A note to recruiters

Is your recruitment company currently seeking a content manager in Australia or perhaps New Zealand?

I sometimes receive emails from recruiters who are very new to content management. Typically they ask: How do I let content managers know I have a vacancy?

The easy way to contact content managers in Australia is to:

1. Join the CM Pro (Australia) list (via http://lists.cmsml.org/mailman/listinfo/australia), and
2. Email the list your contact details or a link to information about the vacancy, e.g.
   • Documentum Opportunities, Sydney CBD, October 19 2006, Kieran Weston
   • DB2 Content Management Document Management Technical Lead wanted in Canberra, October 11, 2006, Stefania Netcu, Graeme V. Jones & Associates, Melbourne.
   • TeraText job opportunity in Canberra, September 14, 2006, Stefania Netcu.

To learn more about content management in Australia see

• James Robertson’s Column Two, or
• My interview with David Warwick (mp3 format)
• Read more about Melbourne based members of CM Pros

Please email me at wcrosbie(AT)yahoo.com.au

David Warwick (CM Pros Australia co-chair)

David Warwick is director of Komodo CMS, a Melbourne based Web content management vendor.David explains his role as co-chair, and a little bit about the history of CM Pros Australia in this interview (7 minutes, 6MB): http://users.tpg.com.au/wcrosbie/audio/David_Warwick.mp3

Links
David Warwick on LinkedIn.com

CM Pros Australia: open to all content managers and interested others

Melbourne meetings of CM Pros Australia happen every two months or so. They are open to anyone who with an interest in content management. (And you don't even have to know what that means, since there are multiple definitions and perspectives).

Meets are scheduled for: August 7, October 2, and December 4, 2006

Venue: the Centre for Innovation and Technology Commercialization, Level 1 (up the escalator), 257 Collins Street, Melbourne Vic 3000.

The meetings are free. For the latest information go to:

1. The Australia community mailing list archive
2. The Australia community at cmprofessionals.org (USA)
3. The Australia community at CMProsAustraliaCommunity (via Komodo CMS)

People
A professional forum like CM Pros Australia relies on the efforts of volunteers, in particular to lead conversations, and to organise and publicise events. CM Pros Australia currently has two co-chairs – David Warwick (Melbourne) and James Robertson (Sydney).

More about CM Pros

CM Pros is a US-based membership organization formed in 2004 that fosters the sharing of content management information, practices, and strategies, seeking to improve content management practices within all organizations. In September 2005, twenty-eight Australian Content Management professionals formed the Australian chapter of this organisation – the CM Pros Australia Community.

This group provides a much-needed forum for discussion on web content management issues. All are welcome, including writers, editors, designers, web managers, integrators, deployment specialists, consultants, distributors, customers and vendors (both open-source and proprietary). The forum is for networking, shared discussion and mutual learning. (From komodocms.com/community, June 8, 2006)

Zing from AnyZing in Sydney

Zing from AnyZing in Sydney, is a software application to help with electronic-meetings. Con Zymaris mentions Zing in his interview. Con explains how they use Zing as a communication tool for meetings of open source Victoria (OSV). According to Con, Donna Benjamin, who has both theatre and technical backgrounds, plays a vital role in facilitating breakfast meetings, for both on-campus and off-campus participants. Zing is one of Donna's tools of choice.

I will put together a list of links on Zing at del.icio.us/wcrosbie/Zing and at del.icio.us/wcrosbie/Donna_Benjamin
Interestingly, many communities of technical professionals do NOT use technologies to support the idea of dual face to face (f2f)/electronic meetings (I tried chat + face to face once or twice; it's fun but rather chaotic). Is it better to be swamped with emails, and end up too busy to meet people face to face? David Warwick says Zing looks interesting, but there are no plans for the moment to introduce it, or anything similar at CM Pros meetings in Melbourne.