Gilbane Boston 09: Focus on Content, Collaboration and Customers

In the CMS world, December on the horizon also means the Gilbane Content Management Conference is coming quickly to Boston. And, we’re proud to say, The CMS Myth is an official media sponsor for the December 1-3 event at the Westin Copley Hotel.
Myth followers are entitled to a $200 event discount; simply use [...]

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What can three wise web monkeys teach us about CMS?

I’m in muggy Orlando for a few days to present at Synergy09, Ektron’s world-wide user conference. By good fortune, I sat next to web operations guru Lisa Welchman at lunch, and then caught her keynote on ‘the three wise web monkeys.’
I find myself nodding along to pretty much whatever Lisa says, and today was no [...]

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Machine Translation: Electric Car of the Language Services Industry?

The Obama Administration recently challenged the language services industry to achieve “automatic, highly accurate and real-time translation between the major languages of the world.”
It was a bold but reasonable statement, and one that directly challenges human translators and multilingual content professionals, whose work millions of people depend on to eliminate global language barriers. It has [...]

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The value of drop-in labs

Rolling out a new CMS is a challenging proposition. How you train and support your web authors can make or break the success of your CMS adoption and overall website.  Beyond training on new technology, each user brings a different level of technical experience, enthusiasm and available time.  Not to mention they all use the [...]

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In CMS agency search, are you commodity shopper or strategic investor?

The web content management consulting game can be rough and tumble for both the CMS service provider and client.  Speaking from an agency perspective, we see two very different types of organizations seeking CMS services – let’s call them the commodity shopper and the strategic investor.
If it sounds as if it’s all about price, it’s [...]

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CMS Marketing Suites: Sweeter in 2010?

With 2010 closing in, here’s one Web content management trend bound to make our predictions list for next year: You will tire of CMS vendors trying to sell you on their integrated marketing suites.
It’s easy to see the future when it’s happening now. This week alone, I count at least three CMS vendors pitching webinars, [...]

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Two Years On: Still Puncturing Myths & Taking Names

We started the CMS Myth two years ago, riding into the Boston Gilbane Content Management Conference wearing our white hats, guns blazing (sort of), and raising the alarm against an epidemic of poorly planned and ultimately failed web content management projects.
That’s pretty much been our focus for the past 24 months: take the combined 50+ [...]

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Is Your CMS Project a Dead Monkey?

Attempting to do a precise time and cost estimate at the very beginning of a CMS project can be a difficult if not a bad thing.  These type of estimates can come back to bite you, and they can bite hard.
At the heart of the problem statement is that someone—a client, a boss, a procurement [...]

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The increasing importance of global content accessibility

“For the the Internet to fulfill its most ambitious promises,
we need to recognize translation as one of the core challenges to an open,
shared and collectively governed Internet. Many of us share a vision of the
Internet as a place where the good ideas of any person in any country can
influence thought and opinion around the world. [...]

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Is interest in content management declining?

It feels like content management is alive and well, but a quick look at Google Trends indicates that search demand for content management has been on a steady decline over the last five years.
According to Google, search interest for  “content management” is down roughly 75% from five years ago.


A similar trend is apparent for “web content [...]

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