WordPress Wins Best Open Source Social Networking CMS. “Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close category, WordPress came out in front of Elgg and Drupal, who finished joint second.” Yay! (61)
woohoo! felicidades a Wordpress!
:: efrain
Nice! As a user for more than a year, I have to agree that it’s definitely the best CMS all-around, open source or otherwise.
Congratulation!
Being opensource and extensible is really attractive!
Congratulations!
The best indeed, there’s no doubt about it. Way to go!!!
Woot! That is very awesome indeed!
I find the “social networking” part fascinating.
How many CMS’ are designed with social networking in mind, in the first place?
Basically, wordpress’ ping feature was awarded.
Wow, that’s good news to read. I’m glad I’m using WordPress as my CMS. Let’s just hope it keeps evolving into a better and more powerfull CMS. ^_^
Congratulations!
Justice is served.
congratz matt… 
Cong! at least my favorited and trusted platform.
hello matt, congrats..another great achievement from the wordpress.. 
Hey! Congratulations, Matt!
More power to Wordpress and to all you guys! Regards to Maya!
Sending you the T-Shirt very very soon by the way. Before Christmas definitely!
Cheers! 
congrats to WordPress!
woot. Good to hear that, congrats.
Congratulations! What will you do with all that money?
That is Sweet
congrats!
congrats! Wordpress deserves every piece of it
Congratulations!
GRATZZZ!
Im the user of wordpress.com and blogs on my own domains and im 100% agre with this award!
Yeah! That’s really really good! Now let’s face another round, and make WordPress the Best Open Source All-Rounder CMS
Congratulations! We were very pleased to be finalists, and were in very fine company. WordPress is a very accomplished piece of software, and deserves to be recognised.
Thats very good news for all WordPress Contributers and the community.
Congratulations to all Developers and Contributers.
Congratulations!
Could someone provide an example of a Social Networking Site using WordPress as its CMS?
Congrats!!! 
That’s awesome! That’s why I use WordPress! Without Wordpress, I would not have been inspired to blog or make a website at all.
Matt, that was obvious since wordpress is used and promoted by millions of web users and its the lowest buggy script ever made.
Congrats to the wordpress team
Amit
Congratulations, Matt - that’s great news. Wordpress rocks!
Well done to the wordpress team…the best blogging platform there is!!!!!
> Could someone provide an example of a Social Networking Site using WordPress as its CMS?
As far as I know there aren’t any.
No disrespect to Wordpress, but “Social Networking CMS” is not a category Wordpress belongs to. I haven’t seen a single social network site built on Wordpress, let alone a successful one.
Could it get any better?
I’m with Pundit, this really does seem pretty suspect. Wordpress.org doesn’t even support avatars without a complicated plugin, and the default “author pages” just show that author’s pages inside the normal loop, they dont’ even clearly label the page as a user’s work. Also, comments aren’t tracked at all in terms of user’s who posted them, and the comment link goes to the user’s website, not their profile page.
It seems like the voting was almost definitely skewed by the fact that Wordpress.COM is a great social networking site, because of the user integration and portal views you’ve added to it. But even WPMU doesn’t have any of that, it just treats everyone as a blog.
I think the award goes to Wordpress.com as a social networking site, but isn’t deserved because the award is for an open source CMS, and wordpress.com isn’t a CMS, it’s a site. If “wordpress” can win this award then why not Facebook, since it’s just as open source (runs on php and Linux), and just as much not a CMS (you can’t download it and take advantage of it’s social networking properties).
Maybe, just maybe, Milorad was right and WP got it for having good Trackback functionality, but that seems so farfetched that I can’t take it seriously. Trackbacks are complicated and most people don’t understand them unless they are pros, so even positing that they are good for ’social networking’ in general is pretty heavy-handed, let alone that WPs implementation is outstanding enough to win an award.
Congratulations Wordpress! It’s very well-deserved.
Congratulations
Social network? thats a stretch for something that can’t even do simple line breaks. a good blogging tool at best. Movable Type rocks them all
Yawn…
Congratz!
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Congratulations Matt and WordPress!
Congrats !!!
long user of wordpress.com moved to wordpress.org
Kick ass! How well does Wordpress scale? Anyone out there using this on a very high traffic site?
Since this was a CMS award I can see how the results might have been close (not purely a blogging award). Goes to show what you can do with Wordpress.
Matt are you going to get gravatars into that Opensocial from Google some how?
Gravatars would be a cool place to have a centralized profile. And what would be cool is if you could be like an OpenID where you sign in with Gravatars to all kinds of blog platforms.
Good job guys!
Congrats and keep up the good work!
Thats very good news for all WordPress Contributers and the community.
Congratulations to all Developers and Contributers.
Wordpress has been by far the easiest content management platform to use. It’s success, I believe, is based on the ease of use, not to mention tons of themes that are available. One should also note that the open source allows for developers to customize the ‘blog’ allowing widgets to be included in Wordpress.
Congratulations.
Well Deserved! Seeing the future ahead, we need to make it even better more evolutionary to make wordpress a sustainable product for next 5 years. How about adapting to OpenSocial standards?
Congratulations!
Do the best!
Must be nice to see your baby grow up to be #1. You and the rest of the team should be proud. A job well done.
read http://blazenewmedia.com/articles/chickspeak-a-wordpress-mu-based-social-network/
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