Core Skills for Content Administrators

Core Skills for Content Administrators

June 18 20081:30 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

object

class

masterattribute

libraryscenario

element

time zones

“You can get so confusedthat you'll start in to racedown long wiggled roads at a break-necking paceand grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.The Waiting Place...”

-- Seuss

“...for people just waiting.Waiting for a train to goor a bus to come, or a plane to goor the mail to come, or the rain to goor the phone to ring, or the snow to snowor waiting around for a Yes or a Noor waiting for their hair to grow.Everyone is just waiting.”

-- Seuss

a story then . . .

once upon a time . . .

there was “a deck”

one more story . . .

Can you hear me now?

four regions

three CMS frameworks

50-60 content administrators

and one of the oldest skills . . .

no, I mean the other one

remember Venice!

(wrap up the pep rally here)

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

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

(thanks to Google for the images)

demo