Why CMS Vendor Acquisitions are Bad for Customers

It just occurred to me that my recent quotes on Fierce Content Management make me sound like the Statler and Waldorf of the content manage...

NoSQL Deja Vu

Around thirteen years ago, I helped build a prototype for a custom CRM system that ran on an object database (ObjectStore). The idea isn...

How I use Twitter for Work

Publishing Decision Tree V2 Originally uploaded by sggottlieb I just read Philippe Parker's thoughtful response to Janus Boye's pro...

Does "Intranet" Need a New Name?

James Robertson has an excellent post, Future principle: it’s more than the intranet , where he summarizes a movement to replace the term &q...

The Dead Zone of Software Pricing

A couple of weeks ago I subscribed to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list and I have been thoroughly enjoying the conversation ever since....

Developers and Designers

A few months ago I read Lukas Mathis' through provoking essay "Designers are not Programmers" where he makes the case for a s...

The Myth of the Occasional CMS User

Not long ago, a university hired me to evaluate their CMS implementation. They were having doubts about their CMS selection because the imp...

In-Context and Power User Interfaces: One for the Sale, the Other for the Content Manager

A dirty little secret in the CMS industry is that, while in-context editing is often what sells a CMS, the "power user" interface ...