Thought I'd drop a note in on what's currently happening in the world of Hospitality Crew future expansion.

Some of the planned features for the site that are currently in development

More on the up and coming video front.

A couple of our video crew interviewed the CEO of Intrust Super, Brendan O'Farrell the other day. Intrust have shown great interest in Hospitality Crew as they also share a similar vision - education and unity of the hospitality and tourism industry is paramount to the growth and stability to our employment sector/s.

Nick just showed me the initial draft of the first in a series of wine appreciation articles and videos - absolute WOW!!

Chris Barlow has joined us and is lending his vast expertise to the series. Now, I like the occasional drop of red but know zero/zip/nada about what a good wine is or isn't. Chris literally had me glued to the video - he's brilliant with wine and the video certainly won't disappoint. Tracking these videos for any of you budding waiters or, even, those that like a drop wine will be a must.

One feature that all our visitors are simply going to fall in love with is the ability to remotely post their blog items.

What's Remote Blogging?

Well, instead of logging into the site, navigating to your Blog area and going through all the web interface to post, their are a pile of software utilities that will allow you to compose your snippet offline and once you're ready to post, the software will log into Hospitality Crew for you and send us your post. Now that's so convenient and quick.

We decided to reinvent the Hospitality Crew site due to a number of new innovative ideas we want to put into play to really help the industry.

One of these requires a reasonably granular permissions system in the site's infrastructure. The previous site was built on the Joomla CMS system - a big failing here is the rigid user permissions system so we had to make some tough decisions about what to do with the site, moving forward. Being the site's Web Admin, I made the choice to convert the site to the Drupal CMS which looked absolutely brilliant as far as functionality goes.