Mark Hoover

Mark is Director, Digital Content at Brightspot. Before Brightspot, Mark worked in product marketing and technical documentation at Natural Insight, a subsidiary of retail IT company Movista, Inc. He began his career as a journalist at Washington Technology, covering government contracting industry news. He holds an B.A. in English from James Madison University. When he's not gleaning insights from various Brightspot developers, he spends his time cooking new dishes at home with his wife and two hyperactive cats.

More From Mark Hoover

Digital asset management

4 ways digital asset management is better with Brightspot CMS

Brightspot handles images a little differently than other CMSs, specifically in a way that gives businesses more freedom and flexibility with how they want to work with images. In this way, forget your notions of a CMS and a digital asset manager. With its robust capabilities and integration-ready flexibility, Brightspot is the only digital-asset management platform you'll ever need.

Brightspot CMS

Inside Brightspot's packaged debugging tools

A list of tools that developers have at their disposal with every implementation of Brightspot

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Technology insights

Low-code vs. no-code platforms explained—and how Brightspot gets you there

Some companies need all hands on deck with a no-code platform; others may want more granular control with a low-code platform. Which works better for your organization?

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Brightspot CMS

How to query external asset libraries using Brightspot CMS search

Reduce context switching and gain time back for a quicker turnaround of content

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Technology insights

What are webhooks, and how do they work?

A term coined in 2007, a webhook allows different apps to send user-defined callbacks to one another via HTTP POST requests. In plainer English, webhooks allow notifications to be sent from one app to another app when a certain event occurs.

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Technology insights

Which programming language is best for CMS development?

Organizations leverage a variety of programming languages to build content management systems. Among the most popular are C#, Java, PHP and Python. And though some technical experts will swear by their favorites, it begs the question—which is the best to use?

Digital trends

Understanding the ways data science can amplify your content intelligence

What is data science, and how can it improve an organization? More specifically, how can the insights of a data scientist drive results for a business that's publishing hundreds, if not thousands, of pieces of content each year? We take a closer look.

Content Types

How Brightspot enables you to build your own content types

Brightspot gives editors even more flexibility than before by enabling them to create their own content types in just a few mouse clicks

CMS insights

5 real-world use cases of modular content built using Brightspot

For Brightspot customers, modular content often means realizing significant time savings while also maintaining more control over the content they push to their digital audiences—no matter the industry.

CMS integrations

How Brightspot can enable single sign-on authentication for your applications

Single sign-on (SSO) authentication allows users to sign in once, and then have access to multiple different sites or pages that would otherwise require additional logins. Here's how Brightspot makes this process work and keep our customer's data and systems secure.

Technology insights

How GraphQL queries work with a headless CMS

Everything you need to know about the advantages of GraphQL and how GraphQL queries work

Technology insights

Brightspot Dari: The underlying methodology behind Brightspot

With the Brightspot CMS, we take a different approach that combines a more intuitive architecture and flexibility to drive your business forward. And that’s thanks to Dari, a principle that has made Brightspot what it is today.