Just a quick shot out to let folks know that I will be presenting at the CMSExpo on Wednesday. Ken Wasetis, founder of Contextual Corp, and myself will be discussing the use of Plone as a high powered content management system that can meet the needs of everyone from the FBI to non-profit associations.



Here is a full description of our talk: What about Plone?



I will post our presentation… Continue

I am a huge fan of open source applications. I love the idea and the reality of volunteers coming together and building something of value. I am fascinated by how these projects start, evolve, and/or crash and burn.



But sometimes, even I have to admit, that there is not an open source option for every problem. In those cases, you just have to go with the next best alternative.



For months now, we have been looking into and at Association Management Software (AMS). We… Continue

I recently read a post by Maddie Grant that outlines what she sees as the five biggest fears that associations have about social media. Here they are:

- Loss of control over your marketing messages;

- how do deal with negative comments about you;

- how to empower staff to speak appropriately for the association;

- how to manage the time suck;

- what if we build it and they don't come?…



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Over the last several years, we (TCAG) has built out a very powerful web site solution for associations. It is powered by Plone, a very solid, robut open source content management system. Our association clients have a whole stack of core functionality running on this open source solution.



Modules include; web pages, events, news, feeds, advertising portlets, members only area, membership directories, resource libraries, collaboration areas, job bank, vendor directories and a whole… Continue

I have been trying to figure out if and/or how to best integrate Twitter into a professional societies social media plan.



I have set up an account for myself and an account to facilitate my role for the Legal Marketing Association



I found a lot of value in following the tweets of others but am struggling with how the personal and the professional sides of one's life seem to get… Continue