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The following articles are reprinted from Newspapers and Technology magazine, XML Journal, Intranet Development, Government Exchange and other professional journals.

Content Management Resources Content and Project Management is perhaps the most overlooked aspect of any online business. in addition to the articles below, help yourself to the wide array of Content Management Resources at:

Developing CM Strategies in an IT-Centric World.CIDM Best Practices Newsletter; August, 2007. Barry Schaeffer outlines the challenges faced by content and IT organizations in their attempts to forge working relationships, and suggests some ways these challenges may be met.

Markup and its Effect on Project Communications (Putting an Important Resource in a Historic Light) In a guest article on the Max Wideman Prject Management site, XSI President Barry Schaeffer explains "markup" as it applies to modern information resource and web page coding, its evolution in the context of communication history, and its value in today's information projects and products.

Dealing with Input, a Critical Ingredient for Content Management Success The most valuable information in today's world is that created by human subject matter experts (SMEs) through research, analysis, collaboration and critical thinking. But SMEs and IT staff often have little experience with one another. This paper outlines the major problems encountered during text automation projects and suggests some proven techniques for coping with them.

XSI's Schaeffer co-authors NECCC Paper on IT Investment Strategy. Barry Schaeffer, working with public and private sector colleagues, provided substantial support for The National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council's (NECCC) 2005 paper on "Selecting and Protecting your IT Investment." NECCC is a national organization, made up of multiple participating organizations at the local,state and federal levels, dedicated to advancing the effective use of automation in open, citizen-centered government..

XML in the Federal Government; are we moving in the right direction.

Getting Serious About Content Management; a brief review of best practices.

It's Your Content, Treat it with Respect! (Managing XML in an Electronic World.)

Navigating the Content Management Jungle: A Survival Guide

How Can the Intranet Make its Rightful Contribution to Productivity?

XML, What will it Really Mean?

Old News may be newspapers' best reason to adopt XML.

In newspapers, Standards often drive debate but not progress.

BNA's Experience holds lessons for newspapers.

Newspapers seeing some light in an often murky landscape.

Partnering a Partial Key to Keeping Newspapers' Franchise Healthy.

Research studies a window on newspapers' intentions.

NML, the news business gets serious about content.

Internet Gateways Pose New Challenge to Online Newspapers

Online Classifieds Challenge Newspapers.
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Print Reporting Confronts the New Media.

Coping with the Changing Face of News

The following white papers are the product of X.Systems staff members.

  • Rethinking Tables for an Electronic Environment
  • Managing the Economics of Information
  • Multidimensional data/document design; a blueprint for making SGML data support the processes that depend on it.

All materials referenced on this page are copyrighted by X.Systems.Inc. or the named authors who are employees of X.Systems; all rights reserved. Publication rights have been granted under appropriate circumstances and with proper attribution. Organizations wishing to use or reproduce portions of these materials are encouraged to
contact Barry Schaeffer at [barry@xsystems.com]


Presentations (click to download the PPS files.)

Note: Until 1997, XSI was known as Information Strategies, Inc. Some presentation files contain ths name.


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