{"id":10418,"date":"2011-08-14T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/ala-web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T02:18:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T07:18:43","slug":"ala-web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/ala-web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"[ALA] Web Governance: Becoming an Agent of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>A List Apart<\/em> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Web Governance: Becoming an Agent of Change<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p><em style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; color: #666;\"><span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">\u201c<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 2%; width: 30%; height: auto;\" src=\"http:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/images\/tutorials\/alalogo-1.png\" alt=\"A List Apart - For people who make websites\" width=\"156\" height=\"252\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Shipping is easy, making real change is hard. To do meaningful web work, we need to educate clients on how their websites influence their business and the legal, regulatory, brand, and financial risks they face without strong web governance. Learn why web governance is important to us as web professionals and how to influence your clients to think carefully about how to align their websites to their business strategy.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 3.5em; font-weight: bold;\">\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/web-governance-becoming-an-agent-of-change\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><big>READ MORE \u00bb<\/big><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping is easy, making real change is hard. 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