Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006:
Quality Matters
CMS: Challenging the Consensus

Debate 1: CMS: Challenging the Consensus

This page provides details of the debate on "CMS: Challenging the Consensus".

Title:

CMS: Challenging the Consensus

Panelists:

Mike McConnell, University or Aberdeen, Iain Middleton, Robert Gordon University, Piero Tintori, CEO of TERMINALFOUR and Stephen Pope, Eduserv

Chair:

Miles Banbery, Web Editor, University of Kent

Abstract:

In previous IMWMWs sessions have focussed on issues such as:

• Should we buy or build our CMS?
• Which CMS should we implement?
• How do we implement our CMS?
• How can we measure the impact of our CMS Implementation?
• And how do we address The CMS Challenge?

But last year it was claimed that "There is no such thing as a silver bullet" and that a CMS will not solve all your problems. Has the CMS bubble bust? Has content management become content mis-management? In the light of new approaches, such as Web 2.0, and new 'ways of doing things' is there a feeling of disillusionment with 'ye old CMS'? Or does a CMS remain the backbone of a good institutional Web site?

In this debate you will hear the arguments for and against content management systems and will have an opportunity to express your views.

Time:

This debate took place from 09:00-09:45 Friday 16^th July 2005.