Hello.
This is the personal and professional website of Deane Barker.
Professionally, Deane is:
- Senior Director of Content Management Strategy at Optimizely (formerly “Episerver”)
- Co-founder of Blend Interactive. In September 2020, I sold my shares in Blend and no longer have any ownership of the company.
- 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. In December 2020, that website was shut down and all content was redirected to the technical blog on this site.
- Publisher of Squirrel Notes
- One of the people behind The CMS UI Database
- 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 (now defunct)
- Content curator and MC of the early Now What Conferences (mainly 2013-2015 – less so for the later events)
- Sometime conference speaker
Personally, Deane is:
- Husband (to Annie), and father (to Alec, Gabrielle, and Isabella)
- Proud resident of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- New Zealander by birth. I spent my younger years in Napier. I’ve lived in the United States since 1977, and been a US citizen since 2009.
- Moderate/centrist Democrat (of course, that’s all based on your perspective...)
- 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 (if you’re interested, I regularly publish workouts)
- 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
- Maintainer of The Interesting List
- Annoyed pundit behind Step Away from the Share Button
- Obsessive reader
- Lover of bookstores
- Consistently frustrated Porsche 911 owner and former president of the Dakota Region Porsche Club of America