Hello.

This is the personal and professional website of Deane Barker.

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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.
• 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
• 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)
• Host of The Content Management Bible Podcast
• 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 and struggling, middle-aged athlete at CrossFit Sioux Falls
  • I’ve blogged a bit about fitness
  • I publish some of my workouts
• Alumnus of Augustana University
  • Member of the Computer Science Advisory Board
  • Member of the Alumni Council
  • Student mentor
• 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
• Former Porsche 911 owner and president of the Dakota Region Porsche Club of America

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