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Managing content – go with the flow!

By paulhosking | Published: July 3, 2009
When managing many sites and many webmasters it is important to maintain control of your content. At the FCO we have over 250 websites and 300 webmasters. It is impossible to keep track of all these sites and webmasters ourselves but workflow allows us to control access to creating and publishing content. Wikipedia provides a good [...]
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Migrating websites – top tips

By paulhosking | Published: May 13, 2009
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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Improving your web content owners: good cop, bad cop

By liamking | Published: May 10, 2009
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looks at ways to change your relationship with under-performing content owners and devolved editors to end the days of outdated, poor quality web content that does more harm than good.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 [...]
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Improving your devolved editors – where to begin?

By liamking | Published: May 2, 2009
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 [...]
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