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Replacement CMS “Getting it right and getting the buy-in” Richard Brierton The University of Sheffield July 14 th 2010
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Replacement CMS - Getting it right and getting the buy-in, plenary by Richard Brierton given at Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010, from Monday 12th to Wednesday 14th July 2010. For further information see http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/talks/brierton/
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Replacement CMS“Getting it right and getting the buy-in”
Richard BriertonThe University of SheffieldJuly 14th 2010
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Where we are coming from...
• Polopoly CMS since 2003• 600 editors; 100,000 pages; 14,000 new
pages per year• No longer running a supported product• Regular users are fine with it• Casual users are less-fine with it
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“I use CMS almost daily and it is incredibly slow and awkward to use.”
“CMS is a catastrophe:the interface is clunky,slow, unattractive”
“CMS. Please. It's shit. It's unbelievablybreathtakingly shit.”
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Opportunity for change
“Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.”
Despair.com – “Tradition”http://despair.com/tradition.html
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Communication
“To be able to walk hundreds of miles a man must believe that something good awaits him at the end.
He needs the prospect of a promised land.”
War and Peace – Leo TolstoyPage: 1217
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If CMS is the answer, what is the question?
Disobedient.
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7 Commandments
• Keep the 90% in mind all the time• One voice - we are not a coalition• Training is cheap• Content is expensive
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• Editors will often best-guess when unsure• Avoid unnecessary flexibility• Most editors don’t care
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The practical bit
• Develop new CMS• Develop migration process
• Mix of generated HTML, parsing content XML from old system, CouchDB, Polopoly import tools
• Roll-out departments one-by-one
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