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Haiku-ing Off to BoxWorks
Last month I was offered a chance to attend Box’s “customer” conference, BoxWorks, later this month in San Francisco. After watching the agenda grow more and more interesting, and making sure my work schedule would permit, I finally agreed to accept the offer. One not-so-minor detail, Box was the one offering to pay my way.… Continue reading
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Don’t Discount the Cloud Guys
Was going to have a multi-rant post, but I’ve decided to slice and dice. I thought I would start with a warning for all the Content Management vendors. Never discount the cloud guys. They are dangerous. Today they may just be file-sharing or basic document management but tomorrow they’ll be the de facto cloud content… Continue reading
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Crazy Uncle Owen Loses a Friend
For years, I’ve had a crazy uncle, Owen Tedford. Now crazy Uncle Owen always like to collect baseball cards. I’ve always liked baseball cards so I always like to visit with Owen for short periods of time. We always considered him eccentric and not crazy until he started buying other collections. While that wasn’t crazy… Continue reading
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Folders, A Nutritious Part of Your Content Management Diet
Sean Hederman of Signate Document Management wrote a rebuttal of my AIIM article defending folders. He admits a bias as he works for a Document Management vendor built around search. I thought of writing a short response saying that he missed the point of my article and that he had nothing to rebut, but where… Continue reading
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Oracle Buys FatWire, Now What?
If you missed it, Oracle bought FatWire yesterday. Whether or not this was a shock depends on who you ask. In fact, I suspect that the tension of the sale has been rippling though events for several months. This acquisition raises several questions, such as, does anyone care, that is, outside of the FatWire install… Continue reading
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I’ve Been Doing This Four Years?
This year as I write my post observing my blog’s anniversary, I am hit with conflicting realizations. One is that I cannot believe that it has been four years already. It seems like only yesterday I wasn’t blogging and I was just another local hack consultant. Now of course, I am a hack on a… Continue reading
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Looking Ahead to CMIS 1.1
This week, over in Seattle, the OASIS CMIS Technical Committee is getting together for face-to-face meetings complete with plugfests every afternoon. It promises to be fun, but they are trying to accomplish some real work during all of this. The largest piece is the thought they are giving to what is going to be in… Continue reading
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Documentum has a Vision Again, How About Execution?
Last year I was pretty strong in my criticism of EMC’s lack of vision or strategy in the Content Management space. In a way I should thank them because it inspired me to write a post on the Future of Content Management that was later received fairly well at Gilbane Boston and info360. Of course,… Continue reading
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The Unspoken CMS SaaS Dilemma
This is the last of my “drafty” posts that I’m shoving out. This one was a lot more evolved. I do want to say that this post was inspired by a chat I had with Andrew Chapman at a conference a few months ago. This is the first of at least two posts. No promises… Continue reading
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CMS Tech Making IT’s Life Harder
I have some real, thoughtful, posts that I want to get out there. Okay, maybe only one. However, I don’t want to post them at the end of the week, so I am grabbing one of my rough draft articles to throw out for public ridicule and dissection. This particular article is pretty raw, though… Continue reading