We launched the CM Professionals revised website based on a new design by Stuart Guest-Smith and Lee Sinclair of Boardwalk Designs.

The site is hosted at skyBuilders who did the implementation of the code.

The story of the redesign of the old collaboration-oriented site to a new member-facing and public-facing site includes the requirements document and functional specification, the content audit and information architecture, the multi-level navigation design, the reusable content elements, user research and personas, and compliance issues

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We are prototyping an events calendar for Content Management, Knowledge Management, Information Architecture, Usability, User Experience, and Internet Accessibility in the New England area.

CMS Boston will list events for ten local organizations.

AIfIA
AIIM
Boston-IA
Content Managers
ERGO Boston
Greater Boston SIGCHI
HFES
KM Forum
KM Pro
MITX
NEASIST
UIE
UPA
Website Clinic

It has the same architecture as our national/international CMS Events Calendar.

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The CMS Glossary has 585 proposed terms. 230 now have extensive definitions.

We have prototyped the glossary-as-a-service feed for several CMS-related sites. Editorial details are at CM Professionals > Glossary

It is playing now on Content-Wire in the UK.

The CMS Glossary on CMS Wiki is a controlled vocabulary of terms used by CM Professionals, a content management community of practice.

It is also a demonstration of the CM best practice called single-source publishing.

CMS Glossary definitions are written using collaborative authoring tools with version control at our companion site CMS Wiki.

Definitions are then extracted by a web service (a connector or adapter) that converts them to syndicated information feeds suitable for use on any CMS-related site. They can appear in an iframe, or open a new popup glossary window with a CSS stylesheet to match a site.

Instructions for embedding links in your text that will call these info feeds are available here.

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From the CMS Review Products index page, you can now select a News and Reviews link that pulls in the latest news about a vendor and its products from the CMS-related blogs and news sites (the same as are aggregated at CMS News). We use Feedster.com technology.

Here is news about Crown Peak Advantage.

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We added another drop-down menu to the banner, offering "What Do You Want To Do Here?" navigation. When you select a choice, the appropriate page appears in the content iframe.

We found this direct navigation scheme worked well on the ASIS&T and STC home pages. It augments the left navigation panel.

We moved the cluster of List/Search/Directory/Compare tools to the right-hand side of the page, over the new Glossary. We also reduced the number of choices in the left navigation, and retitled several of them.

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We added a new panel to the right side of the CMS Review home page, with a drop-down CMS Glossary menu at the top.

When you select a term in the drop-down menu, the definition appears in the new iframe.

The CMS Glossary now has over 200 defined terms and over 500 candidate terms.

You can link to them from many places. For example, here is the definition for content management

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We relaunched CMSGlossary.com, using the new web service feed of "CMS Glossary As A Service." Editorial details at CM Professionals > Glossary.

A connector/adapter script running on CMSCalendar.com retrieves the term and definition data from the CMS Wiki, and converts it for use in an XML feed or a JSS feed script.

There are three glossary feeds, all driven from a simple drop-down menu. One opens a new window with the CMS Glossary definition. The others target a frame or an iframe in a website. We use the iframe approach on the new CMS Review home page.

We formatted the CMS Glossary to match the styles on CMS Watch and the Gilbane Report.

The Glossary is also serving from Content-Wire.com,

The CMS Glossary now has over 200 defined terms and over 500 candidate terms.

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