why there is a CMS in your future

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/plancms

Slides

• Talk slides & notes - PDF , Keynote format, PowerPoint format

Official Sites

• Wordpress.org/WordPress.com/Wordpress MU
• Joomla (demo & jumpbox)
• Plone & Plinkit
• Drupal
• Try other demos

Unofficial Sites

• Wordpress: wikipedia, Lorelle on WordPress
• Drupal: wikipedia, lullabot, themes, for libraries (slides), library drupalgroup, drupallib
• Joomla: wikipedia, joomlajunkie, Joomla in libraries
• Plone: wikipedia, Plinkit, plone4lib, PLOW
• CMSReport blog
• Open Source CMS award winners
• More demos and videos and etc.

Other Links

• Cats: Outdoor cat enclosure, GeoCities template, PsychoKitty, lookathiscat, Catster
• Best thing
• How a CMS works
• Installing WordPress
• LISHost
• Free Dreamhost account for 501(c)(3)?
• Quote from Comparing CMSes

Neat Library Examples

• SILO from State Library of Iowa (plone)
• MyKLOW from State Library of KS (wordpress)
• Plinkit Collaborative (plone)
• South Carolina State Library (joomla)
• NYPL (drupal)
• Oregon Libraries Network (drupal)
• Vermont Library Association (wordpress)

Photo Links & Credits

• Content is King
• Snowflake page
• Dynamic/static page
• Cup of Robots by striatic
• Scholar from the Wikipedia commons
• Ronco food dehydrator
• Baby name comic
• Darwin image
• Russian Matchbox label background

Jessamyn West is a community technology librarian in Vermont and the editor of the weblog librarian.net. She teaches email classes for seniors, builds tiny websites for tiny libraries and advocates for sensible technology use for everyone. IM her at iamthebestartist.