Open Source CMS
17th February 2006, 11:41 am
I’ve set up a new Links category, for examples of web sites from voluntary organisations which make use of open source Content Management Systems. That’s web server software which makes it easy to keep content up-to-date without any technical knowledge. Blogs like WordPress could be seen as a very basic type of Open Source CMS, but we’re thinking more of Drupal, Mambo/Joomla or Plone. (This week I went to a really good seminar on these run by Open Advantage in Birmingham - organisations in the West Midlands region should check them and/or MOST out.)
So far, only American examples found but hopefully British ones to follow.
February 17th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
The Plone community (of which my charitable organization, ONE/Northwest is a happy member) lists many of the sites powered by Plone using the del.icio.us tag “plone-site.” (http://del.icio.us/tag/plone-site).
If you’re interested in checking out some of the 50+ nonprofit Plone sites that ONE/Northwest has built for grassroots environmental organizations here in the Pacific Northwest, you can further drill into http://del.icio.us/tag/plone-site+onenorthwest.
(Sorry, they’re all US and Canada sites!)
I hope this is helpful.
February 17th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
The website Drupal Showcase shows sites done using Drupal.
February 17th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
Thanks for those links. That makes it a 3 Johns post, so CharityBlog has finally arrived!
I couldn’t spot any UK sites on Drupal showcase, but the ‘random site’ facility found “ICT for Non-profit in Thailand“!! ()
Oops, not looking hard enough - have found ABCTales.com “a writers’ community formed by an offshoot of The Big Issue magazine”. Not actually a charity? And unfortunately doesn’t work well with larger font sizes.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:54 am
Thanks for the link to my website.
I’ve heard of Typo3 being used for charity websites, e.g.
http://aberdeen-elim.org.uk/
I’ve no experience of it myself.
June 19th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Stumbled across this post, in my previous job I used Mambo and Wordpress for community groups:
http://www.uppersirhowyvalley.org.uk
http://www.gppartnership.co.uk
http://www.cefnfforest.org.uk
http://www.newtredegar.org.uk