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Reports and Photos of the Spring Summit, April 23-24, 2006

Did you miss the 2006 Spring Summit?

CM Pro Tom Godfrey blogged on the Spring Summit and we adapted his notes. 

"What a day. It was a relatively small group that attended, but the seminars, round tables and networking have been invaluable."

"The overriding theme of the conference is to discuss the importance of the customer experience and content management. Involving the customer, and concerning oneself with the customer experience is not really native to many content management initiatives. Typically a group is assembled and decisions are made concerning pushing content to customers, and the customer is often not included in the process - until delivery time."

Read Tom's blog report on the Summit page and view more photos

Content Management: A Profession, Not Just a Technology

CM Professionals was founded to provide an organization that enables members to focus on the practitioner aspect of content management. If we look ahead to the time when content management is a chosen profession with a defined curriculum of study, what will it be? Ann Rockley's session at the Spring Summit looked at content management as a profession and identified some potential areas of focus and study.

Read Ann's presentation (PDF, 142KB)
View the draft content management skills matrix (PDF, 41KB)

Best Practice: Aligning Content Strategy to Business Strategy

This draft document, available only to CM Pros members, is the first of a planned series of content management best practices and case studies.

The document contains the following components:
Process: Steps recommended to define a content strategy
Deliverables: Formalizations of the results
Techniques: Approaches, tools, ways to work
Perspectives: Angles to look at, dimensions

Read the complete best practice document