Think marketing conversion etc. to prompteverest conversationSplit into technical and usage scenarios
Hosted vs. non-hostedOpensource vs. commercial.net vs. otherStrong product road map / strong partner ecosystemComparable size sitesStrong corporate financials
Oh no! It’s not enough for your CMS to be easy to edit for your content editors… it must be set up in a way that it’s easy for your customer and audience to use!! A correctly set up CMS can help reduce the chances of a situation like this happening, as well as help support your search engine visibility efforts.
So here are our two fundamental questions again… A successful online effort balances both of these needs – the external need for the website to be visible in search engines, and the internal need for the website to be friendly for your visitors and customers. Frequently we find that many organizations can do one of these very well, but their CMS has trouble doing both well. How you build your website affects how the search engines see your site, and determines how much they know about what it is that you provide. It is absolutely vital that your website be set up in such a way that both people and search engines can access your content and be clear about what it is you are talking about.
Story: Visitor who comes and is frustratedLanding page doesn’t give what they were looking forCan’t find where to get more informationCan’t find contact infoJournalist or writer can’t find the RSS feedResult: This customer does not purchase returnThis customer does not returnThis customer does not recommend the site to friendsThis customer skips over your link the next time they search
Story: Visitor who comes and is happyLanding page is about what they were looking forPictures of what they were looking forClear links to further informationCan sort the information in the way that they want toCan compare products to one anotherCan buy it right on the siteCan review the productRSS feed for savvy visitors to keep in touchResult: This customer engages the org and/or purchasesThis customer bookmarks the website and returnsThis customer specifically clicks on the link the next time they searchThis customer recommends the site to friends
Talk about how you can plug RSS feeds into social media (facebook, twitter)Outline that you should be ready to “play with others well”. And talk about ways. There are people out there who WANT to know what you are doing. There are journalists, industry watchers, commentators and bloggers. RSS feeds provide an easy way to help these people stay up to date on what you are doing, and get your news out faster and wider than just posting a press release and hoping for the best. In October 2007, 16% of journalists subscribed to 5 or more RSS feeds, 37% received at least one regular RSS feed http://www.tekgroup.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=171
This company serves a technically advanced market, so they have around 30 feeds or so. Most of you here can probably get away with just one or two feeds. For a corporate only website that is updated infrequently, you might get away with just one feed of your news releases and events. When your visitors subscribe to one of your feeds, they will be alerted whenever you make a change to the feed – which could mean whenever you add a new news release or event.
For example, here’s the Tiger Direct “Deal of the Day” feed. Every day they offer a new deal, and people who are subscribed to their RSS feed are notified – automatically. No spam. No emails to format. Very little effort.
People who use RSS feeds tend to subscribe to whole bunches of feeds. They read them when they have time, at their convenience. Only organizations that offer an RSS feed can be subscribed to – so no feed, no presence here.
This isn’t the 1990’s, folks.
Web Analytics has been an orphan with no real parents - every department looks at its data but rarely does it get a strategic priority as an indicator of business trends and business intelligence asset. This is changing.Investment in web analytics allows for customer insights, marketing spend ROI, conversion optimization and can impact the bottom line. As companies invest in sophisticated BI and analytical dashboards, web based data that is not transactional is usually not there. Integrating web traffic and user interest data into these systems can result in new insights and better actionable data.
Mobile computing is booming: the “SMART” phones are here to stay and Netbooks are gaining traction. Many of these mobile devices have GPS included. GPS enabled devices rise 6-7% each year with similar fall in non-enabled deviceslocation based applications can drastically impact the user experienceThe ability to share location information and get back location specific data about local services, other people, events, sales or anything else adds a new dimension to websites.
While content sharing is a stated goal of many web projects, to see such a high growth rate of actual implementations indicates the trend is now established.
Copy writers, translation, design and IT all play a role, If your CMS allows for permission driven interfaces all the better:A simple example : hide the raw HTML editor from basic users and give them access only to the WYSIWYG editorThe templates themselves should enforce best practice and guide the user: If you can use the templates to defined required an optional information: page titles, alternate text for images Validate input: for example – does a certain term violate corporate policy terminology in publicly available contentA Wysiwyg editor can be daunting when attempting to create specialized content: providing samples or snippets of these sample layouts directly in the interface can make life much easierTraining is key – training with real content is even more important Let the users get their hands dirty You will also want to keep in mind that the in-frequent users may require refresher courses and easy access to documentation: do whatever you can to provide it to them: Videos work greatIf your CMS does not include a search capability – get one. Large repositories are almost unmanageable without them.
A large part of the value that comes from a CMS is the ability to share and reuse content:Be it sharing pages into a different section or your site, across separate sites or having content automatically appear in a RSS feed the value is clear:You update once and that update happens everywhere – giving you consistency and time savings : for sensitive content this can also greatly reduce the risk of legal actions : particularly in regulated industriesUnderstand the product:a proof of concept is importantKnowing how the shared content impacts publication, workflow, translation, versioning, archival is all importantThe actual mechanics of the interface for sharing will also define who can share content and how content is shared
Increased content updates due to decentralized authoringLess time to publication – by removing the need for IT and empowering the content owners
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Choosing A Content Management System Seminar Presentation - Presentation Transcript
Selecting a CMS
non-linear creations
May, 2009
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Agenda
• Very quick introductions
• CMS deployment life cycle
• Steps to selecting a CMS
• Key marketing criteria powering CMS
selection
• Trends and best practices in CMS deployment
• Demonstration of Sitecore CMS
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Introductions
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Who We Are
• Randy Woods, EVP
• Co-founder of non-linear creations
• Lead the NLC Business Performance Group
• Helen Overland, Practice Lead, Digital
Marketing
• Glen McInnis, Practice Lead, ECM
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NLC: Executive Summary
• Founded in 1995 Technology Partnerships
• Offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Halifax
and Calgary with global client
base
• 50 full-time specialists
• Privately held, stable, profitable
• Our goal: leverage the potential of
internet technologies to deliver
business value
• Result: extensive list of reference-
able clients
NLC Services
A Sample list of Clients
FinServ
CMS Deployment Lifecycle
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CMS Deployment Lifecycle
Implemen
Set Governan Quality
Select tation & Content
Objective ce & Tech Training Assuranc
CMS Integratio Migration
s Planning e
n
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Set Objectives
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Define success in advance and map to
Business Objective Metrics
Free up IT resources by CMS Adoption Rate - 75 of all trained
metrics
decentralizing content publication users will use CMS once per quarter
• Examples:
Provide marketing with flexibility to Content publication lifecycle – avg. time
required from initial item creation to item
publish quickly in response to
changing market conditions go live per quarter
Drive more organic traffic from Volume of search traffic – No. of visits to
Google, Yahoo and MSN; Reduce site originating from target search
reliance on PPC engines
Improve the effectiveness of the Conversion rate per month
web site at driving leads Average lead quality
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Set Objectives
Information Architecture & Branding
Objectives CMS Selection
Governance &
Tech Planning
Implementation
& Integration
Training
Content
Migration
Quality
Assurance
• NLC Performance Framework: An approach
Infrastructure
to setting objectives
• Identify corporate priorities
Content, Culture & Capabilities
• Broad stakeholder interviews
• Map online tactics to corporate objectives
Digital Marketing
• Define measurable outcomes
Social Media
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Set Objectives
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
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whitepaper
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Governance & Tech Planning
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Governance • Tech Planning
• Authorship Model • Template Inventory
• Translation • Integration Plan
• Approvals • Custom
• Archiving Functionality
• Responsibilities for • Content Migration
Outcomes Plan
• Infrastructure Plan
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Implementation & Integration
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Product catalogue
• Intranet
• Document management
• Extranet
• Custom database content
• Portal
• Employee directory
• Records management
• Collaboration system
• CRM
• Survey engine
• Digital Rights Management
• Forums/chat
• Knowledge Management
• HR job application forms
• Learning management system
• External workflow or business
• Business Intelligence
process management system
• Back-office systems
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Training
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Three types: • Documentation
• End User Training • Product vs. Project-
• Administrator specific
Training
• Technical • Consider:
Knowledge Transfer • SEO Principles
• Writing for Web
• Analytics
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Content Migration
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Takes longer and costs more
• Automate if:
• Consistently structured
• Identical information architecture
• Manual if:
• New information architecture
• Substantially new content
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Quality Assurance
Governance & Implementation Content Quality
Objectives CMS Selection Training
Tech Planning & Integration Migration Assurance
• Traditional QA approach is inappropriate
• Test cases should map to governance plan & technical
plan
• Tests to be passed:
• John is supposed to be the only one who can edit this content
- is he?
• Legal needs to review all content in this area – is this
enforced?
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Common Steps I Left Out
• Information Architecture
• Graphic Design
• Content Creation
• Content Translation
• Search Engine Optimization
• Social Media Integration
• Go Live
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Selecting a CMS
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A Model for CMS Selection
Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
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Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
• Technical Environment
• Implementation Assistance Required
• Content Migration Assistance Required
• Training & Support Requirements
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Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
• Contractual hoops based on $$ thresholds?
• Can you procure both software and services
simultaneously?
• What service model are you equipped to
manage?
• Fixed cost
• Staged fixed cost
• Time and materials
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Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
• Drive scenarios from business objectives
• Ensure each actor is represented
• Define what is to happen, but not how
• Rank importance of each scenario
• Include integration points in scenarios
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Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
• Decide how you will evaluate potential
integration partners
• Key criteria:
• Proven and sensible methodology for deployment
• Skill sets that map to your project requirement (IA,
IT Infrastructure, Design, Training, etc.)
• Strong track record with the product
• Credible case studies detailing comparable
deployments
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Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
Ektron CoreMedia Magnolia Opentext/
Reddot
Day Sitecore Oracle Clickability
Software Stellent
Alfesco Vignette Percussion OpenCMS
SDL Tridion Crown FatWire Typo3
Peak
Dot Net Paper Thin Drupal Omni-
Nuke Update
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Closing the Deal
• Score each vendor demo against scenarios
• Solicit pricing from at least two so that you
have price power
• Check references for top vendor
• Consider proof of concepts if deeply
complicated requirements
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Recap
Implemen
Set Governance Quality
Select t& Content
Objective & Tech Training Assuranc
CMS Integratio Migration
s Planning e
n
Implementation
Threshold Contractual Scenario Short-List &
Expertise
Questions Context Development Demos
Required
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Be the Hero:
Discover the Information You Need to
Choose the Right CMS to Grow Your
Business.
Helen M. Overland, Director, Search Engine Marketing
non-linear creations
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A Few of Our Digital Marketing
Clients
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2 Questions:
Question #1 - How can our organization be
more visible in search engines?
Question #2 - How can our website
positively engage our visitors?
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How can our organization
be more visible in search
engines?
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WHY Be Visible?
Ford?
GM?
Chrysler?
Toyota?
Honda?
Hyundai?
No.
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WHY Be Visible?
Ford?
GM?
Chrysler?
Toyota?
Honda?
Hyundai?
Nope.
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WHY Be Visible?
Ford?
GM?
Chrysler?
Toyota?
Honda?
Hyundai?
Nada.
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WHY Be Visible?
Ah-Ha!
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WHY Be Visible?
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2 Questions:
Question #1 - How can our organization be
more visible in search engines?
Question #2 - How can our website
positively engage our visitors?
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Your Website & CMS
SHOULD:
• Let you define title tags for each page
• Incorporate areas for text content on each
page
• Allow you to use <H> tags for headings
• Be based on a comprehensive
Information Architecture
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How can our website
positively engage our
visitors?
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How to Positively Engage?
Be available to
relevant
searchers
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How to Positively Engage?
Be relevant for
what you claim
to sell
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How to Positively Engage?
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How to Positively Engage?
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RSS Feeds
Reach people who are interested in your news
Syndicate your headlines into other websites
Make it easy for people to remember you
Make it easy for reporters to get your news
Alert Search Engines when you add new
content
Feed Content 37% of Journalists
News releases subscribe to at
Events least one RSS feed
Successes -October 2007 study by Bulldog
Reporter and TEKgroup
Calls for assistance International, Inc
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RSS Feeds
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RSS Feeds – Like Email, but
Not
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RSS Feeds – Like Email, but
Not
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RSS - Play Well With Others
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RSS - Play Well With Others
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RSS Feeds
Your CMS Should Be
Able to Do This For You
…Automatically
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XML Site Maps
• Tell Search Engines where your pages are
• Tell Search Engines about pages they haven’t
indexed yet
• Tell Search Engines when pages are updated
Your CMS Should Be Able to Do This For You
…Automatically
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Ping Services
• Tell everyone where
your pages are
• Tell everyone about
new pages and
content on your
website
• Tell everyone when
pages are updated
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Ping Services
Your CMS Should Be
Able to Do This For
You
…Automatically
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Your CMS Should
• Serve Your Audience and Provide Them with
a Positive Experience
• Keep search engines in mind and serve content
to them
• Be set up to automatically update key services
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Best practices and trends in
content management
Glen McInnis
Practice Area Lead, Enterprise Content Management
April 8th 2009
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Agenda
• Trends 10 min
• Content or experience management?
• Best Practices 15 min
• A discussion of best practices for web content
management and how to avoid common pitfalls
• Sitecore Demonstration 20 - 30 min
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5 Trends
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Trends
1. Actionable analytics
2. Web 2.0 and social technologies
3. Location aware delivery
4. Website and Intranet integrations
5. CMS and e-Commerce integrations
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Trend 1: Actionable analytics
• From a departmental view to use in strategic
vision, refine the online user experience
• Marry web analytics to other data sources and
gain new insights into customers
• Tools: web analytics, A/B & multivariate
testing, integration with CRM and other data
sources
• CMS: tag content, adjust layout and look of
the page
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Trend 2: Social technologies
• Make it easier and quicker for people to share
news and information on your site
• 250% increase over previous year
• CMS: support natively, integrate with existing
products or custom development?
• CMS: How do these technologies impact your
content production process?
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Trend 3: Location aware
• Personalized experience based on location
• Mobile phones, netbooks or traditional desktop are all
fair game
• Tools: Mobile device support, GPS
coordinates, reverse IP lookups, regional sites
• Identify content’s appropriate locations through meta
information, taxonomies, GPS coordinates, etc
• Deliver alternate formats as simply as possible; ideally
automatically through device capability sensing
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Trend 4: Website and
Intranet
• Website and Intranet integrations rose by
100%
• Stated goal is content sharing
• Microsoft Sharepoint the most common
product in the Intranet side
• Considerations: security, ownership of
content, mapping content structures
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Trend 5: e-Commerce
• 39% increase in CMS integrations with e-
Commerce over last year
• Microsoft Commerce Server and Insite are the
most common platforms
• Considerations: share visual
display/style, implications for workflow and
publication
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Trends: Conclusions
• Externally directed:
• Focus on driving and enhancing experience for the
site visitors
• Ultimate goal is to grow the relationship with the
customer
• Internally directed:
• Pro-activity in management of the online
experience
• Value and efficiency in content reuse
• Drive the bottom line
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Best Practices
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Overview
• 40 – 60% of content management projects
fail
• Not typically a question of the product or
technology
• Product capabilities mostly impact effort
required for implementation
• Most issues arise from a lack of planning
and the resulting mismatch in expectations
• Impact:
• Poor adoption by content authors
• Delays in your online channel / presence
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Top issues in a CMS
deployment
1. Content Author Usability: focus on the site
and forget the people who have to maintain
it
2. Content Reuse: when not planned for leads
to bad habits of copy & paste – increased
errors and reduced content value
3. Content Life Cycle: approval process, time
to publication, responsibilities and resource
allocation in the enterprise
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Usability
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Content author usability
• Not everyone is the same, design for varied
tasks and levels of skill
• Content templates should guide the authors
and restrict obvious mistakes: prototype early
• Samples or content snippets should be
readably available
• Search is a must for large repositories
• Train with scenarios and retrain periodically
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Content reuse
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Content reuse
• Can take on many forms:
• Across sites or within a single site
• Across the Internet and Intranet
• Syndication, i.e. to RSS and other systems
• Cross linking and social bookmarking
• Files, which can be linked in many places
• The ability and method of sharing is very
dependant on the CMS product
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Steps to maximize reuse
1. Identify all content
1. Primary location and the owner?
2. Define the rules for re-use
1. Content is pushed out or pulled in?
2. Restrictions?
3. What happens when the source changes?
3. Select the mechanism that delivers on ease of use
and maintenance
1. Tagging, Wizard, Other
2. Native or custom functionality
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Content life cycle
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Content life cycle
Graphic Design Translators
SEO IT
?
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Content governance planning
• What part of content production happens in
the CMS and what happens “offline”?
• How are the approval / workflow processes
structured and assigned to content?
• What are the rules around publication and
timing?
• What about archival and e-discovery?
• What are the roles and responsibilities and
what level of effort is required from each?
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Roles in website
management
1. Site owner
2. Information architecture and content organization
3. Content authors and approvers
4. Translators
5. Expediter
6. Designers
7. SEO
8. Search specialist
9. Development: applications and other functionality
10. Legal or compliance
11. Support for content authors
12. IT – hardware infrastructure
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Parting thoughts on content
governance
• Be wary of overly complicated approval
workflows
• Get buy-in from all the users on the approval
process
• Carefully define the notification model for
workflows: email, RSS, dashboard
• Ensure someone has the “emergency” button
• Automate as much as possible:
compliance, legal, standards
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Questions
• Questions at this time?
• Next: Sitecore demo
Sitecore Demo
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Nicam
• Product company: cameras
• What will you see on the site:
• Product pages, accessories, etc
• Product reviews, comments
• RSS
• Implicit and explicit personalization
• Ad delivery
• Range of users who maintain the site
Next Steps
• Contact us – • www.nonlinear.ca/
rwoods@nonlinear.ca whitepaper
• Choosing a Web CMS
• Follow NLC on • CMS Governance Best
Practices
Twitter • SEO and CMS: Best
• twitter.com/ Practices
nonlinear_Tweet • Faceted Search and
• Twitter.com/randywood CMS
s • The NLC Performance
• Twitter.com/semlady Framework
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On May 28, NLC was happy to present our seminar Cho more
On May 28, NLC was happy to present our seminar Choosing a CMS to an engaged audience at Microsoft. What follows is a summary of the key speaking points.
Randy Woods, NLC co-founder, opened the seminar with an overview of the CMS selection process. Key lessons in his presentation were:
Phase 1
Understand your online goals. A CMS can help you deliver online success if you
Next, clearly define what benefits you hope to reap from a CMS. Now answer the question, do you have the people you need to deliver on these goals?
Be sure to involve all stakeholders, business and IT in the process from day one.
Have a clear picture of your own contractual and requirements for procurement of a technology product and related professional services.
Phase 2
Use your goals to built scenarios – stories that describe the actual day to day operations and tasks that lead to your goals.
Publish your scenarios as part of your RFP – forget that list of features.
Vet the implementation team – do they have the required experience and expertise to deliver on the project.
Helen Overland, NLC’s Director of Search Engine Marketing, shared best practices for increasing search engine visibility. Key points from her presentation included:
Ensuring you have well formed HTML is step one. Proper user of H, TITLE tags are critical to the search engine crawlers.
RSS feeds – particularly when they can be automatically generated – provide your subscribers and search engines with immediate knowledge of changes to your content.
Pingback services can distribute updates quickly and easily to a wide array of interested parties.
Glen McInnis, Practice Lead for Enterprise Content Management wrapped up the presentation component with an overview of recent trends in content management and a demonstration of the Sitecore CMS. Trends dicussed were:
Actionable analytics coming to maturity – site owners measuring online activity and using that knowledge to adapt and refine the online experience.
Social technologies
Increased integrations of the website and Intranet.
Increased integrations of e-commerce platforms and a CMS. less
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