This post looks at ways to change your relationship with under-performing content owners and devolved editors to end the days of outdated, poor quality web content that does more harm than good.
Shifting the balance of power back to the web team
Web teams are commonly seen as little more than publishing teams, a role many web [...]
I’ve recently been working on a project to procure a new CMS for a large organisation.
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A really useful resource has been CMS Watch – these chaps love talking CMS.
They’ve listed the 42 ‘most significant’ CMS vendors around today, from the big boys such as Interwoven to the Open Source options [...]
I’ve worked on several websites that have devolved editors (contributors who aren’t part of the central web team).
In my experience this can be a mixed blessing. What you gain in extra content from subject experts around the organisation you can lose in quality. Maybe you know the feeling.
So many devolved editors, such little time
When I [...]
First of all, let me explain what I intend to do with my blog. My main aim is to share my experiences with you. Some of you may agree with what I am saying and find it useful in your own jobs, others may not. Even if you don’t find it useful or you disagree [...]
Hello. After months of threatening to launch our own blog, we’re finally up and running.
We’re a bunch of web professionals [squad list coming soon] who know a thing or two about running websites. And we think it’s time to share some of our experiences and insights with a wider audience.
“Another blog – just what the [...]
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Migrating websites – top tips
As Transition manager for the FCOWeb project at the Foreign Office I was responsible for migrating and re-launching over 230 websites from our old CMS web platform to the new CMS platform. These websites were distributed globally and there were over 200 webmasters spread across the globe.
This was a complicated, painful, and time consuming process [...]
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