Results of The Content Wrangler Content Creation and Publishing Workflow Survey

June 28, 2005 Blog No Comments

Organizations of all sizes struggle with content creation and publishing workflow issues. These problems are varied, time-consuming, and waste finite resources. Many can negatively impact an organization’s ability to meet business goals, be cause for regulatory and legal headaches, and frustrate employees. To help better understand and quantify the major content creation and publishing workflow problems affecting business communicators (e.g technical, medical, training and marketing writers) and to learn which software tools are being used to help reduce workflow obstacles, The Content Wrangler created a short survey. 234 communicators responded. Read the full article…

Content Management For Sale: ContentWorld Liquidates Assets

June 9, 2005 Blog No Comments

Wish your web site address was [url=http://www.contentmanagement.com?]http://www.contentmanagement.com?[/url] Well, for $7,500US, it can be. The folks at the now defunct ContentWorld.com are liquidating their assets. Among the many items up for grabs in their liquidation catolog you’ll find: Domain Names and TradeMarks contentworld.com, contentworld.org and contentworld.net ($15,000US) contentmanagement.com ($7,500US) contentengineering.com ($3,500US) digitalassetmanagement.biz ($2,500US) Mailing Lists Conference promotion and attendee list with approximately 9,000 opt-in names and demographic selects by organization type ($8,500US) ContentWorld web site and content 225,000 visitors and over 2.5 million hits; web site includes the Content

Talk About ROI! Reusing 3,500 Chunks of Information in 65,000 Places

June 7, 2005 Blog No Comments

A recent article entitled A Manufacturer Finds 65,000 Ways to Reuse Content (Doug Henschen, Intelligent Enterprise) makes the case for the return on investment possible from content reuse. The article briefly examines Siemens Building Technologies publishing efforts and their struggle to produce “thousands of print and online documents to help employees, business partners and customers install, operate, maintain and troubleshoot its products.” According to Seimens, after getting used to their XML-based authoring approach, they now have quadrupled productivity with fewer resources and achieved a return on investment sure to satisfy Read the full article…

FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua: The Future of Adobe FrameMaker – Beyond 7.1

June 6, 2005 Blog No Comments

The FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua is coming to Raleigh, NC USA, November 7-9, 2005. Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) is well represented as Karl Matthews and Michael Hu discuss the future of AdobeR FrameMaker, an award-winning, enterprise-class authoring and publishing solution. This conference will provide attendees with the chance to meet and mingle with some of the best and brightest FrameMaker luminaries and learn where this dynamic and vibrant product is heading. In its current version, FrameMaker combines the simplicity of word processing with the power of advanced layout capabilities and Read the full article…