Gilbane – Ian Truscott

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

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

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,

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

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

Engage with a Persuasive Web Experience

April 1, 2010April 1, 2010Gilbane, The Engagement TierBill Zoellick, Blog, commentator, CRM;, Customer engagement, Frank Gilbane, Gilbane, Gilbane Group, passive consumption media channels, Social Media, social media revolution, web analytics;, Web Engagement, Web Experience Management

This post was originally published on the Gilbane Group blog, shortly after I started in April 2010 – that blog has now changed hands and many of the original post removed, so I wanted top