After over 10 years of working in content management, I have come to realize that there is only one way to learn the value of managing structured information: the hard way — and that way is only 50% effective. People can intellectually accept concepts like content re-use and content/layout separation, but in the heat [...]

Related posts:

1. Migrating Content There has been a great thread on the CM…
2. Are content managers ready for personalization? I have been catching up on product demos recently…
3. A Content Management Definition I just heard Frank Gilbane define Content Management as…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

One of the most common points of friction between project managers and developers is planning work. Most programmers hate creating work breakdown structures (WBS). You can’t blame them, accurately predicting steps and effort required to build undesigned software is impossible. Yes, you heard that right. Software development planning is impossible — [...]

Related posts:

1. Plone Strategic Summit results posted Notes and action items from the Plone Strategic Planning…
2. Fixed bid implementation work: a marriage made in Vegas Most of my CMS selection clients are not just…
3. How I use Twitter for Work Publishing Decision Tree V2 Originally uploaded by sggottlieb I…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

One of the most common points of friction between project managers and developers is planning work. Most programmers hate creating work breakdown structures (WBS). You can’t blame them, accurately predicting steps and effort required to build undesigned software is impossible. Yes, you heard that right. Software development planning is impossible — [...]

Related posts:

1. Plone Strategic Summit results posted Notes and action items from the Plone Strategic Planning…
2. Fixed bid implementation work: a marriage made in Vegas Most of my CMS selection clients are not just…
3. How I use Twitter for Work Publishing Decision Tree V2 Originally uploaded by sggottlieb I…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Most new site CMS implementations (as opposed to site migrations from one CMS to another) start off with a set of HTML mockups. This can be a convenient starting place because, in addition to showing how the pages should look and informing the content model, having the HTML gives a good head start to [...]

Related posts:

1. CMS Architecture: Managing Presentation Templates Another geeky post… In my last post, I described…
2. Code moves forward. Content moves backward. One of the primary functions of a web content…
3. Drupal Panels Tutorial Readers of the Drupal for Publishers know that Drupal…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Jeff Cram started blog series called post launch paradigm with a great post called “Your website is not a project.” The article lists all the ways companies fail when they think of a website as a project to be completed.

If a website is not a project, what is it? Jeff calls it an [...]

Related posts:

1. Jeff Potts strikes out on his own with Metaversant My friend and former Optaros colleague Jeff Potts recently…
2. Website Product Manager I often tell my clients that every website needs…
3. Ingredients for a good software development project While nearly all of my consulting work is in…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

I am currently providing web product management services for two clients. One client is a start-up launching a new web-based product. The other is a 100 year old newspaper. While at face value these two clients couldn’t appear to be more different, they are actually quite similar. Both are trying to [...]

Related posts:

1. Website Product Manager I often tell my clients that every website needs…
2. Product IT vs. Enterprise IT Who owns your website? In the old days, corporate…
3. CMS Architecture: Managing Presentation Templates Another geeky post… In my last post, I described…

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Real Group Story: “The goal in implementing content technologies and related processes is really to apply management principles to content. Unfortunately, “management” too frequently gets conflated with “control.” This is a common thread through many definitions of ECM in particular: “controlling unstructured information.” Yet, management is much more than control. Good management also features enablement and empowerment. Management implies rules, but also supports creativity — often in different amounts in different contexts.”

Complete Story

Half of all organizations use a commercial content management system (CMS), according to a recent survey of content professionals. Just over 17% of survey respondents said their organization created their own, home-grown CMS, while 10.1% said an open source platform was in use in their firm. Interestingly, 15% of respondents said the organizations for which [...]