Contextual Tour of Plone - (a top open source web content management system)

www.contextualcorp.com Tour of the Plone Open Source Web Content Management System ( CMS ) by Ken Wasetis Contextual Corp. [email_address] twitter: @ctxlken irc: ctxlken youtube: http://www.youtube.com/contextualcorp Tour of Plone

ABOUT PLONE
Open Source CMS since 2001
Written in Python / Runs on Zope App Server
Top 2% Open Source Project (see: ohloh.net)
350+ Solution Providers in 68 Countries
300+ CORE Plone developers worldwide
Available in 40+ Languages on Most Common Operating Systems (*nix, Mac, Windows)
http://www.contextualcorp.com

Full Version = Free Version (some CMS tools require fees for ‘ enterprise ’ features) IP Owned / Managed by Plone Foundation (not a single company or person) Best Security Record of ANY CMS (see: http://cve.mitre.org ) Excels at 'Enterprise' Level CMS Needs (Workflow, Structured Content, Integration) Used by FBI, NASA, DOE, U.S. Bank, Nokia, Gap Inc., Discover Magazine, UCLA, OxFam... But Quick and Easy to Use for Small/Simple Websites as well :) MORE ABOUT PLONE http://www.contextualcorp.com

Simple Web Publishing Enterprise Content Management / Publishing Personalized Portals Intranet (Sharepoint Replacement) Extranet (for clients, partners, employees) Corporate, Government, Non-Profit, all... WHAT IS IT USED FOR? http://www.contextualcorp.com

WHY DON ’ T I HEAR MORE ABOUT IT?
Developers Are More Technical Than Many Other CMS (vs. designer/marketing-oriented)
Unlike Whitehouse.gov, most large U.S. Gov agencies don ’ t publicly divulge use of Plone
Others do: Gov of Brazil, Gov of New Zealand, etc.
Lack of cPanel/Plesk Install Options that cheap hosting providers offer for other CMSes
Solution Providers Always Busy on Projects (not marketing-focused)
No Single Company Started/Owns/Runs Plone
Marketing Has Been Industry-focused (non-profits / e-gov / education)
Foundation Only Started More Actively Marketing Plone in Last Two Years
http://www.contextualcorp.com

How Can I Get It? Funny You Should Ask... (demo later in presentation) Watch videos of demos/tutorials: http://youtube.com/contextualcorp Go to Plone.org and download free copy Install in 5 Minutes (single file download) Create, Publish! No Muss, No Fuss! http://www.contextualcorp.com

Presentation Overview Inherent Characteristics Feature Highlights How to Get More Information / Involved Plone.org Powerful Add-ons (over 1,500 add-ons and over 3,000 releases) http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone Characteristics Very Secure (Why? See: http://plone.org/products/plone/security/overview) Fine-grained Permissions / Workflow Scales to Needs (built-in clustering and cache management) Integrates Well (SaaS, SOA, Cloud-hosting, XML-RPC, SOAP) Internationalized UI (translated in 40+ languages) Accessibility/Standards Compliant (Section 508, W3C WAI-AA, etc.) Cross-browser Compliant Cross-platform (installers for Windows, OS X, Linux, Unix) http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone Security http://www.contextualcorp.com Plone has fewest vulnerabilities over past three years (as of May 8, 2011) Results from Department of Homeland Security Sponsored Website http://cve.mitre.org & http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search CMS Past 3 Years Past 3 Months Seriousness (Past 3 Months) Plone 4 1 1Hi DotNetNuke 15 0 n/a WordPress 124 12 2Hi/8Med/2Low Typo3 257 1 1Hi Drupal 260 8 1Hi/6Med/1Low Joomla 426 7 5Hi/1Med/1Low

Plone Feature Highlights (i) Easy-to-Use, WYSIWYG, In-Line Editor Audit Trail (History of Edits & Workflow Changes) Visual Differences of Revisions Roll-back to Previous Revision Built-In Portlets to Assist Editors & Reviewers (Review List, Most Recent Changes, etc.) Portlets for Site Visitors (RSS, Collections, Static, Events, News) Advanced Portlet Management (by group, content type, location, permission) http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone Feature Highlights (ii) LiveSearch / Advanced Search / RSS Feed of Results Dashboard (per-user-managed portlets) Pluggable Authentication Service (allows OpenID, FB, Twitter, LDAP, AD) Personal Content Folders (optional) Content Rules (trigger emails, auto-move content, etc.) Portlets for Site Visitors (RSS, Collections, Static, Events, News) Drag/Drop Placement of Portlets and Content http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone Feature Highlights (iii) FTP/WebDAV (easier content migrations) Content Check-in/Check-out and Locking Strong Use of Metadata / Improved SEO: - Collections ( ‘ smart folders ’ ) - Keyword Tags - Dublin Core <meta> tags - Image tag ‘ Alt ’ attributes - Link tag ‘ Title ’ attributes - Sitemap.xml generated - Analytics tracking code management http://www.contextualcorp.com

WOW! LETS SEE IT! Here we go! (Demo) http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone 4 - New Features New ‘ Sunburst ’ Default Theme More Elegant Search Interface BLOB File System Storage of Media = Less Database Bloat Performance Smokes! (Faster than any other top-tier OSS CMS out-of-the-box/download) More Widely-Used TinyMCE Editor http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone 4 - Raw CMS Performance Plone 4 is 3X Faster than Drupal 7, Joomla, or Wordpress Out-of-Box/Download! Good News! All of these CMS tools have Caching Options to Make them Faster Source: Jon Stahl ’ s Blog: http://jstahl.org/archives/2010/01/19/plone-4-three-times-faster-than-drupal-joomla-or-wordpress/ http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone 5 - Initial Benchmarks - Wow! Source: Hanno Schlichting ’ s Blog: http://blog.hannosch.eu/2010/01/plone-4-how-much-faster-is-it.html http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone 4 - New Features JQuery Is Standard for AJAX Groups with Subgroups Login Using Email Address Dashboards for Groups (not just users) http://www.contextualcorp.com

Finding More Information - Plone.org Recent News / Upcoming Events Downloads Documentation IRC Live Chat Help/Support Roadmap, Feature Requests, Mailing Lists Providers / Partners / Vendors http://www.contextualcorp.com

Finding More Information - Plone.org http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone.org - Downloads Plone Installers Free Add-on Features Free Themes http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone.org - Documentation Books (Amazon/Packtpub) Developer Guides Tutorials How-Tos http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone.org - Get Involved Test Bug Reports Feature Requests Develop Document http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone.org - The Plone Foundation The Board Committees Minutes Contact Info Logo / Trademark http://www.contextualcorp.com

Plone.org - Support IRC Listservs Commercial Help Training http://www.contextualcorp.com

IRC Support on #plone Channel Your IRC Client On Plone.org > Support 130+ Users/Devs On-line 24/7/365 Ask your questions http://www.contextualcorp.com

Finding More Information - Plone.org Case Studies Find Vendors Find Plone Sites http://www.contextualcorp.com

Ask for Live Demo Couldn’t attend this presentation? No problem… Contact for demo: [email_address] http://www.contextualcorp.com

Case Studies - Upon Request Education: UCLA Associations/Non-Profits: RE-AMP / IARP (with SSO & SaaS) Fortune 500: U.S. Bank, Gap Inc. Federal Government (numerous) High Tech: Cleversafe, Kove Non-Profits: Chicago History Museum, College of American Pathologists Media: Live Nation / Clear Channel Entertainment http://www.contextualcorp.com

Ken Wasetis President, Contextual Corp. [email_address] http://www.contextualcorp.com twitter . irc . skype: ctxlke n

Contextual Tour of Plone - (a top open source web content management system)

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