Blogs as Disruptive Tech - How weblogs are flying under the radar of the Content Management Giants -
so… for the initiated, it seems that content management systems are screwed, at least the ones that cost many thousands of dollars anyway. I’ve often wondered, where do blogging tools finish and CMS’s begin?
The head Sales Guy started grilling my client: how many pages did the site have (in the thousands!), how many users updated it (almost ten!). You could hear the Sales Guy’s mental cash register ringing up dollars signs as he went straight for the close: “And what are your editors using to update all those pages: Dreamweaver or Frontpage? Or maybe you built your own homegrown CMS?”
My faithful client didn’t miss a beat. “Actually, have you heard of weblogs?” he asked the Sales Guy. You shoulda seen this guy’s face fall - it was like he’d been hit by a truck. “Yeah,” he admitted, “So you use blogging software?”