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On Strategy, Twinterviews and Haiku

February 15, 2010February 15, 2010Observations, Social MediaAlterian;, Content Management Systems;, Content Manager, Google;, Groundswell, Haiku, Here Comes Everybody, Immediacy, Irina Guseva;, James Hoskins, Jeremiah Owyang;, Jon Marks;, Philippe Parker, representative, Social Media, social media marketer, Social Web, Twitter;, Web CMS Brands, World Wide Web

I think we can safely say that the last two week have been quite lively for Alterian Content Manager, as after an incubation with partners, customers and analysts we took our product strategy and roadmap

Christmas.. I mean Holiday Blog Post

December 24, 2009December 24, 2009Persuasive Content, Web Engagement, Writing ContentChristmas, Content Management, favourite news site, Google;, observer, Santa Claus, search results;, United Kingdom;, United States;, web visitors

I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don’t normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest – cheesy – but, if

I Predict A (CMS) Riot: 1 hour, 6 People, 1 Wave, 1 Post

October 23, 2009October 23, 2009Observations, Social Media, Writing ContentAndrew Liles, Content Management, Google;, Input/Output, Irina Guseva;, Jon Marks;, Justin Cormack, Philippe Parker, Social Media, Typing, VOIP

Today we embarked on an interesting social media challenge, a few folks that I’ve started to hang out with virtually (and more recently in the pub) agreed to meet at a designated time in a

Inside the Google Walled Garden

October 16, 2009October 16, 2009Observationsanti-web, API;, author, Blog, Chris Brogan, Chrome, collaboration tool, Connie Benson, Content Management, Facebook;, Google Search Appliance Connector, Google;, Jeremiah Owyang;, Keith Tsang, London;, Microsoft;, social media monitoring tools, Twitter;

I admit I am a big Google advocate, I have spent a fair amount of time at their cool European HQ In London, at partner events and I even coded the first shipped iteration of

Google – The New Citizen Engagement Portal

October 6, 2009October 6, 2009Citizen Engagement, Observations, Web EngagementAlterian plc;, Alterian;, Content Management, David Pullinger, Directgov, E-Government, Google;, information using search, Internet luminaries, search page, semantic web, Tim Berners-Lee, UK government, United Kingdom;, WCM software;, Web portal, Web search engine

Recently I was fortunate enough to meet with David Pullinger from the UK governments Central Office of Information (COI), who are driving our government’s citizen engagement strategy and mandating the policy around which government must

Blog Comments and Engagement

July 6, 2009July 6, 2009Observations, Social MediaChris Brogans;, Google;, Mike Braco;, search engine optimisation;, search engine;, Social Media, Twitter;

Had a few interesting experiences with commenting on blogs recently that got me thinking about blog comments and its still pretty patchy how we are approaching it. They are the essential lifeblood of audience engagement,

Engaging through Content or just Filing it?

May 11, 2009May 11, 2009Content Management, Observations, Persuasive Contentasset management;, Content Management, content management software;, document management;, Google;, IBM;, Internet World;, Interwoven;, London;, Microsoft;, on-line;, Oracle;, Social Media, Vignette;, Web Content Management vendors;

More thoughts on Vignette and OpenText. The news of OpenText planning to gobble up Vignette and the recent Interwoven acquisition by Autonomy sees a new chapter for these grandees of content management and I think

Who am I – Part II

February 7, 2009February 7, 2009ObservationsGoogle;, Jeremiah Owyang;, Joe Stanhope;, online community;, semantic web practitioners;, social networks;, social software expert;, Social Web, United Kingdom;, United States;

Inspired by a tweet by Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) about people creating two Facebook accounts for business and personal, plus the resulting feedback from my colleague Joe Stanhope (@joestanhope) got me thinking about my previous post

Who Owns What I Think?

January 16, 2009January 16, 2009ObservationsGoogle;, Richard Skaare;, software developers writing code;, software developers;, web content perspective;

A blog article by Richard Skaare got me thinking this week. In his article Beware: What You Create Could Own You Richard talks about being seduced by the creative process and that you can become