As usually happens in life, it turns out that a wave of subjects have me thinking about the same problem on several fronts. I am helping a client prepare for a CMS migration and in the process, helping them form a strategy to clean up their site of ROT (redundant, outdated, trivial) content. By the same token, I am attending [...]
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Whether or not you realize it, your organization is married to your web team lead. Or you should be! Organizations that churn through web leads rarely realize their true web strategy, and more often than not, end up spinning their wheels and exposing themselves to constant battles over who owns the web. Many times [...]
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Many sites today, whether based on SharePoint or other technologies, are plagued by an unruly set of content that is either outdated, contradictory to other content on the site, or simply duplicate and looming about the site. These problems are often seen as nothing more than a content problem, but in reality it poses a [...]
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Yesterday I attended and spoke at the Potomac Forum Ltd. Symposium titled Building Better Government Websites to Meet Agency and Open Government Objectives Symposium: From Strategy to Fulfillment. A lot of great folks were also there, including Sanjay Koyani of the FDA and Christine Pierpoint of WelchmanPierpoint which made for good discussion.
In the room there [...]
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Yet again, I had the privilege this year of judging the CODiE awards, focusing on the “Best Content Management Solution” category. It is always amazing to speak with the folks who make the technology, for they are really trying hard to make a difference in the life of the end user. New features are added [...]
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Somewhere in my drawer there is a copy of the code of ethics one agrees to in order to become a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI). I tend not to look at it much, but come across it from time to time as I rearrange my drawer.
As I [...]
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When uncertainty strikes within an undefined project, it is the project manager (PM) within me that wants to stand up and take charge. Maybe I don’t know the right thing to do, don’t know how it should all end, but I know in my gut that I need to organize, need to communicate, need to [...]
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Over the past three days, numerous folks have asked me whether I use Google Phone or if I ever used Grand Central. Yes and yes. I like Grand Central more, but Google Phone is just as well I suppose. I rarely use it. But it has started me to wonder whether slews of organizations will [...]
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So I have neglected my blog as project life has taken over, and all I have been doing as of late is living and breathing CPIC, PMO, and on odd days, legacy systems and a COBOL mainframe evaluation. Time for a vacation really!
But all of the stuff is interesting, and certainly going on because of [...]
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As I sat in a meeting this morning I forced myself to repeat the nine knowledge areas of PMBOK, alphabetically, as well as sequentially. Really, I was trying to jump start my brain at a ridiculously early hour of the morning, and as the PM areas rolled through my head… Project Integration Management, Project Time [...]
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