[LIS-Forum] Dr. T.B. Rajashekar 11th Memorial Seminar (2015): Designing e-content portal using WordPress: reminder

Shivaram Gowda shivaramgowda at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 10:27:50 IST 2015


Dear Members,


NCSI-Net foundation (http://ncsinet.org) cordially invites you to the
Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial 11th Seminar (2015). This year’s seminar
topic is, Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Wordpress. It
is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and
Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals.


The details of the seminar are given below:


Title: 11th Dr. TB Rajashekar Memorial Seminar (2015): Designing
e-content portal using Wordpress


Date: December 19, 2015 (Third Saturday)


Venue: Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012


About the Seminar Theme:

With the explosive growth of online resources, managing such resources
has become a challenge for Information professionals.  Well designed
organization or library web portals / Gateway services helps in the
efficient dissemination of online resources to the user community.
Today’s online resources includes variety of authoritative web
resources (free & priced), integrating the relevant and useful
resources into a web portal facilitates in the effective and efficient
dissemination of information to the end users.  This can be achieved
using either commercial or open source content management tools.
Various open source CMS tools are available on the Internet.
Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, and  OpenCMS are few such examples. In this
seminar, some basic and useful features and functionalities of
Wordpress, one of the popular CMS tools will be featured.

Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/ ) is an open source, platform
independent content management system (CMS). Its popular features
include simple to install and use, powerful blog functionality,
customizable, multiplatform, multilingual, web based administration,
powerful report generation functionality, well organized browse and
search etc. Being a plug-in based  modular package, it facilitates in
enabling / disabling the functionalities as per the needs of
implementers. It has a strong and active user and developer community
who provide the much needed support in using the package effectively.
Self explanatory online and offline documentation are also available
for the package and they are updated frequently. Wordpress is being
used in developing different genres of website in various languages.

Objective of the Seminar:

To demonstrate the basic and essential features and functionalities of
the Wordpress CMS as to how this Open Source Web application can be
used to build Web Portals and provide Web-based information services.
At the end of the seminar, the participants should have a clear
understanding of the various features of the Wordpress CMS so that
they can plan to make use of this CMS for their user Community

 Seminar Topics & Resource Persons:

Seminar Overview by Francis Jayakanth, IIM, Bangalore

The Future of E-content Content and Content Management by Ananda
Byrapp, GE Bangalore

Wordpress: Introduction and Installation (Demo) by Shivaram BS,
CSIR-NAL, Bangalore

Wordpress configuration by Maruthu Pandian, IMSC, Chennai

Designing competitive intelligent portal using wordpress: case study

Career Advice for Information Professional by Dr. Rajendra Babu,
Tumkur University

Who should attend the Seminar?

LIS Students and fellow professionals interested in developing Web
portals and in providing web-based information services using a CMS

Registration Fee:

Rs. 250 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 500 for working
professionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 150. Fee covers Seminar kit,
working lunch and tea / coffee

Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made
for outstation participants.


Kindly bring this to the attention of the LIS students and budding
professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants
will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working
in the industry and academia.


For further information, please visit the Seminar website at:
http://ncsinet.org



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Shivaram BS
ICAST, CSIR-NAL
Govt. of India (Autonomous)
HAL Airport Road
Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017

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