“Beam me up Scotty!” said Captain James T. Kirk when he needed to escape a dangerous situation and be teleported back the to Starship Enterprise. Of course, teleportation is just science fiction, but “telepresence” is real and available today. Check out this amazing video from the a recent Cisco conference and discover just how quickly technology has made in person meetings fairly unnecessary.
It’s amazing how much — and how quickly — the world is advancing. Technology has changed everything. Old rules no longer apply. Do you know where you fit into the new scheme of things? Really? Do you? Watch this video to get a better understanding of how technology is converging to create new and exciting opportunities for knowledge workers and communication professionals. It’s astounding how fast the pace of change is moving.
With the popularity and ubiquity of writing online, there’s a new demand for web writers. If you’re studying to become a web writer, blogger, or copywriter, there are lots of courses that can offer you the education you need. Read this article to discover 50 open courses for web writers.
With so many solutions out there for managing your website, you may wonder “Why would I use WordPress as a CMS when it wasn’t intended to be so?” There is no doubt that WordPress is primarily intended for blog development, but that’s not all it can do. There are many advantages to using WordPress over other content management systems, but on the other hand, there are also some instances where WordPress may not be the right fit. Please note that WordPress is not a fix-all, do-all solution, so your first …
Comments by Jörn Bodemann, CEO of e-Spirit The content management industry has a credibility problem. Too often, vendors in a confusing market have made big promises only to have their customers invest money in projects that ultimately fail. A market consolidation might do the industry some good. But earlier this year when the American content management system flagship Vignette was purchased by Open Text, many observers were taken by surprise. Having just presented RedDotas the company’s CMS reference product, now with Vignette it suddenly had a second option in its …
After six years of running The Content Wrangler blog on Expression Engine, we made the switch to WordPress. We made the change because WordPress is easier to use, more robust, modular in nature, and has a huge community of users that share tips and tricks, help one another, and develop third party plug-ins and useful applications. While Expression Engine is a fine product, WordPress meets our needs much better. We’re still working through some of the kinks and trying to determine how to handle things like hyperlink conventions, content organization, …
Paul Wlodarczyk asks, “What if a web service could automatically provide the CMS metadata when you go to check-in a new topic?” On his blog, he discusses why you would want to do that, some of the candidate technologies, and what is necessary to make it work. “At the end of the day,” Wlodarczyk says, “consideration of the needs and behavior of content authors and contributors (who are very often change-averse) is the most important step in adoption of a content lifecycle solution. Making content classification and categorization a ‘no …
By Rahel Anne Bailie, Content Strategist, Intentional Design Content strategy seems to be the 2009 catch phrase in the writing world. It’s new, it’s sexy, and it holds the promise of good things to come. What exactly is content strategy, and why should we be concerned with this new practice area? Content strategy has been described by various practitioners as “the practice of planning for content creation, delivery, and governance” and “a repeatable system that defines the entire editorial content development process for a website development project.” Don’t be fooled …
Billed as the conference for “global business know-how”, Localization World 2009 Conference and Exhibits takes place October 20-22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. The program includes sessions on global business best practices, managing global websites, advanced practices in localization management, and a track dedicated to developing localization core competencies. Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, will be blogging live from the event, sharing updates, links, quotes, photos via Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, and other social networks. Several sessions we find particularly appealing: Going the …
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