User Contributions (Wiki) • Enable visitors to create content on your web site without access the administration interface • Typical scenarios:
– Community sites – members share knowledge – Partner directory – partners manage their profiles – Local business directory – business owners manage the profiles of their companies
• Flexible security model: – – – –
Any visitor Only site members Only document owners Only users with appropriate permissions
User Contributions (Wiki)
Web analytics • Track visitors, on-line campaigns and conversions: – Visits – Page views – Most visited pages – Referring web sites – File downloads – Countries – Campaigns – Conversions (orders, registrations, newsletter subscriptions, etc.)
Web analytics
Reporting • Create reports from data stored in the Kentico CMS database • Examples: – Created/modified documents – Site member reports – Sales
• Customizable layout of the reports • You can use: – – – –
bar chart pie chart table value
• Create custom filters • Print or save reports
Reporting
Reporting
Content and Object Staging • Synchronize development, testing and live web sites • Create and test content, design and functionality on the staging (development/QA) server and then publish it on the live server over a secured web service • With staging, the document life cycle looks like this: – – – – –
Document is created Document is approved in the workflow process Document is published on the staging server Review and approval by site manager -> synchronization Document is published on the live server
Content and Object Staging
Social Networking Features I • Kentico CMS provides a complete and flexible framework for social networks and on-line communities • Why on-line communities? – – – – – – –
Engage customers and increase their loyalty Start more personal and open communication Present and test new ideas Get feedback from clients Identify and eliminate sources of negative PR early Market research, polls and focus groups Decrease support costs – let customers help each other
Social Networking Features II • Available features – – – – – – – – – – – –
User registration and management Forums Blogs Message Boards Groups Friends Polls Private messaging Media Libraries Ready-to-use Community Starter Site Community points and user badges Integration with LiveID, OpenID and FaceBook Connect
Forums I • Create on-line communities • Main features: – Moderation – Access rights for posting (anonymous/registered/chosen roles) – E-mail subscriptions – Full-text search – WYSIWYG editing (optional) – Signatures and user images (avatars) – Threaded/flat/tree view modes
Forums II • Main features - continued: – CAPTCHA verification (optional) – Document-related forums (e.g. article comments) – Lock forum – Post attachments – BB-editor text formatting – Inserting images – Quoting – Question & Answers mode – Mark post as answer
Forums
Blogs • Any number of blogs authored • Each blog authored by one of more people (enterprise blogging) • Integrates with standard content management and security features (workflow, friendly URLs, search, etc.) • Tagging, tag cloud and categories • Moderated comments • RSS feeds • Fully customizable design • Rating • Trackbacks and Pings