Re: Best Practice...Reuse Content

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

It's important to draw a distinction between shared content and shared storage. 
Multiple locations working with synchronized local databases are still sharing 
content.  You will need a process to resolve conflicts in case disconnected 
locations change the same content.

Gene Kim-Eng

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> If you consolidate your 29% common content in one physical location, then 29% 
> of your content will be accessible only as long as the links stay up. If you 
> consolidate that 29% in the US and a winter storm blows down half the lines 
> between here and Canada, then your Canadian users have a problem. Users in the 
> UK would have to be able to get reliable round-trip connections across the 
> Atlantic. The longer your communications chain is, the more vulnerable it is. 
> Your company isn't hurting for storage space, is it? I would say keep the 
> distributed iterations of the common content but set up a system that allows 
> you to push content changes from a centralized source.B  That could be a 
> software system or, in the right circumstances, it might simply be a 
> procedural change.

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