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My husband and I are building a Web site for all of our athletic programs at Jim Thorpe High Schools. It’s here and still in development but the kids are bugging us to post photos, so we’re launching on Monday, Jan. 7.

We’re using Drupal 5.5 just to test out that content management software. It’s been a real learning experience and we’re still not sure we know what we’re doing!

The goal of the site is to highlight all of the sports. Our first priority will always be olympianfootball.com but we felt like all the athletes needed recognition. Brian is responsible for compiling historic and future statistics, too, and so we’ll be using jtolympians.com to post those.

My vision is that we’ll be able to use Drupal’s taxonomy to tag content by athlete’s name and thus create a profile for that athlete dynamically. I’ve no idea if it’ll work but we’re going to try. Then, that student can use their profile page for college admission counselors or whatever they want.

As always, feedback is appreciated!

I sub-domained my personal site to create a place where I can share some thoughts and ideas about local media online. I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to post, but I’ll try and post something every day. This site will also be used to promote myself as an online media professional. I have more than ten years experience in the online space. My experience is with newspapers online, but along the way I’ve learned a lot about media online and I’m sure I can use that knowledge to help your company or organization succeed.

So, happy blogging!