Content Management: Where are we heading?

Content Management has been given a new dimension these days with organizations changing their approach more towards “Collaboration” and “Social Networks”. These fresh steps, have been very much influential in recent days with employees as well as organizations getting more and more involved into it making human management of content relatively easier.

Looking into the history, as to how our ancestors used to manage contents when they did not even have computers at their disposal. They still managed to excel in what they did. The invention of writing, creation of papyrus (paper based portable document format), collection of books into libraries
once pages have been assembled for it, hand-written index cards (by title/author), categorization with subject headings etc did start the new era in content management.

If we fast forward the progress which civilization made over the centuries, we would soon arrive at the computerised era where people live 45% of the day in front of a computer. With the advent of computers into industries and the quick advancement in computer softwares, it did change the scenario of Content Management Systems everywhere. It even changed quiet remarkably with innovative content management frameworks. Organizations had the option to choose their own CMS on the framework which they felt comfortable with. Technology has been very much supportive to almost every industry/user by meeting their ever changing demands.

Now-a-days the kingdom of Collaboration and Social Networks have been sighted out to be handy for Content Management. The profound usage of blogs, wikis and discussions on social networking platforms such as Facebook, and various other forums have defined this new era of CMS in terms of Social Networks. Basing on this, various corporations have started opting for collaborative partners with content-related products portfolio offerings. Many vendors dealing with Enterprise Content Management have shifted their preference towards social networking software making as a result of this drive. Technological advances and innovative ideas would definitely bring in more and more areas to explore in the near future.

Is this an effort to meet the demand created by the users for Collaboration and Social Networks? Or Is this change in user behavior and market due to the evolution of technology? My understanding says that user behavior changes as there are alterations in their environment in which they live in. Express Yourself!