Re: Project PM Website
Subject: Re: Project PM Website
From: Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>
Date: 10/6/10, 11:10
To: Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com>
CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Campbell,

Thank you for the enlightenment. You are much more knowledgeable about this than I am.

I came across CushyCMS haphazardly, and simply recognized its technology for what it is, which is to say that it's something I think would be important for us. You seem to agree.

I defer to you on the choice of CMS system as I've never used any of them before in my life.

Scott



On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Campbell Vertesi <campbell@vertesi.com> wrote:

Hello Scott - 

Barrett forwarded me your message looking at CushyCMS for the ProjectPM website.  I do website design, development, and support for large activist organizations as a day job, and you're bang on that a CMS system is where it's at.  Any modern website should give you the ability to edit and create content on the fly, as a base level requirement.   We probably want a more full-featured system than cushyCMS can offer, though.  Personally, I think the open-source Drupal CMS would be a better fit.  It offers more capability out of the box, is easily extendable through thousands of available "modules" for different functionality, and is extremely customizable to interface with any other systems we work with.  All of the organizations I work with use Drupal... it's considered the "serious" CMS.  

Some examples of organizations using Drupal:


* Mattel ( http://mattel.com )
* Lifetime ( http://mylifetime.com )
* The Emmy awards ( http://www.emmys.com/ )
* UN's World Food Project ( http://www.wfp.org/ )
* Human Rights Watch ( http://www.hrw.org/ )
* Oxfam International ( http://www.oxfam.org/ )
* Michael Jackson ( http://community.michaeljackson.com/ )
* Rackspace hosting's support/documentation site ( http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support ) 
* Sony Ericsson's labs ( http://labs.sonyericsson.com/ )
* Prime Minister of Australia ( http://www.pm.gov.au/ )
* Belgium's government ( http://www.belgium.be/en/ )
* France's government ( http://www.gouvernement.fr/ )
* Discover Magazine ( http://discovermagazine.com/ )
* Popular Science ( http://www.popsci.com/ )
* The Onion ( http://www.theonion.com/ )
* Spread firefox ( http://spreadfirefox.com/ )
* Examiner.com ( http://examiner.com )
* and all the people I mentioned in the PM document (Jane Goodall, Pew Research, Johns Hopkins, Earthday.org, etc)

 It's very easy for me to set us up a site running Drupal.  Let me know if I can be of use here, I'd be happy to have a site up and ready for content entry this week.  

Many thanks,

C
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Campbell Vertesi | Project Manager | Trellon, LLC

web www.trellon.com | email cvertesi@trellon.com
tel 347.329.4511 

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>