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Hi, all! I'm the guy that writes a lot of the storage newsletters and the Windows Server 2003 tips and, starting in June, will also be writing the e-mail tips. If you have any ideas, questions, or things you'd like to see, I'd love to hear about them!

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I work at a small college in upstate NY as the IT Director and, while our site looks pretty nice and our prospects comment on how well it's laid out and such, site maintenance is becoming a major chore. Originally created more than 3 years ago, it's based completely on static HTML. I spend significant time researching content management systems and have experimented with Plone, Typo3, mambo and a number of other open source systems. At my previous job, my webmaster and I, along with an outside developer, wrote a system that, at the time, met the needs of the organization, but it's not something I want to do again.

Ideally, any system we select will have workflow, the ability to target content based on user preferences, complete web-based management, be easy to use, and not cost a half million dollars.

If anyone has gone down this road in their own organizations, I'd love to hear about your experiences.

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For anyone that's read this blog post, we've made a decision for content management system.  We've selected a product from a very small, Vancouver-based company called The Level and their product, The Level Enterprise Portal.  It's not free, but it's not one of the $250,000 to multimillion dollar behemoths, either.  We initially selected The Level Enterprise Portal for it's personalization engine and content management capabilities.  However, after delving more deeply after an onsite visit by one of The Level's representatives, it became clear that this product has the potential to change the way we deliver our IT services at Elmira College.  I'll keep you up-to-date as we move ahead in our implementation, which has a Phase I completion deadline of January 2006.

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