Content Management Systems
A Content Management System (CMS) provides the tools to enable your site to provide dynamic and engaging content and features to your site visitors. It allows the editor of the website to interact with the site in several ways. The CMS provides a graphical user interface that allows the editor to create content, add images and multimedia files, establish content schedules, and much more.
Benefits of using a CMS include:
- Allows non-technical staff to add content without knowledge of programming languages
- Allow for a large number of people to contribute to and share stored data
- Control access to data, based on user roles. User roles define what information each user can view or edit
- Aid in easy storage and retrieval of data
- Reduce repetitive duplicate input
- Provides out of the box Web 2.0 features including discussion forums, blogs, wikis, document libraries, image galleries, user-generated stories and commenting, content ratings, and more!
Content Management Systems come in all shapes and sizes. TerpSys prides itself on the ability to offer the right solution for your set of unique needs. Since we work primarily within the association and non-profit market, we focus our expertise on the following CMS applications:
- Convio - An integrated platform (CMS & CRM) commonly used by medium-large advocacy and human service organizations known for its strengths in fundraising, communications, and advocacy
- Drupal - An open source CMS known for its scalability, flexibility, and incredible list of out-of the box Web 2.0 community building features developed by a large volunteer developer base.
- Ektron - Used primarily with our association clients, Ektron is known for its advanced web publishing features, ability to scale to large production environments, and industry standard .NET platform to simplify custom development and database integration solutions
- CitySoft - An affordable option for organizations needing an integrated CMS/CRM backend to provide email communications, ecommerce, content management, and more.
