http://tc.eserver.org/authors/Byrne,_Tony A bibliography of works by Byrne, Tony in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Byrne,_Tony http://tc.eserver.org/35031.html http://tc.eserver.org/35031.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/35032.html http://tc.eserver.org/35032.html 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? http://tc.eserver.org/27045.html http://tc.eserver.org/27045.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/25104.html http://tc.eserver.org/25104.html Microsoft has in no way abandoned the web content management market. http://tc.eserver.org/24846.html http://tc.eserver.org/24846.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24626.html http://tc.eserver.org/24626.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24623.html http://tc.eserver.org/24623.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24620.html http://tc.eserver.org/24620.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24628.html http://tc.eserver.org/24628.html 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? http://tc.eserver.org/24624.html http://tc.eserver.org/24624.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24625.html http://tc.eserver.org/24625.html 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. http://tc.eserver.org/24627.html http://tc.eserver.org/24627.html We are a web-based software development firm looking for basic guidelines for making a CMS. http://tc.eserver.org/24621.html http://tc.eserver.org/24621.html on't discount your tech writing skills; they are useful to almost any CMS project. http://tc.eserver.org/24622.html http://tc.eserver.org/24622.html What is the real difference between a Content Management Framework and a Content Management System? http://tc.eserver.org/23357.html http://tc.eserver.org/23357.html A presentation about the use of ECM within the CMSwatch website.