Between a recent topic in the forums and a brief email discussion with another member (webiScoper? webiScopean?), I got thinking about the two biggest points behind lofting an RFP: focusing your team to create a concise message that properly represents your institution and the its direction (or desired direction), and the quality of response(s) received. Who are you, and then who gets you?

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Syndicated content. We’ve had the discussions about whether or not it’s beneficial, etc etc. I don’t write today to discuss the benefits vs. drawbacks – that’s a discussion for another time, and another article. I write today to ask why there isn’t a better system of integrating syndicated content into your custom content.

I mean really, we spend a ton of money on healthcare content and CMSs (bought or built) which automate a lot of the day-to-day processes and make things possible which weren’t before. Why can’t this system automate a seemingly simple task: such as auto-tagging some content?

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I have come to develop a great appreciation for the word “no” in this business. There are a couple reasons; the first and most apparent to me is due to the fact that of the three developers whom I took over for, none of them knew how to use it. This is demonstrated time & again in the legacy applications that I’ve inherited, in all the unfinished, grandiose project detritus all around – a lot of these fall in the “infinite amount of monkeys/computers/time” category, like “wouldn’t it be great if only?” (Yeah, well, if only.) (more…)