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Replacement CMS“Getting it right and getting the buy-in”
Richard BriertonThe University of SheffieldJuly 14th 2010
• E-mail: r.brierton@sheffield.ac.uk
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Where we are coming from...
• Polopoly CMS since 2003
• 600 editors; 100,000 pages; 14,000 new pages per year
• No longer running a supported product
• Regular users are fine with it
• Casual users are less-fine with it
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“I use CMS almost daily and it is incredibly slow and awkward to use.”
“CMS is a catastrophe:the interface is clunky,slow, unattractive”
“CMS. Please. It's shit. It's unbelievablybreathtakingly shit.”
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Opportunity for change
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“Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid.”
Despair.com – “Tradition”http://despair.com/tradition.html
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Communication
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“To be able to walk hundreds of miles a man must believe that something good awaits him at the end.
He needs the prospect of a promised land.”
War and Peace – Leo TolstoyPage: 1217
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If CMS is the answer, what is the question?
Disobedient.
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7 Commandments
• Keep the 90% in mind all the time
• One voice - we are not a coalition
• Training is cheap
• Content is expensive
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• Editors will often best-guess when unsure
• Avoid unnecessary flexibility
• Most editors don’t care
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The practical bit
• Develop new CMS
• Develop migration process• Mix of generated HTML, parsing content XML
from old system, CouchDB, Polopoly import tools
• Roll-out departments one-by-one
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• E-mail: r.brierton@sheffield.ac.uk
• Twitter: youlooklovely
• #iwmw10 #p8
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