24.08.2006 - Last week, UNESCO Bangkok headquarters hosted a TYPO3 training course dedicated to the internal staff of web editors and administrators. Training involved a group of 30 web editors and administrators who attended a 5 days session course about all the aspects of cms TYPO3.
Webformat, one of the most important TYPO3 European web integrator and consultancy, organised the training course focussing on the new functions, configuration and development of the cms.
UNESCO Bangkok improves web communication
“For UNESCO sharing of knowledge is an essential part of its constitutional mandate. Through its various portals, UNESCO offers, therefore, a wide array of services to members of professional communities in the area of communication and information.”
As the Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, UNESCO Bangkok promotes programmes and coordinates responses in order to achieve the goals related to social, cultural, technological and educational development.
Through the UNESCO’s website a large amount of pages and media resources are being provided to UNESCO professionals and local area institutions in a very cost-effective, detailed and comprehensive modality. www.unescobkk.org has become a precious tool, a powerful communication medium for the development and integration of ICT in different aspects of the social and cultural development of the South-East Pacific region.
The sharing of knowledge and information through the web has been made possible also by the use of open source cms TYPO3. The whole staff of web editors and administrators edit more than 6,000 pages in which UNESCO actions and projects are explained, described and made clear.
The huge quantity of contents edited and communicated through this website requires a reliable and flexible content management solution and TYPO3 fulfils perfectly this fundamental requirement. Among the greatest benefits of using this open source CMS, there is also its potential customizability, its flexibility and easiness of use which allows differently skilled editors to keep content updated.
Getting to know TYPO3 4.0 new features and functions
The training session was of an advanced and extensive one and it has improved and made more effective the editing and administrating tasks of the internal staff who has achieved a wider use competence and a deeper knowledge of version 4.0 features.
The new functionalities of Versioning and Workspace, as long as Workflow, have been fully outlined in order to enable many groups of users and editors to update efficiently www.unescobkk.org contents.
An interesting part of the 5-days training session was dedicated to the use and configuration of the most common extensions such as Newsletter, Blog, Iz gallery. In addition web administrators were shown how to manage an e-commerce website using TYPO3 Webformat Shop System Extension.
A specific “tech session” was attended by IT programmers who learned about some advanced functions such as DBMS support with DBAL, Real URL management and indexed search engine.
Particularly useful for UNESCO staff in Bangkok was learning about the use of TYPO3 Multilanguage options and functionalities (with UTF-8 support for Eastern languages) since the UNESCO development projects are addressed to multicultural institutions and communities.
As a whole this TYPO3 experience brought TYPO3 editors and administrators to be more self-confident and expert in the the use of the cms.
About WEBFORMAT
Webformat is a TYPO3 full service web agency. The company, located in Italy, is a supporting member of the TYPO3 Association and specializes in TYPO3 development and integration projects for national and foreign customers.
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