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Online Publishing Secret #4: Organize Content Around the Customer

Customer-driven content management will be common in the very near future, allowing a diverse community of online users to engage, and be engaged, in many different ways compared to simply subscribing to a magazine or buying a book. The resulting environment will be much bigger and more sophisticated than in the past. People instinctively want

Customer-Driven Content Management System

Customer-driven content management will be common in the very near future, allowing a diverse community of online users to engage, and be engaged, in many different ways compared to simply subscribing to a magazine or buying a book. The resulting environment will be much bigger and more sophisticated than in the past. People instinctively want to be heard, to express themselves, to contribute, to belong—basic human needs that are addressed by organizing content around the customer.

The point, of course, is to create many user-centered products; to embrace the Mequoda organigraph as a dynamic map of the company’s functions, critical interactions and relationships; to recognize the system’s leading roles and supporting players and to understand the key media management concepts for building a special-interest niche media empire.

  • A special-interest niche media empire is a customer-driven, content-management system in which content can be published and republished, monetized and re-monetized.
  • Content is organized in such a way that it becomes easy to manipulate into different formats.
  • The Mequoda Organigraph, unlike a static organization chart, shows how information can be managed in a dynamic way.
  • A content-driven organization must have content-driven job descriptions.
  • Organizing interactive content around the customer, admittedly, is a much more complex operation than the traditional publishing model of the past.

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By Don Nicholas

Founder & Executive Publisher

Don Nicholas serves as Executive Publisher for Food Gardening Network and GreenPrints. He is responsible for all creative, technical, and financial aspects of these multiplatform brands. As senior member of the editorial team, he provides structural guidance, sets standards, and coordinates activities with the technology and business teams. Don is an active gardener whose favorite crops include tomatoes, basil, blueberries, and corn. He and his wife Gail live and work in southern Massachusetts surrounded by forests, family farms, cranberry bogs, and nearby beaches. Don is also the Founder of Mequoda Systems, LLC, which operates and supports numerous online communities including I Like Crochet, I Like Knitting, and We Like Sewing.

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