Monday, May 11, 2009

Thing 19, Drupal / CMS

I'm super excited about the new Drupal Lint. I think it will be much easier to keep documents up to date, especially on our department page. I'd love to see some sort of blog/message board/forum for clerks to discuss policies, procedures, and any questions they might have. From what I've seen of the new Drupalified Lint I like how much easier the navigation is compared to the old LInt. I hope to see a feature where comments posted on LInt blogs are emailed to the original poster so they can respond.

I really liked how the Ann Arbor District Library used Drupal for their public website. They have also made really good use of other Library 2.0 technologies like Facebook, Twitter, and, especially, Flickr. I'm also super impressed by their "On Demand" video collection. They have video footage of library programs and events available to watch online. I'd love to see CATS do something like this for the MCPL website.

The articles about Drupal were interesting but pretty basic and geared more towards the people who do the actual implementation of the website. The article from WebDesignerDepot was the best, the other two seemed to be sponsered by specific CMS companies.

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