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Wordpress

Description: WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Comments: Arguably the best blogging engine for users that want a no-mess, no-fuss solution to their personal publishing requirements with excellent support and documentation and lots of themes and extensions. Can also be a used as a basic content management system.
Technical Level: Seamless installation. Up and running in less than 5 minutes. Does require access to database and existing connection details to ensure a speedy installation.
Site: http://wordpress.org/
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ActionApps

Description: Action Applications (AA) is an open source Content Management System (CMS) developed by the Association for Progressive Communications - Apc.
Comments: A collaborative web publishing tool for non-profits, which is:
  • Fast & Easy: If you can fill out a form, you can publish professional-looking items online—in minutes.
  • Flexible: Automate all kinds of content—news, events, action alerts, member lists, RSS and email alerts.
  • Collaborative: Unique Content Pooling features help NGOs work together to save time and build audience.
Technical Level: Low technical level for final users. Requires knowledge how to install a website in a server with a MySQL Database.
Site: http://www.actionapps.org/
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Drupal

Description: Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Drupal can be used for community web portals and discussion sites, corporate web sites/intranet portals, personal web sites, aficionado sites, e-commerce applications and resource directories.
Comments: A very powerful tool for building community-orientated websites.
Technical Level: Middle technical level, requires knowledge how to install a php script on a server with a MySQL Database.
Site: http://www.drupal.org/
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Joomla

Description: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
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Site: http://www.joomla.org/
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ccHost

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Site: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcHost
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Tools

TinyMCE

Description: TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG HTML editor created in JavaScript.
Comments: The cool thing about this editor is that it can run right off of the CD or website. May be useful to include on the CD as a minimalist addition that can be run almost anywhere.
Technical Level: pretty much anyone can use it, though they'll need to find a place to upload their files.
Site: TinyMCE Site
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FileZilla

Description: FileZilla is an open source FTP client with a GUI interface.
Comments: The most developed and reliable open source FTP client there is. Has a very pretty user interface that mimics the looks of popular closed source clients.
Technical Level: Low technical level, though requires an understanding of what FTP is, and why it's useful.
Site: http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
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NVU

Description: Based on Mozilla Composer, NVU is a full-featured WYSIWYG HTML editor.
Comments: I use it for basic web development and am very happy.
Technical Level: Low - easy to use.
Site: http://www.nvu.com/index.php
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Additional Resources

Knowing when you need a CMS: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page4896.cfm

part 2: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5062.cfm

part 3: http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/webbuilding/page5127.cfm 

   * http://www.la-grange.net/cms
   * http://www.opensourcecms.com/
   * http://www.oscom.org/
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