Hello.
This is the personal website of Deane Barker. If you want my professional website, then you may want:
Or the two companies with which I’m associated.
Personally, Deane is:
- Husband (to Annie), and father (to Alec, Gabrielle, and Isabella)
- Proud resident of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Moderate Democrat
- Member of Central Church in Sioux Falls
- Youth Group Leader in Central Church student ministries
- Weekend coach, struggling athlete, and blogger at CrossFit Sioux Falls
- Alumnus of Augustana University, member of the Computer Science Advisory Board and the Alumni Council
- Former vice-chairman of the Trustee Board at Sioux Falls Seminary
- Former hospital corpsman in the U.S. Naval Reserve
- Documentor of fine cheese plates at OMG That’s a Fine Cheese Plate
- Maintainer of The Interesting List
- Annoyed pundit behind Step Away from the Share Button
Professionally, Deane is:
- Senior Director of Content Management Strategy at Episerver
- Founding Partner and Consulting Analyst at Blend Interactive, a web design and development firm since 2005
- Host of The Content Management Bible Podcast
- Prodigious producer of content management-focused content
- Author of Web Content Management: Systems, Features, and Best Practices
- Author of Real World Content Modeling: A Field Guide to CMS Features and Architecture
- Co-author of The Web Project Guide: From Spark to Launch and Beyond
- Author of Things You Should Know: 25 Lessons I’ve Learned About Selecting Content Technology and Services
- Former blogger at Gadgetopia
- Publisher of Squirrel Notes
- Maintainer of The Web Content Management Glossary
- Creator of Denina
- Instructor of Content Management at FH Joanneum: Intro to CMS, Advanced CMS
- Member of the Boye and Co. CMS Experts Group
- Moderator of the /r/cms subreddit
- Former board member of Content Management Professionals
- Content curator and MC of the early Now What Conferences (mainly 2013-2015 – less so for the later events)
- Sometime conference speaker