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

The following audio trailer was prepared by Warren Crosbie’s for his ‘online documentary’ project, an assessable part of the transient spaces subject at RMIT.

Melbourne_forum (3 minutes, 3 MB) a documentary on professional forums in Melbourne: http://users.tpg.com.au/wcrosbie/audio/Melbourne_forum.mp3

For the documentary I interviewed several members of CM Pros Australia and others with an interest in professional forums. Participants were Chris Prince, Con Zymaris, David Gurr, David Warwick, Deborah Weiss, Howard Sachs, Luke Hoban, Melenie Kendall and Peter Christo. All interviews were recorded in April and May, 2006.

Thank you to all contributors. For more information on any of the interviewees, please click on one of the categories on the home pages of this blog.

With reluctance, I have decided to stop adding content to this blog. Suffice to say that I have found creating a documentary about people and their networks rather addictive. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know all participants. I hope you find this blog enables you to get to know them too.
Today I added images of David Warwick, Con Zymaris, and Peter Christo.
Bye for now
Warren

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

Peter Christo interview part 1 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_1of2.mp3
Peter Christo interview part 2 (9 minutes, 9 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Peter_Christo_2of2.mp3

Peter Christo is a business consultant, internet entrepreneur and commercialisation consultant based in Melbourne Australia. After completing his university studies, he worked with Hewlett-Packard and then spent the next 12 years primarily in Internet based ventures, which included a range of web projects in San Francisco USA in the late 90’s and the Cyberpreneures of Melbourne between 1998 and 2001. Peter spoke on the topic of Internet Business in the 1996 Australian APEC Forum, and has been quoted in a number of eminent publications. Peter recently completed the Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MIE) at Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), and undertakes sessional lecturing work on entrepreneurship. Peter is currently developing a web based business and social networking venture called Podmatcher.com You can find out more about Peter via x2o.com.au, or his blog at blog.x2o.com.au

About Podmatcher.com

Podmatcher.com is a web-based service that makes communities of practice, (CoPs or what we call Pods) knowledge or business networks, and clusters or consortia, visible to stakeholders. (From podmatcher.x2o.com.au June 8, 2006)

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)

Interview with David Gurr (8 minutes, 8 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/David_Gurr.mp3

David Gurr is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Centre for Organizational Learning and Leadership, at the University of Melbourne, and also Vice-President (Publications and Research), Australian Council for Educational Leaders. For more on David see his staff profile at: edfac.unimelb.edu.au/lol/coll/staff/gurr.html

References

Avolio, B. J., & Dodge, G. E. (2000). E-leadership: Implications for theory, research, and practice. Leadership Quarterly, 11.

Gurr, D. (2006). E-leadership. In S. Dasgupta (Ed.), Encyclopedia of virtual communities and technologies (pp. 161-165). Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference.

Audio interview (3 minutes, 1.3 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Chris_Prince.mp3

Chris Prince is Founder and CEO at Wave Business; Co-Founder and CEO at Avalon Software.

Listen to Melanie and Luke via http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Melanie_and_Luke.mp3 (3 minutes, 3MB).

Melanie is an experience technical writer, communicator, and trainer.

Luke is a straight talker. He says he's interested in content creation, as opposed to content management.

Luke has qualifications in IT and Marketing and studied for his MBA at Monash University. Melanie and Luke are a founding member of the emorphus consultancy (emorphus.com.au)

Melanie and Luke are CM Pros Australia participants, based in Melbourne.

Con Zymaris is from Cybersource, in Melbourne (cybersource.com.au). Con is a skilled communicator with an intesting take on the role of audio for busy people who use the Internet and regularly enjoy listining to audio:

I’ve found audio to be a very rich medium for idea expression and dissemination, moreso than video and more accessible than text, particularly for busy people.

In his interview, Con talks about ‘benign dictators’ and their role in the community process of leading volunteers who develop open source software. The interview is 16 minutes long (13 MB): http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Con_Zymaris.mp3

He also speaks of ‘interleaved discussions’ and the inportant role played by Donna Benjamin in helping to facilitate breakfast meetings, co-located via the Internet.
To see a picture of Con Zymaris, in downtown Melbourne, go to http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/photos/p1010018.jpg [900 KB]