WebLion benefits

Become a WebLion partner to achieve a wide range of benefits:

More (cost-)effective internet presence

No “webmaster bottleneck”: many people can update your site

• What-you-see-is-what-you-get interface means anyone who can use a word processor is capable of updating your website's content
• Fine-grained control over who can add what, when
• Option of having someone(s) review material before it is published (workflow)
• Precise control over who can see what, when: intranets and public sites on the same system

Automatic publishing of content

• Have items show up and disappear automatically (for example, depending on the date)
• Automatically archive old versions of pages
• Where relevant, pull in content from other sites, and push out content to them (via RSS feeds and web services)

Accessible, usable, secure sites

• Easy for your faculty/staff/students to contribute content and keep it up to date
• High visibility to search engines
• Accessible to people using screen-readers
• Human-readable URLs

Software that you don't have to buy

• The content management system and plug-ins are all open-source: your staff can use and adapt solutions developed for free by an ingenious, international community of developers

Respond more quickly to technological/cultural change

• Once on the platform, redesigns will be relatively easy and fast
• Enable interaction and transaction with users, as well as presenting information to them

Transform your business processes

• Use the web to do your administration and paper-pushing more quickly and efficiently

Examples from current partners include systems to:

• Review and approve students who apply to graduate programs (Huck Institutes)
• Collect paperwork needed for course accreditation (College of Education)
• Share course materials among relevant faculty (Department of Meteorology)

More benefits

WebLion is a version of the Plone content management system, customized for Penn State. Consequently, it has all the benefits of Plone.