2. Here’s the panel… Many thanks for additional material & contribution from Shaun Hare (@sdh100Shaun) Jon Eland (@strawbleu) Mark Wilkinson (@equalmark) Andy Gilpin (@andygilpin) Andy Robb (@androidrobb)StephGray (@lesteph)
3. Key themes How do people use WordPresswithin organisations? What are the challenges of deploying WordPress within an organisation? How can WordPress evolve to be more effective for internal use?
4. What is WordPress used for within organisations? Theme 1 bdld on flickr CC
10. Major University: Tech stuff Plugins Single sign-on – custom plugin for both AD and LDAP Widget to switch between staff & student news services Author comments Default Categories Wickett Twitter ProPlayer Video
12. Corporate Portal (WordPress) Tightly controlled, push content Spotlight, MoneySight, PeopleSight Division Portals (WordPress/Sharepoint 2010) Division and Country pages Groups and Teams (Sharepoint2010) Teams and departments in divisions Eg E&A, Private Sector, RED, ISD etc More loosely governed Push/Pull content Projects and Workspaces (SharePoint) 2010 Eg HR Passport, divisional projects Personalised view of inSight, corporate reporting, email Personal (SharePoint 2010) Where does WordPress fit in? Extranet Acknowledgement: DFID based on an idea by CompanyNet
13. External Internal Both Target Audience External Internal Communicate & Share WordPress Insight DFID Website Spotlight Interfaces e.g. Feedback & Network Cross Platform HR Passport IT Self Service Collaborate & work SharePoint Expenses Teamsites Teamsites Coherent internal-external model Acknowledgement: DFID
14. What are the challenges of introducing WordPress? Theme 2 hippie on flickr CC
15. Technical challenges? Architecture choices User authentication Multi-site or single instances? Essential plugins IE6 liloueve on flickr CC
19. DFID: Comments Authentication if (is WordPress user) use WordPress identity elseif (is DFID staff) use identity from DFID staff directory //SQL enquiry to corporate IDENTITY //database else prompt for user details //then it’s broken!
20. Management challenges Roles management and assignment Choice of themes? Upgrade frequency – core & plugins Support arrangements/contracts amandabhslater on flickr CC
21. People and culture challenges Skills – developers & support Culture to support effective use of WP Does IT get it? Executive interference
Most people use WordPress to provide them or their organisation with a web presence. This session takes a look at some examples of how people use WordPress within their organisations, where the intended audience is internal people.Estimated timings:Intro: 5 minsTheme 1: use case examples – 20 minsTheme 2: challenges – 15 minsTheme 3: where next? – 10 mins
We’re going to run this session as a structured panel discussion rather than a traditional presentation. QUESTION: please introduce yourselves and a sentence or two on your use of WordPress within an enterprise. TODO:Add pictures from TwitterConfirm Shaun [Shaun can’t be here, unfortunately]
Really early
Each panelist to outline one or more examples of WordPress used within organisations:John – New Technology Forum/Share2Innovate in DFID
JOHN: Couple of use cases from DFID1) DFID use WP internally for discussion forums, where we need to What’s unique about this? We wrote our own commentsAuthenticationplugin to identify non-WP users from our corporate Identity service.
2) Tradewire site – internal aggregation of contentRecently closed down by the business – the site had run it’s course.
3) Accountability and empowerment – internal lesson learning platform
4) DFID architecture – moved from collection of single instances running on XAMPP to proper multi-site on WAMP.
2nd case study – major university
ALL – want to add any screenshots here to talk through?
DISCUSSIONHere’s a use case model from DFID – where do you think the boundary between SharePoint and WordPress lies?
TechnicalOngoing managementPeople and culture
ALL – what other challenges do you think there areSuggestion, let’s take the challenges one-by-one and explore.
Over to Andy and Kimb
What do we need to do to keep it running within an organisation?
