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Content Management

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via Flowing DataFormat and clean your data with Google Refine.

08.31.11 | Analytics & Search, Content Management, Launch/Relaunch, Products & Services

Some of this metadata is shared between both the collections management system and the DAM, but not all of it is in both. Each system has their own specific types of metadata. This sharing can even include the collections management system linking to the images in the DAM and not just data and vice versa (data to the images).

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08.24.11 | Content Management, Technical Architecture, Technologies

The WordPress Editorial Calendar Screen Cast from Zack Grossbart on Vimeo, via Chris Brogan, Use an Editorial Calendar.

08.17.11 | Content Management, Editorial & Programming, Products & Services, Technologies

via Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology.

Why You Need An Ontology

08.08.11 | Content Management, Content Strategy, Resources

No more ‘us and them’: Part 4 – Building tools to enable story-telling – Martin Belam’s currybetdotnet blog – December 2, 2010.

First Steps into Linked Data

08.01.11 | Content Management, Organizational Dynamics, Technical Architecture, Theory & Practice

Our first step was to conduct a thorough content audit of these sites and all other financial aid related content within the Ithaca.edu structure. Once we knew what we had, what we didn’t, and where it lived within our site structure, we spent significant effort doing focus groups, interviews, and usability testing with key audiences (including internal staff). (more…)

07.14.11 | Content Management, Content Strategy, Launch/Relaunch

The area where metadata is most important, however, is video. That content is locked within formats that are generally inaccessible to search spiders and aggregation bots. There’s no way to know about the insightful perspective captured at a clip’s 2-minute mark or the funny pratfall 45 seconds in. Left unaddressed, most video clips have the discovery prowess of a “DSC0000.jpg” file. (more…)

06.17.11 | Analytics & Search, Content Management, Interaction Design & UX, Video

 

Content administrators are the forgotten users of the internet.

via Karen McGrane and Jeff Eatondrupalconchi_day2_baby_got_backend : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive.

06.14.11 | Content Management, Content Strategy, Technologies, User-Generated Content

This wave has two faces. One is the trend towards more minimal, readable designs. The other is the imperative to make content as easily reformattable as possible, separating content from the designs in which it’s initially clothed.

You can see it at work in tools like Instapaper and Readability. You can see it in applications like Flipboard, which filter and reformat news through the lens of your social network. (more…)

05.27.11 | Content Management, Content Strategy, Industry Shift, Interaction Design & UX, Platforms & Channels, Technical Architecture

Polyhierarchical tags solve two important problems. One tag implies a bunch of related and synonymous tags, so adding tags no longer means racking your brain trying to be complete when summing up related themes for a story. And you can stop wondering whether the tags you’re entering are too specific or too vague. (more…)

05.19.11 | Content Management, Technical Architecture, Theory & Practice

Max Cutler – What is a (news) CMS?

Wanted: CMS for News

05.13.11 | Content Management, Content Strategy, Theory & Practice

 

People don’t muck up web projects. Bad processes do.

via Meghan Casey » 4 Web project problems content strategy can solve Johnny Holland – It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive.

05.05.11 | Content Management, Content Specialists, Content Strategy, Organizational Dynamics

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