CM Professionals
- A Content Management Community of Practice
Mission Statement
CMProfessionals is made up of content management practitioners, both inside organizations and outside as independent consultants.
As a group of CM practitioners, we seek to create a not-for-profit membership organization that would enable sharing of information, practices, and strategies. We envision a variety of member services, including online discussion forums, knowledge wikis, professional discounts, and "summit"-type gatherings devoid of marketing hype.
We hope to raise awareness of content management as an essential discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and organizations. Content management is getting the right content to the right person at the right time at the right cost.
We imagine that we will attract a diverse group of members. We invite project managers, authors, editors, developers, graphic/UI/experience designers, information architects, analysts, systems architects, researchers, educators, marcom professionals, network administrators, industry experts, students, consultants, IT directors, web managers, system implementers, technology trainers, system administrators, senior management, and anyone else who cares enough about content to invest a small sum in helping to make us all better at managing it.
As we grow, we will work closely with other organizations that share many of our goals, such as AIfIA, AIIM, ASIST, STC, 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.
Some mention here of educational and research objectives, and member benefits...
