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Women’s Community News Franchise
This project sets out to create a complete infrastructure, to be franchised, for those who want to launch hyperlocal news sites. Services will include a Web platform, software development, market analysis, some content, and legal and marketing assistance. Such an infrastructure, says former MytopiaCafe.com editor Michelle Ferrier, will permit citizen journalists and community members to "focus on what they are most passionate about - building their community conversation through good local information and networking."

The Wonderful CMS of Oz…Off to find some wizards

Friday, August 07, 2009

CharlotteAnne of NowCastSA of San Antonio posted a great piece on what she’s looking for in an online community content management system on “Choosing the digital printing press.” CharlotteAnne says:

“So instead of starting by looking at the ‘stuff’ that’s going into the box, we get to think first about people and community and function. We can choose a CMS by how well it can help users, consumers and content creators build our online community.”

Not that either of us has found one yet that suits our needs, but she dreams big about what she’s looking for in discreet, manageable chunks for those developer friends among us. Her list, bulleted (see her post for the details):

  • Flexibility
  • Friendly
  • Social
  • Comments=Co-Authors
  • Wikis
  • Email/RSS/SMS
  • Blogs
  • Widget Embeds
  • Taxonomy
  • Who/What/When Calendar
  • Touchy Feely
  • Bilingual

Do we still have any developer friends after this list? Then take a look at CharlotteAnne’s post cause we’re headed to Emerald City. And there are enough of us out here traveling this yellow brick road to make building such a robust CMS thing realistic ... and yes, profitable. Any takers?

   • Posted by Michelle Ferrier on 08/07 at 02:58 PM
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