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Some thoughts about the Wix and WordPress kerfuffle

Last week, Wix engaged in some “guerilla marketing” by sending a number of prominent influencers some very nice Bose noise-cancelling headphones, and a link to a bizarre “secret” site with a “parody” video of a fictitious communique from “WordPress” to their users. Apparently there is another Wix vs. WP video out there – not linked […]

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The three types of SaaS vendors in WCM*

Everyone should be familiar with this slide – it is used by almost every vendor to compare different offerings (either within their own offerings, or as a way to differentiate from competitors). I happen to be using a version from BMC software, but any search for “SaaS vs. IaaS vs. PaaS” would pull up hundreds […]

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On the definition of “satisfaction” in Web Content Management systems (it’s complicated)

Dries Buytaert (creator of Drupal and CTO at Acquia) posted this tweet regarding the relationship between user experience and sentiment regarding Drupal: I replied that unlike what the graphic indicated, we actually saw similar results in our research at Sitecore, and that much of this echos what Tony Byrne saw when he described a “Drupal-like […]

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Predictions for 2020

Two analyst firms have put out some predictions for the future of WCM earlier this year; Mark Grannan from Forrester wrote a report entitled “Coming Soon: Agile Content Curation And Orchestration Will Redefine CMS” with the catchy subtitle “It’s The End Of Web CMS As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”. There is a […]