To be successful, larger Drupal sites face key issues of site performance and scalability. This webinar is targeted at managers and developers who are trying to get the most out of a Drupal site. We'll discuss common Drupal performance bottlenecks and a number of techniques to dramatically improve site performance. A detailed review of recent performance and stress testing will highlight PHP optimizations specific to Drupal as well as the popular Pressflow extensions.

Acquia Client Advisor Webinar Series:

The early decisions that a Drupal site architect makes regarding their site's information architecture can be some of the most important to a project's scalability and usability. CCK (Content Construction Kit) and Taxonomy are key elements to a solid foundation on which to build a rocking Drupal site. Knowing when, how, and why to leverage them in a given situation is a crucial starting point for anyone building a site in Drupal.

Join Acquia's Client Advisory Team for a one hour webinar exploring recommended approaches and helpful thought processes when initially planning your site's content with these tools.
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Building and nurturing a community and using social media to cultivate your community is moving from a "nice to have" to a business requirement. Those businesses that leverage this social momentum increase loyalty, brand value and revenue. However, this transition can be very difficult and disruptive because it requires cultural, leadership, strategy, workflow, and operational changes. Social media experts from The Community Roundtable have developed a Community Maturity Model with eight competencies to help guide organizations through this complex management transformation and to provide a best practices benchmark.

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Open source systems introduce new uncertainties into the certification and accreditation (C&A) process for information systems. Join Acquia, GDIT and Carahsoft for a complimentary webcast where we will discuss:

• How Acquia and their partners at GDIT have developed an approach to certifying and accrediting systems built on Drupal and the LAMP stack
• The processes and tools used to classify your system according to FISMA and NIST guidelines
• How to develop and verify the required controls for your Drupal-based system
• Experiences that have developed Acquia’s approach
• Surprising similarities between the C&A process for open and closed source systems

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Join Acquia Director of Marketing Bryan House for this one-hour introduction to Acquia's open source social publishing offerings. This Webinar describes how you can take advantage of Acquia Drupal and the Acquia Network to build communities on the web, to maximize the return on your web site investments and to leverage new social media technologies.

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Join us for a walk-through of the major features of Drupal Gardens Beta. Drupal Gardens is a hosted version of Drupal 7, empowering users to quickly and easily assemble socially smart and powerful Websites without having to do any programming. During the demo we will highlight some of the main features, including the theme builder and site templates. We'll also demonstrate some of the features that can be added to a site like a Follow us feature, Share this, email signup list, and comment notify.

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The editors at Ziff Davis Enterprise invite you to join Geoffrey Bock, Senior Analyst for The Gilbane Group; Jason Hibbets, Project Manager in Brand Communications + Design for Red Hat; and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing for Acquia, in a conversation about how social publishing is disrupting the Web Content Management (WCM) and social software markets.

Over the past year, the Drupal community has focused on improving the Drupal user experience, making Drupal more friendly to a less technical user-base and rolling those improvements into Drupal 7. Join Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform and Jeff Noyes, Acquia's director of user experience and contributor to the D7UX team contributor, for a one-hour tour of the new Drupal 7 usability features and the driving forces behind them. This will be the first in a series of Drupal 7 Webinars hosted by Dries this year.

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Over the past year, the Drupal community has focused on improving the Drupal user experience, making Drupal more friendly to a less technical user-base and rolling those improvements into Drupal 7. Join Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform and Jeff Noyes, Acquia's director of user experience and contributor to the D7UX team contributor, for a one-hour tour of the new Drupal 7 usability features and the driving forces behind them. This will be the first in a series of Drupal 7 Webinars hosted by Dries this year.

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Join Drupal experts from IBM Global Business Services as they detail the process of defining business requirements, selecting the appropriate technologies, overcoming the technical enterprise integration challenges, and ultimately launching best of breed e-commerce sites with Drupal.

Key takeaways include:

• A review of the key business and technology decision criteria for selecting Drupal and Acquia
• An example of a 3 tiered architecture implemented to deliver end-end automation and a flexible platform for future innovation
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