1. 1 Open Source Content Management Systems 1

2. 2 Open Source Benefits Rapid Deployment of New Features If a tool is 80% useful, improving it is much cheaper than starting fresh. As an application gains supporters and users it grows along with their needs This process can move much faster than proprietary software, which is tied to the budget, market analysis and development resource constraints of one corporation 2

3. 3 Open Source Benefits Vendor Independence Vendors make decisions based on financial factors Licensing fees and policies change Vendors don't always survive 3

4. 4 Open Source Benefits The Flexibility to Adapt Internal Improvements Lack of vendor support is no reason to go without! Added features may just be a few development hours away Alternative Branches If some users disagrees with the direction of a project, they can take branch it and continue development 4

5. 5 Open Source Benefits Free Support Options Searchable support forums Web-based documentation with public comments Free, local user groups Free mailing lists 5

6. 6 Web site A web site is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet.* * Wikipedia.com

7. 7 Blog A blog (a contraction of the term "Web log") is a Web site.* It is usually maintained by an individual. It has regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. * Wikipedia.com

8. 8 Content Management System A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry- specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.

9. 9 Web Content Management System A web content management system is a CMS designed to simplify the publication of Web content to Web sites, in particular allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.

10. 10 OSCMS Growth Open Source CMS Rocks! New features and connections you hadn’t even thought of Cheap start-up costs Sustainable long-term costs Members-only areas Comments User posts “Send to Friend” and other viral marketing Bookmarking User profiles 10

11. CMS Definitions: Practical Not only do content management systems help website users with content editing, they also take care of a lot of "behind the scenes" work such as: Automatically generate navigation elements Making content searchable and indexable Keeping track of users, their permissions and security settings And much, much more. By Jon Stahl from http://plone.org/about/what-is-a-cms

12. CMS Application Types General Platforms Blogware Wiki Applications

13. General CMS Platform Software designed for wide variety of content and functionality Usually modular Framework for incorporating other applications/services

14. General Platform Examples Drupal: http://www.drupal.orghttp://www.drupal.org Locally: http://groups.drupal.org/twin-citieshttp://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities Joomla: http://www.joomla.orghttp://www.joomla.org Plone: http://www.plone.orghttp://www.plone.org

15. 15 Drupal Drupal.org Founder: Dries Buytaert (BE) Since 2001 Version 4.7 Not a blog system, but a CMS with blog functionality Very community-oriented Estimation: 75.000 sites Civicspace

16. Blogware Designed to be host chronicle or journal site with chronologically arranged content Commonly has a central single focus (like an issue or a person) and/or single source (like a person or an organization)

17. Blogware examples Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.org Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.org/

18. 18 Wordpress Wordpress.org Founder: Matt Mullenweg (Houston, TX) Since 2003 Version 2.0.2 Hundreds of thousands of blogs Most popular standalone blog software

19. Wiki applications Primary characteristic: group editing capability, revisions, transparency Collections of content (like Wikipedia) meant for use for reference and as resource to be collaboratively edited, maintained

20. Wiki application example Mediawiki: http://www.mediawiki.org

21. Resources: Planning Techsoup Learning Center http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webb uilding/index.cfm http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webb uilding/index.cfm

22. Resources: OSCMS Primers NOSI Primer http://www.nosi.net (downloadable PDF) http://www.nosi.net True costs of OSS http://www.idealware.org/articles/true_costs_ software.php (Michelle Murrain) http://www.idealware.org/articles/true_costs_ software.php

23. Resources: Find/Try OSCMS Wikipedia OSCMS category index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_c ontent_management_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_c ontent_management_systems Mashable’s list of 80+ OSCMS http://mashable.com/2007/07/30/content- management-systems/ http://mashable.com/2007/07/30/content- management-systems/ OpenSource CMS demo site http://www.opensourcecms.com/ CMS Matrix comparison site http://www.cmsmatrix.org

24. Resources: Reviews NTEN Vendor Satisfaction Report http://nten.org/research/vendor-satisfaction Techsoup’s Idealware.org reprint of Drupal, Joomla, Plone review http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding Adobe Newsletter Review of 5 OSCMS Apps http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2008/ar ticles/article4/index.html http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/april2008/ar ticles/article4/index.html Google a question, read site forums

25. 25 Part two: Case Study WordPress

26. 26 Wordpress.com It’s a hosted blogging service. Uses a version of the open source package. Users can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. Similar to other blogging services such as Blogger or Typepad.

27. 27 Wordpress.com: Registration

28. 28 Wordpress.com: Registration

29. 29 Wordpress.com: Registration

30. 30 Wordpress.com: Registration

31. 31 Wordpress.com: Registration

32. 32 Wordpress.com: Registration

33. 33 Editing Content Editor’s View

34. 34 Quick intro: WordPress A state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. One of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most). Capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). Available for free at www.wordpress.org.www.wordpress.org

35. 35 WordPress Users Anden Solutions – www.andensolutions.com www.andensolutions.com The New York Times publishes over 50 WordPress- powered blogs.WordPress- powered blogs CNN Political Ticker - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ NASA Ames Research Center - http://center.arc.nasa.gov http://center.arc.nasa.gov Ford autoshow - http://autoshows.ford.com/http://autoshows.ford.com/ TechCrunch.com Gizmodo.com About.com http://babyparenting.about.com/http://babyparenting.about.com/ Stephen Colbert - www.colbertnation.comwww.colbertnation.com http://www.colourlovers.com/blog Etc.

36. 36 WordPress Requirements A Web Server with: PHP version 4.3 or greater (free) MySQL database version 4.0 or greater (free) An access to your web server (via shell or FTP) A text editor An FTP Client (if you need to install WordPress on a remote server) Your web browser of choice

37. 37 WordPress Installation 1. Download WordPress from http://wordpress.org/download/ and unzip it. http://wordpress.org/download/ 2. Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it. 3. Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp- config.php. 4. Open wp-config.php in your favorite text editor and fill in your database details. 5. Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server. 6. Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp- admin/install.php in your favorite web browser. 7. That's it! WordPress should now be installed. * * http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

38. 38 Enter title and email

39. 39 Installation Complete!

40. 40 Login

41. 41 Control Panel… Start writing content

42. 42 The web site!

43. 43 WordPress Themes http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ Easy to download and activate. Users can develop custom themes for their websites. E.g. www.andensolutions.com

44. 44 WordPress Plugins Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ Features like: Shopping cart, sidebar widgets, tag clouds, search, event calendar, multi-language, image gallery, media gallery, translation, navigation, traffic management, guestbook, page management, etc.

45. 45 WordPress Benefits Open source technology: free, thoroughly tested, easy addition of new functionality Editing without needing to know HTML Easy handling of “rolling events” like speaking engagements Post-dating of articles so they can automatically “go live” on the scheduled date (as is required with embargoed articles until their print publication date) Reader participation through comments Organization of the content using tags Free support by the very responsive developer and user communities Easily extensible through the use of plugins Tools for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

46. 46 WordPress and SEO WordPress can be customized to automate many of the most hard SEO ( Search engine optimization) tasks. Generates well written html. SEO Title Tag plug-in that allows you to customize each Title Tag. HTML sitemap plug-in and an XML sitemap plug-in. Turn on Permalinks. Use Google Analytics plug-in for WordPress.

47. 47 WordPress disadvantages It isn’t a full CMS product. You need to keep your installation up to date. Many off-the-shelf themes have a tendency to look the same or similar.