2004 Content Features Archive

Ten by Ten

Published: Thu Dec 16th, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

A brilliant use of RSS (and some clever analysis and funky Flash) shows the top 100 words and images from major news sources in the last hour. Interesting and insightful by turns.

Link: http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

Categories: Content » Features , Fun & Nonsense

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CMS Watch

Published: Fri Apr 16th, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

All the content management news that's fit to print from the independent and knowledgeable CMS Watch site.

Link: http://www.cmswatch.com/

Categories: Content » Features

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EContent

Published: Fri Apr 16th, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

A little too heavy on the undigested press releases, but a valuable site for keeping up to date on the content industry worldwide, with some good feature articles too.

Link: http://www.econtentmag.com/

Categories: Content » Features

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OnlineJournalism.com

Published: Fri Apr 16th, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

An excellent global round-up of online content news, published by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Link: http://www.onlinejournalism.com/

Categories: Content » Features

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Helping your visitors - a state of mind

Published: Mon Mar 1st, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

Nick Usborne on how to focus on what your visitors actually want from your site, rather than on what is easiest for you to give them. He presents four simple but powerful ideas, including 'accept that visitors scan your headings and links', and 'recognise that websites are hard to navigate'.

Link: http://www.alistapar...les/helpingvisitors/

Categories: Content » Features

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Open source content management systems

Published: Sun Feb 1st, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

Good summary of the current strengths and weaknesses of open source CMS from the ever-reliable Step Two consulting firm. But as they point out, open source software doesn't mean a cost-free implementation.

Link: http://www.steptwo.c...pensource/index.html

Categories: Content » Features

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Should a "Big 5" Firm Implement Your CMS?

Published: Thu Jan 1st, 2004  |  Posted By: David Moore

Yes and no, says this article from CMS Watch. Consider training up your own staff for the implementation stage is one of the useful suggestions here.

Link: http://www.cmswatch....inion/?feature_id=97

Categories: Content » Features

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