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"Eat Our Own Dog Food"

by Brett Wangman — last modified Jun 16, 2009 02:30 PM

This is a common phrase amoung software development companies. One that I believe in strongly. It basically means, use the same software that you are selling/offering to your clients.

This is my first blog post on our new TCAG website and I am proud to say that we are using several Plone add-on modules to run this blog.  It features Quills and Scrawl.

I point this out because I think it is important.  Since we run most of our client sites on Plone, it is important that we too try to use it whenever and wherever we can.  This way we can figure out what works, what doesn't and what needs improvement.  All of which can be used to improve our client's experience.

So here goes...

Brett

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Brett Wangman is President of The Center for Association Growth. Focused on helping associations grow through the use of new technologies, especially open source solutions.
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