate their CMS. Paul…
The Inside Scoop on CMS at The New York Times
The publishing industry may be rethinking its business model, but this much we know -- It's dead serious about getting CMS right. The New York Times is the latest publisher to lift the veil on its digital publishing operations with a refreshingly open look at the platform it…