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Towards a new Jisc website

Jisc watchers will know that the organisation is going through a major reorganisation at the moment. There’s loads of information about this on the Jisc website so I won’t attempt to badly summarise it here (the news article, “JISC announces new structure to reshape for the future“, is a good place to start). The new […]

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Thinking about digital strategy

I’ve been thinking a lot about digital strategy over the past couple of months as we get our digital communications plans together for the next year or two. It’s very hard, and I can see why many digital teams don’t have an explicit strategy document that they wave proudly around at anyone that asks. The […]

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CMS procurement: Time for open source?

I attended the Plone in Business seminar this week, organised by Netsight as part of the annual Plone conference, being held this year in sunny Bristol. To be honest, I didn’t learn an awful lot about Plone but it was a very useful afternoon as there were some good speakers on the procurement process for […]

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Does everybody hate their CMS?

We’ve recently run a survey to find out levels of user satisfaction with our web content management system (CMS). I guessed the answer before we started – everyone hates it! Levels of dissatisfaction are very high, with slow performance, poor usability and inflexibility the major gripes. Much of this is justified and there are some […]