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Community Portals: part 1
Mick Jacobsen Donna [email protected] [email protected]://twitter.com/mickjacobsen
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
What is your web presence going to look like?• Blog• Brochure• Community• Image Gallery• News• Storefront
What is a Content Management System (CMS)?
Awesome
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
What CMSs are out there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_systemhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system
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!
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.
Where Can I Get Plinkit?
8 out of the 9 regional library systems have members using Plinkit.
Alliance Library System—Suzanne Baschieri [email protected] or Lee Logan [email protected]
DuPage Library System—Jane Plass [email protected]
Lincoln Trail Libraries System—Donna Schaal [email protected]
Lewis & Clark Library System—Julia Pernicka [email protected]
Metropolitan Library System—Wesley Smith [email protected]
North Suburban Library System —Christina M. Johnson [email protected]
Rolling Prairie Library System—Doris McKay [email protected] or Bev Obert [email protected]
Shawnee Library System—Troy Brown [email protected] or Loretta Broomfield [email protected]
Other Plinkit Informationo The annual membership fee for Illinois Plinkit is $250.00.o Your website will be hosted at the Shawnee Library System.o Troy Brown is in charge of maintenance, updating and backing
up the Plinkit servers.o Rolling Prairie Library System collects the annual fee.o Each regional library system involved provides training for you.o New features are being added all the time (especially if they
have been requested by the members).o A free URL will be provided: YourLibraryName.lib.il.us o Or you can keep your own URL
Embedded Video
Humorous
Added Slide Shows - Flickr
Added Chat & Facebook
Medical Library
What is Wordpress?
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
The basics of Drupal
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
See the flash drive for a list of interesting contributed modules
• Core• Contributed
What are modules?
Skokie Public Library Business Portal
http://business.skokielibrary.info/
The "moving parts"
What is content?
• Blog posts• Pages• Images• Videos• Advertisements• Screencasts• Book reviews• Databases
descriptions
• Comments• News• Kid events• Podcasts• Music • Tutorials• Profiles• Lists• Polls
Anything
What are content types? Forms content creators fill out to add content
Removing the need for HTML/CSS knowledge to add perfectly formatted content to a website
Content Construction Kit module
http://drupal.org/project/cck
Screencast content type
Classifying content
• Taxonomy• CCK
Collate the content
Views module
Who gets to contribute?
Roles
Users
Permissions
What do they get to contribute?
• Content typeso Who blogs?o Who can add images?o Who can add videos?
• Comments• Editing
SkokieNet
Over 650 content creators
http://skokienet.org/
Chicago Job Talk
Over 4700 registered users
http://chicagojobtalk.org/
Nearly 70% of visitors come via Google or another search engine!
Your anonymous user?
What will you let them do?• View• Post• Comment
Helpful modules to reduce spam:• CAPTCHA• Mollom
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Now you need to make it look cool
Themes http://drupal.org/project/Themes
CSS
Check the flash drive for theming helpers
Where do you want the content to show up?
What we covered• The basics of CMS• Particular CMSs
o Plinket (Plone)o Wordpresso Drupal
• How to think like content management system architecto Content typeso Categorization of content o User permissions levelso Placement of content
Image credits
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid – Coke and Mentoshttp://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
Group discussion
1. What types of content will you have?2. Who will create the content?3. How many levels of permission (roles) will you need?4. Where will that content show up on the website? (front
page?) 5. What should that content look like? (an image, links,
tutorials, etc.)
