Here’s a question posted in WJ’s Dear Community by member Kelley Beeson asking for suggestions about Drupal. Do you know of tools for learning more about implementing Drupal or other open source CMS/Intranet solutions?
Thanks Kelley, for an excellent question:
“So here in Allegheny County in Pittsburgh (with our 44 libraries) we’re looking into using Drupal for a staff-only kind of intranet thing. I’ve been having no luck finding any online or even geographically manageable classes – anyone know of any or know anyone who could offer one, perhaps here on WebJunction? I’ve gotten the Drupal book and have even created a minimal page, but I realize I’m a bit out-of-my-realm when it comes to inviting 100+ users to begin engaging on the site – I can only imagine all the variables that I haven’t addressed! So, just putting my query out there to the library universe!”
If you’ve got suggestions for her, post them here or in Dear Community.
And I love her idea of some training on WJ. If anyone is interested in facilitating or presenting a webinar on the topic, please contact us via the form on our Webinars page. The archive would be a great resource, for sure!
I’m not sure if you are fully set on Drupal yet; if you are just at the evaluation stage, Plone/Zope (http://plone.org/) is another one to check out. Plinkit is a pretty cool Plone/Library project!(http://www.plone4lib.org/resources/case-studies/plinkit-plone-for-public-libraries/view)
Drupal is a good cms for small things such as a hobby site, family site etc, if you are looking for something which requires better security and is also bit faster, then I would recommend you using an open source perl cms such as webapp perl cms from: http://www.web-app.net
drupal training…
Greate article to read on a Saturday. Found your site looking for drupal training…