Creating real value: The art of content strategy

I've mentioned the cult of action here before. I don't know if it's a uniquely modern challenge, but I do know that today's technology makes it easy to fall into: Your phone syncs with your calendar with your email with your note program with your SharePoint with your...

Go read this column on net neutrality

I was going to spend a little time writing a post on yesterday's net neutrality ruling [PDF] by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. But Newsweek's Nick Summers saved me the time. Just go read his post on why this ruling is so bad, and why there's still hope for...

RIP Content Management

Session with Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal. Going to be a good counterpoint to the last session, it seems. Couple of problems all businesses face: Webmasters don't scale. Your proprietary CMS is slow to innovate. Your users are your content creators. Trying to...

Managing Your Content Management System

Alex Will and Henry Erskine Crum of Spoonfed Media. They run a web/mobile guide to live events in London. This is a total geek-out topic. They're going to discuss when and how to build your own content management system. As they and all of us will know, understanding...

Context Is Always Critical

Got into an interesting back-channel discussion today in the South by Southwest session called "Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web." I did write another post on the panel, so I won't go into the details here, except to say that I found the backchannel more...

Brian Solis

OK, first session....I'm here at the Hilton listening to Brian Solis. He's talking about brand. For the record, brand is one of those words I hate. Its overuse has killed what used to be a useful word IMHO. His premise is that social media is changing the way we...

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