Rethinking the Web CMS and Finding the Excitement

Day 1 | 18:30 | 00:10 | H.1308 (Rolin) | Michael Diedrick

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In the eyes of a site editor or administrator, web content management systems haven’t really changed much in 20 years. They all seem so similar to each other and cover the same distance as to be wholly generic. If there’s innovation in CMSes, it seems to be more about architecture, marketing, SEO and templates and less about customizations, new ideas and administrator delight. The players haven’t changed much over the years, and the newer players seem mostly focused on monetization through scale and commerce.

What can we do as a community to rethink the humble web CMS and open new pathways and ideas that could make a web CMS exciting again? This talk hopes to open more questions than answers, drawing on my 25 years of experience working with and building CMSes, and will cover some potential ways to move the industry forward through collaboration, CMS data interoperability and collective innovation.