Archives for the month "February 2008"

Caveat emptor – cautions when choosing a CMS

February 26, 2008 · Posted in content management  

A couple of years ago, I was ambushed by an IT manager who called me into a meeting and put me head-to-head with a Gartner Group CMS analyst whose agenda seemed to be to discredit me as a CMS consultant. The idea was that the Gartner Group analyst would criticize the CMS choices on my [...]

US courts enforce accessibility legislation

February 21, 2008 · Posted in content management, user experience  

A U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruling issued Sept. 7, 2006 raises the bar for online businesses, requiring them to meet the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act just as offline business have been required to do since the law’s passage in 1990. The court ruled that retailers may be [...]

Northern Voice blogging and social media conference

February 19, 2008 · Posted in Content Development, content management  

This weekend, I am off to Northern Voice, a blogging and social media conference. At least three of the cci2008 presenters are involved with Northern Voice which, after all, is all about content convergence and divergence, aggregation and syndication. If you haven’t bought tickets for Northern Voice, you can’t attend – it’s sold out – [...]