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Last Thursday CMS Meet Ups

Ian Truscott — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Content Management Professionals are getting together in informal gatherings over a few beers to share their experiences, starting in London the phenomena is spreading to New York, SF...

Join us at the CM Pros Spring Summit!

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Join us for the CM Pros Spring Summit 2010. We have a full day program of interactive and engaging workshops run by our panel of experts - finishing off with a drinks reception.

CMState10 - CM Pros 2010 Annual Survey

Barb Mosher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000

CM Pros launches the 2010 Annual Survey 'CMState10' The results will be announced at the Gilbane Spring Conference and in a whitepaper.

Election Update

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The CM Pros Election Committee would like to thank everyone who submitted nominations for the Board of Directors 2010-2012. We congratulate Brett Zucker, Saravanan Rajan and Ian Truscott on their new positions as Directors of the Board.

2009 Fall Summit Videos Now Available

Andrew Wilcox — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The 2009 Fall Summit was a huge success. The summit was comprised of two workshops that dug into open source and content migrations.

NEW! CM Pros Launches Enhanced Member Profiles

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In order to better serve members of the international Content Management Professionals community of practitioners, CM Pros has enabled a new Enhanced Member Profile application on the CM Pros website. Fill out your Enhanced Member Profile today!

CM Pros Face-to-Face Meeting in San Francisco

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Meet up with your peers at the Terrace of the Ducca restaurant and bar in the Westin Market Street Hotel.

CM Pros Increases International Representation

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

CM Pros has always been the international content management community of practice, and with the recent board elections, we now have true international representation.

Face-to-Face Networking Opportunities

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We are organizing get-togethers in cities across the world to provide CM Pros members (and future members) with the opportunity to network, discuss relevant topics, or just share a drink!

CM Pros Election Results

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Stuart Guest-Smith, Ayse Kok, and Scott Liewehr are elected to the 2009 - 2011 CM Pros Board of Directors.

Charlie Bleau, New CM Pros Forum Manager

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Charlie Bleau, Content Management Practice Lead for OTOi, takes on role of CM Pros Forum Manager. In addition to managing the forums for content and quality, Charlie will also take an active role in promoting the use of the forums to members.

Scott Liewehr Takes on Member Relations Manager Role

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

You'll be hearing from Scott Liewehr, the new CM Pros Member Relations Manager. Personable and interested, Scott calls on individual members, communities and corporate members.

CM Pros Named to List of Top 10 Content Management Websites

Angie Fenwick Gibb — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Fierce Content Management recently announced their list of Top 10 Content Management websites and www.cmprofessionals.org made the list.

CM Pros Launches New Forums

Mollye Barrett — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

CM Pros has launched a new Nabble forum as part of their 2008 strategic plan to increase member value and provide improved features. The forum combines the ease of use of a listserv with the presentation and indexing of a forum and replaces a listserv formerly used by the organization.

What is the most important aspect of content management for users to understand?

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In a recent CM Pros LinkedIn discussion, participants discussed what they feel are the most important aspects of content management for users to understand.

Spring Summit 2008 Review

Andrew Wilcox — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We video taped the past summit so our members could benefit from the information presented. Watch this 9 minute video to catch the highlights.

VYRE Becomes CM Pros Spring Summit Sponsor

Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

VYRE is a Gold Sponsor for the CM Pros Spring Summit in San Francisco and will demonstate their Unify content management platform during the use-case demonstration.

Summit Sponsor Announcement

Mollye Barrett — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

CM Pros is pleased to announce our Spring Summit sponsors. Author-it, ektron, The Gilbane Group. Visit them at the Spring Summit in San Francisco!

CM Pros Board Changes

Mollye Barrett — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The CM Pros Board of Directors recently announced that Andrew Wilcox was elected President of the Board, replacing Linda Burman who stepped down. In addition, Barry Schaeffer has resigned from the board. CM Pros would like to thank both Linda and Barry for their dedicated service.

CitySoft Association Management System Progress

Andrew Wilcox — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000

May, 2008 Migration to the new CitySoft platform is almost complete.

Localizing, Internationalizing, and Controlled Language: Factors in Adopting a Linguistic Strategy

Rahel Bailie — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Using content management systems to manage the cost, while retaining the quality of content meant for global markets, has long been one of the key benefits for organizations with large amounts of technical documentation or marketing material.

CMS and Change: Between Optimism and Pessimism is Realism Part Two of Two

Emma Hamer — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If companies invest in a well-managed change effort, the success of the implementation is much more likely. Within months the pain will mostly be forgotten, and the staff will barely remember what it used to be like, before the CMS and all its benefits and advantages.

Forrester Wave vs. Component Content Management

Ann Rockley and Steve Manning, The Rockley Group Inc. — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The recent discussion on the absence of Component Content Management in the recent Forrester Wave Report: Content Centric Applications, Q1 2006 report was very interesting. It provoked a lot of discussion on whether or not Component Content Management should have been included.

New Software Options for Global Content Management

Benjamin Sargent — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In 2006 Common Sense Advisory reviewed more than 20 commercial software products that streamline translation workflow and related multilingual operations. We can now say that translation management systems meet a real need in the marketplace and that they are here to stay.

Making Sense of Complexity

Theresa Putkey and Rahel Bailie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Canada West Community held its December program meeting in conjunction with other organizations in the Vancouver area - the Society for Technical Communication, Special Libraries Association, and the Knowledge Management Community of Practice - on the topic of Making Sense of Complexity.

Globalization Professionals Salary Survey Opportunity

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Levels of Localization

Seth Gottlieb — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Frequently the terms "Internationalization" or "Localization" (abbreviated to "I18N" and "L10N") are found on requirements or Requests for Proposal documents.

CMS and Change: Between Optimism and Pessimism is Realism Part One of Two

Emma Hamer — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000

My contention is that the buzz around Enterprise Content Management is similar to earlier hypes around ERP software, and that ECM projects are at risk of experiencing the same rate of failure as ERP projects once did.