Plonistas: Order Your Stimulants for the Conference!

Plan Ahead So You Don’t Miss A Minute!
I’m getting really excited – Budapest is going to be an awesome Plone conference!! (if you haven’t yet, then go register – we need you there!)  You know how it’s going to be, right? Tons of awesome content, for three solid days, plus the trainings beforehand and the [...]

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Free Webinar on Plone-Salesforce Integration, Aug 27

Ever wondered how connecting the best content management system with the best CRM database? We’ll show you! You can improve your information flow and enhance your business relationships by connecting your website and database of relationships (contacts, clients, volunteers, etc).
This Thursday, August 27, at 1:00pm EST, ifPeople will lead a free webinar on connecting the [...]

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Three Great Books About Plone

So far this year, three great books about the Plone content management system have been published. All of these books have received fantastic reviews — and have proven valuable to Plone users and developers alike.
The first book is Plone 3 Theming, by Veda Williams. A ONE/Northwest Web Developer, Veda also writes about theming documentation on [...]

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Plone Makes Sharing Feedback Easier

One of the reasons we use Plone CMS is for its strong community of open source developers. Its members are always quick to answer questions and share their latest Plone innovations.
Recently, Plone made this community even stronger by creating a feedback system that allows users to discuss, suggest, and ultimately vote on ways Plone can [...]

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June Atlanta Plone Meeting

This month’s Atlanta Plone meeting was a little bit of a rush job, as we had no presentation topic up until the time the meeting started and there were even prizes offered for anyone who was willing to present.  Despite this, we had a really nice meeting.  Brandon Rhodes took up the challenge of presenting [...]

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I Found The Monkey

I got my prize today for finding the monkey on plone.org. I thought you all might like to see:

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NTEN NTC Presentation Online: An Open Civic Engagement Platform

This past week I had the chance to present, with Jon Stahl and Steve Andersen of One/Northwest, about the work we have done on integrating Plone and salesforce.com with a suite of tools to create an integrated communications platform. We featured the evolution software is making from large, limited flexibility systems to integrated, specialized systems. [...]

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NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference: Tune in live, connect, and find me

Sunday, April 26 starts the NTEN extravaganza in San Francisco. 1,400 people for this nonprofit technology event! Here’s a couple tidbits you should know to get more out of it (whether you are here or not) and also where I will be.
1. The “Science Fair” (aka trade show) is open to the public! Please join [...]

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NTEN session on integrated communications tools for nonprofits

Later this month will be the largest nonprofit technology convergence in the country, the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference. This year’s event is held in San Francisco, CA April 26-28. Last I heard it was already over 1100 attendees and approaching sold out!
I’m excited to be sharing some of the work and technologies ifPeople has been [...]

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New report out comparing open source content management systems

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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