RE: cms list mission

I respectfully disagree.

I've been a subscriber to the CMS list for many years. Almost all the 
list traffic consists of someone in IT asking for a product 
recommendation, and multiple people chiming in about the wonderful 
features of their product. The remaining posts involve how to use a 
new technology. (This is an oversimplification, but not by much.)

None of this bears more than a passing resemblance to what it means 
to manage content -- to develop a standard way that people write, 
review, approve, publish, archive and delete content. "Managing 
content," in this sense, is not at all about technology.

That's why I asked Bob Doyle to start this new list, for people who 
do the management can ask each other questions about culture, 
politics, standards, etc.

--Hilary


At 11:18 AM -0700 8/12/04, chris wrote:
>Re: all the lists -
>
>I think that the growing suites of discussion lists resembles an 
>over-normalized database. I really don't think that content 
>management as a topic has clear divisions between content, 
>development, design etc and I don't think it's necessary or useful 
>to try to separate it out that way. The gray murky waters are what 
>provide such a rich discussion basis amongst a diverse population. 
>So, in fact, I think that by having so many disparate lists we're 
>missing out on interesting discussions where people who play 
>different roles may be surprised by alternate perspectives.

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