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Your RFP will be flawed. The point isn’t that it’s flawed but that you learned something while creating it.
via Kas Thomas, Trends: Thinking beyond the RFP.
Some of you may know that The Economist is in the process of moving their web content management over to Drupal and I am really excited to be joining the team working on the implementation of these publishing tools over the coming months - my mission is to wrangle the Drupal6 interface such that journalists will be able to spend more time doing what they love to do - chasing and writing stories - and less time doing what currently drives them mad - dealing with content publishing tools.via Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity » The Economist/Drupal Project - An introduction.
Self immolation is a rare, some may say mythical event. Yet in the world of content management it is more common than you might think. For example, I witnessed three major ECM Suite vendors burst into flames of their own earlier this year during a week of day-long demos for a large customer.
Content Management is a complex business and is best understood by breaking it down into the major stages or phases involved in managing the content lifecycle. The best-known content management books, reports, and organizations … are of course all describing the same process, but divide the stages up differently.
Some make the mistake of equating content strategy with content management. They’re not the same thing, though they are certainly related. At the same time, however, identifying the content types for your website is a critical piece of both, and in the ideal world, your content strategy specifies the content types that will be modeled for your CMS. (more…)
Apture was created out of conversations with the Stanford Knight Fellows, a group of distinguished journalists from all over the world, about how to improve online news. Those conversations led the Apture team to develop a rich communication platform that allows people for the first time ever to fully immerse themselves in the ideas they are reading about without ever leaving the page.
Everything I know about content types began with Bob Boiko’s Content Management Bible, and I recommend it to anyone facing a new CMS. Some make the mistake of equating content strategy with content management. They’re not the same thing, though they are certainly related. (more…)
Yes, faceted classification is being used on editorial sites now. Sometimes it’s third party, in case of the Washington Post and Evri:
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Jeff is an independent content strategist and widely published commentator on digital content and culture. He is an expert in the intersection of content publishing, programming and product strategy online. His work has been featured in Fast Company and The Huffington Post. Jeff has worked with premier media properties (at Condé Nast, Yahoo!, A&E, Reuters, and the Washington Post Company), design agencies and leading authorities in user experience design to create effective content strategies. Predicate engagements draw on Jeff’s decade-long background in management consulting and editorial positions across print, web and television. His byline has appeared in numerous venues, from Wired to the New York Times. He continues to moonlight as a freelance journalist.
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