Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Jeff Schmitt – The Silent Company Killer: “We had all hit the ceiling. To our superiors, we were simply plug-and-play commodities who performed a series of tasks. They ignored our ideas, so we quit sharing them. […] That’s the silent company killer: The failure to bring out the best in employees. They focus on executing…

Jeff Jarvis – CMS as Media Salvation. Not.: “We should take inspiration from Doc Searls’ VRM (vendor relationship management) movement, figuring out how the public should manage us so we can serve them better. We should learn by example from Waze, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Craigslist, Facebook, et al and explore the value of offering platforms…

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming: “We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the…

I’m an idealist who loves to daydream. For example – what would I do if I were a manager? I work as a “lead software architect”, a fancy title that means I’m still just a developer. (Which has its pros and cons.) Here’s the entirely theoretical lessons I learned from watching others manage, and reading…

Stefan Tilkov – On Monoliths: “When a project is started, there is an assumption that it’s the goal of a project to create a single system. This typically goes unquestioned, even though the people or person coming up with the project boundaries often don’t decide this consciously. […] In my view, the most important thing…

Dave Ginsberg at Elegant Workflow – Interview with Chad Beer – Director, Digital Assets and Rights Management at American Express Publishing, and Part 2: “I think search interfaces can be really, really klunky for something that should be so easy to drill down into, especially if you compare search on DAM systems to search on…

Seth Gottlieb – CMS Adoption. Think Vertical, Not Horizontal.: “High vertical adoption means using advanced features of the platform. […] Most of those flashy features that you see in a software demo are hardly used and the problem is getting worse, not better. […] I can’t tell you how many customer references I have talked…

Naresh Sarwan – Can Current DAM Platforms Survive the Maturity Phase?: “With a few notable exceptions, many DAM vendors have an almost limitless capacity for misplaced arrogance. They have incorrectly interpreted increased demand as a sign of improving customer satisfaction. This is a loud and clear message to vendors: just because you are selling well…