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Crank Your Drupal Site Up a Notch
Pop quiz: What do Amnesty International, Monty Python, the White House, and NTEN have in common?
Web sites powered by Drupal.
Drupal has been out of the tech hobby shed for awhile now, of course. You may already be running it, but unsure of what it can do. Or you may be looking for a CMS platform for your next web site, and giving Drupal a hard look -- and not just because it's free and open source, but that helps, right? Either way, we'll get you up to speed at our upcoming webinar series, "Cranking Your Nonprofit's Drupal Site up a Notch".
> You should register for this workshop here.
Building Community with Open Source
Jonathan Hedstrom, OpenSourcery
Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication between individuals. As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital.
There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The first is often overlooked in favor of the more exciting second step. When this happens, the community rarely benefits from the resulting application.
Every community has unique needs that determine how they should select features. Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation.









Seth Schneider, Communications Director, 