• authorship

• collaboration

• presentation

• sharing

• making it work: start where you are

A Distributed Publishing Framework

Introductory screencast on blip.tv

Authorship

• individual or collective

• protected or open

• version control

• security: server back up

Collaboration

• individual contributions to collective

• collective decision making about content

• categorizing/tagging content

• central management (clean up, fix ups, spam control, etc).

Presentation

• who needs to know about your content?

• how will users access it?

• author/update locally/share widely (varied locations).

Sharing

• shareable formats (RSS; JSON)

• advantages

• limitations

• Creative CommonsFrom: alexkingorg Flickr photostream

Making it Work

• start where you are

• experiment with others

• if it works - very powerful content management approach

• features: granularity of feeds, etc.