Content Management – Ian Truscott

Tuesday 2¢: Is your content fish, chips, or the paper?

May 26, 2020January 2, 2023Content Management, Content Marketing, T2c

This week a break from my recent COVID-19 fair, as this Tuesday 2¢ is about content and an important question we need to ask

11 Useful Content Management Quotes

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020Content Management, Content Marketing, Content Strategy

Working on a client deliverable, I’ve been researching some genuine quotes from content marketing and management greats to sprinkle in and add credibility to the work. Here is what I found.

10 B2B Marketing Influencers You Might Not be Following

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019Analysts Relations, Content Management, Influencer Marketing

Don’t laugh, no I have not decided to fish in the social media lake with link bait, but influencer marketing is a hot topic, even in B2B and as an example here are 10 B2B marketing influencers I’ve recently started following on Twitter who you may not know.

The cool web kids are social, is your CMS ready to hang with them?

December 5, 2011December 5, 2011Content Management, Gilbane, ObservationsBoston, broader social media, Computing, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, cool web kids, Digital media, Gilbane, Massachusetts, Scott Liewehr, Social Web, speaker, tried and tested web content strategies, United States;, Vignette Corporation, web content;, website, World Wide Web

This week I had the pleasure of returning to an old haunt as I was asked to present at Gilbane Boston. I say ‘old haunt’ as I was actually completely blindsided by the fact it

Localization – Do You Know the Dutch?

February 15, 2011February 15, 2011Content Management, ObservationsCMS, Content Management, local marketer, localization, translation, web content management guy

Late last year, I was on a business trip to do a keynote speech Amsterdam. Over dinner the night before I was asked a really interesting question – ‘Do you know the Dutch?’ Notice the

The Answer to Every Web Content Publishing Problem Is a Bicycle?

January 12, 2011January 12, 2011Content Management, Observationsanalyst, Blog software, car analogy, Computing, Content Management Systems;, Drupal, Jon Marks;, Twitter;, Web development, web experience, web presence, WordPress, World Wide Web

A couple of things have inspired this post, firstly Quora’s insistence that the answer to every CMS question is Drupal, (actually more correctly the communities answer to every question) and a chance encounter of a fellow

Who Will Buy This Web Engagement?

December 23, 2010December 23, 2010Content Management, Gilbane, Observations, The Engagement TierBlog software, Computing, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, Digital media, Social Media, Web Content Management;, web content;, Web Engagement, web engagement management strategy, WordPress, World Wide Web

As the holidays approach, my SKY+ hard disk (PVR/Tivo thing) is brimming with movies ready for the onset of quality time with my young family. Perhaps our viewing pleasure as I recuperated from what I

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

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

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