In the Media
Kent Connects Project makes final four in Innovation Awards
The Kent Connects 'Portal of Portals' project has been shortlisted in the final four in the category of Best Government to Government Project in this year's GC Awards for Innovation.
PBS Idealab: New Option in Media Publishing
Talks about Plone and the add-on Plumi, which provides media publishing services for Plone.
eWeek: Social Networks Close at Hand
eWeek points out that Plone is a great platform for building "Web 2.0" deployments
Plone Foundation Sets Open Source Standards
The Plone Foundation's work to secure Plone's brand identity and place it in neutral community ownership sets Plone apart from many open-source communities.
PloneGov : Bringing Plone to Local Governements
Plone is one of the best known Free Software Content Management Systems (CMS) in the market. Much of the importance of Plone lies in its power and flexibility, enabling it to be applied in a wide variety of contexts.
PloneGov wins a prestigious open source project award in Paris
We are proud to announce that the new Plone e-government initiative won the biggest French award for open source projects on June 13 during a ceremony held in the town hall of the city of Paris. This award, called "Grand prix du jury des Lutèce d'Or 2007", demonstrates PloneGov work quality and encourages us to continue on this way.
PloneGov selected finalist of the European e-Government Awards
PloneGov is selected among the 52 best European e-Government projects, and is invited to present the project at the fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference held in Lisbon in September 2007. PloneGov projects relies on 2 renowned open source software : Plone and Zope. Its success results from a close collaboration between public organizations and Zea Partners, an international network of SME building Zope and Plone solutions.
PloneGov awarded by the European Commission
The PloneGov team is proud to announce that their eGovernment open source initiative based on Plone has been awarded the “Good Practice label 2007”. PloneGov receives this prestigious label based on the recommendation from the 2007 European eGovernment Awards consortium.
CMSWire: Case Study: Discovering Plone Content Management System (Part 2)
Part 2 of a two-part series looking at the CMS features which convinced DISCOVER magazine to choose Plone.
CMSWire: UC Davis Web CMS Survey for Universities - Results
A summary of the results of a survey made by UC Davis, in California, about CMS use at 129 american universities. Plone is the top choice, with 13 implementations. Drupal is close as always, with 10, and Joomla has 8.
Open Source CMSes Prove Well Worth the Price
InfoWorld gives Plone an overall score of 8.6 in its roundup of five of the most popular open source CMSes, ahead of noted platforms Drupal, Joomla and DotNetNuke.
CMSWire: Case Study: Discovering Plone Content Management System (Part 1)
A two-part series looking at the CMS features which convinced DISCOVER magazine to choose Plone.
Infoworld: Open-source Plone content management app gets major upgrade
Infoworld interviews Plone co-founder Alexander Limi about the Plone 3.0 release.
You're never alone with Plone
LinuxWorld talks about various different Plone companies and organizations, as well as the helpful and friendly Plone community.
Plone Receives Kudos from CMSWatch
In CMSWatch's 2007 "Kudos and Shortcomings" roundup, Plone received a number of kudos from reviewer Tony Byrne, who evaluated both open-source and proprietary CMS solutions.
New Zealand Government adopts Plone OSS content management system
Coverage of the New Zealand government's choice of Plone as its content management system of choice.
Silicon Republic: New public information website replaces Oasis
Oasis was originally built in-house using open source technology and for the latest version of the site a more substantial content management system was chosen. Comhairle remained faithful to open source, choosing a system called Plone.
Scoop: Government Department goes for Open-Source Tech
The New Zealand Companies Office, a unit of the Ministry of Economic Development, has launched a new website. What is special about the new website is that it is based on ‘Open Source’ software. It is only the third government department to do so but the first one of the “top five” Government sites in NZ (by number of visitors).
Techworld: Open source unlocks options for many businesses
Plone helps the 3Sixty Group run their intranet and public web site. From TechWorld.
Infoworld: UNC Medical saves with open source
The University of North Carolina recently implemented a Plone-based CMS, and became an open source convert at the same time.