Bio: Gerry McGovern
Gerry is widely regarded as the number one worldwide authority on managing web content as a business asset. He has spoken, written and consulted extensively on web content management issues since 1994.
In 2004, Gerry was included in the 100 most influential figures in e-commerce in the UK and Ireland, as part of "An Internet Decade", which was organized by NOP World and E-Consultancy. In 2000, he received the Web Ireland Internet Industry Person of the Year award.
Gerry has written three books and is currently working on a fourth. In 2001, he published two books with Financial Times Prentice Hall, entitled: Content Critical and The Web Content Style Guide. Design Research News stated that Content Critical "should be on the reading list of every course in Web design." Knowledge Management Review described it as a "bible" of content management.
Gerry has been nominated as best overall speaker at numerous conferences. He has spoken about content management at hundreds of conferences and workshops in 35 countries.
Previously, he was founder and chief executive officer of Nua, a developer of content management software and solutions. In 1996, Nua received the Best Overall World Wide Web Business Achievement award from the European Union.
Since 1996, Gerry has written New Thinking, a widely read weekly email newsletter covering the role of content on the Web. In 1999, Gerry published The Caring Economy (Blackhall Publishing), which was voted 25th out of the top 50 new economy books by Middleton/Capstone. Gerry McGovern holds a BSc Man. (2:1) from Trinity College, Dublin. Gerry lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Posts by Gerry McGovern:
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Content Is a Science, Not an Art,
17 Sep 2007 in Featured Posts
Senior managers don’t take content seriously because people who write content don’t come across as being serious. If content professionals want more respect, they need to present content as a science, not an art.
I have spent most of my adult life …
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The Best Web Sites Are Useful and Ugly,
26 Jul 2007 in Featured Posts
Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your Web site than how nice and elegant it looks.
The first time I saw the Grand Canyon was a truly memorable experience. The depth, distance and hazy rainbow of colors were like…
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Web Sites: Designed by Dogs, Managed by Cats,
05 Jul 2007 in Featured Posts
A key danger in Web site design is over-ambition. We need to design a Web site we can professionally manage.
Here’s what I mean: I travel a lot. And when you travel a lot you discover a lot of important things. You learn the answers to crucial ques…
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7 Main Principles of the Web,
18 Jun 2007 in Featured Posts
There are few better websites than the BBC, and there are few organizations that truly get what the Web is about better than the BBC. I came across a set of 15 BBC Web Principles some time ago, and thought, “These should be the principles of the Web….
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How to Professionally Manage Search,
14 May 2007 in Featured Posts
The following are the steps involved in professionally managing search…
1. Identify the top 200-400 search terms on your website. These top 200-400 terms will usually represent a very significant percentage of search volume.
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Google Changes Everything,
07 May 2007 in Featured Posts
Imagine you are very rich and you have a big house. One evening you have guests over. One of the guests asks you where the toilet is. You give them instructions and off they go.
After a few turns they end up in the garden. They backtrack, apologize…
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Five Key Characteristics of Web Brands,
30 Apr 2007 in Featured Posts
The Web brand is useful, clear, simple, interactive, and most importantly, customer-centric.
“Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007,” Gemma Simpson wrote for Silicon.com in April 2007. “…
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The Problem of Dirty Data,
23 Apr 2007 in Featured Posts
More than 25 percent of critical data in Fortune 1,000 companies is poor quality because organizations have little experience in managing content. Gartner Research believes that very few organizations are making progress towards professionally…
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Why Simplicity Is Essential to Web Design,
16 Apr 2007 in Featured Posts
Simplicity is highly overrated, according to Donald Norman, a design thinker I very much admire.
“I’m a champion of elegance, simplicity, and ease of use,” Norman writes. “But, as a business person, I also know that companies have to make money, wh…
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The ‘Intention Economy’: Customer Power That’s Driven by the Web,
26 Mar 2007 in Featured Posts
The shift from organization power to customer power continues, as customers use the Web to organize themselves like never before.
The Web gives organizational tools to the customer. The ability to organize 100 or 10,000 people used to be the exclus…
