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 roadmap to the social web. I’ve tweeted, interviewed, commented, posted and now (finally) blogged our message to the CMS community – [...] [ more ]

Forgive the cheesy title, but yes I gave a presentation at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising (TfMA) show last week where I talked about the place of content and in web or digital engagement. Or as marketing put it in the show guide synopsis:  ”The importance of good content management and governance as a [...] [ more ]

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 community waded into and included this post on CMS Myth arguing in favour and just about everyone arguing against… and crikey [...] [ more ]

Saw a tweet today that was pretty exciting.  It was referencing a "comparison" between SharePoint and Documentum.  I was initially excited.  I’d love to see CenterStage  and SharePoint compared.  I compared SharePoint to eRoom a couple of years back and wasn’t planning on a comparison with CenterStage until the database/list functionality was ported over. My excitement [ more ]

Content Management Software (CMS) provider, pTools, today announced the addition of a range of embedded social media and networking features to its software. From within the pTools CMS, social media content can be easily re-distributed to any site anytime in any format on any social network. A key feature, pTools ‘TwitterDocs’, allows users to post to Twitter as they publish content through the CMS. There is no need to separately login to Twitter, and the content-related Tweet is controlled and managed within the CMS and its workflows. In addition to Twitter, customer content is presented on Facebook, LinkedIn, and indexed in live search engine results such as Google & Bing with [ more ]

During the past 10 years, a number of software products used by online professionals have been discontinued. When this happens, customers are ultimately forced to spend time on product selection again as well as on a costly and risky migration exercise. Killing a product might make commercial sense for the vendor, but customers are left [ more ]

In this final part of our series, we'll be discussing the importance of client involvement throughout the [ more ]

"What is Content Management? My definition is... Content Management is the management of content."-Tony Byrne, What is Content Management, Real Story Group, February 24, 2010As strange as this sounds, one of the biggest debates among CMS gurus is over the very definitions of content management and content management system. I have always preferred utilizing the simple but precise definitions for the terms we use. "Real life" tends to complicate everything we do and starting simple is sometimes the only edge you have when facing increasing complexity. This is why I think the best definition for content management out there comes from Tony [ more ]

Recently it occurred to me that video and (to some extent audio) has become a less important requirement for most of my web content management clients these days. If I were to extrapolate the interest trend I was seeing back in 2004, I would expect to see the web resemble billions of tiny television [...] Related posts:Public Media 2007 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame {... First Magnolia On Air Customer Live It looks like the first customer of Magnolia’s On Air... Full text now available I have changed my settings so that the full text... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts [ more ]

Here is an interesting idea. Marc Andersen, my former Renaissance colleague, posted recently on his blog on applying "product service systems" to corporate environments.  He was inspired by a Boston Globe article, The Leased Life, on how people should share products across their communities. Many people purchased tools and other things they rarely use, causing an unnecessary strain on their budgets and the environment.   The globe reported that this has been recognized and Web sites have started to facilitate these transactions.  This is another example of the potential of Web 2.0. Marc wrote about how this practice makes sense for more [ more ]