What Are Your Content Management System (CMS) Feature Must-Haves and Really-Wants?
- Support for conditional text, metadata and taxonomy design (14%, 26 Votes)
- Standards compliance (HTML5, CSS3, EPUB3, DITA, DocBook, etc) (14%, 26 Votes)
- Easy import of content (Word, images, FrameMaker, etc.) (12%, 22 Votes)
- Automated workflows and notifications (12%, 21 Votes)
- Robust documentation, technical support, and user community (11%, 20 Votes)
- Role-based access (contributors, authors, publishers, reviewers, etc.) (10%, 19 Votes)
- Native WYSIWYG authoring and XML editing (10%, 18 Votes)
- Integration with external systems (repositories, customer service, collaboration, etc) (9%, 16 Votes)
- Strong third-party support for plug-ins and extensions (4%, 8 Votes)
- Cloud-based or hosted solution available (3%, 6 Votes)
- Something else (please add a comment to the post) (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 35
Start Date: June 3, 2013 @ 9:26 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Can structured authoring and writing content for web delivery co-exist in the real world today?
- Yes, they’d better. The content management and publishing tools need to evolve—like yesterday—to allow for web formats, customizable versioning and integration into more systems. (59%, 38 Votes)
- Yes. It can and does co-exist in my world. (31%, 20 Votes)
- No. The agile nature of web content makes single sourcing and reuse hard, and possibly irrelevant. (6%, 4 Votes)
- Not sure… here’s what I know about how we do it now and what I think we should do. (post a comment, please!) (4%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 64
Start Date: May 21, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Is great content, or efficient structure more important to your tech comm and business goals? (Please post a comment telling us why.)
- High-quality, compelling content (79%, 22 Votes)
- Robust and efficient structure (21%, 6 Votes)
Total Voters: 28
Start Date: May 14, 2013 @ 5:30 am
End Date: No Expiry
How Is Ubiquitous Computing Changing Tech Comm?
- Adoption of a holistic approach to user assistance (28%, 11 Votes)
- Collaboration between and convergence of design, marketing, documentation and support (21%, 8 Votes)
- Constant evolution of terminology (21%, 8 Votes)
- Integration of agile, single source, minimalism and other methodologies. (10%, 4 Votes)
- Addition of user experience and other duties (10%, 4 Votes)
- Something else (please tell us in a comment). (8%, 3 Votes)
- Increased responsibilities for project and development documentation (3%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 16
Start Date: April 29, 2013 @ 12:13 am
End Date: No Expiry
Do you believe that wearable computers will change the technical communication profession?
- Yes (Tell us why and how) (59%, 17 Votes)
- No (Post a comment and tell us why) (41%, 12 Votes)
Total Voters: 29
Start Date: April 21, 2013 @ 7:50 pm
End Date: No Expiry
