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Office move: take note

Not long ago, I moved my office to a co-work space, partly to have a separate office address, and partly to be around other people in connected industries at least a day or two a week. Today the work space, appropriately named Workspace, announced its closure as of this Friday. Because the mail forwarding from [...]

Report tackles management of global content

In the “better late than never” category, the Localization Industry Standards Association issued the third Edition of its publication, Managing Global Content: Global Content Management and Global Translation Management Systems in late 2007. This is a good guide for professionals wanting to understand how more about managing global content. From the basics of why use [...]

Usability of Content Management Systems: user adoption issues

It’s hard to talk about usability features of content management systems because of a few factors, the big one being that so many of them aren’t used out-of-the-box – they’re customized to meet client requirements. It’s a little like going to an architect and having them build a house. You may look at basic floor [...]

The Malcontents podcast series moves to The Content Wrangler Community

The Malcontents (what a great name for a podcast series!), originally hosted by Seth Gottlieb and Bryant Shea, is moving to the Content Wrangler Community with a new host and an updated format. I’ll be hosting the show, sometimes with Scott Abel as co-host, and taking on a range of content issues that range from [...]

Speaking of content management

The 2008 DocTrain West conference came and went, and unfortunately I didn’t get to attend much of it. I really wanted to hear Bob (“call me Bob or Dr. Glushko, but not Mr. Glushko”) Glushko speak on the topic of Document Engineering. When I was in the thick of organizing the Content Convergence and Integration [...]

Finally, the CCM report we’ve all been waiting for

CMS Watch, an agency providing vendor-neutral analysis of content management vendors, has just released the much-awaited The XML & Component Content Management Report 2008, meant for the technical communication and content translation segments, and anyone using XML for content re-use. This report, authored by Ann Rockley and other consultants from The Rockley Group, has been [...]

What is content convergence in the context of content management?

Recently, I was interviewed by The Content Wrangler in anticipation of the upcoming Content Convergence and Integration 2008 conference, where I spoke about the idea behind the conference and behind the concept for content convergence. The short answer is about breaking down silos – as we move to content management, we may not have desktop [...]

Happy Holidays

IDI sends students to play

Intentional Design has donated $100 to shameless hussy productions to sponsor 10 students from an east side Vancouver high school to attend Woman Idiot Lunatic Criminal at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in January. When IDI’s Rahel Anne Bailie heard that school budgets were too tight to pay for students to attend, she volunteered her contribution [...]