[australia] Why home grown CMS?

[James Ladd]

Melanie,

Thank you for the quick and very nice response.

I have a vision (from a software development point of view) on a tool
that
does the digging for the user and then shows the associations so they
can
pick out the gold. It's just a vision right now.

I'm here to learn more about CMS and it's use.

I can see that I will learn a lot, especially from people like you.

Thanks again for the response.

Rgs, James.

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:24 +1000, Melanie Kendell wrote:

> Hi James
> 
> Welcome to the group :)
> 
> I'm going to answer your points in a slightly different order.
> 
> > A CM tool that "digs" for information from many feeds and then shows this
> > information via their relationship would provide a means for the user to
> > "pan" for more information and make use of it more readily.
> 
> A CM tool (or any other software tool for that matter) is a passive
> creature and does not dig.
> 
> I agree with you that the relationships in information are the
> motherlode but it takes a human (information architect - whether
> that's their job title or not) to build the architecture (the mine
> infrastructure) to expose the relationships.
> 
> > Information is like gold and it's buried under dirt, that's why organisation
> > don't see the value in their information.
> 
> Again it takes a human (writer) to cut trhough the dross (not all
> content is equal) and make sure you're left with only the pure metal.
> 
> > Their are rich veins of information that flow beneath the surface of all
> > organisations but most of the CM's I have seen don't do more than
> > make a pretty display of some very simple information and leave a
> > lot to be desired in terms of showing the relationships between
> > different information. It's these relationships that "mean" value in
> > the minds of the users.
> 
> This is because most organisations see their goldfield as somewhere
> that they just dump the soil and everyone has to go picking through it
> to find the occasional nugget of information, rather than investing in
> a proper mining and refining processes.
> 
> > If you found real gold then you associate that with money, the association
> > is what makes the find valuable.
> 
> The gold is there but it takes effort to make it into a form that
> gives it that bling factor. Most organisations are not prepared to put
> in that effort (ie cash).
> 
> > A CM tool that doesn't do this in some way appears to me to be little more
> > than a fancy way to post web pages. Of course there is a place for this too, but
> > it's not going to cause the gold rush some want to happen.
> 
> Once you've been around here for a while you'll see that I kind of
> agree with you - I see WCMS as a specific form of CMS - a true CMS
> wouldn't be limited to one type of publishing media.
> 
> But the most important thing is that organisations need to invest in
> their information before they can reap the rewards of one of their
> most important assets.(Its kind of like the old chestnut "our people
> are our most important asset" - how many organisations walk the talk
> on that one?!)
> 
> > I'm still looking for the gold.
> 
> So am I :)
> 
> -Melanie
> 
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