Replacement CMS - Getting it right and getting the buy-in

Replacement CMS“Getting it right and getting the buy-in”
Richard Brierton
The University of Sheffield
July 14th 2010

E-mail: r.brierton@sheffield.ac.uk
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Where we are coming from...
Polopoly CMS since 2003
600 editors; 100,000 pages; 14,000 new pages per year
No longer running a supported product
Regular users are fine with it
Casual users are less-fine with it
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“I use CMS almost daily and it is incredibly slow and awkward to use.”

“CMS is a catastrophe:the interface is clunky,slow, unattractive”

“CMS. Please. It's shit. It's unbelievablybreathtakingly shit.”

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Opportunity for change
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“Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.”
Despair.com – “Tradition”
http://despair.com/tradition.html

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Communication
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“To be able to walk hundreds of miles a man must believe that something good awaits him at the end. He needs the prospect of a promised land.”
War and Peace – Leo TolstoyPage: 1217

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If CMS is the answer, what is the question?

Disobedient.

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7 Commandments
Keep the 90% in mind all the time
One voice - we are not a coalition
Training is cheap
Content is expensive
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Editors will often best-guess when unsure
Avoid unnecessary flexibility
Most editors don’t care
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The practical bit
Develop new CMS
Develop migration process
Mix of generated HTML, parsing content XML from old system, CouchDB, Polopoly import tools
Roll-out departments one-by-one
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E-mail: r.brierton@sheffield.ac.uk
Twitter: youlooklovely
#iwmw10 #p8
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