A review of core skills for CMS content administrators. Presented at Duo Consulting's Web Content 2008 conference in June 2008.

1. Core Skills for Content Administrators June 18 2008 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Graham Tillotson, eZ Systems

2. one “big idea”

3. You can't really manage anything unless you understand all of the levers and switches available to you

4. and

5. the hardest to learn is the least complicated

7. old levers and switches?

8. “ the J: drive”

9. my_final_approved_v12.doc

10. Save As . . .

11. you've got mail (with files)‏

12. new levers and switches?

13. information architecture

14. version control

15. dynamic content and views

16. search engines

17. roles and permissions

18. more devices

19. more languages

20. more platforms and browsers

21. terminology

22. template object class master attribute library scenario element

23. time zones

25. “ You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...” -- Seuss

26. “ ...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or waiting around for a Yes or a No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.” -- Seuss

27. a story then . . .

28. once upon a time . . .

29. there was “a deck”

31. one more story . . .

32. Can you hear me now?

33. four regions

35. three CMS frameworks

36. 50-60 content administrators

38. and one of the oldest skills . . .

39. no, I mean the other one

40. remember Venice!

42. (wrap up the pep rally here)‏

44. Ask not what you can do for your templates . . .

45. . . . but what your templates can do for you!

46. (thanks to Google for the images)‏

47. demo