[Sigia-l] New Content Management Professionals Organization Announced Today

[Scott Abel]

New Content Management Professionals Organization Announced Today


CM Professionals: A Content Management Community of Practice

Silver Spring MD, September 20, 2004. A group of thirty content management
experts from around the world has announced the formation of CM
Professionals, an international community of content management
professionals whose purpose is to further best practices based on shared
experiences of experts and peers.

CM Pros offers a members-only mailing list, a collaborative website,
discussion forums, issue-oriented group blogs, knowledge wikis, syndicated
web services, a job board, a professional directory and a calendar of
face-to-face meeting opportunities.

CM Pros president Bob Boiko, author of the Content Management Bible and
director of the University of Washington iSchool CMS Evaluation Lab, says,
"As the first group of its kind, CM Pros is a membership organization that
enables content management practitioners to share information, practices and
strategies. This organization is needed to help move the discipline of
content management forward, helping practitioners avoid the pitfalls and
costly mistakes made by others."

³We also envision a variety of members-only services, including a
newsletter, professional discounts and summit-type gatherings devoid of
marketing hype,² says Tony Byrne, CMS Watch editor and CM Pros treasurer.

³CM Pros will raise awareness of content management as an essential
discipline that builds value, both financial and human, for companies and
organizations,² says Ann Rockley, author of Managing Enterprise Content and
secretary of CM Pros.

CM Professionals will hold its first CM Summit, in conjunction with the
Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies, Tuesday, November 30,
2004 in Boston, Mass. (U.S.A.).

Information on the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies:
http://www.gilbane.com/CM_conference_Boston_04.html.

As CM Professionals grows, Boiko says, ³We will work closely with other
organizations that share many of our goals. We will coordinate our thinking
about recommended standards for best practices with these organizations, and
we hope to work closely with graduate schools that are training the next
generation of information professionals.²

About CM Professionals
CM Professionals is the premier community of practice for people involved
with managing content for electronic and other media. CM Professionals
collects, develops, organizes and provides access to knowledge about content
management through online resources, email interaction and face-to-face
summits. By identifying, refining, publicizing and advocating for respected
content management practices and models, CM Professionals educates and
fosters interaction among content management professionals, enterprise
leadership, product vendors and university educators.

For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.cmprofessionals.org

Media Contact:
Bob Doyle, executive director
+617-876-5678
media at cmprofessionals.org
http://www.cmprofessionals.org


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Scott Abel
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