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New White Paper Available on Choosing a CMS

Publishing has changed dramatically in the years since the launch of the World Wide Web. In the early days of the Web, most Websites contained just a few pages. Making updates or changes required only a few lines of code.

Today, with consumers expecting an ever-increasing volume of on-demand digital content from a variety of sources, no one person could possibly undertake the management of all digital content on modern Websites. Instead, behind nearly every site is an automated series of tools and code that enables digital content to be managed sensibly.

There are hundreds of such content management systems to help power Websites. But with so many solutions, it can be difficult to determine which CMS best fits a particular organization’s expectations and real-world needs.

The challenge is to find a CMS solution that will meet your current digital content needs, enable your company to grow and expand, and enable you to adapt to the inevitable changes and developments on the Internet.

BGV Media Consulting offers this detailed report to provide you with a comprehensive examination of content management systems, products and solutions, as well as best practices and common pitfalls. (Click here to download an excerpt of the report)

BGV Media is a vendor-neutral partnership of media consultants who specialize in developing strategies for digital content creation and delivery to meet specific business objectives. We have produced this report has been produced without outside funding or investment from any content management company, and was created only for those wishing to learn more about content management systems or those who need assistance in selecting a CMS solution.  The lead authors are Amy L. Webb of Webbmedia Group,  Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media, and Adam Glenn of a2g Media.

Click the "Buy Now" button at right to purchase the report, or download an excerpt of the report. And for more information, contact us at BGV Media Consulting via email at cms@bgvmedia.com. 

What's Inside Our Latest Report on Choosing a CMS

• A detailed evaluation of 14 vendors with objective summaries.
• Web access to our list of 100 other common content management systems.
• A three-page resource guide listing the necessary terms and definitions for learning more
  about CMS solutions.
• A checklist your company can use to help determine what your content and technical
  needs are before searching for a content management system.

How Your Web Team Can Use Our CMS Report

• Learn the lexicon and gain a general sense of how CMS’s work so that you may have an
• informed discussion with potential vendors.
• Assess the CMS you currently have and determine if that system best meets your company
• needs.
• Create a working, realistic technology budget that will better help you allocate your available
• resources towards existing CMS solutions.
• Create a vendor shortlist, determining quickly which vendor categories and CMS products
• will and will not work for your site(s).
• Work towards implementing a new CMS solution within a reasonable timeframe.
• Avoid common mistakes and unforeseen pitfalls during selection and implementation.

About the CMS White Paper Authors

BGV Media Consulting specializes in developing digital content creation and delivery
strategies to meet specific business objectives. Principals Dorian Benkoil and Adam Glenn,
along with partner Amy Webb, are long-time journalists with rich experience in digital
media, both as independent consultants and as senior editors and executives for major
international news organizations. As a vendor-neutral partnership, they have produced this CMS White Paper – one in a series designed to help organizations adapt to digital media -- without
outside funding or investment from any content management company. BGV Media
Consulting also provides direct consulting services designed to fit custom digital media
solutions to individual needs. Contact us at cms@bgvmedia.com.

Bio for BGV Co-Founder & Principal Dorian Benkoil

Dorian Benkoil
Principal, BGV Media Consulting
Principal, Teeming Media

Dorian Benkoil is founder and senior consultant at Teeming Media, a New York-based strategic digital media business and editorial consultancy focused on helping content meet specific business objectives. He has more than 20 years in the media business, a decade
of it in digital media. As editorial director for mediabistro.com, he managed a network of targeted media industry blogs, email newsletters, video and paid content. There, and at ABCNews.com, Fairchild Publications, CNET.com and elsewhere, he created multiple new content and revenue streams across platforms, attracting and retaining millions of users.

Bio for BVG Co-Founder & Principal A. Adam Glenn

Adam Glenn
Principal, BGV Media Consulting
Principal, a2g Media

Adam Glenn is an award-winning news veteran now working as a New York-based independent online media consultant, helping develop strategies for digital content and delivery. During the last 25 years, he has held posts with a wide variety of news media in New York and Washington, most recently as senior producer at ABCNews.com in New York, where he ran health, science, technology and business coverage until 2005. His consulting clients include NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright's charitable foundation Autism Speaks, The J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, the Knight Digital Media Center, and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, as well as magazine publisher Rodale Inc., and local newspaper publishers and associations.

Bio for CMS Report Co-Author Amy Webb

Amy L. Webb
Principal
Webbmedia Group, LLC

Amy Webb is a digital strategy consultant and adapts current and emerging technologies
to solve problems in mainstream journalism/ journalism education. Simply put, her team of
consultants and programmers helps other organizations innovate.