Today I attended the Alfreso road show here in Dallas. This was a small (about 40 people) half day presentation intended to show off Alfresco and how it has been implemented at a number of larger clients. Alfresco and their partners did a great job presenting and answering any and all questions. The...

Here at the CMS Myth we make a point to climb our soapbox and espouse a pragmatic approach to dealing with the content management issue (Here’s a quick hit: CMS is a software tool; content management is a discipline – recognize the difference!) So it was refreshing at Web Content 2008 in...

Call it the CMS Myth Road Trip to welcome summer and spread the gospel of CMS strategy while we’re at it. During the week of June 16, two ‘MythBusters’ from this blog will take the Myth cross-country to large gatherings of corporate content managers, e-marketing professionals, site...

Fellow CMS MythBuster Jeff Cram and I recently spoke to the Boston KM Forum, an energetic group of about 50 corporate knowledge managers from around New England. These are the folks in the trenches who make corporate content and data easily accessible for business advantage. Our topic: How the Enterprise...

Today we welcome a guest MythBuster. Heather Hanson, interactive project manager and our colleague at ISITE Design, offers sage advice on balancing “fast, good, and cheap” in a CMS initiative. Heather knows of what she writes: a project roster rich in CMS has gained her official (and unofficial...

Carpenters, of all people, have a great saying, one that everyone responsible for a CMS project should tattoo on their forearm, or at least write on their office wall in big red letters: “Measure twice, cut once.” It’s just four simple words, but oh-so-rich in wisdom and rife with pragmatism...

Although it’s not quite an epidemic (yet), we’re encountering examples of a problematic trend that fits squarely into CMS Myth. We suspect it’s only going to grow, so fair warning. We term it ‘drive-by CMS implementations.’ It’s a trend in which third-party web agencies...