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Hello MRM (and Hello Acquia)

February 19, 2016February 19, 2016UncategorizedAcquia, Adobe, Business_Finance, CEO, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, content management technologies, content marketer, digital marketers, Drupal, enterprise solution, General Motors, Interpublic Group, London;, McCann WorldGroup, MRM Meteorite, P&O, Platform as a service, SMART, technology line, Technology_Internet, Universal McCann

Last week I joined London based, customer experience marketing agency MRM Meteorite – (who are part of MRM//McCann/ McCann WorldGroup and Interpublic Group) – to help drive their technology line of business, content management specifically

Klout; your score is 100 MILLION

February 13, 2014February 13, 2014ObservationsContent Management Systems;, Facebook;, Klout, Social Media, social media professionals, Twitter;, web analytics;

Like just about anyone and everyone who writes about social media, I am going to jump in with a point of view on the reports that Klout will be acquired for $100m by Lithium. I’ve

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

Throwing The Vendor Baby Out With The Implementation Bath Water?

February 4, 2011February 4, 2011Observationsanalyst, author, Business, CMS, content author, Content Management, Content Management Systems;, Drupal, Tony Byrne;, web content management replacement projects, web strategy;

This is a post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while. having seen plenty of examples over the years of web content management replacement projects and a common perception that any problem is a tools

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

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

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

CMS – The Knowledge Workers Industrial Revolution?

April 12, 2010April 12, 2010ObservationsBlog software, Content Management, content management system;, Content Management Systems;, Industrial Revolution, Johnstone Press, knowledge worker, Philippe Parker, Roy Greenslade, The Guardian

Last week it was reported in the UK press that journalists for a local newspaper are going to strike over the implementation of a Content Management System. I found this really interesting and it sparked

Is WordPress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?

March 3, 2010March 3, 2010ObservationsContent Management, Content Management Systems;, web content;

The perennial “what is a CMS” debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, “I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system.” that many of our CMS