Content Management System

Benefit from self-service web tool Self-hosted wordpress blog server  BI class  Subject guide  Library news  Gathering information from students  Faculty teaching  Student government / campus community

More User-friendly web tools For static web content Web 2.0 functions  Comment  Forum  Poll: survey, test  Wiki  Tag category  Mashup

CMS: package for: Who: individual or a community of users What: easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website Including:  Electronic commerce; Blogs  Forums  Peer-to-peer networking  Newsletters  Podcasting  Picture galleries  File uploads and downloads

Options Commercial hosted: ContentM for YSU  Service company hosts it  No maintenance needed  Not flexible Opensource CMS: Drupal  Local control  Develop functionality  Host it: maintenance and administration

ContentM Consistent Interface Stable performance Better Security vendor administrate the server

Disadvantage of ContentM Limited Web 2.0 functions No support for programming languages External host; security issues across domain barriers Issues when interacting with other servers Developments tied to vendor’s business plan

Advantage of Opensource Powerful on functions: wiki, blog, tagging, mashup, forum, comment, poll… Add-on functions when we need Continue to develop with the new technology Inside of campus: transfer checking information easier More expertise on campus Community of users

Disadvantage of Opensource Domain; working with IT Self-host and manage the server Self administration More work on security issues. Update

Commercial vs OpenSource Evaluate your needs  Stable vs. flexible  Staff  Speed  Cost (long term and short term) Control  Administration  Updates  fixes

Commercial vs OpenSource Re-purpose  Several unique instances: more websites  several functions: wiki, FAQ, survey, test

Try it! First opensource server is hardest Common middleware  Appache  Database: mySQL/PostgreSQL  Tomcat  PHP, Java  hMailserver  Linux