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Plone for Nonprofits: Powerful CMS for Effective Organizations

Discover how Plone, a content management system (CMS), can benefit nonprofits with its feature-rich platform, strong community support, and user-friendly interface. Learn why organizations like Oxfam and The Nature Conservancy choose Plone to create and manage their websites efficiently.

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Plone for Nonprofits: Powerful CMS for Effective Organizations

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  1. for nonprofits Jon Stahl ONE/Northwest www.onenw.org

  2. Agenda • Some quick intros • Nonprofits that use Plone • Plone features • Plone community • Questions

  3. Me

  4. You

  5. Nonprofits that use Plone

  6. Oxfam

  7. TheNatureConservancy

  8. ChicagoHistoryMuseum

  9. Green For All

  10. Green For All

  11. Not just for nonprofits! • Business • Novell • Disney • Continental Airlines • Government • Brazilian Government • New Zealand Government • Towns and cities around the world • Education • University of Washington • Penn State • Publishing + Media • Discover Magazine • High Country News • KCRW public radio

  12. Plone is a CMS (“Content Management System”)

  13. Huh? http://flickr.com/photos/b-tal/163450213/sizes/l/

  14. A CMS like Plone lets you… • Create and edit webpages without knowing any HTML, or using any tools other than your web browser • Work with a team of people on your site • Have a site that “knows about itself” • E.g. automatic navigation & search • Have a site that interacts with users

  15. Feature Checklist http://flickr.com/photos/theta444/148516637/sizes/m/

  16. Rich text editor

  17. Style-based formatting • Image resizing & captions • Tries hard to clean up your messy cut-and-pasted HTML • Automatic tables of contents • Full-screen mode “Kupu”

  18. Juggle images with ease

  19. CommentingRatings,PollsSurveysRSS

  20. Building forms http://flickr.com/photos/concrete_forms/523459697/

  21. “PloneFormGen”

  22. Who can seeWhat,When?

  23. Permissions

  24. Workflow

  25. Versioning + StagingMake changes, push them live, roll back to old versions

  26. No broken links

  27. Links won’t break when you move images or pages • Warning when you delete something that is linked to • External link checking can be added Link integrity

  28. Live Search

  29. Search results as you type Similar to Google Suggest Search results appear instantly in dropdown Full-text indexing of Word, PDF, Excel files Customizable advanced search Bonus: every search is an RSS feed!

  30. Other cool things about Plone http://flickr.com/photos/cowfish/181497543/

  31. Accessibility http://flickr.com/photos/slambo_42/2751446827/

  32. Search Engine Optimization

  33. Books and online docs plone.org/documentation

  34. End-user Guide http://plonebook.info Free PDF download Or, buy hard copies Benefits the Plone Foundation!

  35. Shameless plug Coming December 2008! For beginning site builders Google “Practical Plone” to pre-order now!

  36. Integration

  37. Plone plays nice with… • Online donations • Online advocacy • CRM Databases • Direct integration with Salesforce.com

  38. Pluggable Authentication“PlonePAS” Lets people log in with: Relational databases LDAP / Active Directory OpenID Apache Salesforce.com This is really important for larger nonprofits with lots of staff!

  39. Security

  40. Some don’t like to talk about this http://flickr.com/photos/ickypic/1414298839

  41. Companies/projects with the most vulnerabilities http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/iss/xforce/midyearreport/xforce-midyear-report-2008.pdf

  42. Comparing CMS security 2007 data from http://plone.org/about/security/overview/security-overview-of-plone/

  43. Security of supporting layers

  44. Why this matters • Most vulnerabilities are fixed quickly. That’s good. • But, you or your sysadmin have to upgrade or apply patches • Lots of people are lazy or unmindful • Therein lies the rub Plone has very few problems, which keeps you off the “security upgrade” treadmill.

  45. Installation andHosting http://flickr.com/photos/paulhammond/2872919132/

  46. Hosting considerations • PHP-based apps run in “el-cheapo” $5-$20/month web hosting accounts. • Quality of these providers is questionable • They can’t support much traffic or large sites at that price • Customer service may be lacking

  47. Plone is (slightly) different http://flickr.com/photos/pasotraspaso/2561252664/

  48. More hosting considerations • VPS – virtual private server • Best kind of hosting for Plone (and many other things) • RAM is key metric. 512MB RAM is a good minimum. • Expect to pay $30-70/month for quality VPS hosting • Lots of Plone people like Slicehost.com • Amazon EC2 hosting is attractive for large sites • Many Plone consultants offer hosting, too!

  49. Community:Our secret weapon

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