I’m with Sam Dean who writes about newspaper online editions using open source alternatives for their content management systems.

Hard economic times are creating new financial realities for newspapers. Just this past week, the Seattle Post Intelligencier produced its final print edition, after more than a century of publishing. Today’s open source content management systems are intuitive, very powerful, can help publish content in many languages, and if support is needed, players such as Acquia, with its commercial support for Drupal, offer flexibility.

Nobody at OStatic has ever needed outside support for Drupal, which we run on, and many other sites, such as Fast Company and The Onion, do fine with Drupal. (We’ve provided many free Drupal resources here.) It’s hardly the only open source content management choice, though. For newspapers and other people considering an open source content management platform, OpenSourceCMS remains an excellent way to take the reins of several different free CMS systems. The site allows you to try Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and many other platforms, and you can spend hours functioning as site administrator, watching video tutorials and more.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 at 6:36 am by Nicole C. Engard and is filed under Open Access, Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.