Resources

CM Professionals is in the process of building a comprehensive set of content management resources for the benefit of members and the wider community. These resources are designed to assist those new to the field, as well as helping to standardize and enhance the practice of experienced content management professionals.

Section Editor: Bob Doyle

Mailing lists
A number of email mailing lists are maintained by CM Professionals. Some are publicly accessible while others are for the use of members only.

Newsletter
Our six times per year newsletter contains valuable advice from a number of contributors.

Glossary
A Glossary of 270 technical terms is augmented by links to over twenty glossaries on the web of interest to CM Professionals.

Library
The Resource Library provides a collection of content management-related information. Material available includes a list of useful resources like articles, magazines, websites, conferences, and weblogs.

Best practices
Several Best Practices areas have been selected for research.

CMS Overview
A survey of available CMS, with comprehensive lists of their features, is being prepared using a markup language for classifying and evaluating content management systems.

Lifecycle Poster
A draft poster and several existing posters for comparison.

Website
This subsection describes the standards and processes that have been developed for the CM Professionals website.

Last updated: December 26, 2005 by Bob Doyle

CM Profiles

Bob Doyle, CM Pros Founder

Bob Doyle has founded another content management community specializing in the new Darwin Information Typing Architecture standard.

DITA is the fastest path to XML-based component content management.
A DITA editor and the DITA Open Toolkit form a complete end-to-end content publishing system.

Bob has launched six new websites in support of DITA, starting with a members organization modeled on CM Pros.

DITA Users - members pay $100/year for access to a workspace folder, a web-based editor, and a server-based version of the DITA Open Toolkit that allows them to author and build DITA files, then publish them to multiple outputs including web (HTML), print (PDF), and Online Help.

DITA Blog - a group blog for DITA information developers.

DITA Infocenter - a searchable knowledge base of specifications for DITA Users.

DITA News - a mailing list, blog aggregation, and a DITA newsletter.

DITA Tutor - self-paced and instructor-led tutorials and workshops.

DITA Wiki - resources with comments and discussions for DITA Users.


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