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More often than ever, our clients’ Intranet projects involve developing and implementing Content Types to improve the creation and management of content. This includes the creation of news articles, policies, guidelines, and other common Intranet content items. The overwhelming amount of corporate information, plus the variety of types of content, make it essential to bring order to chaos. However, it is often a challenge to explain to content creators, content editors, and end users the meaning of a content type.<\/span><\/p>\n

Content Types and Cake Pans<\/h2>\n

Imagine that you are a baker who produces three different types of cakes: bundt cakes, round layered cakes, and cupcakes. How can you ensure that the shape and quality of the cakes you produce is standard and optimal for each type of cake? In other words, how can you make sure that all the bundt cakes are the same shape and size regardless of their flavor?<\/span><\/p>\n

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To bake a bundt cake, you need to use a fluted tube pan; to bake a round layered cake, you need a springform cake pan; and to bake a cupcake, you need a cupcake pan. All of these baking pans act as “templates,” ensuring that you have control over the shape and quality of the cake you want to bake. Thus, the next time you want to bake either a bundt cake, a round layer cake, or a cupcake, you can reuse the same pans and expect to obtain similar, if not the same results.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similarly to cake pans, Content Types work as reusable templates ensuring that when you create a piece of content for your company’s Intranet, for example a news article, it is standard and consistent with any other news articles already published on the Intranet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Definition of a Content Type<\/h2>\n

In technical terms, a Content Type is a reusable collection of metadata for a category of content, with its corresponding taxonomies that allows you to manage information in a centralized, reusable way. \u00a0Ideally, Content Types should also include the following:<\/span><\/p>\n