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As many of you are aware, the highly anticipated NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference is being held April 8 – 10. 2009, in Atlanta, home of ifPeople HQ.
To engage the nonprofit community, NTEN has made all session proposals public and has invited people like you to vote on your favorites. This is a great opportunity to [...]

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Today, I’m taking a look at SilverStripe in my series of posts about applications nominated for Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards.  Prior to this morning, I’ve had no experience using SilverStripe.
My first impression of SilverStripe was similar to my first impression of MODx: out of the box functionality seems to be very limited.  Again, [...]

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Evaluating MODx

This is my second post evaluating applications that were nominated for Packt Publishing Open Source CMS Awards.  Yesterday, I tried to evaluate DotNetNuke and I was stymied by their web site. I’ve since received advice from many in the DotNetNuke community, so I will return to evaluating it when I have finished with the rest [...]

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Evaluating DotNetNuke

The first question I need to answer is why I’m evaluating DotNetNuke in the first place.  Today, Packt Publishing announced their nominees for the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.  Of the five nominees for Best Overall Open Source CMS, WordPress was the only one with which I was familiar.  Drupal and Joomla! now have their [...]

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The report aims to help nonprofits make decisions on open source CMSs, but would be useful to anyone evaluating a content management system. Idealware, who provides objective information on software for nonprofits, has released a new version of its report comparing Plone, Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. This report is more detailed than ever and encompasses [...]

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We are very excited to announce that our session on open source as a model of collaboration got accepted to one of the premier conferences on systems thinking in action! We decided to go to our core experience and crafted a really solid session that Tirza and I are very excited about. It builds on [...]

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I attended my first Atlanta Python user group’s meeting (PyAtl) this month (see the meeting announcement). I have a regular conflict on Thursday evenings (soccer:), but made this one to give a talk on Plone. Our local Atlanta Plone users group has merged with PyAtl and serves as a Special Interest Group now.
Brandon Rhodes opened [...]

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