This week begins the LIS 901-06 course on Web 2.0 at LIU’s Palmer School of Library Science. I want to thank everyone who helped beta test the website community, and to invite anyone who would like to follow along to go ahead and check it out. It’s a social community in which the students will be able to participate, and it’s built in Drupal. If you’d like to check it out, please go to: http://www.infosherpas.com/fall2007/

To find out what the website is all about, and what you can do on it, you may want to check out the LIS 901-06 Introductory Tour webcast I created (it’s about 3 minutes). There are also several other webcasts which will teach the students how to accomplish specific tasks.

For those of you who are curious about Drupal, the website was created using Drupal v. 5.2 and I utilized the following modules in my implementation:
CCK
Development
Event
Image
Image Assist
Avatar Selection
Chat Room
FAQ
Favorite Nodes
Feedback
Forward
Guestbook
Masquerade
Month
Service Links
Signup
Tabbed Blocks
Thickbox
TinyMCE
Buddylist
Tagadelic
Views

I also designed a custom user profile file by following the instructions on the Drupal website here. If anyone would like to copy and use my user profile code for their own social network, please feel free to download my file here. And for those of you with more budget than time, don’t forget about my consulting services.