This Winamp player concept looks real cool. How do you want it to be? A touch screen jobby or a proper physical metal buttons and a nice toggey-clickety action for shuffle/repeat? If the faceplates can be changed, I would like to get a Wii skin.

A detailed look at the top blogging tools and key considerations for nonprofits.

This article is courtesy of Idealware, which provides candid information to help nonprofits choose effective software. For more articles and reviews, go to www.idealware.org.

While often regarded as a platform for people to share their personal stories, a blog can also be used to tell the story of an organization. Whether showcasing your work, offering behind-the-scenes glimpse into your nonprofit, highlighting the people you serve, or advocating a particular point of view, a blog can be a powerful - and influential - communication and public-relations tool for your organization.

Bert Boerland, Drupaleer and employee at Dutch Open Projects, an Open Source implementor in the Netherlands has kindly invited us to take part in the Joomla/Drupal camp they are planning for this summer.

Bert explains the concept for the bootcamp on his blog as follows :

This is a set of tasks I use to get a feel for the default capabilities of a CMS once I've installed it. I used this set of tasks as a basis for evaluating the features of each CMS in this review. It is by no means a comprehensive test suite, but aims to provide a framework for making quick assessments of CMSs.

Open source content management software sucks. It sucks really badly.

 The only things worse is every commercial CMS I've used. But it really doesn't have to be that way.

During conversations with clients over the last few months, one key question keeps coming up: "should I use Joomla 1.0 or Joomla 1.5?" In fact, I can trace the first time I was asked that question back to October 2006.

This seems like a natural follow-on to our previous questions about major companies using Joomla and Joomla sites with great rankings.

 "Do you know of any famous people using Joomla?"

I've decided to set the bar high again by looking only for official sites about truly famous people. A good rule of thumb is "do they have a Wikipedia entry?"

Here's what I've found so far: 

When it came time to update LAF's public website and Intranet, it was my job to figure out the tech behind the site. I was bound and determined to move LAF into the new millenium, put us on a web content management system (CMS), and move the task of updating the sites from one tech staff person to the hands of a few. I needed a well supported, easy to use, modular, and flexible system. Oh yeah, and it needed to be free.

For a small business pharmacy shop looking to presenting themselves with a small website I’m aiming at a web CM system that integrates the following:

• Content should be edited via a highly configurable, yet minimal rich text editor so there is no difference to writing text in Word with even less function offered (only predefined CSS-Styles for title, paragraph, etc.). No need of code view.