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 [...]

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The Open Source Way is a great resource for developers who want to start their own open source project. It is a wiki of lessons learned and best practices gathered primarily from experiences working on the RedHat and Fedora projects. One page that I find particularly interesting is “How to tell if a [...]

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It just occurred to me that my recent quotes on Fierce Content Management make me sound like the Statler and Waldorf of the content management industry. I really don’t mean to sound so negative but, from where I sit, software company acquisitions are nearly always bad news. My clients are software customers and [...]

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Around thirteen years ago, I helped build a prototype for a custom CRM system that ran on an object database (ObjectStore). The idea isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds. The data was extremely hierarchical with parent companies and subsidiaries and divisions and then people assigned to the individual divisions. It was [...]

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Publishing Decision Tree V2

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I just read Philippe Parker’s thoughtful response to Janus Boye’s provocative post “How I use Twitter for Work”. Both these articles, plus my recent experience at PodCamp Western Mass, made me a little more conscious of my strategy and techniques for social media. As you can see [...]

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Successful Global Content Management (Webinar) February 18, 2010: 7-8:30pm CET; 6-7:30pm GMT; 1-2:30pm EST; 10-11:30am PST

As products move beyond borders the need for global content increases and with that comes the critical requirement for global content management. Global content management allows you to ensure brand consistency, implement a global content strategy, and manage content on a global basis.


Management of a single site is a sometimes complex task, but management of multiple global sites is even more complex and requires a well thought out plan, appropriate technology and clear processes.


Join The Content Wrangler February 18, 2010 for “Successful Global Content Management”, our free, 90-minute webinar in which content management guru Ann Rockley, The Rockley Group, will share with you the ten steps necessary to launch a successful global content management initiative. You’ll also hear from the CEO of e-Spirit, Joern Bodemann, why content management system usability is a “must have”, not an option.


Register tody!

James Robertson has an excellent post, Future principle: it’s more than the intranet, where he summarizes a movement to replace the term “intranet” with a word that reflects what an intranet could be. To quote:
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A couple of weeks ago I subscribed to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list and I have been thoroughly enjoying the conversation ever since. If you have any entrepreneurial sensibilities lurking inside you, I highly recommend that you subscribe. The list participants have been in the trenches building companies and are happy to [...]

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This video was used to open the Mark Logic 2009 User Conference. It’s an amazing presentation that tells the story of humans and the paradigm-shifting information explosion we find ourselves in today. When the video ended, the crowd went wild with applause. I’ll have to admit, I’ve never seen such response from an audience, not even to a great presentation delivered by a human opening keynote presenter.

Watch the video and let us know what you think.

And, consider attending the Mark Logic 2010 User Conference, May 4-6, 2010 in San Francisco.