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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Special Issues of Multisite Management

"The first key challenge in multisite management has to do with user and role management. Distributed enterprises quickly learn that they need particular managerial roles that fall short of "super user" powers, but offer more capabilities than typical authors and editors..."

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Keeping it simple

07-Nov-2007

When I'm teaching or writing about content management, one of my mantras is that, to the extent usability is fundamentally "fitness to purpose," then you cannot declare any software tool inherently more usable or "intuitive." In a joint presentation with Janus Boye this morning at cmf2007, we discussed the ubiquitous complexity of the technologies we follow and concluded, "Simplicity takes work." That is, you can't expect it from your vendor, but you have to actively build it into the applications you launch using packaged software. At a keynote after lunch, Stanford's BJ Fogg put it, well, much more simply: he said, "Simplicity lives outside of the product."

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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