 Having talked to Rob about determining that you need a website and where to move from here We're going to talk about options that you have for example open source content management systems Which will allow you to achieve more by spending less So we'll start off by discussing what open source is. It's a product built by community of well developers in collaboration It's universally accessible Available via free license. You don't have to pay for it and it's vendor neutral If you don't like the person you're working with or you feel that you can get a better deal elsewhere You can talk to them What is a CMS it's a content management system? It's a platform or interface that allows you to publish content on a website It usually uses a visual interface known as a whizzy wig or what you see is what you get interface It allows you or your team to manage add edit removal published content from your website From an interface that's available via a web page So you can edit your website or otherwise manage it from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection There are about four our popular CMS's in our play today. We have Wordpress, it's the most popular CMS. It's originally adopted by bloggers But embraced by the community at large because it's incredibly easy to use and very scalable Drupal is very similar to WordPress But it's more suitable for larger organizations because it has document management and the ability to manage a lot of users on your your system Magento is one of the more popular e-commerce platforms for open source CMS's They'll allow you to build an online store out of the box quickly and easily Jumla is one of the oldest CMS's But it's established and considered stable by the community at large For the moment we'll talk to about the R the big three But Jumla is always an option if you need it Why should you use an open source CMS To put it simply no fanfare you can do anything a licensed platform can But often at a lower cost It's vendor neutral Some licensed platforms don't necessarily allow you to access your content open cms Open source CMS's that will allow you to do this Scalability you can see that an open source CMS will allow you to upgrade your website as your business grows You can start small have a small website And then as your business grows you can expand your website along with it It's easy to use With that whizzy wig what you see is what you get interface You and your staff or your pool of volunteers will be able to Manage your website quickly and easily without having to become HTML or code experts abundant support Developing community around open source CMS's is very responsive and will answer your questions. You've got access to Trouble support. I'm sorry troubleshooting forums FAQ's And if you throw a question at the person who developed your system, they may respond to you quickly and efficiently What can an open source CMS do for you? As you can see we have fundraising if you're a not-for-profit You can use an open source CMS to set up an online donation form You can manage your fundraising campaigns from a central platform You can get your money coming in without having to wait for checks to sign without having to wait for your door knockers to Come back in from the field Fundraising is option there Membership and event management systems if you have a lot of members they may be students or seniors or clients even You can use an open source CMS to manage these people get them the information and content They need allow them to manage their own information all without a with a paperless system that allows you to Keep them happy and informed quickly and easily database management If you have a lot of information you need to manage whether it's customer records management Product inventory for your online store or any other huge amounts of information you need to manage from a central platform Open source CMS will allow you to do this Previously years ago. It may have cost you tens of thousands of dollars just to manage your database These days with open source you'll be able to do it within a single website built A lot of responsive design From here we can see that as people's internet usage behavior is changing over time a lot more of us are accessing Websites from phones and tablets For example, who here is using their desktop to access the uh for the internet on a daily basis Just from work or from home both But a lot of people especially the young are starting to move towards phones and tablets Oh, yeah Villainy is it We're going I'm going to handsome Who else is using open source cms's you'd be surprised to find out who else has jumped upon the uh the open source paradigm We see here that the Job access website as commissioned by the Australian government is using Drupal one of the cms's we've talked about earlier It's a website that's designed for the the vision impaired and the otherwise handicapped who may have Trouble seeking jobs or otherwise acquiring the skills they need This website is rated triple a compliant which is the highest level of accessibility you can get Um as rated by vision australia So this is a website managed by an open source cms endorsed by the government that allows people to Of all all ilks and walks in life access that website It's also worth noting that recently it's trial and government um release a notice that Gov cms, which is a build of Drupal is now going to be uh pushed as a standardized platform for us to work with So as you can see it's it's popular within the government We can work with from uh with that And if you thought the Australian government's endorsement wasn't enough for you What if I told you that the united states their white house dot gov website is being run by Drupal once again This is a website that runs blog photo and live streaming content daily This is the american government's mouthpiece for the public They can access online petitions social media and otherwise interact with the government in a single uh centralized platform Think about this a lot of people talk about the open source platforms being susceptible to hacking I submit to you if the american government the one Website on the internet if ever was to be contacted and engaged by uh by our hackers or other viruses or exploits Is willing to engage uh Drupal I suspect that's uh endorsement enough a little bit closer to home We see the dick smith our Australian icon the the fella in the helicopter The major Australian electronics distributor these days He's using his website dick smith dot com To manage the thousands of dollars of transactions that happen daily It's a cure against hacking. It's a gorgeous website that represents the center of their digital marketing platform Even closer to home cambera Who goes to sportsman's warehouse to get their sporting goods? One fellow good man You see sportsman's warehouse a camber based retail has adopted magento the online e-commerce platform To manage their online store not only does it manage their The stock for the online store as well as their brick and mortar stores across the act And those other apps It also helps them manage their clearances sales and promotions all from a single platform For your not-for-profits out there. We see that our st. Vincent de paul society is managing their ceo sleepout Program via the wordpress open source cms They're raised over five million dollars in 2013. We're expecting a similar result this year It supports uh high volume traffic during critical donation periods. It maintains the security of people as they Make credit card donations online It's worth noting that the ceo sleepout campaign is actually running at the moment So those of you with a charitable mind or heart are welcome to sort of get in there and support a worthy cause The national computational infrastructure. It's a bit of a word for Based on the anew campus in cambera It's a group of world leading research experts managing not only scientific research but data analysis Using their banks of super supercomputers Are using this website as their mouthpiece to the public They manage their e-newsletters and media releases as well as are promoting the status of their computers and what processes they're running All from a single website Australian institute for international affairs With this advanced user management system We see that the uh the awa is managing all the star the members for the various stakeholder states New South Wales Queensland Victoria All across Australia from a single centralized platform This allows their the national office to manage everything that's happening. Keep an eye on it. It keeps everything centralized under a single platform and format Keeps them happy allows them to manage their events Their users are able to register and pay online for events And otherwise manage how many people are coming into events How many people are attending and otherwise Engaging with their the media The awa website allowed the uh The group to reduce their paperwork and otherwise Allow them to spend uh get their volunteers to spend their time doing more important things like engaging with their There are the members and the public rather than wasting time with paperwork We've discussed who's using our open source cms's But let's have a quicker discussion over the benefits thereof Costs no license fees WordPress isn't going to charge you an upfront fee to buy their product Drupal isn't going to charge you an annual fee Every time every year your website's online And magento isn't going to take a surcharge out of the average purchase you make with their online store Getting the website It's free However, if you don't have the the skill in-house to set up your website or otherwise Take the uh the generic product and customize it to your needs. You may need to uh engage a website developer This is the point at which you'd take robb's advice and uh go through several steps to make sure that you manage this process correctly security A lot of people may think that as a an open source and freely available product An open source cms may be open to exploitation With a huge community developers who are managing and upgrading and responding to the uh the changing online market We see that they are actually incredibly responsive to viruses and exploits With generic solutions that can be customized You're able to take a simple website if you don't need something complex out of the box And then build it up and scale it up as your business grows or as your requirements change With high level support I've discussed earlier the the option to have troubleshooting forums access to frequently asked questions as well as contacting the community directly You should never be alone The entire community is working towards the the same issues and solutions you are If you're having a problem the chances are someone else has already seen this problem come up with the solution and post it online So in conclusion Just like to break down open source cms as value for money. You can achieve more by spending less They're scalable. Whatever your business needs You can make sure that it's set up and security as discussed It's a responsive community that will respond to any emerging issues and uh Make sure that any exploits are covered up as quickly as possible Thank you for your time