Summer is over and I can not wait to return to school.

I completed my first year Computer Science in the spring and landed what I thought to be the summer job of my dreams, with the IT department of a prestigious company media. They came across as cutting-edge high-tech were in almost everything: print, web, blogs, and were only support the introduction of Twitter when I arrived.

I went into the building hoping that this would a well oiled machine and that my job would be to walk with a striking MacBook Pro, network security monitoring may help solve problems of malfunction the strange laptop and drinking coffee. The draft Twitter add some excitement and gives me something to tweet about myself. The main workspace was more or less what I had imagined: a converted warehouse with a dozen cubicles (mostly decorated with action figures), lots of Mac and a corner which had been decorated as a photography studio. There were many more wires than I had been waiting, the first indication that all was not so state art behind the scenes.

The IT shop, which remained hidden in a large back area, was far from spotless laboratory that was used in college. Racks of computers in seemingly random places, a spaghetti tangle of wires and harassed staff running, looking stressed. To make matters worse, this company had never gotten around to implementing anything remotely like content management, so my job became to one of two unpleasant tasks:

# The network search of a specific file (usually a photo or video clip) that someone needed and was pretty sure existed, but not know where it was stored or what the filename was. At one end, of course, because the file you need to meet a publication deadline.

# Grab the text a writer's rough notebook, and then dumped in the Editor of any final system (could be a blogging tool, web editor, Twitter or equal probable that all of these) for publication because the writer had no idea how to format the content properly for each different publication points. Of course, the writer would be there, pulling his hair because he had just met the deadline and all the time it was taking to publish in different formats that could get picked up by the competition.

If all businesses operated like this, I think I'll stay in school for my master's at least.

About the Author:

Ken Hollins is a Computer Science major who spent the summer learning a valuable lesson about the importance of a content management system. After being run ragged while working for a well known media outlet, Ken has plans to eventually write his thesis on digital asset management. If you need a student intern for next summer, please contact Ken at:

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – New Media Lives In The Dark Ages Without A Content Management System

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