Design & Content – Better Together
Back in August, I attended the Design & Content conference in Vancouver BC, which brought together designers, content strategists, and other agency types to talk about how we can better...
View ArticleWordPress talks at CMS Expo
Last year I spoke at CMS Expo in Chicago about Busting Web Experience Management Myths. But while covering the event for the CMS Myth, I noticed that WordPress was visibly absent from the Showcase. In...
View ArticleWrapping up WordCamp Boston 2011
Photo by Peter Wood, cc-by-nc-nd license. This last weekend I finally got drafted and posted Closing the Books on WordCamp Boston 2011 over on WCBOS site. Planning WordCamp Boston the last two years...
View ArticleDon’t Be a Tool – Content Management Strategy
Here are the slides and speakerrate info for the talk I gave yesterday at WordCamp Boston. Although the slides themselves are less entertaining without my voiceover, video from the talk will be made...
View ArticleWordCamp Boston 2011
The other major reason I haven’t been very active here in the last few months is WordCamp Boston, coming up in just under two weeks (July 23rd and 24th). This year’s camp promises to be even bigger...
View ArticleMagento Imagine eCommerce Conference
Last week I had the opportunity to attend and speak (“With Friends Like These, Who Needs Revenue?“) at the inagural Magento Imagine eCommerce conference in LA. It was a great show, with way too much...
View ArticleFacebook Commerce 1.0? JC Penney’s Usablenet App
Last week I participated in two roundtable discussions at the PluggedIn Ventures Summit on Ecommerce.(There were lots of interesting tweets during the summit – search for the #pisummit hashtag). When...
View ArticleGilbane Boston: Content as Strategic Social Object
Gilbane Conference Boston Although the Gilbane group has a different three Cs that I’m normally talking about (Content, Collaboration, and Customers rather than Content, Community, and Commerce) I’m...
View ArticleOctober Music Events in Cambridge
Music Hack Night photo by glacial23 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/glacial23/4326074965/ (Via Charles McEnerny of Well Rounded Radio) Two events coming up in October in Cambridge dealing with music,...
View ArticleBoston 140 Characters Conference succeeds despite coffee, wifi, power fail
The Fail Whale in Legos - Photo by Bjarne Panduro Tveskov - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tveskov/3387394098/ The 140 Characters Conference in Boston yesterday started off with three strikes against it,...
View ArticleFuture of Media, Video WTF
Two quick notes on media: 1. Paul Gillin: “The Future of Media is: Small, Aggregated, Inclusive, Community-driven, Conversational, Fast, Flexible, Experimental.” 2. New from the PCF: Video WTF? First,...
View ArticleOMMA Global Day Two: Content Has To Be Everywhere
Yesterday was day two of OMMA Global, and I think the theme(s) of the day were Innovation and Distribution. Think Outside the Box (Photo by debaird™, cc-by-sa license) On the distribution front, one of...
View ArticlePolitics and Poetics of DeCSS
NYU’s Gabriella Coleman‘s talk from the Open Video conference on the way in which DVD Jon and DeCSS brought together code and speech in relation to freedom: video platform video management video...
View ArticleOpen Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston
Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” It’s Thursday, December 4th, from...
View ArticleLinkedIn Gets Events
(via Bokardo on Twitter and the LinkedIn Blog) Building on the momentum of all the (OpenSocial based) applications they added a few weeks back, LinkedIn is now rolling out events. In this video,...
View ArticleSXSW 2009 Panels Proposed
Last week, while I was on vacation meeting my new nieces and attending my 20th year high school reunion, the Panel Picker for SXSW 09 went live. Although voting by prospective attendees is only “about...
View ArticleWeb Content 2008 Presentation
Wednesday was day two of Web Content 2008, and I presented in the afternoon on the rise of user-contributed content and community, and the impact that’s had on content management. I had thought about...
View ArticleWeb Content 2008 Chicago
I’m in Chicago today (and yesterday) for Web Content 2008. It’s a nice, smaller conference – about 150 attendees or so, with very strong content (as you might expect) and good opportunities to meet,...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0: Sun’s Project SocialSite
One of the entries in the launchpad competition today was Sun Microsystem’s Project SocialSite. It’s part of the larger Glassfish project, and uses Apache Shindig as an OpenSocial container – they...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Bookmarking and Tagging
One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of...
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