Enterprise Content Management: A Critical Review  

A presentation about the use of ECM within the CMSwatch website.

Byrne, Tony. IAsummit (2004). Articles>Content Management>Single Sourcing

Graphic Designer Needs a Web CMS

While you can create very powerful content management solutions with most open-source packages -- they have a much steeper learning curve than you experienced with HTML or Flash.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management>Graphic Design

Indexer Wants to Retrain

With such a considerable portion of our collective mindshare devoted to information management products these days, it's no wonder that you're lost in terminology and technology. And it's no wonder that so many of us are confused.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Careers>Content Management>Indexing

Is There a Gremlin in Your Website?

GRUPA stands for 'Gratuitous Runtime Page Assembly.' It's what happens when you overapply the once (and still) popular idea that your system should always generate web pages 'on the fly,' i.e. a user clicks on a page that triggers some logic to extract snippets of content from a repository and assemble a complete page to stream back to the browser.

Byrne, Tony. CMSwatch (2003). Design>Web Design>Search

My CMS Ate My Search Engine Rankings

A dynamically-delivered site in and of itself need not denigrate your search engine rankings. Google and other spiders can follow dynamically-generated pages, up to a point. The key is to have links elsewhere on the site pointing specifically to those pages. If each page results from a purely dynamic query (e.g. using session variables), then you could be in trouble.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Web Design>Content Management>Search

Packaging our CMS

We have considered the idea of packaging and selling our CMS to other development firms. Do you think there is room on the market for another CMS solution, and if so, what niche/market is not being served effectively?

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management

Recursively Sorting our Documents

Traditional document management vendors and many newer approaches allow you to apply multiple attributes to individual documents, such that they can retrieved according to different facets.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management>Search

Seeking a More Dynamic Website

Putting content in a database will not inherently make your website more dynamic. Making sure that content providers keep information fresh, interesting, and relevant will make your website more dynamic -- and ultimately more useful.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Web Design>Content Management

Sex, Lies, and CMS Vendors

Despite an 11+ year history in the marketplace, CMS technology remains poorly understood by many prospective buyers. In the meantime, the field of available suppliers has never been broader or noisier. Most CMS salespeople I know are good educators, but they also have quotas to meet. Under these circumstances, vendors will sometimes short-cut important discussions about functionality and pricing with simple -- but not always completely truthful -- answers. So here's a list of 10 common myths you might hear during the sales process.

Byrne, Tony. CMSwatch (2006). Articles>Content Management>Marketing

Software Developer Needs Advice

We are a web-based software development firm looking for basic guidelines for making a CMS.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management

Tech Writer Looking to Boost Skills

on't discount your tech writing skills; they are useful to almost any CMS project.

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management

What's in a Word...

What is the real difference between a Content Management Framework and a Content Management System?

Byrne, Tony. CMSworks (2004). Articles>Content Management

Do SharePoint Right Before SharePoint Does You Wrong

Microsoft markets SharePoint as an omnibus information-management platform, but like all software, it has meaningful strengths and weaknesses. People frequently label SharePoint a collaboration product, when in fact, it excels at some types of collaboration but virtually ignores other. SharePoint is useful for some Web Content Management scenarios, but poor at (many) others.

Byrne, Tony. CMSwatch (2009). Articles>Content Management>Software>Microsoft SharePoint

How Much Should Vendor Sales and Marketing Skill Really Matter for Customers?

When I parse the comments of technology customers in the midst of long-term vendor relationships, what I hear them asking for is predictability, rather than commercial zest. Sure, they want their suppliers to innovate, but since when is innovation a function of sales and marketing skill?

Byrne, Tony. CMSwatch (2009). Articles>Content Management>Planning