DCMOC

Thanks to all for the insightful comments you’ve posted recently.
Here’s are some more direct questions for faculty out there: what does “collaboration as a university faculty member” mean to you? And what collaborative parts of being a university faculty member do you find challenging when you are working for an online institution like Capella? What [...]

This is the official groundbreaking post for our blog. We are a newly organized team in the Next Generation Learning area at Capella. What we really want to is to connect with you, our constituents, fellow colleagues and users. This is your chance to get to know us, do a DITL (day-in-the-life) and tells us [...]

Been a while since I’ve posted…
At our CM&OC team meeting yesterday, we had a great conversation about what this department should be and about our areas of responsibility. The conversation took several interesting turns, including a discussion about how challenging it is for web production staff when a site is built without a content management plan [...]

The following was a response to one of our previous posts, and in it’s elegance deserved it’s own post (AG)
Keith A. Morneau Says:
From Wenger’s Community of Practice book, two definition of communities of practice are of interest here -
#1 – “Communities of practice [CoP] are groups of
people who share a concern, a set of problems, [...]

I’m also trying to “rough in” exactly what we mean by content management. Here’s my first stab at a definition, for our CM&OC purposes:
“Web content management comprises the set of tools and practices by which the appropriate experts throughout the organization are able to create and update the online content that they care about, according [...]