Content Management Systems

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Content Management Systems

• A talk to the Community Networking Conference
  2002
• Mitra
• www.mitra.biz
• mitra_at_mitra.biz

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Mitra

• GreenNet 1985
• Association for Progressive Communications 1989
• Pegasus
• Internet Standards
• Sustainability Technologies
• Community Networking

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Contents

• Small Organizations
• Static v. Dynamic
• Content Management Systems
• Range of CMS
• APC-AA
• Site creation
• Content Pooling

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Small Organizations

• Small organizations
• lt 5 staff and volunteers
• Minimal funding
• Some data changes monthly
• Minutes, news etc

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Two choices ?

• Static
• Easy if have a volunteer
• Easy to host
• Too simple
• Requires HTML skills to update

• Database driven
• Data changes easily
• Expensive
• Long lead times
• Cost time to change
• Lack of volunteers

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Content Management Systems

• Web Interface
• Admininistration, Editing and Authoring
• Authentication
• Workflow
• Simple lists and items
• Separate data and interface
• Relatively simple

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CMS Range

• Vignette
• US100k weeks of training
• High volume, integration,
• APC-AA or Wok
• Bloggers such as PMachine
• Limited configuration
• Personal publishing

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APC-AA

• Developed for and by non-profit sector
• Open Source
• Middle ground service provider model
• Multilingual

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APC-AA features

• Simple table creation
• Tables plugs into HTML files
• Content Pooling

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An example

• Tyagarah Sustainable Community Alliance

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Site creation example

• Create Table
• Setup Categories
• Create a few views
• Setup permissions
• Integrate into web page
• Demo

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Alcohol Content Pooling Example

• Originals
• The Health Communication Unit
• Center for Addiction Mental Health
• Ontario Drug Awareness Partnership
• Focus Resource Center
• Feeding into
• Alcohol content pool

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Association for Progressive Communications

• Started 1988 GreenNet and IGC
• Sponsored Pegasus in 1989
• Grown to about 28 countries
• Internet Policy and Regulation
• Rapid Response Network (Mirroring)
• Gender and Power
• Capacity Building
• www.apc.org

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Some more examples

• Rabble.ca
• APC-AA slice examples page
• Games