Content Management Community - Mission Statement
We plan to create a community of content management practitioners, both independent CMS consultants and those working within an organization to design, install, and maintain a CMS or those re-architecting content for effective management and delivery through a CMS.
We are looking for suggestions as to the kind of benefits such a community could provide its members, and what the costs of membership should be.
We formed an exploratory advisory committee of about two dozen persons, drawn from practitioners and industry experts around the world. We look to them to suggest the next steps, and hope to open the conversation more widely on public CMS mailing lists at the earliest opportunity.
The international character of the founding committee makes simultaneous face-to-face meetings of the whole group highly unlikely. We will meet at major CMS Events, the next being this Thursday at the Gilbane Conference in Los Angeles. We will explore using online meeting technology when we require a quorum.
Some initial ideas for member benefits...
- A Membership Directory
- Consultant Listings - could search by:
- Skill set
- Experience
- Certifications
- Location
- Conditions
- Contract only
- Employment
- Willing to relocate
- A Job Board
- Best Practices Advice
- Certification Programs?
- Discounts on co-sponsored meetings (this alone could offset annual membership fee)
- Chapter Organizational Tools (Scott Abel)
- Micro websites (subsites of national?)
- RSS Feeds from national on events
- Percentage of national dues to chapters
- An Online Knowledge Base
- Community Mailing Lists
- An Events Calendar
- Consultant Blogs > Aggregated to Consultant News
- A Community Newsletter
- Virtual meetings