I frequently try out and contribute to a variety of open-source online community-type tools including Mambo, Tiki-wiki, Drupal (a commercial version of Drupal = Acquia ), and Moodle. I have several currently installed and use some of them for testing out comparative features.

Several guides on the Web provide discussions of the various tools available. Wikipedia provides one of my favorite general lists here.

This is a cap-stone course in the MIS major at the University of Georgia. It involves integrating programming and database design skills with organizational design understanding and change and project management techniques in a hands-on project with a real business.

I built an interactive, dynamic course management system in Microsoft ASP to manage this course back in 2001. Years later, I translated this framework to PHP for my effort in the 2090 Intro course. Here is a shell of the site I used for 4620. It no longer has the dynamic elements since the server cannot process ASP pages.

State-wide Automated Social Welfare IS (SACWIS)

I have been following various government efforts to organize and improve. Family services prove particularly difficult. The SACWIS efforts is one in a long string by the US governement.