The Other CMS

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


When many of us who teach with online tools say CMS, we mean a course management system, like Blackboard, Angel or Moodle (which is also called a VLE, but that's another story).

The other CMS is a content management system - software to keep things like large websites organized. Businesses were using content management suites before most universities to create and manage what for almost all of us had become unstructured content.

The management of images and documents came first with web content being added in the 1990s. The latest round of tools take in compliance, records management, integrated search, digital assets and desktop content management.

NJIT started moving its web site this past fall into a content management system, and that is no small task. We are using a commercial product (Luminus Content Management System 3), but there are free open source products available.

The most popular of those is Drupal, an open source content management platform that can support a variety of content areas from personal blogs to large community-driven sites.

TYPO3 is a another free open source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It's flexible and extendable and includes ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.

ADDITIONAL
resources on CMS from Accenture - including "The Rising Importance of Enterprise Content Management"

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