Plone is one of the leading open source software web content management systems today. This presentation provides an overview of features that separate Plone from other CMS tools, as well as those that are new for versions 4 and 5. Presented by Ken Wasetis of ContextualCorp.com

1. 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

3. 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

4. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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

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

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

28. 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

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