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You can begin to get something together about content management and
have not a lot to show . . .
. . . or, you can produce work and documents and get good references and
resume padding. That is, I like your plan to use the tools you have to
do work and deliver product. You don't have the experience or time to
get the larger, project-management research project done . . ..
> I've joined a company as an intern and will be
> working for about two months.
> The company wants me to prepare technical documents
> for marketing purposes
> for its products from scratch.
That doesn't sound like a content-management voyage of discovery to me.
> At this stage, I am preparing notes taken from my
> meetings with the
> technical and communications group. Besides
> preparing documentation, the
> company is interested in having a model devised for
> content management so
> that any person looking for information in the
> future has access to
> information easily and readily. I will be preparing
> diagrams using Visio and
> documents will be prepared in Microsoft Word. My
> concern is not the
> documentation, but the content management model.
<snip>
> To start with, I might use Access or Excel to
> prepare a table with columns:
> path, filename, date content created, revision date,
> version, content owner,
> images used etc. Is this a right approach to begin
> with?
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