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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The Web Is Still a Thrilling Place,
29 May 2006 in Featured Posts
When you get frustrated by the pressures of managing a website, look back five years. You’ve achieved a lot….
I meet many people who are discouraged by the performance of their websites. It seems that there are a whole range of things to be fixed…
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Are You Measuring Failure?,
19 May 2006 in Customer Behavior& Featured Posts& Market Research& Metrics & ROI& SEO Marketing& Website Development and Design
Do you base success on measuring the volume of visitors and page impressions…?
Such measures may in fact reflect the failure–rather than the success–of your Web site.
I recently was looking to rent a recreation vehicle to drive down Route 66 in… -
Do You Really Need Search on Your Site?,
07 May 2006 in Content& Customer Behavior& Featured Posts& SEO Marketing& Website Development and Design
You need to decide whether the value of having search on your Web site is greater than the cost of making sure that you do it well….
About 2,700 visitors carried out approximately 5,500 searches on my site in 2005. In total, there were 124,692 vi…
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Are You Tapping the Collective Intelligence?,
19 Apr 2006 in Customer Behavior& Customer Relationships& Featured Posts& Marketing Strategy& Website Development and Design
Collective intelligence will be a key competitive advantage in the 21st Century….
Never before has there been a better medium to tap the collective intelligence than the Web.
The very first issue of my newsletter that I published on June 24, 1996… -
Web Navigation Is About Moving Forward,
07 Apr 2006 in Featured Posts
The primary purpose of Web navigation is to help people to move forward. It is not to tell them where they have been, or where they could have gone….
Web behavior is impatient. The eye darts across a page. Decisions of what link to click on are m…
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Heart Surgery for Dummies,
29 Mar 2006 in Featured Posts
One of Amazon’s biggest sellers in recent months is Heart Surgery for Dummies. The world is now full of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) heart surgeons.
The concept is straightforward: Save money by doing your own heart surgery. Each book comes with a free sca…
