Persuasive Content

Onboard the Board at CMPros!

March 11th, 2010 - 12:08 pm § in Observations | | 1 Comment

Last week I was proud to be voted onto the board at CM Pros, to join a pretty new board under the presidency of Scott Liewehr to take this respected community of practice organisation forward. It's something we've been talking about for six months or so and one look at the industry heavy weights that have been there before gives me an idea of the responsibility ahead for all of us and these are exciting and challenging times for both membership organisations and the discipline of content management. [ read more ]

Is Wordpress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?

March 3rd, 2010 - 2:54 pm in Content Management, Observations, Web Engagement

The perennial "what is a CMS" debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, "I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system." that many of our CMS [ read more ]

On Strategy, Twinterviews and Haiku

February 15th, 2010 - 7:00 pm in Observations, Social Media

I think we can safely say that the last two week have been quite lively for Alterian Content Manager, as after an incubation with partners, customers and analysts we took our product strategy and [ read more ]

What’s the big deal about Coke?

January 25th, 2010 - 9:37 pm in Observations, Web Engagement

It was recently reported in New Media Age, picked up by the Hubspot blog that Coca-Cola were moving their campaign sites from "traditional" websites to social media platforms and they are not alone, [ read more ]

Joining the Trend for WCM Trends

January 6th, 2010 - 12:22 pm in Content Management, Observations

I'm going to kick off 2010 with a blog post about Web Content Management, enough for now of my wittering on about my place in the social web or even web engagement. Content is still king and as I [ read more ]

Christmas.. I mean Holiday Blog Post

December 24th, 2009 - 1:18 pm in Persuasive Content, Web Engagement, Writing Content

I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don't normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest - cheesy - but, if you bear with me, I [ read more ]

Tweetdeck Springs to Life at Gilbane Boston

December 10th, 2009 - 12:55 pm in Observations, Speaking

Last week I attended the Gilbane Conference in Boston and have finally found a few minutes to blog about it, we exhibited and I was invited to speak in a couple of sessions and as I'd been [ read more ]

Does WCM Really Need a Fix?

November 5th, 2009 - 10:36 am in Content Management, Observations

As part of preparation for a presentation he gave yesterday at Jboye '09 - a few days ago Jon Marks set a challenge to his Twitter community; to give him examples of where Web Content Management [ read more ]