Your website is more than a graphic design exercise - your website should be a hub that helps you drive content publishing, community engagement, online activism and relationship management.  For mid-sized nonprofits (5-100 staff), open-source content management systems like Plone are a fantastic choice for building easy-to-use, powerful, interactive websites that power your most important communications processes.    This demo-driven workshop based on real-world nonprofit websites will show off Plone's key features,  as well as its robustness as a point of integration with best-of-breed technologies for engaging your constituents such as Salesforce and Salsa/Democracy in Action.    We'll also discuss the non-technical factors that lead to website project success, with a focus on outlining the tasks that you should expect to complete alongside a consultant during a website proejct.

Takeaways:

1. Why nonprofits choose Plone (and open-source content management systems generally) to meet their real-world website needs.

2. How Plone integrates easily with other best-of-breed technology systems for nonprofits, including Salsa/Democracy In Action, Salesforce.com and more.

3. Understanding the nature and quantity of the work that a nonprofit should expect to do to make a website project successful over the long haul.