Content Management Matters ™

Here at CMSWire, we'll be the first ones to tell you how awesome we, who work in the web and technology fields, are. As for data to back up our claim, well there's not a lot of it. So, that's why the folks at A List Apart, the webzine for web designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers and everyone else who makes websites has taken it upon themselves to once again survey us so that a "true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide" can be represented.

A couple of weeks ago...

I came across a comment that I found interesting:
"Web 2.0 hasn't shown any real bottom line improvement, despite all of the hype over the past couple years."

Now I think that there have been some rather remarkable successes of Web 2.0. Wikipedia being the single most staggering example. But, there is some truth, I think, to the comment.

The part that I deem important, is that Web 2.0 may not live up to the “hype”. Based on some of the articles on Web 2.0 you'd think that by simply adopting a Web 2.0 suite of tools any given organization will have an epiphany and increase productivity. That is, quite obviously, not the case.

The wait is finally over. After only three short months, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released their report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop.

To manage search on your website, don't manage the technology or the content. Manage the task. Success is about finding, not searching.

More than 25 percent of critical data in Fortune 1,000 companies is poor quality because organizations have little experience in managing content.

Harnessing the collective intelligence is the cornerstone of the Web's success.

The more sophisticated a society and its economy becomes, the easier it is for its citizens to do what they need to do.