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World Plone Day 2008 – Live!

by gerrykirk on Nov 06, 08

Catch all the action as World Plone Day travels across the globe! Live video streams – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/world-plone-day IRC – #worldploneday at irc.freenode.net Follow http://www.twitter.com/worldploneday Twitter Older Twitter posts Photos on Flickr What the blogs are saying about WPD Get the OblinQ – RSS/ATOM Feed Reader (flash) widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox!

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Digg this post Plone is an open source CMS (Content Management System), recently awarded the Best Other (non-php) Open Source CMS award. Plone, together with an array of add-on components is used for a variety of needs: Websites, extranets, intranets E-commerce Workflow management Blogs, podcasting, videocasting Collaborative workspaces like Open Plans As part of World [...]

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World Plone Day: Show Your Pride

by gerrykirk on Nov 04, 08

World Plone Day is almost here. This is one day of the year we celebrate and promote Plone worldwide as a community. Are you ready to make some noise for your favourite CMS? Come on everyone, gimme a P, L, O, N, E! Before Friday, Easy Ways to Promote Plone If you are on Twitter, follow [...]

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Plone Conference 2008: My Session Picks

by gerrykirk on Sep 23, 08

Ok, time to start figuring out what sessions I want to go to at the Plone conference. I work mainly as a project manager / scrum master, so I tend to avoid the techy stuff. Here is my preliminary list: Wednesday The 10% manifesto and further — Methods for organized contribution to strategic development of [...]

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Part of what makes conferences like Plone Conf 2008 so great is the chance to meet and hang out with many of the people we only “see” online from a distance. This is especially true for me. I’ve been involved with Plone since 2002 but have yet to attend any conference / sprint. Thankfully, that [...]

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I noticed that a few Plone bloggers registered their blog at Technorati, having read Mr. Topf’s recommendation to do so. I agree wholeheartedly. Technorati is the largest directory of blogs, and offers increased exposure to your blog through its directory, tag and search features. And hey, it’s free, so why not take 10 minutes to [...]

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Thousands of voices, one cause

by gerrykirk on Oct 13, 07

Climate change is front and centre in the news again today, with the announcement of the Nobel Peace prize being awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This Monday, October 16, 13,734 bloggers at latest count including myself reaching an audience of nearly 12 million will unite together to put [...]

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Data centres consume vast amounts of energy, and the situation is only getting worse. Luiz Andre Barraso of Google stated in a published paper last year that every gain in performance has been accompanied by a proportional increase in overall platform power consumption. ZDNet UK reports that the average energy costs of running a data [...]

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How To: Save Money and Hassle on Travel

by gerrykirk on Aug 25, 07

I don’t get out of the house much these days, but for those of you who travel to sprints, conferences (like the upcoming Plone conference in Italy – wish I was going!) or fun exotic locations, Web Worker Samuel Dean has some tips for using Kayak.com and Farecast.com to get the best deal on your [...]

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Friday funnies in the #plone room

by gerrykirk on Aug 24, 07

#plone is the online chat room where people hang out to learn, help and talk about their favourite CMS Plone. There are always lots of people online and it’s a great resource for anyone new to Plone who needs some immediate help. And if your brain is slowly turning to cheese on a Friday afternoon, [...]

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