Plone for News Portals

Out-of-the-box Plone is already a good solution for news portals. With some tricks and integrations, it can scale to support a scenario with multiple editors and collaborators.

This talk was given at the 2021 Python Web Conf:
https://2021.pythonwebconf.com/presentations/plone-for-news-portals

Transcript

1. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Plone for News Portals Érico Andrei CTO & Co-Founder of Pendect ericof@plone.org | @ericof
2. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Introductions
3. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Érico Andrei Brazilian, living in Berlin Open Source Python Software Foundation Fellow Vice-President Plone Foundation Past Microsoft, Abril Group, Simples Consultoria, Rocket Internet
4. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Pendect tl;dr TL;DR collaborative news platform Facts > Opinions Launched in March / 2020 We plant a tree for every new accepted submission
5. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Before Pendect Passionate about journalism Worked on > 60 news portals Offline and online brands Ranging from 1 to 100s of journalists From internal CMS’s to Enterprise solutions
6. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org News Portals Requirements
7. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Content is king Structured information lives forever * Traceability is important: Who did what and when Portals usually are divided by sections (i.e. Sports, Politics, Gossip) Sections also represent the hierarchical organization * At least on Archive.org
8. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Every publication is different Role management needs to be flexible, adapt to the organization A “half-journalist” portal should not use the same workflow of the NYT Distinct sections in a portal could have different requirements
9. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Build and they will come News portals rely on organic traffic SEO is very important, but “sharing” is also a big driver Content distribution: Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, Alexa, Feeds User participation is still a thing
10. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Choosing Plone
11. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Plone for Content Management System The most successful Python CMS Plenty of features out of the box Adapt instead of build from scratch Proven record with News Portals Friendly community with very smart people
12. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Demo
13. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Content Organization Sections organized into Folders Tagging content “Special Reports” using Collections Rules to move content around
14. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Role management, Workflow Organize users in groups Give local roles to groups Adjust the workflow to match your need Even having local workflows for sections Working copy support
15. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Other features Rights management and metadata Creators, Contributors, Rights Content modification history User interaction Comments (w/wo moderation)
16. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Extending Plone
17. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Plone add-ons Search collective.elastic.plone Authentication pas.plugins.authomatic Front-page management Mosaic, collective.cover Content-rules contentrules.slack, contentrules.groupbydate, collective.ifttt
18. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Things to develop Auto-tagging Using DBpedia or spacy SEO Better OpenGraph / Schema.org support Images Thumbor for scaling and cropping Lead Image behaviour pointing to image bank
19. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org Thank you!
20. Érico Andrei | @ericof | ericof@plone.org | plone.org @ericof ericof@plone.org @pendecthq hello@pendect.com https://speakerdeck.com/ericof/plone-for-news-portals