> As a case and point: The professional secreatry is all but dead. > Because the word processor is now available to everyone, everyone > is expected to use it. Therefore, you now have middle executive > types spending twice as long to develop documents at 3 times the > cost with 1/2 the effectiveness because they really don't know how > to write.
Here we have nearly the opposite problem. Because the secretaries all used to do the memos and such, now they are being made responsible for the department's web site. These are extremely overworked, non-technical people being put in charge of maintaining a site! A product like Contribute has the potential to allow the IS/IT/Web people to design a site structure with templates and all, and the secretary can take the MS Word press release or whatever and now put it in the site instead of bugging us to do it. And they can do so without trying to learn Dreamweaver which is overkill, or use FrontPage which kills the templates. Is Contribute better than a CMS? Not from what I can tell, but in many cases most CMS products out there are either too small for a big organization or too large and expensive and complicated for a big distributed organization (government/education) to agree upon. Contribute potentially fits that niche. I'm playing with it right now to see if it will work for us or not. -Kevin Graeme ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
