The concept of ‘content management’, at least in one respect, is easily unraveled:No prizes for guessing it must be the process or activity by which you ‘manage’ your ‘content’.

Tongue in cheek as that may seem, as somebody who works with a content management system or CMS almost every day, I have sincerely come to think of it this way. This article will help you to understand what it means journalistically as well as semantically, whilst explaining why the simple, and playfully tautological definition of it above is the most useful one.

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By now most of you in my online journalism labs seem to be comfortable with the basic functions of your WordPress blogs, but if you need some additional guidance, these WordPress tutorials might come in handy. » Read the rest of the entry..

I’ve created a two-page guide to connecting to a server using FTP, plus an explanation of what FTP is and how it’s useful to us. You can download that here.

If you are using Wordpress for your portfolio, you will also find this one-page cheat sheet helpful to get started. If you get through that and still have questions, I encourage you to check http://codex.wordpress.org/, which is Wordpress’s official documentation website. It’s very user-friendly and extremely thorough. You can of course mail me (Marcus) through the contact form on this site, but the chances are I’ll just have to look at the Wordpress site myself (hmm, something about giving a man a fish or teaching him how to fish comes to mind).

Smartest documentation/instructions to follow.