Management

Like the Soccer World Cup, which thankfully only happens every 4 years, the CMS implementations I’ve been responsible for tend to come round in similar cycles – giving sufficient timeframes to move from phase 1, through the dreaded phase 2 and on to achieving longer term goals.

...absolutely nothing. Say it again! Say again????

With election fever hitting the UK this last week it seemed timely to examine the role politics plays in the content management challenges many of us face daily.

Certainly my experiences over the last 15 years or so have shown it to be a very 'politically' charged activity.

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

I remember first attending the Information Management/Online Information Show, or a variation of it, at London's Olympia back in the 90s.

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.

...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 :(