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Community Portals:  part 1

Community Portals:  part 1. Mick Jacobsen                                                                         Donna Schaal mjacobsen@skokielibrary.info                                                 dschaa@lincolntrail.info http://twitter.com/mickjacobsen. What we will go over.

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Community Portals:  part 1

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  1. Community Portals: part 1 Mick Jacobsen                                                                         Donna Schaal mjacobsen@skokielibrary.info                                                 dschaa@lincolntrail.infohttp://twitter.com/mickjacobsen

  2. What we will go over • What are Content Management Systems? • What they can do for your group? • What are some content management systems? • How to think like a content management architect  Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

  3. What is your web presence going to look like? • Blog • Brochure • Community • Image Gallery • News • Storefront

  4. What is a Content Management System (CMS)? Awesome

  5. Is a CMS right for my group? Will your content be moving? Will you have many content creators? Do you want RSS feeds? Will you want different people to be able to do different things? Do you want content to appear different places

  6. What CMSs are out there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

  7. Plinkit • Webpage authoring software • Smallest of libraries can have an attractive, easy-to-update web page • No need to know HTML or CSS. • If you can copy and paste from a word processing program, you can use Plinkit. • Plinkit uses an open source software called Plone • Developed in Oregon (LSTA grant) • Oregon invited other states to join in -- Illinois joined in • ADA Compliant! 

  8. Top Ten Reasons to Use Plinkit     10. The template is ready to go, just add your content.       9. There is a page for Trustees so the library can meet the obligations of the open meetings act.       8. There is a calendar.       7. Community organization information can be added.       6. It is easy to update from any computer with Internet access.       5. News items can be entered and scheduled to go live at a later date and at the same time be scheduled for removal.        4. You can have cool stuff like Facebook, video, pictures, and chat.       3. The online catalog can be linked to your Plinkit webpage.       2. It is easy, or as one librarian has said, “Stupid Proof!”       1. Your patrons have 24/7 access to the library and its resources.

  9. Where Can I Get Plinkit? 8 out of the 9 regional library systems have members using Plinkit. Alliance Library System—Suzanne Baschieri  sbaschieri@alliancelibrarysystem.com or Lee Logan llogan@alliancelibrarysystem.com DuPage Library System—Jane Plass j-plass@dupagels.lib.il.us Lincoln Trail Libraries System—Donna Schaal dschaa@lincolntrail.info Lewis & Clark Library System—Julia Pernicka juliapernicka@lcls.org Metropolitan Library System—Wesley Smith smithw@mls.lib.il.us North Suburban Library System —Christina M. Johnson cjohnson@nsls.info Rolling Prairie Library System—Doris McKay dorism@rpls.ws or Bev Obert bevo@rpls.ws Shawnee Library System—Troy Brown tbrown@shawls.lib.il.us or Loretta Broomfield lbroom@shawls.lib.il.us

  10. Other Plinkit Information • The annual membership fee for Illinois Plinkit is $250.00. • Your website will be hosted at the Shawnee Library System. • Troy Brown is in charge of maintenance, updating and backing up the Plinkit servers. • Rolling Prairie Library System collects the annual fee. • Each regional library system involved provides training for you. • New features are being added all the time (especially if they have been requested by the members). • A free URL will be provided:   YourLibraryName.lib.il.us  • Or you can keep your own URL

  11. Embedded Video

  12. Humorous

  13. Added Slide Shows - Flickr

  14. Added Chat & Facebook

  15. Medical Library

  16. What is Wordpress?

  17. What is Drupal? "Drupal (pronounced /ˈdruːpəl/) is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites..."  Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal

  18. Some interesting Drupal sites

  19. The basics of Drupal

  20. Drupal Language • Blocks • Themes • Core • Modules • Taxonomy • Weight • Node • Path • Page/Story/Content Type • Drupal 6/7 See the flash drive for a list of Drupal terms and definitions

  21. What are modules? • Core • Contributed See the flash drive for a list of interesting contributed modules

  22. Skokie Public Library Business Portal http://business.skokielibrary.info/

  23. The "moving parts"

  24. What is content? • Comments • News • Kid events • Podcasts • Music • Tutorials • Profiles • Lists • Polls • Blog posts • Pages • Images • Videos • Advertisements • Screencasts • Book reviews • Databases descriptions Anything

  25. What are content types? Removing the need for HTML/CSS knowledge to add perfectly formatted content to a website Forms content creators fill out to add content

  26. Content Construction Kit module http://drupal.org/project/cck

  27. Screencast content type

  28. Classifying content • Taxonomy • CCK

  29. Collate the content

  30. Views module

  31. Who gets to contribute? Roles Users Permissions

  32. What do they get to contribute? • Content types • Who blogs? • Who can add images? • Who can add videos? • Comments • Editing

  33. http://skokienet.org/ SkokieNet Over 650 content creators

  34. http://chicagojobtalk.org/ Chicago Job Talk Over 4700 registered users

  35. Nearly 70% of visitors come via Google or another search engine!

  36. Your anonymous user?  What will you let them do? • View • Post • Comment • Helpful modules to reduce spam: • CAPTCHA • Mollom Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

  37. Now you need to make it look cool

  38. http://drupal.org/project/Themes Themes

  39. CSS Check the flash drive for theming helpers

  40. Where do you want the content to show up?

  41. What we covered • The basics of CMS • Particular CMSs • Plinket (Plone) • Wordpress • Drupal • How to think like content management system architect • Content types • Categorization of content • User permissions levels • Placement of content

  42. Image credits Scott Beale / Laughing Squid – Coke and Mentos http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonperson/  - Obama http://www.flickr.com/photos/grdloizaga/ - Lego http://www.flickr.com/photos/sammy0716/ - No Technology  Scott Beale / Laughing Squid - Anonymous

  43. Group discussion • What types of content will you have? • Who will create the content? • How many levels of permission (roles) will you need? • Where will that content show up on the website? (front page?)  • What should that content look like? (an image, links, tutorials, etc.)

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