I mentioned last week about closing down sqlgroups.com and trying to decide on a new home for oPASS.org. We did a quick look at alternatives including just using LinkedIn, but ultimately decided we’d dog food it a bit and use the PASS solution. Interesting so far, I don’t know much about DNN so at times I scratch my head over reasonably simple things, but it’s there and it looks like we moved our member list over ok. From a new admin perspective I think we (PASS) definitely needs to do more to make the start up phase easier – at least a checklist and some notes, maybe a bit of video.

In practice a chapter site doesn’t need a lot of functionality or a lot of updates, just announce meetings and events, provide links to downloads from presentations, and not much else. We’ll still be using LinkedIn as our main method of networking (no link on the site yet). The biggest thing I don’t see yet is how to allow members to opt in/out of some mailing lists we would like to define, maybe those are groups/roles? Don’t know yet.

One thing on my list to investigate is what would the pro/con of having our LinkedIn group set up as a subgroup of the PASS group. As long as we get the same functionality we have now, seems like better than being totally separate.

Almost forgot the link – new site is http://orlando.sqlpass.org.