Plone 4 is an enterprise content management system that allows for the authoring, management, and publishing of content with features for accessibility, security, and internationalization. It is open source and supports various authentication methods and integration with other systems, ensuring freedom from vendor lock-in. Plone has been active for over eight years with a healthy community and offers extensive documentation and support.

1. Introduction to Plone 4 Tim Knapp

2. What Is Plone ? Enterprise Content Management System

3. Content Management System Authoring of content

4. Management of the content lifecycle

5. Archiving , access management , metadata , indexing , search

6. Publication , localisation , aggregation , navigation

7. Enterprise CMS Authentication

8. Reliability

9. Scalability

10. Integration

11. Import/Export

12. Open Source CMS

13. Open Source CMS Same open source license as Linux

14. Avoid vendor lock-in and expensive licenses

15. Predictable future

16. Freedom to innovate

17. Owned and Protected

18. Owned and Protected Plone Foundation owns and protects all intellectual property and trademarks

19. Standards Compliant

20. Standards Compliant Outstanding search engine visibility

21. Works in all major browsers

22. Javascript gracefully degrades for browsers that don't have javascript

23. Supports OpenID for authentication

24. Works with them all— LDAP , SQL , SOAP , Web Services ( WSDL ) and WebDAV

25. Pluggable authentication — easy integration with LDAP, Active Directory, SQL databases, Salesforce and Gmail.

26. Accessibility Compliant

27. Accessibility Compliant U.S. Government Section 508

28. W3C's WAI-AA

29. All JavaScript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser

30. Secure

31. Secure Granular role-based security model

32. Sandbox architecture ensures that intruders will not have access to your server or your network

33. Very few CVE entries

34. Easy To Get Started

35. Easy To Get Started Point-and-click install

36. Great usability

37. Powerful rich-text editor

38. Built-in image resizing

39. Instant full-text indexing

40. Workflow

41. Speed & scalability

42. Syndicate & aggregate

43. International

44. International Translated into 40 languages

45. Designed for multilingual content management

46. Handles Chinese , Japanese, and right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew

47. Stable and Growing

48. Stable and Growing Around for over eight years

49. 1 million downloads and counting

50. Active and healthy community

51. Documentation & Support

52. Documentation & Support Hundreds of how-tos & tutorials on plone.org

53. Screencasts

54. 10 published books

55. What You Can Do With Plone Websites, Extranets, Intranets

56. E-Commerce

57. Project Management

58. Workflow Management

59. Blogs, Podcasting, Videocasting

60. Social Networking

61. Collaborative Workspaces

62. What's New in Plone 4 Faster

63. Large-file storage support

64. Simplified theming

65. Better rich-text editor

66. Some Organisations Using Plone www.treasury.govt.nz

67. www.companies.govt.nz

68. www.auditnz.govt.nz

69. www.natlib.govt.nz

70. www.kordia.co.nz

71. www.sbs.net.nz

72. www.centreport.co.nz

73. For More Information Plone.org

74. Plone.net

75. World Plone Day brochure