Marqui Management

As is usual I was surfing through my bookmarks and revisited Shorewalker.

By day, David Walker is site general manager at eChoice, one of Australia's best-known mortgage brokers. He also writes columns on business use of the Internet and management of information technology for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

He posted this article about Content Managment Systems, which coincidentally is what Marqui is. This is probably one of the best rosetta stones for translating geekspeak to user speak. This is a very good explanation of what any CMS needs to do.

The Web content management problem defined

Web content can be articles, pictures, products, email archives, Flash presentations, streaming audio, whatever. There's an enormous range of things you might want to do with this content. You might need systems for creating the content (authoring), describing it (metadata tagging), changing and updating it (editing), letting several people edit it together (collaboration), letting the right people do the right things to it (workflow), stopping the wrong people from manipulating it (security), keeping track of how it has changed (versioning), deciding when to display it (scheduling), displaying it in the right standard format (templating), allowing it to be displayed by others (syndication), allowing it be displayed differently to different visitors (personalisation) and more.