This slideshow about choosing the right CMS for your business includes: a detailed look at both Tendenci and WordPress, a list of questions to ask yourself when considering the right CMS, and a look at the revenue-building modules inside Tendenci. The modules are: the jobs board, custom forms with payment integration for donations, sponsorships, etc. It also includes automated membership management software designed to increase new member applications and renewals, and the Tendenci events module.

1. Content Management
Systems
Which one is right for you?

2. So what is a CMS?
And why is it relevant to me?

3. • Content Management System (CMS)
– A software application used to upload, edit,
and manage content displayed on a website. A
content management system can perform a variety of
different tasks for a website including regulating when
content is displayed, how many times the content is
shown to a specific user, and managing how the
content connects or interacts with other elements of
the website. This software also enables
less technical individuals to manage content on a
website easily without having an
extensive coding background.

5. So what are the benefits of a
CMS?
And how would it benefit my
business?

6. Gives you the
ability to add
and edit
content
without prior
knowledge of
coding!

10. Quick Recap:
– Saves you time
– Easily update your website without having
to be a developer or know html
– Dynamic and real – time content
– Rich media
– Search Engine Optimization

11. Schipul’s Motto
“Ease of use changes behavior”

12. • Today we will be focusing on just 2:
1. WordPress: Used for websites with basic content
updates like posts, pages and basic categorization;
easily integrated
2. Tendenci: Best for organization and B2B websites
that can utilize out-of-the-box functionality and
modules; custom plug-ins available

13. • What is open source?
– Open – source: A main principle and practice of
open-source software development is peer
production by bartering and collaboration, with
the end-product, source-material and
documentation available at no cost to the
public. – Wikipedia
• WordPress and Tendenci are both open source

14. • Open source allows you to host your website
elsewhere
• It also leaves the chance for outside
development:
– Plugins
– Add ons
– 3rd party editing
• *Overall more flexibility

15. • Used for websites with basic content updates
like posts, pages and basic categorization;
easily integrated

16. • GoDaddy’s One Click Install
http://www.ehow.com/how_4791402_install-wordpress-
godaddy-hosting-account.html

17. • Use WordPress to power your website and
blog without having to setup two different
websites
www.stetsonassociates.com www.stetsonassociates.com/blog

18. • Thousands of template options out there, for
example:
– Themeforest – www.themeforest.net
– Woothemes – www.woothemes.com

19. • Extended functionality and access to over
18,000 plug-ins

22. Stores Rotator
Shopping Cart
Blog

23. • Limited customization to plug-ins
• Installing plug-ins will require a developer at
some point
• Permission levels are limited
• Open-source is free, if you have the skill set

24. • Best for organization and B2B websites that
can utilize out-of-the-box functionality and
modules; custom plug-ins available
• Originally designed for Nonprofits

25. • The goal of Software as a Service is to lower
cost
• Software that brings in more revenue for
organizations
• Hosted on the cloud (Amazon)

26. • Core Modules

27. www.schipul.com/events

28. www.prsahouston.org/jobs

29. www.culintro.com/photos

30. www.discoverygreen.com

31. www.houstontech.org/directories

32. www.milleroutdoortheatre.com/news

33. www.thinkla.org/membership/types

34. • Campaign Monitor
www.campaignmonitor.com

35. www.thinkla.org/videos

36. • Flexible framework allows for custom plug-ins
at a competitive cost
– Ex. Staff
– Ex. Architecture
– Ex. Projects

37. www.schipul.com/staff

38. • Limited flexibility in hosting options during
development
• Higher security
• Smaller community of developers
• Working with the actual developers of the
software
• Custom plugins
available

39. • Budgets vary
• Dependent on CMS
• Dependent on complexity of your website
• Ex. Schipul’s price range

40. 1. What do I want my website to do? It’s all about the
functionality and complexity of your website
2. Where do you want your website hosted?
3. What is your timeline?
4. Who will be updating my website(s) and how many
will need access?
5. What is your budget?