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		<title>In-Context and Power User Interfaces: One for the Sale, the Other for the Content Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2010/02/in-context-and-power-user-interfaces-one-for-the-sale-the-other-for-the-content-manager.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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A dirty little secret in the CMS industry is that, while in-context editing is often what sells a CMS, the &#8220;power user&#8221; interface is usually what winds up getting used after implementation.  This phenomenon obviously creates problems in the selection process because, when the sales demo focus on an interface that users will quickly [...]


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		<title>CMS Architecture:  Managing Content Type Configurations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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Warning: this post is highly technical.  Non-programmers, please avert your eyes.
Deane Barker (from Blend Interactive) and I have a running conversation about CMS architectures.  One of the recurring topics is how content models and other configuration is managed.  There are two high-level approaches: inside the repository and outside the repository.  Both [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.contenthere.net/2009/07/code-moves-forward-content-moves-backward.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Code moves forward.  Content moves backward.'>Code moves forward.  Content moves backward.</a> <small> One of the primary functions of a web content...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.contenthere.net/2009/04/finally-drupal-gets-deployment.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Finally, Drupal Gets Deployment'>Finally, Drupal Gets Deployment</a> <small> Greg Dunlap, over at Palantir, has a post introducing...</small></li>
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		<title>Presentations from the Boston Gilbane Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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I am catching up from a whirlwind of activity at the Gilbane Conference in Boston this week.  I gave three presentations (below), organized a breakfast for open source CMS software executives, and had a great time talking with so many industry friends.  It was particularly nice to meet people like Scott Liewehr (@sliewehr), [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.contenthere.net/2006/05/nice-wrap-up-of-the-gilbane-conference.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Nice wrap up of the Gilbane Conference'>Nice wrap up of the Gilbane Conference</a> <small> Charlie Wood has a nice summary of the Spring...</small></li>
<li><a href='http://www.contenthere.net/2006/06/cm-professionals-summit-presentations-available.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: CM Professionals Summit Presentations Available'>CM Professionals Summit Presentations Available</a> <small> If you were not able to attend the CM...</small></li>
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		<title>When it is not all about the software</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/11/when-it-is-not-all-about-the-software.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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When I help companies through a CMS selection, I focus on the whole solution rather than just the functionality of the software.  Factors such as vendor compatibility and expertise availability (internal and external) also affect the sustainability of the solution &#038;mdash sometimes even more than the feature set.  Several of my recent consulting [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.contenthere.net/2008/11/leading-requirements.html' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Leading requirements'>Leading requirements</a> <small> You have just mentioned that maybe the pain you...</small></li>
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		<title>Deane Barker&#8217;s tips on requests for proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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While it may seem counter-intuitive to listen to a supplier telling you how to buy, you should definitely read Deane Barker&#8217;s article &#8220;Five Tips to Getting a Good Response to a Content Management RFP.&#8221;  Deane is a co-founder of Blend Interactive, a web design and development firm.  That may put him on the [...]


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		<title>Should you host your intranet and corporate website on one platform?</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/11/should-you-host-your-intranet-and-corporate-website-on-one-platform.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/11/should-you-host-your-intranet-and-corporate-website-on-one-platform.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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Often times by the time a client gets to finding me, they have reached a point where they are ready to throw away their entire web infrastructure: both their corporate website and their intranet.  They hope that one well executed product selection can solve both problems.  When approached by this kind of prospective [...]


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		<title>The J. Boye Short List</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/08/the-j-boye-short-list.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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Today J. Boye posted a shortlist of vendors that &#8220;you should always consider&#8221; when selecting a web CMS.  While many will take issue about what products were included or excluded from the list, what surprises me the most is that they published such a list at all.  Here is why:


J. Boye is very [...]


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		<title>Dimensions of Success (or Ways to Fail)</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/08/dimensions-of-success-or-ways-to-fail.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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While most of my consulting work is in product selection, I think the most interesting and rewarding type of project is evaluating the results of a CMS implementation.  The typical scenario is that a client feels like their CMS project didn&#8217;t yield the expected results and engages Content Here to identify what went wrong [...]


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		<title>Fixed bid implementation work: a marriage made in Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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Most of my CMS selection clients are not just looking for software.  They are looking for a solution that includes software and also a hefty dose of services to configure, customize, train, and support.  Typically, once we have narrowed down to a short list of products, we start looking at systems integrators that [...]


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		<title>Code moves forward.  Content moves backward.</title>
		<link>http://www.contenthere.net/2009/07/code-moves-forward-content-moves-backward.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>seth</dc:creator>
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One of the primary functions of a web content management system is separating content from layout.  Authors create semi-structured content in a display-neutral format and then the presentation templates transform that content to web pages for regular browsers, mobile browsers, RSS feeds, email, and print.  As most readers of this blog know, this [...]


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