Computing – Ian Truscott

Will “mobile first” one day seem as ridiculous as “Internet Explorer” first?

February 13, 2013February 13, 2013The Engagement Tiercampaign management, Computing, Digital Clarity Group, Facebook;, Google;, Internet, Internet Explorer, iPad, iPhone, mobile device, mobile devices, smart phone, smartphone, Tablet computer, Technology, Tim Walters, ubiquitous web, web analytics;, web content delivery, web designers, Web development

Ridiculous isn’t it to say “IE first”, yet in the olden days of web development when browser compatibility was no such thing – web designers had to think like this, to create a web presence

Email as a Mobile Engagement Strategy?

May 30, 2012May 30, 2012ObservationsBusiness Partnership, Computing, Email, Facebook;, Internet, iPhone, Robert Rose, smartphone, Social Media, Twitter;, USD

I have found this great app for my iPhone. It’s a great newsreader, it pushes essential blog posts so I can catch up even when disconnected, it connects me to Twitter and Facebook, I can

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

Is your Audience Through the Social Media Keyhole?

October 2, 2011October 2, 2011ObservationsAOL, community tools, Computing, Content Management, content systems, early adopters social web, Facebook;, Geoffrey Moore, Google Inc., Google;, Internet, internet adoption, internet users, online activity, Online social networking, Social information processing, Social Media, Social Web, Technology_Internet, Twitter;, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

According to the latest Social Media Report by Neilsen (respected monitoring/research company) Americans are now spending more time on Facebook than they are on any other website. American internet users spent 53.5 billion minutes on

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

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 –

On the Jon Marks EPFDW Dilemma

April 22, 2010April 22, 2010ObservationsAPI;, Computing, content author, Jon Marks;, open source product, Philipe Parker, Social Media, software developer, Software engineering, Web Engagement, Zahoor Hussain

Jon Marks (@mcboof) has set a challenge to vendors on his blog – to prioritize various elements of what makes a great CMS product, to choose between Editors, Performance, Features, Developers and producing Websites. I know,