Ian Truscott

Web Engagement – The Emperor’s New Clothes?

December 5, 2010December 5, 2010Content Management, Gilbane, The Engagement TierConsumer behaviour, Content Management, content management solutions, Customer engagement, David Meerman Scott, Frank Gilbane, Jarrod Gingras, Marketing, Seth Godin;, Social Web, software vendors, Twitter;, Web CMS, Web Engagement, Web Engagement Capability model, web experience, web experiences

Recently I’ve been seeing ‘an examination’ shall we say of the term Web Engagement Management and the acronym WEM. There is a suggestion that it’s a figment of the fervid imaginations of software vendor marketing

Content vs Conversation – no.. email is not a CMS…

November 9, 2010November 9, 2010ObservationsContent Management, web content;, web governance, website

I’ve just had a great conversation with a new Gilbane client (a really switched on bunch of folks) and one of the guys used the expression “content vs conversation” when talking about the way content

Introducing the Web Engagement Capability Model

October 30, 2010October 30, 2010Gilbane, The Engagement Tieranalyst, digital marketer, Internet marketing, Marketing, Scott Liewehr, web analytics;, Web Content Management;, Web Engagement, web engagement strategy, Web Engagement thing

I originally posted this on the Gilbane blog back in October 2010 when I was an analyst there – as that blog has now changed hands and many posts removed, I wanted to preserve my

You say tomato, I say tomato, you say WEM, I say WEM..

October 25, 2010October 25, 2010Gilbane, Observations, The Engagement Tieradvocate, analyst, Business, Consumer behaviour, CRM;, Customer engagement, Customer experience, Customer experience management, Customer relationship management, Irina Guseva;, Marketing, Mary Laplante, Social Media, Twitter;, Web Engagement, Web Engagement Management, web engagement strategy, web experience, Web Experience Management

When you say WEM, do you say Web Experience Management or Web Engagement Management? What does it mean and does it matter and what about CEM? Well, in this post I want to explore that,

Your Website – Your Customer Service Agent

October 12, 2010October 12, 2010Observations, The Engagement Tierartificial intelligence, Business, Consumer behaviour, Customer engagement, Gerry McGovern, Intelligence, Intelligence analysis, Marketing, Seth Godin;, Social Media, Social Web, Web Engagement, web engagement objectives, web experience

I’m doing some work for a new client, who look at optimizing customer service across multiple channels using, rather interestingly – artificial intelligence. In my research on this I find myself observing an interesting convergence with

On Shanty Towns, Bulldozers, Cats and Website Consolidation…

September 21, 2010September 21, 2010Content Management, GilbaneComputing, Content Management, Digital media, Google;, Scott Liewehr, United Kingdom;, United States;, web content;, Websites, World Wide Web

This blog post is inspired by an excellent conversation I had with my colleague Scott Liewehr a few days ago, about the challenges of managing multiple sites – that ended with the comment “that sounds

Engaging Clouds

September 8, 2010September 8, 2010Observations, The Engagement TierBusiness, Cloud computing, Computing, Customer engagement, digital marketer, Gilbane Group, information technology, Marketing, Mary Laplante, Robert Rose, Software as a service, Web Engagement, web experiences

I was delighted to recently be asked to comment on a paper by Robert Rose over at Big Blue Moose as he dives into the waters of analysis and research with his first paper –

First Gilbane Paper and Dirty Plates

September 6, 2010September 6, 2010Content Management, GilbaneContent Management, Content Management Systems;, content publisher, content technology implementations, Web content management system

August has been a busy month, hence this neglected blog – but I have been unchained from my desk as I am pleased to say that my first paper for Gilbane has been published. In

Into the Engagement Tier…

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010Gilbane, The Engagement Tieranalyst, application server infrastructure, campaign management, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, content management/delivery applications, decoupled systems, Facebook;, Josh Bierhof, Twitter;, web analytics;, web content delivery, web destinations, web site centric world, YouTube

This article was originally published on the Gilbane Blog back in July 2010, when I was an analyst there. That blog has now changed hands and many of the posts removed I wanted to preserve

Day and Omniture to be married – Adobe to pay for the wedding

July 28, 2010July 28, 2010Observations, The Engagement Tier

Alright, hands up who didn’t approach the Adobe acquisition of Omniture with some puzzlement and surprise? Well, now it’s making sense as these proud parents arrange the wedding of their blushing analytics bride to a

Taking the W out of CMS?

June 24, 2010June 24, 2010The Engagement TierAndroid, application server infrastructure, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, Facebook;, iPad, iPhone, Josh Bierhoff, Technology_Internet, Twitter;, web destinations, Web Engagement, web experience, web site centric world

Next in my occasional series where I refer to a different to letter to the one in a TLA (after discussing the R in ECM) – I wondering if it’s time we took the W