web experience – Ian Truscott

Can you be too engaging with your customer?

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012Observationscem, CMS, Content Management, cxm, web content;, web experience, Wine

Near where I live in Connecticut there are two local wine stores, in both the staff are friendly, they are as knowledgeable about wine as I need them to be and they both recognize me

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,

Your Website – Your Customer Service Agent

October 12, 2010October 12, 2010Observations, The Engagement Tierartificial intelligence, Business, Consumer behaviour, Customer engagement, Gerry McGovern, Intelligence, Intelligence analysis, Marketing, Seth Godin;, Social Media, Social Web, Web Engagement, web engagement objectives, web experience

I’m doing some work for a new client, who look at optimizing customer service across multiple channels using, rather interestingly – artificial intelligence. In my research on this I find myself observing an interesting convergence with

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

Things I Learned at Gilbane San Francisco

May 28, 2010May 28, 2010ObservationsAndrew McAfee, Content Management, content technologies, Gilbane analyst, Industry Analyst, Melissa Casburn, Randy Woods, Robert Rose, Social Media, speaker, Sue Ann Reed, web customer experience, Web Engagement, web experience

Last week was my first Gilbane conference as a Gilbane analyst, having in previous years only served variously as vendor booth bunny, guest speaker or panellist and it was great to focus on meeting folks, listening to some great