YWAM Information Technology

Well, today we went live with a new web site / social network built on Ning, a hosted Social Networking solution.

Thank you to those of you who contributed to my previous discussion about YWAM and Social Networking. At that point we were exploring Ning and a Joomla plugin called Community Builder as options. My preference was Community Builder, or maybe Ning as a subdomain on our site, but they decided to go with a full Ning site.

Google has just released its service to store your medical information on their servers. So, you can have access to that information at any time from anywhere, well if you have internet access that is. You can give your medical records to doctors and clinics without dragging around tons of paper work and x-rays, etc. Sounds nice, so far.

This is how I start the new year (I actually ended it that way as well), I (re-)develop our personal web site using Drupal 5.5. What else can you in your holiday really.... ;) So far the site had been plain HTML (well, with CSS) and it's about time to make something new. I tried Typo3 but unfortunately I never could get anything to work.

Anyways, to install Drupal was a mater of minutes, so zero problems. But as I looked around I discovered more and more things that are not included in the core package. Like the ability to add keywords, etc. So, really some basic things or at least what I think are basic things.

Here's an interesting article on Drupal versus WordPress. I agree mostly with the article, except the bit about multiple users on WordPress.... currently, they are adding a fair bit to WordPress to accommodate this at the expense of other things I wished they would work on!

Hi everyone,
I just got a link to a self-assessment tool for church websites. Of course I know we are mainly talking about YWAM sites here and I know that therefor not everything in this questionnaire fits 100% into our situation.

Many are searching for good solutions that will serve their needs in the area of Content management / website development. Over the last year Joomla! has firmly joined the ranks of other CMS solutions, like  Drupal, Typo3, Mambo and others. A strong development team as well as a large community has added strength and momentum to Joomla!. It might be worth reading some of the recent posts on their website.

If your ywamsite or another ywam site you know about has an rss feed - I would really appreciate it if you could email me the feed address to dcouper(AT)oval.com it would really help some research we are doing here in harpenden.

Been thinking recently about what we in YWAM build IT-wise. To explain what I mean, lets look at an open source CMS (I will use drupal as the example for no better reason than because it is my current favourite).