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Core Skills for Content
Administrators
June 18 2008
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Graham Tillotson, eZ Systems
one “big idea”
You can't really manage
anything unless you understand
 all of the levers and switches
         available to you
and
the hardest to learn is the
    least complicated
old levers and switches?
“the J: drive”
my_final_approved_v12.doc
Save As . . .
you've got mail (with files)
new levers and switches?
information architecture
version control
dynamic content and views
search engines
roles and permissions
more devices
more languages
more platforms and browsers
terminology
template        master
                    attribute
object
                     element
 class
     scenario
                  library
time zones
a story then . . .
once upon a time . . .
there was “a deck”
one more story . . .
Can you hear me now?
don't forget Venice
Ask not what you can do for
    your templates . . .
. . . but what your templates can
            do for you!
(thanks to Google for the images)
demo

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