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CMSAcademy.2008.09.25

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:02:27 +0000

Audio from this week's show in which we talk about how we might work together to build resources related to using Drupal for content management. We are encouraging people to leverage freely available resources on the web and to share these with others. As an example, Take Drupal for a Test Drive and Lullabot were two resource sites mentioned this week.

We're also encouraging interested parties to produce Jing Project screencasts of particular "issues" they are experiencing.

Drupal itself also offer a growing repository of information. As an example, we've recently had questions about errors with the getid3 module (it automatically "gets" the information in the ID3 tags embedded in MP3 files re artist et al.) and a search of the term reveals we're not the only ones, as well as some "solutions" and "workarounds" the community has applied to the problem.

Drupal getting to know you - Planning session

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:48:43 +0000

Peggy George, Darrell Garrison and Lorna Costantini chat about how they are going to try and learn how to use drupal. The audio is an amusing recording of three self directed learners trying to find the best approach. Any one can join them. Watch for more sessions on the calendar. The atmosphere will encourage all kinds of questions. Hopefully some one in the group will have an answer!

Admin Menu options

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:01:16 +0000

One of the small annoyances of Drupal 'out of the box' is the fact that the admin menu isn't expandable. Here are a few modules that create expandable admin menus

Screencast Below

Drupal - From the Beginning

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:01:52 +0000

This is step one for some of us to drop questions and answers, helpful links, and resources from the CMS academy in one place as we go through learning how to work Drupal from start to finish. (OK..so one is never done!)

Cathy E and I are working on some small issues so we thought we would start a new forum to get answers and help. Please jump in and add anything you want to this forum.

If anyone makes comments to this post, please add tags that are applicable to the topic. Thanks ~Lee

Drupal CMS Academy Live Session

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:11:58 +0000

Join us at our weekly collaborative Drupal help session!

Tonight's Yugma here

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Screencast - Submitting Issues at Drupal.org

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:25:03 +0000

Screencast
Submitting Issues at Drupal.org

Drupal CMS Academy Live Web Cast - February 19, 2007

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:55:09 +0000

Several technology bumps in the road during this "All in the Family" web cast, but what fun it was! We laughed, we cried when we lost the stream, we Yugmad! We also fixed the Worldbridges.net Drupal installation (looks like Jeff forgot to turn off the audio module before he upgraded it), talked about a few interesting modules (linked here) and began helping out Drupal Newbie Barb with her Matodor site. Can't wait to see her progress next week!

No show on February 5, 2007 - Sorry for any confusion!

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:30:29 +0000

... but we'll catch up on all things Drupal next time! Blame it on JenM!

Drupal CMS Academy Live Web Cast - January 22, 2007

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:51:41 +0000

In this session, we used Yugma as our screen sharing application. The group seemed to prefer Yugma's screen sharing to WebHuddle, but unfortunately we had some problems with the software about half way through the show and switched over to Vyew (with only limited success). In terms of Drupal goodness, Dave talked about the Web FM (file manager) module, Jeff L and Jeff F shared updates on their latest Drupal projects and issues, Jen referred the group to Drupal support resources (including the IRC support channel at #drupal-support) and Dave spent the rest of the session chatting with other Drupalers in the IRC support channel. Can't wait to see what next week holds for the group!

Drupal CMS Academy Live Web Cast - January 15, 2007

drupal@cmsacademy.net (Jeff Lebow) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:57:53 +0000

[Update: 3rd time is a charm, I hope] Happy 6th birthday to Drupal and welcome Drupal 5.0!! Sorry if you missed the live web cast session this week, but please be sure to check out the recording!