Plone helps you manage an interactive, database-driven website without any coding needed. Check out this popular system used by universities, government, corporations and nonprofits world over. The presentation highlights key features and reasons for using Plone.

1. Plone CMS Demo
Christopher Johnson
cjj@ifpeople.net
678 608 3408
www.ifpeople.net

2. What is ifPeople?
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Social Enterprise
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Partnership-Based
•
Strategy Centered

3. What's a CMS?

4. CMS: Content Management System
• Supports collaborative production and
maintenance of web sites
• Enables division of labor
• Provides tools for authoring content
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• Enables doing things systematically

5. CMS Best Practices
Design / Presentation • Separation of layers
• Allows change over
Content time
• Site evolves with your
Functionality needs
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6. •
Content Management System
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User-Friendly
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Open Source
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International Community links
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Extensive functionality
•
Customizable

7. Why use Plone?

8. Plone Enables Users To:
• Create, edit web pages in web browser
without knowing html
• Work with teams of people on website
• Create an interactive website
• Create site that interacts with users

9. Plone enables online collaboration
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10. Accessibility
W3C
WAI-AA
US Section 508
http://flickr.com/photos/slambo_42/2751446827/

11. Search Engine
Optimization

12. Books and online docs
plone.org/documentation

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

14. Security

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

16. Security of the Stack

17. Stable & Growing
been around for 7+ years
over 1 million downloads and
counting
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active and healthy community

18. Community:
Our secret weapon

19. Community Happens!
Online
• IRC channel : #plone
• 300+
commercial
• 54 mailing lists providers
forums
http://plone.org/support/forums • 6 annual
• Twitter: @plone conferences
• LinkedIn group • 25+ User
groups
in 11 countries

21. Who uses Plone?

22. links

23. Who Uses Plone?
• Business • Education
– Novell – University of
– Disney Washington
– Continental Airlines – Penn State
– Harvard
• Government
– Brazilian Government • Publishing + Media
– New Zealand – Discover Magazine
Government – High Country News
– Towns and cities – KCRW public radio
around the world

25. Plone has great features.
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Let's explore them further.

26. A Plone Site
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27. Log into the Site
Content editing
options
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28. Format Content with Kupu
• Style-based formatting
• Image resizing &
captions
• Cleans up cut-and-
pasted HTML
• Automatic tables of links
contents

29. Create and Manage Versions
• “Checkout” pages
• Edit private
versions
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30. Create and Manage Versions
Page locks to
prevent others
from editing
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31. Create and Manage Versions
• View and track previous
versions
• Revert to old versions at
any time
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32. Create Translations with LinguaPlone
• Allows multi-lingual
content
• Editors easily insert
translated pages
• No hierarchy of content
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• Works with any layout

33. Create Translations with LinguaPlone
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Side-by-side
translation view

34. Generate Dynamic Forms with FormGen
• Integrate forms
onto site
• Export data to
email
• Export data to
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spreadsheet

35. Generate Dynamic Forms with FormGen
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Easily added from
“add new” menu

36. Generate Dynamic Forms with FormGen
• Create
customized fields
• Re-arrange fields
by dragging and
dropping
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37. Manage Events with Plone4Artists Calender
• Turns any Plone folder
into a calender
• Provides default month,
event list, event archive
views
• Color codes events
according to event type
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38. Manage Events with Plone4Artists Calender
links View:
Alternate
Calender List

39. Share Stories with ATSuccessStory
• Features photos, text of
success stories on site
• Provides portlet to
showcase random stories
from Success Story
folder
• Add multiple collections,
then add portlets to
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display contents

40. Share Stories with ATSuccessStory
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Success Stories:
Main page

41. Give Better Results with LiveSearch
• Similar to Google
Suggest
• Search results appear
in dropdown
• Full-text indexing of
links
Word, PDF, Excel files

42. Use Search for Targeted RSS
Every search is also an
RSS feed

43. Increase Web Visibility with Better SEO
• Plone enhances search engine visibility
• Readable URLS
automatically created
• Text in description field
automatically added to
metadata
• Add keyword “categories”
links
to label content

44. Administering A Plone Site
SiteSetup screen

45. Administering A Plone Site: Workflow
Adjust workflow

46. Administering A Plone Site: Users
Set permissions
for users

47. Administering A Plone Site: Permissions
Assign users and
groups content

48. Administering A Plone Site: Theme
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Change themes
and styles
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Shown: Subskins
Product

49. Other Plone Features
Subsites E-Commerce
• Site within a site Integration with:
• Any folder • donation processing
• Separate nav, • advocacy tools
search links
• Salesforce CRM

50. Learn More
www.ifpeople.net/technology
cjj@ifpeople.net | 678.608.3408
Download: plone.org/download
Docs: learnplone.ifpeople.net
Examples: plone.net/sites

51. Plone CMS Product Demo
Chris Johnson
cjj@ifpeople.net
678 608 3408
www.ifpeople.net