Content on Web sites should be managed using systems that were designed from the ground up for the Web. Traditional content management systems with a legacy of features and workflows used for paper-based print products like newspapers and magazines are unsuitable for Web sites. The future of news media content management for Web sites is… Continue reading Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites
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Sometimes extra steps in workflows are good
When implementing a content management system or other product, customers often ask for workflows that require the least number of steps required to any given complete task. At first, this seems to make perfect sense; however consider this example of a car: Before you can get inside your car and start driving you have to… Continue reading Sometimes extra steps in workflows are good
Searching Instead Of Browsing: Organizing Information Using Labels as Meta-Data
Being able to assign labels to content to organize information for searching is superior to placing content in folders for manual browsing. The folder concept may be suitable to physical documents on paper, but does not lend itself well to digital information. The labels concept combined with an effective search capability is a faster way… Continue reading Searching Instead Of Browsing: Organizing Information Using Labels as Meta-Data
Preserving URLs of Evergreen Content
Changing the URLs of pages containing narrative content like articles has several disadvantages, especially for a content site: Readers’ bookmarks to the site’s pages break Links archived in electronic mediums (e.g. emails, documents) & print mediums (e.g. books, magazines, newspapers) to evergreen content1 like articles or news stories break Incoming links from other sites break… Continue reading Preserving URLs of Evergreen Content
Content Management: Content & Search Technologies
Search, when effectively integrated with content, creates a combination that is greater than the sum of the two separately. Let us consider an example. A printed phone book has been available to people for decades. The information in it was accessible primarily for one intended purpose: search by name for phone number and home address.… Continue reading Content Management: Content & Search Technologies
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