Deane Barker (US)
Vice-President of DXP Consulting at Valtech
Previously worked as Senior Director of Content Management Strategy at Optimizely and he’s also a founding partner of Blend Interactive
Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and the author of several books, including the definitive guide to content management and the acclaimed Squirrel Notes newsletter
Future events:
CMS Connect 24
Session: Uniting the Content Trades: Exploring the Need for a Professional Association
Past events:
CMS Kickoff 24
Opening Q&A: Big topics for 2024
CMS Kickoff 23
Presentation: The Next Generation Content Engine
Boye 19 Brooklyn conference
CMS Expert Group: The Future Might Be Distributed
Deane on stage in Brooklyn at the Boye Philadelphi 19 conference
About Deane Barker
Deane has spent most of the last 20 years working with, researching, writing, and speaking about content technologies. He is obsessed with managing, organizing, and delivering digital content.
Deane is a founding partner of Blend Interactive -- a development and consulting firm, specializing in web content management. They implement about a dozen different content management systems and technologies, and consult with clients on difficult content problems.
In 2016, O'Reilly Media published his first book: "Web Content Management: Systems, Features, and Best Practices." In 2019, Deane also published Real World Content Modeling.
For the last 13 years, he has actively blogged about content management and related topics at Gadgetopia. That collection of writing represents a comprehensive record of the nearly two decades Deane has spent working in this space, and of his professional evolution during that time. If you are interested in following his work and thinking, you should consider subscribing to his Squirrel Notes newsletter.
Deane is also a member of the CMS Expert Group. Here’s a brief post he shared on LinkedIn after about 10 years of membership: If you're in the CMS or DXP space, you should join us.
Blog posts and presentations with Deane Barker
25 + 3 Lessons Learned About Buying Content Technology And Services (2020)
CMS Implementations Workshop Deck (from the Boye 15 Philadelphia conference)
The Future is in Delivery (from the Boye 12 Philadelphia conference)