Content Technology Podcast: The Truth About Content Migrations

January 31, 2012By Bill Cava Comments

In today's Content Technology Podcast, I speak with with Deane Barker, the Content Management Practice Directory at Blend Interactive, on a topic with which he has a lot of first hand experience: content migration.

Deane recently gave a presentation at the Gilbane Content Management Conference titled Truth About Content Migration, where he discussed the Four Phases of Content Migration and shared many "battle tested" lessons he's learned given the many content migrations under his belt.

Listen in as Deane and I discuss common pitfalls and how they're avoided through process and planning.

Enjoy!

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Comments (2)

Great conversation, thanks for this! We're in the process of starting a content migration and the advice of starting the content inventory as soon as possible and wait for nothing resonates with me. I'm trying to get this process going but finding that people aren't feeling the pressure to work with me given the deadline is so far off. Are there any bits of advice you could offer me to help them understand the urgency of starting the content inventory now?
Posted by Bibby Janson / February 13, 2012
Absolutely nothing will resonate more than starting an inventory. Have the website crawled (hell, send me the URL -- I'll do it for you), and present people will a link of URLs. Give them the big number. Then start digging into those URLs and start firing off emailed questions: "How are we going to handle X?" and "Who is going to re-code Y?" etc. This will hopefully get people to understand the magnitude of what you're dealing with.
Posted by Deane / February 14, 2012