Community Portals: part 1 Mick Jacobsen Donna Schaal

What we will go over What are Content Management Systems? What they can do for your group? What are some content management systems? How to think like a content management architect Scott Beale / Laughing SquidLaughing Squid

What is your web presence going to look like? Blog Brochure Community Image Gallery News Storefront

What is a Content Management System (CMS)? Awesome

Is a CMS right for my group? Will your content be moving? Will you have many content creators? Do you want RSS feeds? Will you want different people to be able to do different things? Do you want content to appear different places

What CMSs are out there?

Plinkit Webpage authoring software Smallest of libraries can have an attractive, easy-to-update web page No need to know HTML or CSS. If you can copy and paste from a word processing program, you can use Plinkit. Plinkit uses an open source software called Plone Developed in Oregon (LSTA grant) Oregon invited other states to join in -- Illinois joined in ADA Compliant!

Top Ten Reasons to Use Plinkit 10. The template is ready to go, just add your content. 9. There is a page for Trustees so the library can meet the obligations of the open meetings act. 8. There is a calendar. 7. Community organization information can be added. 6. It is easy to update from any computer with Internet access. 5. News items can be entered and scheduled to go live at a later date and at the same time be scheduled for removal. 4. You can have cool stuff like Facebook, video, pictures, and chat. 3. The online catalog can be linked to your Plinkit webpage. 2. It is easy, or as one librarian has said, “Stupid Proof!” 1. Your patrons have 24/7 access to the library and its resources.

Where Can I Get Plinkit? 8 out of the 9 regional library systems have members using Plinkit. Alliance Library System—Suzanne Baschieri or Lee Logan DuPage Library System—Jane Plass Lincoln Trail Libraries System—Donna Schaal Lewis & Clark Library System—Julia Pernicka Metropolitan Library System—Wesley Smith North Suburban Library System —Christina M. Johnson Rolling Prairie Library System—Doris McKay or Bev Obert Shawnee Library System—Troy Brown or Loretta Broomfield

Other Plinkit Information o The annual membership fee for Illinois Plinkit is $ o Your website will be hosted at the Shawnee Library System. o Troy Brown is in charge of maintenance, updating and backing up the Plinkit servers. o Rolling Prairie Library System collects the annual fee. o Each regional library system involved provides training for you. o New features are being added all the time (especially if they have been requested by the members). o A free URL will be provided: YourLibraryName.lib.il.us o Or you can keep your own URL

Embedded Video

Humorous

Added Slide Shows - Flickr

Added Chat & Facebook

Medical Library

What is Wordpress?

What is Drupal? "Drupal (pronounced / ˈ dru ː pəl/) is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites..." Wikipedia ˈ dru ː pəl/

Some interesting Drupal sites

The basics of Drupal

Drupal Language Blocks Themes Core Modules Taxonomy Weight Node Path Page/Story/Content Type Drupal 6/7 See the flash drive for a list of Drupal terms and definitions

See the flash drive for a list of interesting contributed modules Core Contributed What are modules?

Skokie Public Library Business Portal

The "moving parts"

What is content? Blog posts Pages Images Videos Advertisements Screencasts Book reviews Databases descriptions Comments News Kid events Podcasts Music Tutorials Profiles Lists Polls Anything

What are content types? Forms content creators fill out to add content Removing the need for HTML/CSS knowledge to add perfectly formatted content to a website

Content Construction Kit module

Screencast content type

Classifying content Taxonomy CCK

Collate the content

Views module

Who gets to contribute? Roles Users Permissions

What do they get to contribute? Content types o Who blogs? o Who can add images? o Who can add videos? Comments Editing

SkokieNet Over 650 content creators

Chicago Job Talk Over 4700 registered users

Nearly 70% of visitors come via Google or another search engine!

Your anonymous user? What will you let them do? View Post Comment Helpful modules to reduce spam: CAPTCHA Mollom Scott Beale / Laughing SquidLaughing Squid

Now you need to make it look cool

Themes

CSS Check the flash drive for theming helpers

Where do you want the content to show up?

What we covered The basics of CMS Particular CMSs o Plinket (Plone) o Wordpress o Drupal How to think like content management system architect o Content types o Categorization of content o User permissions levels o Placement of content

Image credits Scott Beale / Laughing Squid – Coke and MentosLaughing Squid - Obama - Lego - No Technology Scott Beale / Laughing Squid - AnonymousLaughing Squid

Group discussion 1.What types of content will you have? 2.Who will create the content? 3.How many levels of permission (roles) will you need? 4.Where will that content show up on the website? (front page?) 5.What should that content look like? (an image, links, tutorials, etc.)