[Air-L] CMS for cross-dept/university project?

[Yen B. Le]

*Hi,
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*Have you tried Joomla?  It's also a free open source CMS with more
capabilities like shared events, calendars, documents, project
management,..etc.   In addition to that, Joomla has many plug-ins, both
commercial and non-commercial, that is well-suited for building an online
community.  The web site is:*
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*joomla.org*
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*At my previous organization, we used Joomla to develop a web site for our
report which was written by different constituents.  You can check it out at
hungerreport.org/2009*
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Yen B. Le

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Computer Specialist
Georgetown University

Center for Intercultural Education and Development



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2011/3/11 Chris Werry <cwerry at mail.sdsu.edu>

> Hi,
>
> Was hoping someone on the list might be able to offer some advice on CMS
> choice.
>
> We have a common book program on campus. The writing program and some
> departments teach the same book in order to foster conversation and
> community. There is
> interest in expanding this so 4 or 5 other universities/colleges in the
> area also participate.
>
> Folks on our campus want to set up a CMS to help make this happen. I'm
> trying to help with some of the planning. They want a CMS that can be used
> to coordinate events
> and speakers, upload shared teaching resources, and perhaps leverage some
> social media
> tools to build community. But nobody involved has much technical expertise,
> and...I'm not sure they really know what they want to do with the site.
>
> Early on I showed them some drupal sites, but some of our partners weren't
> too familiar with this, and at that point we didn't have any tech people to
> help with drupal. So the
> conversation turned to Wordpress...I showed them more model sites,
> including CUNY's Academic
> Commons, which they really liked. But of course a group of developers put a
> lot of effort
> into this. So it would be no simple feat to attempt something similar.
>
> We now have one developer, and as it turns out she's most familiar with
> drupal - although she can also build Wordpress sites.
>
> So my question is, does anyone have any recommendations? Perhaps some model
> sites or distributions of drupal? (Has anyone tried openscholar - I suspect
> it may
> be too focused on building individual faculty sites). Or a Wordpress site
> that fits the
> bill?
>
> One final thought. The folks running this do have some money, so if you've
> been involved in a customization of drupal or Wordpress which could be
> reworked and re-themed
> by our developer, they might be willing to pay for 'consulting' etc.
>
> I'm interested in this main because I'd like to see such platforms created
> for our writing program, in order to support some of the work we do across
> departments and with outside groups.
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
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