CMS

Presented at DrupalCamp Dallas - August 2009

If you are evaluating Drupal for a website project, this session is for you!  An objective comparison with other CMS solutions such as Wordpress and Joomla, and some things to look for in a CMS with emphasis on how Drupal does them. We'll talk about the Drupal community, Drupal resources, and you will see an overview of what Drupal has to offer, including the "Top Web 2.0 Drupal Modules."

Drupal is a good fit for non-profits for several key reasons:

• Financial - because Drupal is open source, community-driven software, it can offer significant cost savings compared to proprietary CMS packages.
• Extensible - with a world-wide community of developers and over 4,400 contributed modules, Drupal can meet the current and future needs of any non-profit organization.
• Web 2.0 - other proprietary CMS platforms are trying to adapt and become more socially interactive and "Web 2.0."  Drupal is a