Technology

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.

Microsoft and Google featured strongly in my last post because in thinking about how web content management may develop over the next decade, the big battle for hearts and minds these organisations are engaged in will continue to shape WCM because they touch so many aspects of the content process. A personal view I’ve held for a number of years now is that Microsoft’s understandable efforts to protect the desktop worldview that it earns the bulk of its revenue from has been doing WCM a disservice and products such as SharePoint continue to distract us from smarter ways of doing things.

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 :(

If there are two things modern comms technologies have taught us, it is the power and danger of herd behaviour and that if something can be manipulated, it will be manipulated.

Sadly, travel and work commitments have clashed with this year's J Boye conference in Aarhus but I was pleased to see plenty of engaging Twitter and blog coverage from the first day's presentations and, in particular, the opportunity to contribute via the #fixwcm hashtag on Twitter.

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

Looking at information about the new CMS Watch report, it has the potential to become a watershed in the Industry. The re-classification of products into 5 new tiers  makes some significant statements about how the industry has been evolving.

Had a brilliant and very memorable ‘summer of fun’ with the kids in between work contracts but now back in the saddle on a new global web project.

Since spending a number of weeks using enterprise content management solutions again, rather than having my head buried in open source code for personal projects, I keep getting a recurring dream that I’m Tom Cruise.