Archives for the month "August 2006"

Erik Hartman reveals why content management projects fail

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Information Design and Usability, Podcasts, content management  

Erik Hartman, president of the Content Management Professionals Association, and head of Hartman Communications in the Netherlands, reveals the common reasons that content management projects fail. From problems with the business premise to change management, from lack of conformance to open standards to lack of up-front planning, Erik has seen it all. Learn the most [...]

James Robertson gives advice on how to start a content management project

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Information Design and Usability, content management  

James Robertson, internationally-known head of Australia’s Step Two Designs, speaks frankly about a good starting point for content management implementations. Robertson asserts that a content management system solves no problem. Robertson’s case study, presented at the Content Management Professionals summit, discussed the difference between simply implementing a technology and actually tackling a business problem and [...]

Janus Boye takes a hard look at content management

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Podcasts, content management  

Janus Boye, head of Denmark’s Boye IT, analyst with CMS Watch, co-author of CMS Report, and author of the Enterprise Portals Report, talks to Intentional Design about the real cost of content management systems and provides cautionary advice for companies using the usual RFP process to choose a content management system. And when budgeting for [...]

Theresa Regli talks taxonomies

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Content Development, Podcasts, content management  

Theresa Regli, taxonomy and content management expert at Molecular out of Boston, talks about the importance of adopting a traxonomy strategy as part of a CM project and discusses techniques for making the process relatively painless. Taxonomies not only help companies organize their content but lay the groundwork for effectively retrieving the content through the [...]

Kay Ethier simplifies XML for content authors

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Content Development, Podcasts, content management  

Kay Ethier of North Carolina’s Bright Path Solutions talked about XML and the implications for technical writers and other content authors. XML is a mark-up language, Ethier reminds us, and mark-up is mark-up is mark-up. The advantage to XML mark-up over HTML is that the semantic tagging gives the technology some extra processing capabilities. And [...]

Tony Byrne on CMS trends

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Content Development, Information Design and Usability, Podcasts, content management  

Tony Byrne, principal analyst with CMS Watch, among other accomplishments, shared his unique views about industry trends for the next 18 to 24 months. Before looking for a new solution, a replacement solution, or a different solution, make sure you’re getting all that you can out of the technologies you already have. That’s the message [...]

Salim Ismail talks about syndication and the hidden Web

August 20, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized  

Salim Ismail, technology entrepreneur and all-around techno-visionary, agreed to chat with me about the hidden Web, estimated to be several hundred times greater than the visible Web, and how new syndication capabilities can change that. The third wave of content publishing – syndication – will change the face of the Web as we become able [...]

Getting used to our new offices

August 16, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized  

There are a few interesting things about being downtown, positioned between stuffy and dodgy. At the west end of our block is truly the business distrcit; at the east end is the beginning of the dodgy area. Our block is the line where the cultural textures blend. As a result, we’re in an “interesting” neighborhood. [...]

Characters of our neighborhood

August 16, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized  

Our office location gives us a unique view of the world. As I walk down the block each morning on my way to work, I am greeted by a man in a wheelchair. I suspect he lives in the seniors’ home across the street from our office. I hear him before I see him. He [...]

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