bgvmedia

Our May 6 Presentation & Webinar for MPA

BGVMedia's CMS white paper lead author Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group will be walking members of the Magazine Publishers of America through the challenges of choosing the right publishing system, at a lunch forum in New York tomorrow, May 6. REGISTER FOR THE EVENT or for a live online webinar of the presentation -- attendees will get a special MPA discount of half off the regular price of our research paper.

What's New in Our Revised CMS White Paper

Our newly revised white paper, "Web Content Management Systems: How to Understand, Choose and Implement the Right One," is now more than 100 pages of targeted, practical information. The report has now been updated to include:

• Seven new vendor evaluations, for a total of 21 vendors
• A dozen new criteria for evaluating systems, bringing the total to nearly 70 points of comparison 
• Modules on mobile & social media
• New worksheets and tip guides, with case studies and workflow documents

You can buy the full report for $399.

Our Newly Revised CMS Report is Now Available

Web Content Management Systems:

How to Understand, Choose and Implement the Right One

One of the knottiest problems for digital media operations is choosing the right publishing tool to handle every need. Choose the right content management system and everything runs smoothly. Choose the wrong one, and you’ll pay many times over.

Our newly updated report -- "Web Content Management Systems: How to Understand, Choose and Implement the Right One" -- takes you, step-by-step, through the process of selecting a CMS. It explains what a CMS is and how to integrate it. And our expanded vendor analysis provides comparison charts of 21 leading systems, from “free” open-source to high-end off-the-shelf products.

Worksheets help break the process down, provide questions to ask vendors and staff, and bullet points of common pitfalls to avoid. The report is must-have for anyone frustrated with their current CMS or considering a migration to a new one.

Purchase the comprehensive report ($399). And for $149 apiece, you can also purchase one of our two individual reports ("Detailed Content Management System Explainer," and "Worksheets to Manage Decision-making and Workflow." For bulk discounts, email us at cms@bgvmedia.com.

CMS Seminar at The Reynolds Institute

We were excited to present an intensive day-long seminar on content management systems for the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, along with Amy Webb, lead author on our white paper on content management systems. We hope to do other similar workshops for other clients in the future. Contact us at cms@bgvmedia.com if you're interested.

Here's an outline of the agenda for the October, 2008, event:

Morning:

• What is a CMS and why is it necessary?
• Current state of CMS industry
• Finding a direction
• Making initial decisions
• Media trends affecting your CMS choice
• Anticipating what's ahead

Afternoon:

• Integrating social networking
• Web to print
• Integrating marketing and advertising
• Staffing/workflow issues
• Recommended resources

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.

Buy our newly revised CMS white paper now.