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Reputation Management Live Case Study Sweetspot.ca

March 17, 2009 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

The Cast

  • www.itworldcanada.com
    Posted an article with some dubious facts in it.
  • Briony Smith
    Author of said article
  • www.sweetspot.ca
    The website in question
  • PixelCarve
    The original implementor
  • Trioro  Inc
    The new company that ported the site from Joomla to .NET
  • The Joomlaverse
    Rapid open source fans that will jump all over ill-fact checked reporting

My Prediction

If I was to make a guess, I might say that Pixelcarve will never notice this, Trioro and Sweetspot might make some sort of clarification, and itworldcanada won’t do very well at defending their reporting.

My 2 Cents

Seems like it was a poor implementation*. One thing open source has to wrestle with is how consumers can find quality vendors. Proprietary systems do this through certification/partner programs. Mind you, for this application, I would have recommended Drupal ๐Ÿ™‚

* After some research it seems like there may have been more user error
involved than issues with the quality of the initial implementation, and the second company’s inexperience with Joomla.

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