CMS Report and I now have a Twitter account. This adventure into micro-blogging reflects my willingness to be easily coerced into doing things I normally wouldn't do after long months of winter cabin fever here in South Dakota.
Julia Angwin of the Wall Street Journal recently wrote that she wanted to remake herself into a new person...at least into a new person as seen by Google. When Ms Angwin searched on Google using her own name she continued to see an old article written by her on top of the search results page . Although the link to the old article was popular, she didn't feel the article was her best work nor that it reflected who she was today. She then starts on an adventure into search engine optimization (SEO) as she tries to get what she tries to get the search engine to list instead the artides and Internet sites she would want people to see on top of th
"From an IT executive’s perspective, social networking isn’t about giving the millenials a place to play, rather it’s about how to improve the flow of information throughout an organization, using collective knowledge to solve problems, respond to customer needs, or exploit new business opportunities faster than ever before."
-Irwin Lazar, "The Rise and Fall of the Millenials?", Enterprise 2.0 Blog, January 29, 2009
Every year, there are some key information technology people that make mostly sound and trustworthy predictions for the coming year. I'll be updating this page through the week with links to these visions of what we may expect in 2009. My own thoughts and vision for 2009 and CMS Report will come later in another post (I am not worthy to place my own comments here).
Content Management and Social Publishing Predictions
Dries Buytaert (Drupal Project Lead) - Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom
The year 2008 was another great year for CMS Report. In 2008, we posted close to 500 articles to the front page. Below are the ten most read articles that were posted for the year.
Similar to last year, three of the top stories have little to do with content management systems. It seems that there is more interest in gadgets than content management systems! Hopefully CMS Report can help change that.
Even for The Register, not a very long article but it does ask some important questions. The article, Welcome to the world of collaboration by stealth, suggests via questions that collaboration is bigger than the IT department.
Because it involves software, probably the IT department's. But is IT equipped for the task? And does it want the responsibility? Collaboration is a human process, in essence, so surely the buck stops somewhere else - even if IT provides a number of enabling tools.
I'm always interested in stories of how content management systems are being used in government. Government Technology has a lengthy article on how government portals are evolving into Web 2.0 sites. They put special focus on sites hosted by state governments.
Wow, Venkatesh G. Rao writes the article of the year, Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War. I'm going to have to reread this article and do some reflection before I have anything of value to add. Please do yourself a favor and read this article.
Note: Social Media, Social Publishing, Social Technology. I wish we could all settle on the same term.
John Newton, Alfresco, posted a well written article on the business changes Web 2.0 will continue to the enterprise. I not only liked what he had to say about the strength of social publishing tools for knowledge sharing within a company, but also Web 2.0's strength to blend required knowledge available both inside and outside the organization.
You and I have a dirty little secret. Many of the Web applications that we call content management systems (Web CMS) are not really content management systems. Huh? A lot of this confusion stems from the difficulty most of us have in answering what should be a simple question, what is a content management system? Scott Abel, The Content Wranger, has noted in previous comments that one of the problems in discussions about content management is that we really lack a common definition of CMS.