
About Gerry McGovern
Gerry
is the founder and CEO of Customer Carewords. He is widely regarded as
the worldwide authority on increasing web satisfaction by managing
customer tasks. Gerry has spoken, written and consulted extensively on
web content management issues since 1994. His new book, The Stranger's
Long Neck: How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online, will
be published in July 2010.
In 2006, The Irish Times described him as one of five visionaries who
had had a major impact on the development of the Web. (The other four
were Tim O'Reilly, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and Nicholas
Negroponte.) In 2006, he received the Educational Contribution award
from the Irish Internet Association.
In 2004, he was included in the 100 most influential figures in
e-commerce in the UK and Ireland, as part of "An Internet Decade",
which was organized by NOP World and E-Consultancy. In 2000, he
received the Web Ireland Internet Industry Person of the Year award. He
is a founding member of the Irish Internet Association and the Content
Management Professionals Association.
Gerry has written four books. In 1999, Gerry published The Caring
Economy (Blackhall Publishing), which was voted 25th out of the top 50
new economy books by Middleton/Capstone. In 2001, he published two
books with Financial Times Prentice Hall, entitled: Content Critical
and The Web Content Style Guide. Design Research News stated that
Content Critical "should be on the reading list of every course in Web
design". Knowledge Management Review described it as a "bible" of
content management.
In 2006, he published Killer Web Content (Bloomsbury / A&C Black).
Suzanne Sowinska, Manager, Content Publishing Excellence, Microsoft
Corporation described it as "essential reading". Bev Godwin, Director,
FirstGov.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal, said about the
book: "Genius! Gerry McGovern gets it! If you read ONE book on managing
a Web site, this is it."
Gerry has appeared on BBC, CNN and CNBC television, partaken in various
radio shows, and featured in numerous print media publications. Gerry
has been nominated as best overall speaker at numerous conferences. He
has spoken about content management at hundreds of conferences and
workshops in 35 countries.
Previously, he was founder and CEO of Nua, a developer of content
management software and solutions. In 1996, Nua received the Best
Overall World Wide Web Business Achievement award from the European
Union.
Since 1996, Gerry has written New Thinking, a weekly email newsletter
focusing on best practice in managing customer-centric, task-focused
websites.
Gerry holds a Management Science degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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