Re: RE: cms list mission
Ian Bicking <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.cms.cms-forum.general |
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chris wrote: > Well, if it's any consolation, product features do not bear a passing > resemblance to interesting technical conversation either. But if a > usage-centered design process is being implemented in a cms project, I > should think that the process and socio-political aspects of content > management aspect certainly (should) have bearing on the technical > implementation of things. In the end, content management systems are a > technical solution and business rules, social assumptions, and political > expectations are enforced in the application design - and sometimes the cms > fails because they are not enforced (or even articulated). While all aspects of a CMS implementation are important to both editors and developers, that doesn't change the fact that product recommendations are boring. That's why there's consultants to help people make the choice -- people are best at doing boring things when they are paid for it. Or, if they don't pay a consultant, there are many people in sales willing to help them make their decision. Whether you pay for it or the vendor pays for it, you shouldn't expect someone to analyze your specific case for free. To be interesting, the discussion has to be more general than what-should-I-choose. Talking about how to make choices is a good topic. Talking about risks and rewards is interesting. Trying to eke out the requirements that one particular person has, then suggesting areas of research for that person isn't very interesting. That said, as a CMS developer I'm definitely interested to hear editors' successes and failures, their points of frustration and their wishes. I'm interested in hearing stories of CMS implementation failure or success. I'm interested in what administrators want and what they dislike. As a parallel, I wouldn't be interested in discussion of, say, an administrator's specific installation problem -- someone gets paid to answer that (boring) question. -- Ian Bicking / [email protected] / http://blog.ianbicking.org