Bringing Some Clarity to Digital Disruption
Here at the CMS Myth and Connective DX, we’re big fans of anyone who believes, as we do, that the “software” part of web content management software makes up only part of the solution. Mention CMS in the same breath as web strategy, customer experience,…
Don’t You Want Me?
One of my all-time favorite story songs from the 80s, The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" was released in 1981, and was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. Check out the heavy guyliner in the video: The story reminds me…
The Way You Do The Things You Do: Content Management’s Greatest Hits
This week's entry continues the Motown connection with the Temptation's 1964 classic "The Way You Do The Things You Do": (more…)
Come party with the cool content kids in Boston
The web celebs are rolling into Boston this week for An Event Apart. We’re talking the big guns of Zeldman, Wroblewski and Spool, among others. It’s (of course) sold out, but fear not -- Content Strategy New England convinced Karen McGrane and Josh Clark to…
Money / I’m Free: Content Management’s Greatest Hits
This week Content Management's Greatest Hits highlights a pair of songs representing the (seemingly interminable) debate between proprietary and open source solutions, and featuring the leading bands of the British invasion, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones: Money (That's What I Want) I'm Free (more…)
So Happy Together
(Content Strategists and Project Managers are)
The dust has finally settled on "CMS Mythbuster May" -when we attended, and spoke at, CMS Expo, JBoye, and Confab. What a month! The CMS Myth team has had some time to relax and reflect on everything we learned, which was a lot. One theme…
Trouble: Content Management’s Greatest Hits
The latest in an occasional series about great songs interpreted as though they were about content management. There’s a great commercial from Travelers Insurance starring a nervous white dog that can’t find a safe place to hide his bone. He tries – oh how he…
Under Pressure: Content Management’s Greatest Hits
Today we're introducing a new series at the CMS Myth: Content Management's Greatest Hits. You may remember the Ultimate CMS Mixtape from 2010. In this series of posts we'll extend that collection, hopefully without too many retreads. (How many greatest hits collections do you have…
The Myth of the Perfect Content Strategy Methodology
I had the pleasure of attending Confab2012 this past week where, as a conference newbie, my brain was overloaded with content strategy takeaways and insights. I even got to share my perspective on my first 100 days as a content strategist during an 8 minute…
The best 25 tweets from Jboye 2012 Philadelphia
I thoroughly enjoyed the JBoye event in Philadelphia this year. It stands out for its intimacy and genuine peer networking around the topics of digital strategy, user experience and content management. Very few folks are there to sell you anything. A refreshing change from the conference circuit.…