Content management systems

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Comment by Joe Luther on November 21, 2009 at 3:13am

I'm the editor in chief at a college newspaper using College Publisher 4. We're currently attempting to upgrade to CP5 with hopes in the future to move away from them.

From a CP4 perspective, content management is unwieldy. It's not very intuitive and is very restricting.

I'm not sure what CP5 would be like, but it's only a stopgap until we can get our own Web site up and running with our own ad revenue.

Any thoughts on Word Press? That's been the thinking around the newsroom.

Comment by Barney Lerten on August 20, 2009 at 1:48am

Anyone here from the broadcast side of things, on Web platforms like WorldNow? (Waiting for that user forum they promised, any day now...;-/

Comment by Greg Linch on August 18, 2009 at 2:17pm

I think it's about time to mention CoPress here :)

Comment by Ketan on March 20, 2009 at 2:02pm

from little that i have read and understood, both drupal and joomla are more of the less the best open source cms we journalists could use. to be frank, i am struggling to understand the installation part of joomla.. but i will get there! there are hosting sites that use programmes like fatastica etc which will execute the joomla files and upload automatically...

Comment by Daniel Doyle on March 14, 2009 at 10:36pm

My friend Jonny just got back from D.C., where he spent a week at DrupalCon. He said The Economist and several other big media sites are going Drupal. I use Drupal. I'm of the belief that it's becoming the open source standard.

Comment by Jose Antunes on March 14, 2009 at 9:46pm

Iam quite new here so I've not yet had time to browse the whole mail, but from the first mails I read I feel that maybe some of you should try Joomla. Iam using it in all my sites (personal site and two online spaces, for photography and videogames, things I also write about for regular on print magazines and newspapers). Joomla is extremely configurable and easy - well, one you learn the ropes - to use....

Comment by Fred Schecker on February 27, 2009 at 5:16pm

I am in the market for a new CMS. My most recent experience was with Drupal, and it had it's good and its bad moments. In my new role, the community building features that make Drupal appealing aren't that important. The organization isn't all that interested in story comments and blogging, for example.

Also, I have started hearing some anti-Drupal rumblings, although nothing specific I could ask about.

Any anti-Drupal sentiment out there? If you weren't interested in open source, what CMS would you use? Some IT opposition to open source here.) In this day and age, would you consider anything but open source?

Comment by Marsha Ducey on November 17, 2008 at 11:20am

I'm hoping you can help me. The student newspaper I advise is using College Publisher. The photos on the opening page look awful--blurry. College Publisher keeps giving us advice that doesn't work. The most recent advice was to use 70dpi instead of 72. Can anyone help? Our site is thestylus.net if that helps.

Comment by Brian Fitzgerald on November 11, 2008 at 2:58pm

Does anyone have an opinion on what features in a CMS or community content management platform would provide real value to their newspapers? In other words, what features actually help us do our jobs easier, or eliminate the need for support staff positions, etc? My impression is that everyone's going with bolt-ons, like a Brightcove this, a sports solution that.....but that nothing's very integrated.

Comment by Dan Knauss on June 12, 2008 at 11:13am

What's good for the CRM is good for the CMS:

CRM 2.0: Managing Relationships With The Customers Of The Future
http://www.forrester.com/rb/teleconference/crm_20_managing_relationships_with_customers_of/q/id/5052/t/1

The CRM 2.0 Imperative: Look To New Solutions To Keep Pace With The Emerging Social Customer
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,43991,00.html