Category Archives: CM, DAM. ECM…
If Print Is Dead, Somebody Better Tell My Aspirin Bottle
As many of you already know, I have been working for several months on service offerings in the area of content accessibility and consumer engagement. The following paragraphs provide a high-level walkthrough of my journey. In the next few days, … Continue reading
The Universal Design for Learning Utility Belt
Recently I wrote of a bottom-up approach to bringing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into the classroom. I’m happy to share a fantastic blog by Lisa Parisi which provided a teacher’s perspective of UDL. As she describes in her blog, she feels … Continue reading
Universally Designed Content
A Plea For Your Patience Please bear with me. This blog is about content management, though due to references to education, architecture, etc., I must ask that content-management practitioners suspend disbelief for at least a few paragraphs. It should become … Continue reading
Popping the Question
About two weeks ago, I joined a project that is already fairly close to its go-live date. When I start a project at a client’s office, I ask these questions: Where is the coffee? I think I mentioned that I … Continue reading
Accessible Packaging and the Best Buy Test
Is that 1-2 Tablespoons, or 12 Tablespoons? Here’s my problem: I can’t see the damn dosage recommendations on a bottle of children’s pain reliever or any other pharmaceutical packaging for that matter. Worse still, I can’t see the active ingredients, … Continue reading
Give Me A DAM Reason To Come Back
A few years ago, a client had proposed a user incentive in which their digital asset system (DAM) would congratulate the user for ‘saving the company $X.00.’ The value would be calculated by the number of assets downloaded multiplied by … Continue reading
If I Can’t Read Your Site, I Won’t Buy Your Stuff
Is your organization providing content in accessible formats? I’m going to go out on a limb and guess probably not. If you’re answer is yes, then it’s likely that you are required to be 508-compliant by a government agency I’ve … Continue reading
Lasswellian Definition of Content Management
Let me begin with the parsimonious edition of this blog: Content management is defined as who gets what, when and how in an organization. Have a great week! That’s really all you need to know to help you to move away … Continue reading
The Digital Liability
During my time in the creative services and Web technology industries, a point of frustration has been that a lot of potentially productive energy is squandered as practitioners argue about whether a solution is one or more of the following: … Continue reading
