Focus On Quality and Your Customers Will Make Time for Your Content
How can you cut through the clutter and capture your customer's curiosity when time, clearly, isn't on your side? I'm not going to get into debates…
No Short Cut to Quality Content - Despite What the Black-Hat Snake-Oil Salesmen May Say
I have a few posts running in my head, but none have tapped that vein which allows them just to spill right out on the page. So when the Twitters…
Virtually Scrubbing Up: Pre-’Surgery’ Site Speed Checklist
Just as with medicine, when you’re trying to fix site speed issues, you want to ensure that you’re curing the cause -- not just dealing with a symptom…
Graduating Your College or University Website to Drupal 8
The question most struggle with as Drupal 7 reaches end of life is whether to move to Drupal 8 now, or wait and start fresh with Drupal 9…
Smart Date 3.0 - the Intelligent Choice for Better Integration, Better Admin Experience
This week brought a new, stable release for Smart Date 3.0.0. You're welcome to dig through the various Smart Date release notes to read up on all the…
Critical Thinking: The value of Honesty
I believe firmly that diversity of experience helps to make you better at what you do. By day, I'm a content and requirements strategist at Echidna…
Language Matters - 2016 in Review
In my mind, there were two major communications themes that highlighted (or lowlighted, as the case may be) 2016: one, we saw battle lines being drawn…
Open Source, the Humanities, and the Future -- Part Three of Our Talk with Susan Brown
In parts one and two of our interview with CWRC project lead Susan Brown, we've talked about establishing the need for Islandora, and why the project…
Avoiding Bumps in the Road - Communicating Change
There's an old jocular adage that those of us who have lived for any amount of time in Montreal hold close to our hearts: "There are two seasons in…
COPE-ing with Copy 201: Does Size Matter?
Last week, I gave you the intro. Now, let’s get into the nitty gritty on how to COPE with content! So how much copy is too much? It all depends on the…