CMSWire Interviews

Recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation about social collaboration with Vinicius Da Costa, who is the Associate Director of Social Collaboration Solutions at Kraft Foods. 

Brian Solis is now on Katie Couric’s radar. Or I should say Katie is on his. Solis took the time this week to talk to us about what it was like to interview Katie Couric, the language of the c-suite and why user privacy issues are one of the most important topics of 2011.

Luis Suarez of IBM -- the 2.0 Adoption Council’s 2010 Internal Evangelist of the Year -- mesmerizes the hapless interviewer. His enthusiasm for one of his favorite topics, life without email, bleeds into several records and information management-related disciplines -- a fact he's only too happy to acknowledge and gleefully share with everyone.

Nahum Gershon is Senior Principal Scientist at MITRE -- he is tasked with helping MITRE and the government “go social.” After his panel at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara he opened up about technology, art and working with government in the age of social.

Bill Kaplan, CPCM is a retired US Air Force colonel who after a lifetime of successful implementations for other companies founded his own knowledge management consulting group last year: Working Knowledge^CSP. His path is a textbook example of success -- always the most difficult kind.

R "Ray" Wang recently launched a new analyst firm called Constellation Research. Here Wang talks with CMSWire about the new firm and the landscape of disruptive technology.

Breaking up is never easy to do, but the split between Oracle and the new LibreOffice (news, site) team has been one of the more traumatic recent events in IT. CMSWire asked the new team's Italo Vignoli what went on behind the scenes and what can we expect to see now from Libre/OpenOffice.

What does the CEO of one of the leading social media monitoring companies in the world, Radian6, think of Social Business and Social CRM? What's in store for the future of this important company? I had the privilege of meeting with Marcel LeBrun, the CEO of Radian6, and in our time together we covered not only these questions but many more. The answers to which can all be found in this article. 

Craig Newmark is famous for his list. That would be Craigslist.

What I find interesting about Craigslist is its utilitarian aspect. The homepage is an overwhelming list of bright blue words on a drab gray background. It’s not “pretty” nor will you find shiny bells and whistles on the site. It’s just a bare bones incredibly powerful site.

But it has absolutely changed the way we search for products, services and offer products, services. 

Ask Susan Scrupski what the mission of the 2.0 Adoption Council -- an online venue for Enterprise 2.0 implementation leaders to share lessons learned from the implementation projects of large, corporate teams -- is and she’ll describe her approach to nurturing its growth in the past year.

This is Part 2 of an interview with Scrupski continuing with the discussion of the 2.0 Adoption Council, elaborating in depth Ms. Scrupski’s mission and good intentions. Please note the interview was conducted on April 13, 2010.

Read Part 1 of the interview to get up to speed

User research works best when you match your participants to the people who will use your designs. It makes sense that teams would try to use the demographics, often compiled by the organization's market research team, as the basis of their recruiting efforts. However, this can be problematic.

Dee-Ann LeBlanc talks with Barrie North about his latest book and video on the Joomla! content-management system, and the three core things that people new to Joomla! need to know.

eZ Systems is turning 10 this year -- a notable achievement in the open source content management world. And with the upcoming eZ Conference and Awards in Paris this June, we figured it was an opportune moment to have a chat with the eZ Systems folks and see just how the commercial open source world works, from their perspective.

In a year that has seen falling revenues across the technology field, the content management sector has witnessed healthy returns as some companies report earnings and market growth.

FatWire is one of those companies. The web content management vendor recently reported a solid 2008 fiscal year. With 40% year-over-year growth, strong international demand and a bevy of new customers, FatWire must be doing something right.

We recently interviewed CEO Yogesh Gupta to find out about FatWire's methods and get opinions on the web content management market as a whole.

During economic times like these, most companies are looking to cut costs rather than invest in the newest trends in technology. Vignette is an organization that has had its share of tough times, but those setbacks are not keeping the leadership of the company from dedicating one of their most talented resources to the booming world of social media.