| date: | 2005-10-24 10:56:36 |
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| category: | Content Management |
See Creating a Scalable Content Management Solution by Deb Shinder (Tech Republic, 10/17/05) [link ].
See RLucente’s Blog [link ] for a summary of key points and some additional references.
She has some interesting notes on CMS. However, when we get down to brass tacks, something profound is missing. She hints around at it with the following.
“Don’t overlook the “people factor.” Even though the new content management system may offer great benefits to the enterprise and to individual users, most people don’t like to change the way they work. A system that requires them to drastically change the process of creating content will be met with resistance by many – perhaps most – users unless you can convince them that there’s really something in it for them.”
The unasked questions are: Who Has The Problem? and What Problem Do They Have?
In order to make CMS useful (or even interesting), it has to solve someone’s problem. The problems that CMS solves could be numerous, but often aren’t. We have file systems, and they mostly work. We need to be more specific on what file systems don’t do, and why spending money on CMS is better than doing nothing about CMS.
While a litany of features can be helpful, the article doesn’t identify a problem very well.