Comments on: Few web editors is better for your website http://jboye.com/blogpost/few-web-editors-good-for-website/ The international community for web and intranet professionals Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: J. Boye » Blog Archive » DIY SharePoint http://jboye.com/blogpost/few-web-editors-good-for-website/comment-page-1/#comment-1981 J. Boye » Blog Archive » DIY SharePoint Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:55:12 +0000 http://www.jboye.com/?p=874#comment-1981 [...] adjusted the number of content contributors from 200 to 60 [not a bad idea according to Janus Boye: Few web editors is better for your website]. These have been trained to write better for the web. Still, strange things are happening when we [...] [...] adjusted the number of content contributors from 200 to 60 [not a bad idea according to Janus Boye: Few web editors is better for your website]. These have been trained to write better for the web. Still, strange things are happening when we [...]

]]> By: Sam Kleinman http://jboye.com/blogpost/few-web-editors-good-for-website/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Sam Kleinman Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:44:22 +0000 http://www.jboye.com/?p=874#comment-171 I concur that the distributed web-editor model isn't the most effective one around, but at the same time I'm not sure that re-centralizing solves the problem either. One issue is that, even simple website-editing is really three distinction and potentially conflicting jobs rolled into one. There's the "publisher" role and the "editor/content creator role" and the "production/typsetting/copy-writing" role, and one person would be hard pressed to do all of these things well. The second part is that the qualifications that make someone a good editor and website manager, are often not the same qualities that make someone a good writer/content generator, particularly in more specialized fields, so to avoid "pitching" content to the lowest common denominator, distribution some of the content creation is a virtual requisite. Having said that, I agree, in this case, that less is more. I concur that the distributed web-editor model isn’t the most effective one around, but at the same time I’m not sure that re-centralizing solves the problem either.

One issue is that, even simple website-editing is really three distinction and potentially conflicting jobs rolled into one. There’s the “publisher” role and the “editor/content creator role” and the “production/typsetting/copy-writing” role, and one person would be hard pressed to do all of these things well.

The second part is that the qualifications that make someone a good editor and website manager, are often not the same qualities that make someone a good writer/content generator, particularly in more specialized fields, so to avoid “pitching” content to the lowest common denominator, distribution some of the content creation is a virtual requisite.

Having said that, I agree, in this case, that less is more.

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