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Engagement is not a Plugin

seth — Wed, 23 May 2012 05:52:50 PDT

I recently attended CMS Expo and there was a lot of discussion about “engagement” — presentation-side functionality to create more enriching experiences for customers (on the website and beyond). Engagement is a pretty hot topic within the CMS industry these days. By focusing on engagement, companies can get more value from their content and serve [...]

30 CMS Signatures on CM Field Guide

seth — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:53:32 PDT

Last Friday Jeroen Reijn from Hippo submitted the 30th CMS signature for the CM Field Guide project. If this is your first time hearing of CM Field Guide, it is a community project to share clues for telling what CMS a website is running. For more background, here is my CM Field Guide announcement blog [...]

Publish is not just a button

seth — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:03:48 PDT

Clay Shirky is one my favorite writers on digital publishing. Whenever I run across one of his articles, I read it twice and I usually wind up agreeing with him even if I object at first. But one of the points that I have not come around on is when he says: Publishing is not [...]

CM Field Guide: Social Coding for CMS Geeks

seth — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:50:10 PDT

Evil genius Deane Barker (@gadgetopia, gadgetopia.com) approached me with this idea at a vulnerable time. My fingers were itching to code. I had recently transitioned out of all programming responsibility for a consulting client. I was managing a few development projects on which I forbade myself from coding. I was also feeling a little disconnected [...]

Amazon CloudSearch

seth — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 06:53:23 PDT

I just got an email announcement for Amazon’s new CloudSearch service. This could be really cool if popular applications and frameworks like WordPress, Drupal, Rails, and Django build modules/apps/extensions that interface with CloudSearch. It would be nice to have an alternative to Google Custom Search (which has gotten pretty expensive for small sites) or (in [...]

Google Language Tags

seth — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:02:30 PDT

If you were not able implement a host-based strategy for your Global Business URLs, you might be able to implement Google’s rel-alternate-hreflang tag. This article, Giving Google better instructions about language and country, provides a good explanation. The basic gist is that if you are hosting multiple localized sites on the same host and using [...]

Hosting a CMS Panel at CMS Expo

seth — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:36:02 PDT

On May 8th, I will be hosting a panel at CMS Expo called “CMS Review – Compare CMSs For Web Design Studios & Development Firms.” The panel is designed to help web design and development shops build their CMS portfolios. Selecting the right platforms to take to market is extremely important because building competency with [...]

Keeping Django Settings Generic

seth — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:14:31 PDT

Warning: Geeky Coding Post I have worked on a number of Django projects and settings.py is always a problem. This is the configuration file with information like how to connect to the database and what Django apps to install. Some of this information is sensitive (like your database password or an API key) and you [...]

Planning for Localization

seth — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:29:07 PDT

Localization can be an elusive requirement for a website. During the platform selection process, internationalization is often listed as a “strong” requirement. Why wouldn’t you want the ability to reach new markets? Then, during the implementation process, localizing gets downgraded as a “nice to have” or “future” requirement as time and resources dwindle and compromises [...]

Please Update the Wikipedia List of Content Management Systems Page

seth — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:38:02 PST

Edit: Please disregard this post. I tried to add a product to the list and it was rejected. Looks like I am going with a Google Doc. Anyone want to re-invent the wheel with me? At Lionbridge, when we scope and propose a Global Marketing Operations solution, we need to learn about the publishing infrastructure. [...]