Resources - White way to content management. Intranet expert Martin White has corralled his knowledge into a single guidebook. Jonathan Gordon-Till took a closer look at a title that takes a user perspective.(The Content Management Handbook)(Book Review)

The all-round approach of The Content Management Handbook makes it an ideal guide to selecting, implementing and managing a content management system (CMS).

It is very much a book aimed at information professionals who have the right skills in metadata, information architecture and searching, but who find themselves stuck in the rut of information custodianship and marginalised by technologists in IT departments. As author Martin White observes, many information professionals find themselves managing intranets, often by chance, and herein lies an opportunity.

White tackles a common issue found in many professional texts, namely the problem of definition. He describes five uses of the term CMS, suggesting there may be more, and points to the effect that such a lack of certainty has over the veracity of those who say they provide services in this field. For example, there is criticism of CMS vendors who inflate themselves as enterprise content management (ECM) vendors.

The book is arranged around three themes of a content strategy: information issues, for ...