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Mailbag: MediaCore

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By Bryan - Posted on 25 February 2010

Last week, CMS Report received an email regarding a new CMS that focuses on managing multimedia content. The application is written in Python so naturally we're going to talk to let our readers know about this new platform.

I'm not sure if you guys have covered this yet, but as a regular reader of cmsreport.com I thought I would let you know.
Earlier this month my company launched a new Open Source python based CMS focused on video and podcasting.

http://getmediacore.com/

MediaCore is a free open source video cms and podcast platform.  MediaCore can pull video or audio from any source, track statistics, enable commenting, and provide a high degree of control over the presentation and administration.

Let me know if you guys need any further information on the project. Right now we are just trying to get the word out about it.

Cheers,
Stuart

Create an Interactive Educational Website with Plone using Packt's New Book

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By swatii - Posted on 25 January 2010

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Plone that helps website creators maintain, manage and edit educational websites. Written by Erik Rose, a member of the Plone 4 and 5 Framework Teams, Plone 3 for Education will help website creators represent educational courses using Plone's various built-in content types such as news items, collections, and events.

Plone is a free open source Content Management System (CMS) that’s built on top of the Zope application server. Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information for a public website or an intranet using only a web browser. It is because of its superior security and advanced back-end, that it holds a technological edge over many major CMSes.

Build Powerful Plone Websites with new book

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By Neha Shaikh - Posted on 20 February 2009
Packt is pleased to announce Practical Plone 3 , a new book that will guide users in building powerful and robust websites using the Zope CMS platform. Written by a team of 13 Content Management experts, this book will give users a clear understanding on using Plone 3 to meet their content management needs.

Plone is a highly extensible Content Management System built on the Zope application server, which is written in Python. Plone makes it easy to build and maintain powerful, user-friendly websites with cutting-edge collaboration and content management features. Like Plone itself, this book is a community effort, with prominent leaders in the Plone community like Jon Stahl, who serves on the Plone Foundation board of directors, sharing their extensive knowledge of the subject to ensure users gain a deep and effective understanding.

Five IT books on my 2009 reading list

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By Bryan - Posted on 08 January 2009

I seem to collect a number of books each year.  A few of the books I receive from publishers with intent to review or as appreciation for my involvement with events related to content management systems.  Other books just peak my interest so I can't help but buy them for my personal library.  The following are five books I plan to read in 2009 and are available in CMS Report's Amazon Store.

Drupal Multimedia by Aaron Windborn

Users loading Drupal for the first time usually have two surprises.  The first surprise is that Drupal's core lacks a rich text editor (no WYSIWYG).  Although you can use a RTE via a contributed module...it is still a surprise to most new users.  The second surprise is that the core also doesn't provide much support for images and other forms of multimedia.  This book will help the reader navigate through many of the contributed media modules available at Drupal.org and pick the right one for the right project.  I'm only half way through the book and finding myself trying out modules I likely would never have used without this book.

Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé

I haven't bought a new Python book since 2001 and felt it was time to try another.  I'm more of a dabbler than a programmer, but it is always good to have reference books like these nearby.