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Back to School – Inspiration from Dreamforce

September 7, 2011September 7, 2011ObservationsCocoa Cola CTO, Employee engagement, Employment, Facebook;, Microsoft;, Online social networking, Social information processing, Social Media, social networks;, Twitter;, Web 2.0, web audience, World Wide Web

I admit, I have been neglecting this blog over the summer. It’s a combination of time spent writing elsewhere, a busy work schedule and a social media writers block as I figure out what I

They don’t know your name..just your number..

April 25, 2011April 25, 2011Observations, The Engagement Tieranalyst, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Facebook;, Klout, Online social networking, Real Story Group, Real-time web, Salesforce.com, Seth Godin;, Social Media, social media monitoring, social media monitoring block, Social Web, Tony Byrne;, Tweetdeck, Twitter;, Web 2.0, World Wide Web

Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about the news that Klout and Radian6 are working together having seen my friend @Robert_Rose tweet about it and I seem to have an obscure English 80’s

Has CRM Finally Decided it Owns the Customers Digital Voice?

March 30, 2011March 30, 2011ObservationsAlterian;, Business, Cloud applications, Customer engagement, Customer experience management, Information technology management, Marcel LeBru, Marketing, Radian6 CEO, Saleforce.com, Salesforce.com, Scott Liewehr, SM2, Social Media, Twitter;, web content;, Web Engagement

So, today Salesforce.com has moved to acquire Radian6, a respected and possibly ‘leading’ vendor in the relatively new space of Social Media Monitoring (SMM), a rival to products like Alterian’s SM2 product that I knew

Adding Pervasive to the Engagement Lexicon (a new Russian doll)

March 17, 2011March 17, 2011Observations, The Engagement TierContent Management, Customer engagement, Customer experience, Laurence Hart, Marketing, Twitter;, Web Content Management;, Web Engagement, web engagemt, web experience

As you know I have recently joined SDL and I have been delighted to find a new twist on the business of engagement that I write about on this blog, something we call Pervasive Engagement.

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

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

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,

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

Leaving the Tribes and Becoming a Real Boy

April 8, 2010April 8, 2010ObservationsAlterian;, Mediasurface;, The Gilbane Group, Twitter;, Web Engagement

As you probably know, last week I left Alterian, a marketing platform vendor (who just over 18 months ago acquired my previous WCM vendor employer Mediasurface) for The Gilbane Group. Whilst, I’m accustomed to change,