Web Content 2007 began and ended with a bang. About 100 attendees and 24 presenters engaged in two days of spirited discussion about website content, content management systems, blogs, search marketing, information architecture, RSS, email and plenty more. Based on assessments returned after the event, attendees claimed to [...]
Making it Personal: Designing “My” Web
Jen Consalvo likes to go searching for clams with her dad. But she doesn’t like to go searching for the information she wants. She knows you don’t either. She knows you’d rather have it delivered in a more personal way.
In her work as Director of Personalization at AOL, [...]
Did you know that most IT departments can only apply 20 percent of their resources to new business opportunities? That’s because, according to EMC Software, IT departments spend most of their time managing all of the information that organizations create and store, taking care of all the software applications and their updates and licenses, [...]
When eZ Systems says they are globally-minded, they aren’t kidding. Company employees represent 23 nationalities who have a presence in offices in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Ukraine, France, and North America. And, they like to share. Those qualities in a society have been known to make the world a better place. As a corporate philosophy, [...]
Salim Ismail isn’t afraid of getting burned. One reason is because he knows what’s hot. Not like Paris Hilton knows what’s hot, but like the head of Brickhouse at Yahoo! knows what’s hot. Salim is helping drive innovation at Yahoo through Brickhouse, the newly launched program for rapid product development. He uses a team to [...]
The city of the big shoulders is also a city of firsts. From First Ladies, to beer brannigans, Chicago’s colorful history is filled with unique first-timers that have changed popular culture and even created some hair raising thought. Here are a few “firsts” to amaze your friends with:
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the 1st First [...]
If you are building or revising your web site in-house how do you really know how the work is getting done or what it’s costing you? Sure, you know what the initial investment is and the costs of IT salaries. You know the resources assigned. But do you know how the product performs over its [...]
When Open Source Makes Sense
Seth Gottlieb is a consultant you want to get to know. Why? Because he likes to save his clients money. One way he does this is by being open to Open Source. But make no mistake, he saves his clients money by also steering them away from open source software [...]
Al Capone is America’s best-known and most infamous gangster. He remains symbolic of the corruption and havoc wrought by Prohibition. He is also the quintessential all-American boy: born into obscurity, rising from nothing, and ascending to great heights through hard work, creativity, and sheer force of will.
Ironically, Chicago’s most famous bad guy was [...]
If you haven’t chosen a Web content management system yet, it can’t be for lack of information. A wealth of it exists to help you decide what is right for you and your organization. But just in case you haven’t started your homework, log on to crownpeak.com and browse the information center.
There you will [...]
