Content Management for Single Sourcing  

Content management is becoming a critical component of single sourcing. It provides a method for managing our single source materials and ensuring that information can be easily retrieved for reuse. This session explains what a content management system will do for you and how to use it effectively.

Rockley, Ann. STC Proceedings (2001). Presentations>Content Management>Single Sourcing

Content Management from the Trenches  

Moving your company to a content management system requires intense commitment and planning by everyone: management, writers, and vendors. Allow at least a year to define and develop the necessary tools, and provide training and support for the writers on an ongoing basis. As a writer, documentation department, or vendor, you should participate in the planning, development, and implementation. To ensure success, conduct rigorous testing, do a pilot project, and encourage teams to share information freely.

Pierce, Kathleen and Erin Martin. STC Proceedings (2004). Articles>Content Management

Content Management Glossary

An interactive glossary of terms from content management systems.

Sapir, Rick. KeyContent.org (2006). Articles>Content Management>Glossary

Content Management is the Infrastructure of eBusiness

The basic nature of commerce has not changed but our ability to communicate quickly, widely, and deeply has. This document explores the changes and challenges that these new abilities bring to the conduct of business for all organizations. eBusiness, I contend, is the process of delivering any part of your business to any audience wherever they are.

Boiko, Bob. ASIST (2001). Articles>Content Management>Management

Content Management Mania

Manien har bredt sig. Ethvert professionelt website skal pr. definition være baseret på et Content Management System (CMS). Der er nok at vælge imellem, når næsten ethvert web bureau med respekt for sig selv har deres eget CMS, med alle dets fordele og ulemper. Men hvordan navigerer man som køber i denne jungle af systemer? Der er jo en del, her er en lille liste over hvad TheQuark har fundet på det seneste. Listen er sikkert overhovedet ikke dækkende, men den giver et rimeligt overblik på hvad man kan få.

Orgaard Larsen, Thomas. Quark, The (2003). (Danish) Articles>Content Management

Content Management Market: What You Really Need to Know

Content management (CM) has been on the short list of initiatives for many organizations the past few years. The proliferation of Web-based content on corporate intranets, extranets and Web pages has provided a daunting array of challenges. Organizations must insure that posted information is relevant, authentic and appropriate. And, if you listen to all the analyst firms the industry numbers would bear this out.

Emery, Priscilla. ASIST (2001). Articles>Content Management

Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions

With hundreds of applications to choose from, content management is one of the most active sectors of open source software. While these options present a great opportunity to leverage open source software, I.T. decision makers often find themselves disoriented by the number of choices, the lack of information, and the ineffectualness of their traditional software selection processes. This Optaros white paper 'Content Management Problems and Open Source Solutions' discusses strategies for understanding and selecting an open source content management system and describes fifteen of the more prominent options in the context of the business problems they are effective in solving.

Gottlieb, Seth. Hiveminds (2006). Articles>Content Management>Case Studies

Content Management Professionals

CM Pros is a membership organization that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies.

Content Management Professionals. Organizations>Content Management

A Content Management Project Presents Unique Challenges

At a basic level, implementing a content management system (CMS) is like deploying any other large software package. Fundamental project management principles must be followed, along with best practice technical guidelines. Beyond this, however, a CMS project presents a number of unique challenges. These must be recognised and addressed for the project to be successful.

Robertson, James. Step Two (2003). Design>Content Management>Information Design

Content Management: Reaching the Next Level

In spite of the ongoing efforts of vendors and user organizations, the management of non-structured data (content) continues to be a problem, with significant impact. Yet evidence indicates that content management (CM) is being deployed more widely within vanguard organizations, with major benefits. And among the lessons to be learned from their experiences, focusing on the quality of metadata and content standards continues to be a leading success factor.

Kittmer, Sarah. KMworld (2006). Articles>Content Management

Content Management Systems

Content management systems are key to running an efficient website. Keep the development group out of the loop on updating content, and you will move ever so much faster. 'Content' doesn’t need the same kind of source control that scripts and templates need. Specific design suggestions follow.

Boynton, J.R. Diamond Lane, The (2002). Design>Content Management>Web Design

Content Management Systems

A European resource for content managers and CMS suppliers.

Content Manager. Resources>Content Management>Single Sourcing

Content Management Systems

In this White Paper, we examine the benefits of automated content management, and demonstrate where efficiencies can be gained within your organization. Web sites with more than a few information pages may benefit from content management systems (CMS). Content management systems are automated tools that allow for web site content to be created and administered on a recurring basis. The result puts the responsibility for content development into the hands of the authors (where it belongs) and out of the hands of the programmers.

Sloan, Brian and Scott Duffy. XGuru (2002). Articles>Content Management>Web Design

Content Management Systems and the Single Web Designer

Content Management is the next step in separating structure from design. What began with Cascading Style Sheets and was furthered by XML, is exploding with the CM environment, where billions were spent last year and more billions are expected to be spent in the years ahead. CM Systems come in many shapes: They can be huge or small, simple or very complex. They range from the very expensive (almost $300,000 for enterprise–wide systems like Vignette or Interwoven and $43,000 per server processor for Microsoft’s CMS to almost free (less than $1,000 for Manila and nothing for Zope). But they are all based on the same idea: CM allows designers to focus on design by building templates. Subject experts build content in a separate environment. The server takes the content, inserts it into the correct template and sends it all, neatly wrapped up, to end users.

Ellis, James. List Apart, A (2002). Design>Content Management>Web Design

Content Management Systems: Don't Automate the Misery

Few organizations have seen much good come of content-management BPR initiatives so far. Of the many reasons for these failures, one stands out: these BPR initiatives—and the systems they spawn—are focused on realizing organizational objectives without sufficient regard for the context, habits, and goals of the people who will actually use the system.

Fore, David. Cooper Interaction Design (2001). Articles>Content Management>User Centered Design

Content Management Tools

Dit overzicht wil een neutraal overzicht geven van content management systemen. Er zijn geen commerciële belangen aan verbonden. De betreffende leveranciers dragen zelf zorg voor het actueel houden van hun productspecificaties. Hartman Communicatie BV is een onafhankelijk adviesbureau en heeft geen relaties met cms-leveranciers en/of implementatiepartijen

Hartman Communicatie (2002). Resources>Content Management>Software

Content Management: Web Publishing Needs Real Discipline

Too many organizations take an unprofessional approach to the content they publish on the Web. Many web managers still seem to believe that if they get the technology right the publishing will look after itself. Quality publishing requires skill and discipline. Unfortunately, discipline is something many web teams are lacking.

McGovern, Gerry. New Thinking Newsletter (2003). Articles>Content Management>Planning

Content Re-Use with the Tools at Hand  

Frequent updates for a swarm of modular plug-ins were interrupting work on larger, higher-value projects. Worse, development was happening in a time zone 12 hours away, making communication a major bottleneck. Faced with fixed resources and growing commitments, our writing group extended existing tools to automate information gathering and rough draft creation, thereby halving the writer time each module required. This paper describes the user interface, tool extensions, and reusable information approach we used to solve the problem.

Carpenter, Cory, Samantha Lizak and Jeffrey Young. STC Proceedings (2005). Articles>Content Management>Collaboration

Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data

As interactions proliferate, so does the content that supports them. Why should software professionals take a step back and examine their content from a philosophical perch? Rachel Lovinger takes a look at content strategy and the benefits of its perspectives.

Lovinger, Rachel. Boxes and Arrows (2007). Articles>Content Management>Theory

Content, the Once and Future King  

Content is the digital-stuff we use everyday in our work lives to sell and service, help and maintain our customers, our partners and ourselves. Content is the evidence of what we do. Carl Sagan said about life on Earth, 'We are star-stuff.' In our business lives, we are content-stuff. Enterprise Content Management emerges as the key factor in employee empowerment.

Moore, Andy. KMworld (2001). Articles>Content Management

Content vs. Product: The Effects of Single Sourcing on the Teaching of Technical Communication    

Identifies and discusses the effects of single sourcing on the writing process. Provides suggestions for incorporating the teaching of single sourcing into technical communication courses

Eble, Michelle F. Technical Communication Online (2003). Articles>Content Management>Single Sourcing>Rhetoric

Content: What Is It and Why Manage It?  

Fuelled by our own frustrations and fear of 'The Server' and 'inspired' by the frustrations of others, we set out to tackle 'content' and figure out ways to effectively create and manage it.

Kostur, Pamela. Rockley Bulletin (2003). Articles>Content Management