Crisis Management

Recent events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami, are strong motivators that businesses need to be on the ball by having backup plans in place. It’s tempting to think that such disasters will never happen to your company because you’re located on some land-locked oasis in the middle of nowhere, but not all disasters … Read more

BBS: The Documentary

BBS: The Documentary has finally shipped! The creator, Jason Scott, traveled roughly 20,000 miles by plane and car through 25 states and one province and interviewed 200 people. He recorded roughly 247 hours of interviews, with the shortest at 5 minutes and the longest at 5 hours. At no point did he despair, except when … Read more

What Makes a Good CMS?

A few years ago (2000? 2001?), I reviewed my first CMS for an online magazine. It was overwhelming, but I researched CMSes in general because it was important to write about it from the company’s perspective and not my own as a single user with simpler needs. The CMS, at the time, was of good … Read more

Blog or Golb?

Seth Godin – Are blogs backwards? He makes the following statements: a. a lot more blogs should be posted in chronological order, like books. If you’re trying to chronicle something, it makes a lot of sense to start at the beginning, as long as you provide regular readers an easy way to just read the … Read more