Tiki: the Swiss Knife for CMS / Groupware needs

"Tiki CMS/Groupware (aka TikiWiki) is a powerful open-source Content Management System (CMS) and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of Web applications, Sites, Portals, Intranets and Extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a Web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki is a multi-purpose package with a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them. It is designed to be international, clean and extensible.

TikiWiki incorporates all the features present in several excellent wiki systems available today plus a lot of new features and options, allowing your wiki application to be whatever you want it to be--from a simple wiki to a complex site for a whole user community with many intermediate steps. You can use TikiWiki as a forums site, a chatroom, for poll taking, and much more! The possibilities are endless. [...]

Major features include articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a Wiki, drawing applet, trackers, a directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, a FAQ, chat, a banner management system, Webmail, a calendar, Ephemerides, maps, charts, Mobile Tiki (PDA and WAP access), RSS feeds, a category system, a theme control center, workflow, live support, Shoutbox, ACLs, and more."
[Source: UNESCO recommendation (see http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=89)]

This presentation focuses on some unique features of TikiWiki and their importance for business acceptance of a CMS (visibility of content, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Can-Access, Push/Pull mechanisms, KISS, etc.)
It is based on practical, essentially non-technical lessons learnt in CMS implementation.


About the presenter:
Francois Bachmann is a 36yo Knowledge Management and Groupware Specialist working for a Swiss IT Consultancy.
He's an Evangelist for Agile Software Development and Adaptive Methods, which has naturally brought him in touch with the Open Source CMS community.
He's been successfully implementing CMS software (and catalysing/accompanying the associated mindset change) in different business contexts.