cms – Digital by Default

CMS-free seed

When I was reading about the launch of the new Healthcare.gov site and the very GDS approach they have taken I found myself taking a closer look at the company credited with driving the development work. Development Seed are a particularly interesting company for me – not only are they deep in to data visualisation…… Continue reading CMS-free seed

Wondering about workflows..

In my long history with content management systems one of the things that comes up time and time again is the idea of ‘workflow’. This always surprises me as in my experience it is the first piece of functionality that either gets turned off or worked around on every CMS I have been involved in!…… Continue reading Wondering about workflows..

Making the case for a FOSS CMS

Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a project to make the case for using an open source CMS for a big project and I thought I’d share some of the work I’ve been doing here – nit sure how helpful it would be for anyone else though! The big glaring…… Continue reading Making the case for a FOSS CMS

Experiencing Enterprise

Over the years I have watched my share of Star Trek (you are shocked I can tell!) and my favourite episodes were always the alternative universe episodes -Spock with a goatee, rebel Sisko etc. Yesterday I was reading the Gartner report on Web Content Management systems aimed at ’enterprise’ clients (there is the first tenuous…… Continue reading Experiencing Enterprise

Time for a CMS ‘remix’

For better or worse Content Management Systems have been a big part of my professional life these last 10 or so years. I am convinced that they are directly responsible for at least 25% of my grey hair and I have never been involved in a CMS project that didn’t cause me headaches of some…… Continue reading Time for a CMS ‘remix’