Beaconfire Contributes to Open Source CMS Report from Idealware
Posted Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 11:39 am by Tim (38 posts)
It’s been four months since Idealware put out the outstanding report “Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone” and I’ve been meaning to post about it for some time now. Laura Quinn at Idealware pulled together a collection of knowledgeable (If I do say so myself) contributors from all over the nonprofit tech field in order to produce this great resource, and it’s definitely worth the (free) download.
The report’s 60+ pages give a great overview of what you can expect from each of the systems mentioned, including:
- Ease of Hosting and Installation
- Ease of Setting Up a Simple Site
- Ease of Learning to Configure a More Complex Site
- Content Admin Ease of Use
- Graphical Flexibility
- Structural Flexibility
- User Roles and Workflow
- Community/Web 2.0 Functionality
- Extending and Integrating
- Scalability and Security
- Site Maintenance
- Support/Community Strength
Jeff Herron (Beaconfire VP) and I both contributed to the paper; Jeff provided input about nonprofits’ needs for content management systems and about options beyond the systems mentioned. I contributed what I could to the WordPress section, as I have installed and configured it countless times (well, ok, not countless times, but more than I’ve kept track of), and a little to the Drupal section.
The report is free and available on the Idealware website.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Thanks for the shout out to the report, Tim – and thanks to you and Jeff for your help and support of the report!