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SCENARIO
1: Content is stored as separate documents in a word processing,
spreadsheet, or typesetting program. To make this update,
you would have to search 10 different documents and replace
the old instruction with the new one. This would require either
the manual process of reading each and every user guide to
find the instruction, or relying on a "search" command and
hoping it found all occurrences of this instruction. But what
if one is missed because it was typed differently in one document?
It could result in a customer getting injured!
SCENARIO 2: Content is managed in a content management system.
With a content management system, that instruction would be
stored one time in the system and reused in the other nine
user guides. So when one instance is updated, the system would
flag the nine other instances and make a global change instantaneously
in every guide, saving the editor hours of time. This is the
power of single sourcing and content reuse in a content management
system!
Introduction
1. What is content?
2. What
is multi-channel publishing?
3. What is tagging?
4. What
is content management?
5. Who needs a
content management system?
6. How will a content
management system benefit my organization?
7. Why can't I just use a word processing or spreadsheet software
program?
8. I'm
ready to proceed! Take me to the CMS Starter Kit.
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With
a content management system, content is intelligent. It knows
all about itself and every version of it that ever existed.
It knows where it is and where it's been. It knows to whom it's
related. It keeps itself accurate. This makes it easy to manage.
