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Core Skills for Content Administrators June 18 2008 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Graham Tillotson, eZ Systems
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A review of core skills for CMS content administrators. Presented at Duo Consulting's Web Content 2008 conference in June 2008.
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Core Skills for Content Administrators
June 18 20081:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Graham Tillotson, eZ Systems
one “big idea”
You can't really manage anything unless you understand all of the levers and switches
available to you
and
the hardest to learn is the least complicated
old levers and switches?
“the J: drive”
my_final_approved_v12.doc
Save As . . .
you've got mail (with files)
new levers and switches?
information architecture
version control
dynamic content and views
search engines
roles and permissions
more devices
more languages
more platforms and browsers
terminology
template
object
class
masterattribute
libraryscenario
element
time zones
“You can get so confusedthat you'll start in to racedown long wiggled roads at a break-necking paceand grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.The Waiting Place...”
-- Seuss
“...for people just waiting.Waiting for a train to goor a bus to come, or a plane to goor the mail to come, or the rain to goor the phone to ring, or the snow to snowor waiting around for a Yes or a Noor waiting for their hair to grow.Everyone is just waiting.”
-- Seuss
a story then . . .
once upon a time . . .
there was “a deck”
one more story . . .
Can you hear me now?
four regions
three CMS frameworks
50-60 content administrators
and one of the oldest skills . . .
no, I mean the other one
remember Venice!
(wrap up the pep rally here)
Ask not what you can do for your templates . . .
. . . but what your templates can do for you!
(thanks to Google for the images)
demo
