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

Audio trailer | online documentary

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.

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)

Chris Prince (Wave & Avalon)

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.

Luke Hoban & Melanie Kendell (emorphus)

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.

Howard Sachs (iFocus)

Howard Sachs is an information architect and senior consultant at iFocus, an e-Business solutions company, headquartered in Melbourne.

In this interview Howard discusses information architecture, business portals, and his interest in content management (12 minutes, 5.7 MB): hypertext.rmit.edu.au/~crosbie/Howard_Sachs.mp3

Howard presents at conferences on, for example, the business case for portal implementation and the key steps and considerations for a successful portal implementation. Howard's online writings include: Only fools rush in: five steps for success in government portal projects

James Robertson (Steptwo Design, Sydney)

While I did NOT interview James Robertson for the audio-documentary on content management and professional forums, James deserves mention, not least of because of his international influence on content management, but also because he is the Sydney co-chair of Content Management Professionals, Australia.

James Robertson is the managing director of Step Two Designs, the leading vendor-neutral CMS consultancy in Australia. James has been involved in many CMS projects, advising on the strategic aspect of CMS selection and deployment. He was the author of the Review of Content Management for the NSW Government report, the Content Management Requirements Toolkit, as well as writing two AGIMO Better Practice Checklists on the topic of content management. James is also on the board of advisors for the University of Washington CMS Evaluation Lab, and was a founding member of the CM Professionals association. [From openpublish.com.au]

James's company steptwo.com.au is based in Sydney.

James is a committee member of the NSW KM Forum. He is also on the Advisory Board for the University of Washington CMS Evaluation Lab. [From column two]

May 6, 2006 James wrote: "Rahel Bailie has recorded my first podcast on selecting a CMS." Jame quotes Rahel:

James Robertson, internationally-known head of Australia's Step Two Designs, speaks frankly about a good starting point for content management implementations. Robertson asserts that a content management system solves no problem. [Go to intentionaldesign.ca … james_robertson_advice_on_starting_content_management_projects ; or listen to James_Robertson_interview.wav]

Although James writes that he finds it weird to hear his voice online, he found the interview fun to do.