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Web Content Management is dead but death is just the beginning

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18 pointsJarekS13 comments

There is a growing attitude in the Internet community that content is worth very little, static content is worth nothing, and old content is the abyss looking back at you. I see it reflected in the new obsession with fleeting bits of nothing.

Personally, I find myself coming back to websites that cultivate their own content, offering both insight and substance. Perhaps the ideas I find there are old by the standards of Twitter or Facebook, but I suspect they are the better for the chance to mature.

I still find it astounding that people think real time information is that important. There really aren't that many amazing things happening in the world at any one time. My rule is if it's not worth sticking in my memory system/org-mode it's not worth reading. I can count on one hand the amount of material I've put into supermemo from blogs this year.

99% of blogs are highly targeted linkbait with little actual content. My key sources for information are pubmed and citeseer, then google/delicious search.

I wish someone would invent a search engine that scanned for ad-less content, that was old but edited many times by a human, and linked to by other ad-less, old, often updated content. That's important to me, but usually takes 10 pages of google to find these gems due to all the SEO.

I agree, and I wish search engines would do a better job giving me relevant static content, even old content, when it really is the best content out there.

The worst example seems to be anything to do with music, where old-school fan sites or official artists' sites are still the best source of information typically, but somehow are buried in search results beneath ring-tone-laden garbage. If I search for something like bandname songname lyrics, why do I get junky lyrics sites, instead of lyrics from the official site or fan sites?

Example of bad results: http://www.google.com/search?q=sisters+of+mercy+first+and+la...

Should've been: http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/fla.htm

I don't think that place where you publish your content determines quality of that content. It's more about moving with your content to places where people are.

Nonsense. This might hold true for the individual-oriented website, in which case this could be thought of as the next evolution of blogging. When considering a content-rich corporate website, this article just sounds hyperbolic (in the future, we'll all have flying cars!).

"Version control is obsolete" makes no sense in that world. Version control gives the content-creator a way of reflecting on what has existed in order to improve old content and avoid repetition (as well as backtrack the occasional mistake).

It's all just content (management, editing, and aggregating) - no need to look for new buzzwords to fill the space with.

As long as there are small businesses, there will be inexpensive websites. And your idea of a CRM-driven site, while attractive, is idealistic and quite unrealistic for most small businesses. Most <strikeout>small</strikeout> businesses are lucky to have their customers in a database at all, let alone one that has clean, normalized data for you to interface with.

We have studied how small business driving their business and we can see that there is one device and one database that rules it all. It's cell phone and the addressbook.

If we can link together link generation, addressbook with the phone and collaboration/team work system we already provide huge value for small business.

At least we think we are...

You will probably always need to manage your content somehow. Not only that, but you'll also need a framework or a development platform to base your software and ideas upon.

The CMS's (WCM's) role in your life might be diminishing relatively, since your focus is on more than your own website, but it's still a fundamental building block in your web presence

Agreed - fundamental building block because we always deal with content. But the role of WCM is changing and I think that new wave of software is coming that will change a game just a little bit.

I think we're heading for a sea change in the way people interact with the internet. The signs of it are all steadily creeping into view, but we haven't quite gone over the edge yet. WCM vs CRM isn't really it though, that's just another sign.

"Most commonly it was used for building and hosting external websites."

Actually, for many organizations the intranet is much larger, more dynamic and often more important than the external website.

Yes - as was thinking of that part also. To be honest it proves WCM death even better. Today internal collaboration systems are killing intranet websites very effectively. Look at things like Yammer or similar (Salesforce Chatter?).

I agree that it's just a beginning. We will release soon our version of that concept.

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