"Who": The Belgian Socialist Party
The Belgian Socialist Party consists of the national socialist party and all its entities: the federations, the sections, the USCs and the parliamentary groups.
"Why": to manage the 700 sites and the data flow between them
Wishing to have their site redesigned and to introduce a single central and global system for the information carried by their site and those of their different entities, the Socialist Party called upon our services for the functional analysis and the development of a large-scale content management system. The SP in reality consists of over 700 websites.
"What": a Content Management System(CMS)
After the analysis of the functionality required for the project's implementation, we created the new socialist party site on the basis of its multiple entity structure.
Content Management System (CMS)
We put in place a content management solution which gave each entity its own access to the system, but with only the national SP having the full functionality and rights and those of the entities restricted.
Data flow management
The different entities have a section of their content imposed by the national SP but can administer their own additional pages. The SP site is therefore in reality made up of over 700 websites, each with content tailored to its own region, town or village. A distribution system allows the entities to share content with one or several others.
Eachentity's “Webmaster” has his own control panel allowing him to view changes and accept or reject the content. He can also communicate with other “Webmasters” within the website structure via internal messaging.
Add-on modules
The national SP possesses numerous add-on modules, certain of which are also accessible to the entities.
These include:
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Complete management of the homepages on the basis of several models available,
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Management of image and/or video galleries,
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Online store for purchasing SP items,
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Tools such as management of surveys and debates, management of an e-cards library, etc.
Web 2.0
The “MyPS” section allows surfers to register in order to have their own space where they can communicate with other “MyPS” members or even add their favourite pages and media.
“MyPS” also allows users to specify their preferences for certain topics in order to be directly offered pages of particular interest to them on the selected topics.
Currently, over 3,000 pages of content are administered in this way through all the different entities by means of a simple and intuitive interface.