[drupal-docs] Drupal vs Mambo

[Kieran Lal]

FYI: Nick and Aldon run smartcampaigns and teach users about  
CivicSpace.  We have worked with them at CivicSpace events to set up  
and run training sessions for users so they can leave with their  
first site by the end of the day.

If you want to invite Nick to the Docs team you might suggest a  
document section called training materials.

Cheers,
Kieran
On Jul 29, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:

>> Some brief words to throw into the pot
>> "Drupal is a flexible Content Management System built around  
>> social  software and community management principles. It has a  
>> modular  approach to features and functionality, allowing users to  
>> build  everything from traditional corporate websites to large  
>> multi-user  systems that include social networking tools. Drupal's  
>> powerful  categorization system and extensible content system  
>> allows it to  support many different data models and media types.  
>> Full support for  search engine friendly content and Web 2.0  
>> features like user  interactivity and RSS mean that Drupal is an  
>> excellent choice for  building today's leading edge websites."
>>
>
> In my opinion, far too wordy. Take a look at my description for LibDB:
>
>  LibDB allows you to smartly and easily catalog your movies, books,
>  magazines, comics, etc. into your own computerized "personal  
> library".
>  It is a free, open sourced, library and asset management system based
>  on and inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic
>  Records (pdf), triples from the semantic web, and "the end-user
>  doesn't, and shouldn't, need to know this stuff".
>
> It goes "down the rabbit hole" as opposed to being already there:  
> it starts out with an innocent "anyone can understand" sentence,  
> then throws in some middle ground tech buzzwords, and finally  
> descends into the real Lib Tech aspects that only libraries would  
> understand. More importantly, however, it concludes with innocence,  
> soothing the reader into realizing that they shouldn't worry about  
> the stuff they just didn't understand.
>
> Randomly, my first very basic re-edit of the above (and, as good as  
> it can get with only about ten minutes of thoughts whilst I'm  
> distracted):
>
>  Drupal is a content management system flexible enough to easily
>  create simple sites, forums, or blogs, on through middle-ground
>  creations consisting of categorized content, hierarchal forums,
>  and aggregated data, all the way up to full-fledged community
>  sites with threaded comments, multiple levels of access control,
>  complex taxonomy systems, customizable profiles, and more.
>
>  Used internally by Yahoo! and proudly by such sites as
>  $1, $2, $3, Drupal is an excellent and well-supported choice
>  for building sites that take advantage of tried-and-true
>  web technology, while also offering the latest and greatest
>  innovations made daily by the web building elite.
>
> Even with that, there's still lots wrong with it - the first  
> paragraph is actually only one sentence, the second paragraph uses  
> "internally" and "proudly" weirdly, the final sentence yells out  
> "we are cool!" which is never a good sign, and blah blah blah. I  
> think its less buzzwordy though.
>
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