Ditching RFPs and Creating a By-Invitation-Only Shortlist
Part 2 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…
Giddy about Governance at the U.S. Treasury Department
It's rare to hear organizations talk positively about shared services and governance models, but tuning into a recent episode of Federal News Radio, U.S. Treasury Department Chief Information Officer Robyn East speaks to the significant progress the department has made around enterprise content management specifically. Fierce…
The Auto-Magic Content Migration Myth
Few elements of a rolling out a new CMS driven website or redesign are overlooked during planning as often as content migration. I think there are a few reasons why this happens: Many project sponsors are still unaware of the critical importance of content strategy.…
Starting Right with a Plan to Win
Part 1 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 Things Your Prospective Digital Agency Partner Wishes You Knew
Time consuming. Unwieldy. Ineffective. In case we’re not being clear, we’re not big fans of how many organizations approach finding and selecting digital agency partners. Maybe you recall our 2012 rant about "Death by RFP"? In our experience, most start their selection process with great…
Catch the CMS Myth at J. Boye this year
I will be presenting at the J. Boye Conference on Thursday, May 8. My presentation "Digital Project Management and Content Strategy" will be from 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM. Description: After all these years building CMS driven websites, there is one thing I wish more…
CMS Myth Movers and Shakers
The entire team at The CMS Myth would like to extend heart-felt congratulations and good luck to friend and long time collaborator, John Eckman. This week John started the next phase of his career as the CEO of 10up. In case you're wondering where else…
An under the hood look at how WIRED.com approaches rearchitecting its CMS
How does a venerable publisher like WIRED.com evolve a website and CMS platform two decades in the making? That's the challenge WIRED.com's Director of Engineering Stefan Antonowicz described in a recent blog post foreshadowing changes happening under the hood to make WIRED.com "faster, more stable" and better able to…
Wrangling websites post launch at the Now What? Conference
I'm excited to be taking part in the 2014 Now What? Conference April 23-24 in bustling Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The two-day conference is exclusively focused on what happens after you launch a website. Longtime readers of the CMS Myth know this is a near and dear topic. Our agency even…
The design and build myth
Conventional wisdom about CMS-driven redesign projects says there are two primary phases to the work. First you design it, and then you build it. The design work includes important parts like user research, visual design, content, and information architecture. The build phase includes the heavy…