[NGO] Putting together a why plone for NGOs list

[David Bain]

Sorry to be asking an obvious question. Could you clarify what you mean by
Google PageRank?
For example in the context of Plone.org how do you measure it to be a 9/10?

I usually think of page rank as how high up in search results a site comes
for a particular phrase. So for the phrase 'plone', plone.org would have a
very high page rank, but might not do so well for the phrase 'blueberry
cheesecake'.

On 5/31/06, Andrew Burkhalter <andrewb at onenw.org> wrote:
>
> We talked a lot about pulling this type of a NGO-centric marketing
> list together at social events during the recent Seattle Plone
> bootcamp, so I'm thrilled to see this taking shape.
>
> Jon did a good job of throwing out the main things we had discussed,
> but I wanted to add Google PageRank to the list.  In a sector where
> more-often-than-not, we're working to get new ideas and information
> out to know people, this is huge!  Plone.org is a 9/10 on PageRank
> (higher is almost unheard of) and the human friendly urls contribute.
>
> Since I joined this NGO list mid-thread, what's the intended location
> for this information.  I think maintaining/evolving this list of
> appealing NGO traits, if it could live on plone.org, would be a good
> task of this list and contribution back to the community.  Thoughts?
>
> Cheers!
> Andrew
>
>
>
> On May 27, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Jon Stahl wrote:
>
> > Absolutely... the PF is one of the key indicators of mature, stable
> > community. :-)
> >
> > best,
> > jon
> >
> > David Bain wrote:
> >
> >> My goodness!!
> >> What can I add?
> >>
> >> I think I'd mention the strong and active Foundation (the Plone
> >> Foundation).
> >>
> >> On 5/27/06, *Jon Stahl* < jon at onenw.org <mailto:jon at onenw.org>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>     David Bain wrote:
> >>
> >>     > I'm putting together a "Why plone for NGOs" list. If you
> >> have any
> >>     > suggestions please shoot them this way.
> >>
> >>     Hi David-
> >>
> >>     Here are some of the reasons that we at ONE/Northwest
> >> (ourselves an
> >>     environmental NGO) chose to focus our NGO website consulting
> >> services
> >>     practice on Plone, and why continue to be passionate about it
> >>     after two
> >>     years and over 60 sites launched:
> >>
> >>     --  Plone is incredibly easy to use for folks who don't know
> >>     HTML.  Most
> >>     of our clients are able to successfully maintain and update their
> >>     sites
> >>     after a single 90-minute training.  This is huge in the NGO
> >> world,
> >>     where
> >>     staff turnover can be high and technology skills low.
> >>
> >>     -- The maturity, stability and general competence of the Plone
> >>     community
> >>     is a huge asset to NGO users, who can't afford to easily jump
> >> ship
> >>     when
> >>     an open-source community has a big meltdown.  Many of the Plone
> >>     developers I've met have a strong social mission in their work
> >> and
> >>     share
> >>     the broad values of the nonprofit sector: openness, fairness,
> >> honesty,
> >>     service, sharing, etc.
> >>
> >>     -- Plone is extensible and highly customizable.  Nonprofits are
> >>     just a
> >>     tax status; the NGO sector has a huge range of business
> >> processes and
> >>     technical requirements.  Plone isn't suitable for everything,
> >> but it's
> >>     flexibility and adaptability  is a huge asset to a sprawling,
> >> diverse
> >>     and vibrant sector.
> >>
> >>     -- Plone's strong support for web accessbility standards and
> >>     multi-lingual content is extremely important to many NGO
> >> customers who
> >>     serve diverse populations.
> >>
> >>     -- While there is always room for improvement, Plone has good
> >>     documentation, and it's getting better fast.  It's miles ahead
> >> of most
> >>     open-source products.
> >>
> >>     -- Plone has a broad economic base, with customers (and
> >> resources)
> >>     drawn
> >>     from many sectors.  This gives the Plone community access to
> >>     significant
> >>     development, and organizational resources, and again, promotes
> >>     long-term
> >>     stability of the platform.
> >>
> >>     -- Plone has a strong focus on "playing nice" with other
> >> technology
> >>     systems, including tools that are of keen interest to the NGO
> >> sector
> >>     such as DemocracyInAction, GetActive, Salesforce.com
> >>     <http://Salesforce.com>, and others.
> >>
> >>     Hope this is helpful.
> >>
> >>     best,
> >>     jon
> >>     ----------
> >>     Jon Stahl
> >>     ONE/Northwest
> >>     www.onenw.org <http://www.onenw.org>
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