Surveying Our Business Environment Shows We’re On the Right Path
It's one thing to back the right horse. It's something totally different to saddle up and try to guide that horse to victory. While there are a lot of…
World Sight Day 2014 - A Vision We Can All Share
On this World Sight Day 2014, I'd like to reflect on the status of the blindness community as I see it. All opinions herein are my own and many of my…
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…
We Have the Will to Give; Resolve to Do Something
Supporting your community can be easy -- where it becomes hard is when we overthink things. But there’s always hope because, once you get involved, it…
No Smoke-and-Mirrors! Acquia Lands on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Sixth Consecutive Year
Managing a message, integrating systems, and delivering the right content to the right audience is a challenging endeavour -- especially for those at…
We Have the Power -- and Responsibility -- to Ensure the Web We’ve Always Wanted is Open to All
We can create the web we want -- but, to quote Stan Lee, with great power comes great responsibility. It’s one thing to create the web in our own…
WatITis About Learning, Collaboration, and Opportunity
What it is is an opportunity. What it is is a chance to learn. What it is is a chance to meet some of the top information technology leaders in their…
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…
More than a Thousand Words: Using Pictures and Text to Effectively Tell Your Story
You’ve likely heard the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s a saying that sends writers into internal Linda-Blair-esque, head-spinning…
Why Does a Website Cost So Much?
“You paid how much? My neighbour’s kid could have built you a website for just a couple of hundred bucks.” That’s the thing about building digital…