The www.whitehouse.gov website shifted over to the free open source Drupal content management system (CMS) yesterday, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. A CMS is a software package that lets you build a website that non-technical people can quickly and easily (and therefore affordably) change and update. "We now have a technology platform to get more and more voices on the site," White House new media director Macon Phillips was quoted in the … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2009
A Great Resource: DC Web Women
October 21, 2009 by
I am a member of DC Web Women (DCWW), a 501(c)(6) professional organization of about 3000 members located in the Washington, D.C., area. Our members are professional women, students, and enthusiasts who specialize in the fields of web design, web development, computer science, Information Technology (IT), graphic design, web content, blogging, multimedia, marketing, e-marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), web analytics, and social media. A former boss of … [Read more...]
What’s Hot: Free Content Management Systems
October 17, 2009 by
eVentures in Cyberland: Through the Web 2.0 Looking Glass, and What Communicators Found There was created using WordPress, a free open source content management system (CMS). A CMS is a software package that lets you build a website that non-technical people can quickly and easily (and therefore affordably) change and update. You could, for example, design a templates-based website like this one for as little as $1,000 (all in design, not writing, labor and assuming … [Read more...]
Google Wave Developer Preview
October 15, 2009 by
I hope I can get a Google Wave invite. Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. About a million people were extended invitations starting Sept. 30, 2009, with the initial 100,000 users each allowed to invite from 20 to 30 … [Read more...]
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