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Ongoing Coverage of the Plone Conference

I'm going to leaving for the airport shortly, but wanted to post links to a few more of the reports I wrote for CMSWire about the Plone Conference:

• Plone Application Development Patterns

Sally Kleinfeldt from the Nature Conservancy gave a talk about the ways their organization approached Plone development for their custom application development.

• Plone Wisely: Our Time is Valuable

Our time is valuable. Why waste it by trying hammer a square peg in a round hole? Pick the right tools for the right job and let Plone do the things it is good at.

• Project Management of Smaller Plone Projects

Veda Williams, a project manager at One/Northwest who manages many a Plone implementation, gave us all here at the conference some advice on best practices for managing smaller Plone Web content management projects.

I found a lot of her presentation extremely familiar, as it meshed very well with my own experiences, and frankly, it all applies to any tech project, not just Plone.

Help to Raise Awareness of Plone With Digg

The Plone Conference presents an especially good opportunity to raise awareness of the product, platform, and community, that is Plone. I'm trying to do my part by blogging about the conference both here and at CMSWire.

If you would like to help with this effort, one way you can help would be to "Digg" the CMSWire coverage. By clicking on the little "thumbs up" icon you will move this page up in the Digg lists. I know from first-hand experience that Digg can generate tremendous traffic. In fact, roughly 40% of Discover Magazine's total traffic comes from social networking sites like Digg and Reddit.

Christian Scholz makes a great point though:

But please everybody: Be careful with commenting a la "Plone is great/fantastic/best thing since sliced bread" all the time. This is mostly seen as spam. You might add comments with more content maybe. Or you might answer other people's comments or questions. As said with commenting in the earlier mail, just try to engage in some conversation.

The State of Plone

My last couple of posts just went live on CMSWire about a couple of talks given regarding the overall state of Plone.

The first entry describes Paul Everitt's discussion of what's been going on with the Plone Foundation over the last year. Highlights include:

• The Foundation completely (more or less) owns the worldwide trademarks for "Plone"
• Plone.net has launched - a site with the mission of presenting marketing/business information about Plone to decision makers. This is important so business folks don't have to wade through all sorts of boring technical stuff on plone.org
• Some new marketing, community and protection efforts will soon start and will be paid for by Foundation sponsorships. One benefit of sponsorship will be prominent display on plone.net.

The second entry covers the Plone Conference Keynote delivered by Plone founders Alex Limi and Alan Runyan. A special thank you to the two of them for specifically calling out our work with Discover Magazine, and especially thank you to Alan for calling it "an unbelievably gorgeous site."

Plone Conference Post 3

Some more Plone Conference links:

• Plone Conference 2007 in Naples, Italy
• Plone4Artists Empowers Your Creative Genius

More Live Blogging the Plone Conference

Links to a couple more Plone Conference posts on CMSWire:

• Wanna Get Paid? E-commerce Add-on for Plone
• Plone for Media @ Plone Conference 2007

I also really liked the article CMSWire posted about the legitimate threat that open source content management systems are posing for commercial systems.

Live Blogging the Plone Conference in Naples, Italy

Over the next three days I will be live-blogging the Plone Conference for CMSWire (www.cmswire.com).

So far I have posted:

• Join the Plone Conference - Seconded in Second Life
• Plone's Open Source Community is a Strong as Ever
• Ten Ways to Engage the Plone Community