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We invite you all to join an international community of CM Professionals focused on peer interaction. The purpose is to further proven good practices based on shared experiences of experts and peers.
As a group of CM practitioners, we seek to create a membership organization that will enable sharing of information, practices, and strategies. We envision a variety of member services, including a newsletter, professional discounts, and "summit"-type gatherings devoid of marketing hype.
We will raise awareness of content management as an essential discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and organizations.
We will offer a members-only mailing list, in addition to continuing support of the larger public mailing lists like CMS and ContentManagers. We will run a job board, publish a professional directory, and maintain a calendar of face-to-face meeting opportunities.
We are building a community-led platform which facilitates the ongoing refinement of the state-of-the-art regarding content management theory and practice, with a collaborative website, discussion forums, issue-oriented group blogs, knowledge wikis, and syndicated web services.
CM Professionals will hold a Summit meeting November 30 in Boston, in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies.
As we grow, we will work closely with other organizations that share many of our goals, such as AIfIA, AIGA, AIIM, ASIST, KM Pro, SIGCHI, STC, UPA, and others. We will coordinate our thinking about recommended standards for best practices with standards organizations like ANSI, DIN, and ISO. We hope to work closely with graduate schools who are training the next generation of information professionals.
Please visit our website at http://www.cmsconsultants.org for further information.
Hilary Marsh, list mom, and Chair of Mailing Lists Committee, CM Professionals.
for the CM Professionals Board - Bob Boiko, Tony Byrne, Bob Doyle, Frank Gilbane, and Ann Rockley.
CM Professionals, A Content Management Community of PracticeA group of thirty content management experts from around the world is forming an international community of CM Professionals focused on peer interaction. The purpose of "CM Professionals" is to further proven good practices based on shared experiences of experts and peers.
CM Professionals President Bob Boiko, famed author of the "Content Management Bible" and Director of the University of Washington iSchool CMS Evaluation Lab, says, "as a group of CM practitioners, we seek to create a membership organization that will enable sharing of information, practices, and strategies."
Tony Byrne, Editor of CMS Watch and principal author of the CMS Report says, "we envision a variety of member services, including a newsletter, professional discounts, and "summit"-type gatherings devoid of marketing hype."
Ann Rockley, author of "Managing Enterprise Content - A Unified Content Strategy" and leader of the Rockley Group, says, "we will raise awareness of content management as an essential discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and organizations."
CM Professionals will offer a members-only mailing list, a job board, publish a professional directory, and maintain a calendar of face-to-face meeting opportunities.
Bob Doyle, Editor of CMS Review, who is acting Executive Director of CM Professionals, said "We are building a community-led platform which facilitates the ongoing refinement of the state-of-the-art regarding content management theory and practice, with a collaborative website, discussion forums, issue-oriented group blogs, knowledge wikis, and syndicated web services."
CM Professionals will hold a Summit meeting November 30 in Boston, in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies.
As we grow, we will work closely with other organizations that share many of our goals, such as AIfIA, AIGA, AIIM, ASIS&T, KM Pro, ACM-SIGCHI, STC, UPA, and others. We will coordinate our thinking about recommended standards for best practices with these organizations, and we hope to work closely with graduate schools who are training the next generation of information professionals.
Please visit the CM Professionals website at http://www.cmsconsultants.org for further information.
Bob Doyle, Executive Director, CM Professionals.
for the CM Professionals Board of Directors - Bob Boiko, Tony Byrne, Bob Doyle, Frank Gilbane, and Ann Rockley.
For further information or to arrange interviews with the key founders, please call Bob Doyle at 617-876-5678, or send an email to editor@cmsreview.com
The Summit committee wil be preparing similar materials for release about a week later. We hope to be accepting membership applications and online payments by late September.
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