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Love Your Local Data Warehouse Manager

Within most enterprises, the worlds of "data" and "content" remain far apart, despite recurring business needs to converge different types of information. Tony Byrne argues that data specialists have a lot to teach content specialists -- and vice-versa. The trick is finding common ground, allied interests, and a common vocabulary...

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A Lexicon for Document Analysis

Content analysis is a key pillar of successful content technology implementations. But a challenge comes, says CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne, in figuring out what to call content types and elements, when analysts, consultants, and vendors use different terms to mean the same thing...

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Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise Web

The first edition of Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville's famous "Polar Bear Book" taught us how to think about information architecture for a website. But what about website IA that spans multiple business units across a distributed enterprise? The book's new third edition provides some practical advice for IAs trying to negotiate the enterprise thicket...

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Improving portal usability

The enterprise portal experience can be excruciating for end-users, argues CMS Watch contributing analyst, Janus Boye. By paying attention to usability issues at the start of a project, development teams can improve the likelihood that portal investments really pay off.

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When you need to localize and categorize

Targeting content to different geographic regions seems easy enough: just set up a locales attribute in your CMS and you're done, right? Not so fast, argues Molecular's Christian Donner. You need an information architecture that will make localized content accessible for the right audience in the right region, but enterprises frequently underestimate the complexity here...

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Placed vs. Dynamic Content

How do you want content to appear on your website? Should your authors "place" content items on a specific page, or can you make your content smart enough to just know where to go? Theresa Regli and Christian Donner explore the pros and cons of "placed" vs. "dynamic" content management.

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Headline Syndication for Intranets

Are your employees hungry for a better and fresher intranet? Web content guru Amy Gahran returns to CMS Watch to show how headline syndication capabilities can significantly improve internal information exchange. It's easy to supply webfeeds, says Amy, but you'll have to work a bit to help employees ingest all that new food...

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Web Content Migration Project Design

In the 2nd of 2 articles on web content migration, Reza Haniph outlines an approach for stepping through a large migration, emphasizing the importance of designing an effective process...

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Migration Tools and Techniques

In our continuing series on web content migration, Reza Haniph blends the observations of a migration solutions developer and a taxonomy strategist. Taxonomies help you map content from old information structures to new. Technology -- applied carefully -- can help speed up the migration process...

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Interface Scalability

Finding your CMS interfaces bulging at the seams? You're not alone, says Clickability's Jeff Freund. Just as your content management infrastructure must scale to meet your growing web publishing needs, explains Jeff, so must the interfaces of your CMS scale to meet the ongoing needs of your editorial team...

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Content Management and Information Architecture

Information Architecture guru Lou Rosenfeld says that IA and CMS people have a lot to learn from each other...

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Migrating Legacy Content

Does the prospect of migrating your legacy Web content to a new CMS make you think of herding wildebeest? Clickability's John Girard concedes that content migrations can indeed present a lumbering challenge. But he also lists some practical things you can do to make it a lot easier...

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A Metadata Primer

The word's out: metadata is central to successful enterprise content management. But what are the different types of metadata and how do you go about organizing it all? Author and consultant Ann Rockley offers a neat little primer...


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Harmonizing Search & CMS

Which comes first, the Search Engine or the CMS? Neither, says Carl Sutter -- you need both to work together...

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Finding the ROI in Content Management

You know the CFO's going to ask...so why not have your story straight, right up front? Many analysts have argued that calculating an ROI for CMS is nearly impossible. Jim Howard, CEO of CrownPeak, begs to differ...

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Digital Object Identifiers: Not Just for Publishers

What if you could link to objects based on what they are, rather than on where they lived? David Sidman says that Digital Object Identifiers, increasingly popular with the publishing industry, may make good sense for other sectors as well...

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Value of Organized Knowledge

If you really want your content to be found, Jack Bryar argues, focus on building a taxonomy. But what is a taxonomy anyway...?

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What Does Your CMS Call This Guy?

He could be "the Duke," or "John Wayne," or the "star of Rio Bravo." Want to make anything of it, pardner? Mark Baker says how you name him matters -- a lot...

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Publishing Without Wires: Ready for Primetime?

Westlake Internet Training CEO Steve Westlake says that good content -- displayed right -- is still good content in the wireless world. Review Steve's quick primer on WAP and WML, then step through a checklist for evaluating when and how you should consider wireless capabilities for your CM system...

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The Challenges of Developing Multi-lingual Content Structures

Having difficulty building taxonomies and content hierarchies? Try doing it in several languages. Kat Hagedorn shows how the FAO is getting it done...

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