The famous Greek philosopher Aristotle stated, “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”  Aristotle's dialogues have been used to teach an array of subjects  from physics to poetry.  Mediacurrent has heeded Aristotle's words and has recently stood up a new training division.    As countless Drupal sites are launched daily across the web the demand for sound Drupal specific training has exploded.    The increased number of  Drupal books published over the last several years mirror the Drupal community’s desire for increased training.

In the beginning of the year, Mediacurrent announced an alliance with Open Source Training. For the past few months, the partnership remained largely dormant as we found it difficult to balance the demands of Drupal site-building, while expanding our training services. Ultimately, we decided that we needed a dedicated resource to exclusively focus on Drupal training initiatives. With that said, we are pleased to announce Jordan Schmitt as Mediacurrent’s new Director of Drupal Training.

This summer I was a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program for Drupal. I maintain the Facebook-style Statuses module, which allows users to have a stream of “status updates” on their user profiles and to write messages on other users’ profiles, like Facebook.

Recently I’ve given presentations on Social Networking in Drupal. In my mind, status updates are a central tenet of any successful social networking platform, which is why I built the Facebook-style Statuses module for Drupal.