One of the things that web2.0 has left us with is more places to dump everything that we make or find. There are a number of services that have started up to help mitigate this. Social Networking sites seem to be the high flyers here, but what about the great host of other aggregators out there? To the list below, we add Second Brain. It offers to suck your content from a number of locations, but only from the hosted versions (so it won’t suck in this blog, even though there is a WordPress connection. But it works with things like Delicious and Flickr quite well.
So if you are looking at Web2.0 as an alternative to the CMS that your institution provides, these sites might be your solution. Allowing you to host content in an open manner, but not running into the stigma that surrounds social networking.
I found a related post via OLDaily on this topic yesterday as well.
Other aggregators:
I know I’m not the first to think about using WordPress to run a site/portal, but until recently, I had no idea how easy and “slick” it could be, especially when you are helping someone who doesn’t really know what they want and sends items to add “as they happen to come to mind”. So my first WordPress-as-website project is for Dr. JP Das. Including all the tweaks to the php, moving from one domain to another and fixing broken links, the entire setup process was about 4h long and now I can easily edit it anywhere should the need arise.
The finished look is certainly very professional and the system is easy enough to use. My experience now with Drupal, Joomla/Mambo and WordPress strongly suggest that unless you have a need that just isn’t being filled in WordPress, that it might be the easiest way to start building a website. Schools, small business and the like would all be able to leverage the system far easier than one of the more fully featured systems that while easy to get going (I’d choose Drupal over Joomla), the backends can get very messy. If used properly, I’m sure WordPress – especially as WPMU, can be quite a handy CMS as well.
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