History

I was described recently as a "self-proclaimed crusader on behalf of buyers". Despite the rather condescending tone and context of the comment, I have heard from others that alternative views of web marketing and information management from those who spend each and every day as practitioners is welcome. Those practitioners who do post comment tend to get their voices drowned out of social media by the vendors, analysts and commentators who shout a lot louder and a lot more frequently.  So in the interests of living up to that label, here are some predictions for the coming year from the CMS coal face...

As the homepage for Internet World 2000 announced in lurid pink and yellow... It's big - It's brash - It's bright - It's beyond...  From my recollections of that time, this is an excellent summary of the atmosphere and sentiment of that dotcom boom peak period.

Many thanks to the London Communications and Engagement Group last night for their kind invitation to present and discuss the area of Content Technologies. The Prezi is embedded below should others be interested in joining the conversation.

Promotion and credit given to CMS Watch (a service of the Real Story Group) and Kristina Halvorson for their great work on the Technology Vendor Map 2010 and Content Strategy for the Web

November began with a virtual attendance at JBoye 09 and some remote involvement in the #fixwcm debate started at the event and

Just to add some context to the next post…

For the first few years of this decade I was immersed in an Enterprise Content Management project for a global products company. For the last couple of years of this decade I have also been immersed in web/enterprise content management for global products companies.

1^st generation web content management was driven by the US and the desire for the dominant global organisations of the 90’s to embrace the commercial opportunities offered by the web

2^nd generation web content management was driven to a large extent by Europe and Scandinavia, who have needed to deal with many more language and cultural challenges across all types and tiers of organisations

...Not much specific Chinese WCM input yet but I'm expecting some over the next few days. The following is just a few initial thoughts from the flight over and being wide awake when I need to be asleep :(

The publishing of the latest CMS Watch report brings with it the death of another notable CMS brand – Immediacy.