Re: Best Practice...Reuse Content

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Database replication is a common situation, enough so that this is often 
set up to be done "automagically" in the background with little or no 
human intervention.

However, in this case--whether the content should be the same in all 
cases might depend upon the reception it would receive in either Canada 
or the UK. As you are probably aware, there can be considerable 
animosity toward too much content being clearly American in nature. 
Thus, if the client base in those countries is extensive and if there 
are local competitors there, it may still be worthwhile to have a 
somewhat custom presentation for them.

David

>
> From:
> "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
> Date:
> Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:50:42 -0800
>
> To:
> Â TechwriterList <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
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>
> 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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