content management

Enjoyed presenting with Cathy Allen from Love Worth Finding at NRB 2010.  My portion was on Content Management Systems - the latest research from NTEN and others to help you select the best CMS for your website.  We talked about proprietary systems (like Convio), and open source (Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal), and I did a quick demo on Drupal and talked about the KoineOPEN Drupal distribution for non-profits.

Check out my pictures and videos from NRB at www.iMinistry.com

Here is the slideshare:

Liberals and conservatives disagree on many things, but one thing we can all agree on: the Internet is changing everything!

If you have heard about the "Semantic Web", which some call "Web 3.0", you know that a whole new wave of changes are upon us.  Today websites serve up web pages without understanding or organizing the meaning of the information.  The Semantic Web harnesses technology to get to the meaning of information.  OK we have to admit...we are not experts on this subject (yet).  All of this "RDF" and "triples" stuff is pretty new, but we are excited to see that Drupal is on the cutting edge.

It may be easier for you to see some of the concepts, and our site ValuesVoter.com is a good place to start, because here we have used several fairly new technologies and methods of organizing information.  First a little introduction...

What is in a node?  Everything!

What is the basic structure of a blog post?  There is a title and a body.
What is the basic structure of a comment? There is a title and a body.
What is the basic structure of a forum post? There is a title and a body.
What is the basic structure of a webpage? There is a title and a body.