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Content management

Content management is simply that - the management and control of your information content to ensure that it is maintained, distributed, and delivered appropriately.

Content management systems (CMS) have become big business. CMS combines technology with processes to track information objects within your information space, and to manage how those objects are delivered to users. CMS can be simple or complex. In its more sophisticated incarnations, it typically incorporates metadata markup languages such as XML, SCORM, structured information models, relational databases, task and audience analysis, and dynamic online delivery using server-side interpreters and information delivery agents.

CMS isn't limited to large corporate or institutional data sets. Even small, personal websites and portals now incorporate some form of CMS. Blogging relies on simple, compact CMS implementations.

The whole subject of content management is evolving rapidly as technologies improve and become more accessible, and as the practice of content management finds new applications.