Persuasive Content

Is Wordpress a CMS? Hardly? Barely?

March 3rd, 2010 - 2:54 pm § in Content Management, Observations, Web Engagement | | 7 Comments

The perennial "what is a CMS" debate broke out this week, with a fairly innocuous tweet from Dirk Shaw, "I am sorry but wordpress is hardly a web content management system." that many of our CMS community waded into and included this post on CMS Myth arguing in favour and just about everyone arguing against... and crikey I might not be standing next to my on-line friends on this - now Dirk knows what he's talking about, as a Vignette alumnus and blogger, maybe the key to the phrase he used is the word 'hardly' - could I suggest we should say 'barely''? [ read more ]

On Strategy, Twinterviews and Haiku

February 15th, 2010 - 7:00 pm in Observations, Social Media

I think we can safely say that the last two week have been quite lively for Alterian Content Manager, as after an incubation with partners, customers and analysts we took our product strategy and [ read more ]

What’s the big deal about Coke?

January 25th, 2010 - 9:37 pm in Observations, Web Engagement

It was recently reported in New Media Age, picked up by the Hubspot blog that Coca-Cola were moving their campaign sites from "traditional" websites to social media platforms and they are not alone, [ read more ]

Joining the Trend for WCM Trends

January 6th, 2010 - 12:22 pm in Content Management, Observations

I'm going to kick off 2010 with a blog post about Web Content Management, enough for now of my wittering on about my place in the social web or even web engagement. Content is still king and as I [ read more ]

Christmas.. I mean Holiday Blog Post

December 24th, 2009 - 1:18 pm in Persuasive Content, Web Engagement, Writing Content

I have been asked to write a Christmas or holiday themed post, now I don't normally write what I am asked, especially when it sounds this, well lets be honest - cheesy - but, if you bear with me, I [ read more ]

Tweetdeck Springs to Life at Gilbane Boston

December 10th, 2009 - 12:55 pm in Observations, Speaking

Last week I attended the Gilbane Conference in Boston and have finally found a few minutes to blog about it, we exhibited and I was invited to speak in a couple of sessions and as I'd been [ read more ]

Does WCM Really Need a Fix?

November 5th, 2009 - 10:36 am in Content Management, Observations

As part of preparation for a presentation he gave yesterday at Jboye '09 - a few days ago Jon Marks set a challenge to his Twitter community; to give him examples of where Web Content Management [ read more ]

I Predict A (CMS) Riot: 1 hour, 6 People, 1 Wave, 1 Post

October 23rd, 2009 - 10:13 pm in Observations, Social Media, Writing Content

Today we embarked on an interesting social media challenge, a few folks that I've started to hang out with virtually (and more recently in the pub) agreed to meet at a designated time in a Google [ read more ]