Blogs and Wiki’s and Portals, Oh My! - posted by Day Tooley
Blogs, Wiki's and Community Portal sites are being talked about more often. These new tools are being used by business and non-profit organizations to get the word out in a timely fashion.
Most have a pretty good idea of what a blog might be. You're reading this on a blog now.
Wiki's are a shared knowledge-base with many authors. The best known is the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org. EasyStreet support has an internal knowledge-base Wiki for stored EasyStreet wisdom. ("None of us is as smart as all of us." - Walt Kelly's Pogo - 1954)
But what about Community Portals? Basically, these are web-based Content Management Systems (CMS) where multiple contributors can add content without having to know HTML. They can be Intranet (local network) or Internet visible.
On the Windows side, there are SharePoint and DotNetNuke. SharePoint is a component of Microsoft Exchange. DotNetNuke is a free open-source .NET application that runs on a Windows webserver.
On the Unix side, there are Drupal and Joomla! Both are free open-source applications which run on standard Unix webservers.
A good example of Joomla! is CARE: Cyber Awareness, Responsibility and Ethics. CARE is a classroom based educational program from the public safety component of the Hillsboro, Oregon's Vision 2020. It's designed to help K-12 students know and understand the opportunities and responsibilities for the use of cyber technologies, specifically the Internet. Educators can collaborate in curriculum development. If you have kids or teach kids, take a look.
Some small businesses are using these tools for private customer support portals and for their main websites. An example using DonNetNuke created by Portland developer Netropole is the Wood Flooring Manufacturing Association website where content now can be added and maintained by non-technical company personnel.
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October 23rd, 2006 by Day Tooley
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