social media

Enterprise social communities and Drupal

Dries Buytaert's picture

Jay just posted a blog post, called Building enterprise social communities with Drupal, sharing a white paper that we have written at Acquia. In this white paper, we answer questions like: what kind of social features Drupal supplies, why Drupal is the best choice for building a social site, what Drupal modules are useful when building a social site, and some examples of successful enterprise Drupal communities.

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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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Date & time: Thursday, March 11, 2010
1:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Rachel Happe, Principal and Co-Founder of The Community Roundtable, and Lynne Capozzi, VP of Marketing, Acquia

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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Date & time: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Jason Ingalls, GDIT and Chuck D'Antonio, Director Professional Services, Acquia

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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Date & time: Thursday, March 18, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing

VP Services

Founded by the Drupal creator, Acquia offers enterprise-class consulting, support, hosting, website administration and soon a SaaS version of Drupal hosted in the cloud. Our rocket growth has led to the need for senior leader to head up our consulting and support businesses.

Beyond Social Business Software

Tom Erickson's picture

Acquia issued a press release today contrasting Social Publishing platforms represented by Drupal and the growing number of Social Business Software products. At first glance it would seem that we don’t like those products, but that’s not the case. The products have some nice capabilities and many organizations are using them daily.

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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. Register Now

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Date & time: Thursday, September 17, 2009
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Bryan House, Director of Marketing

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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Date & time: Thursday, June 11, 2009
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Bryan House, Director of Marketing

MITX Marketing Technology Event: The Building Blocks of Social Media

Date: 
10/28/2008
Location: 
Camridge, Massachusetts

Acquia's Jeff Whatcott will join Mike Gauthier, Founder and CEO, e-tractions; Aaron Strout, Vice President of New Media, Mzinga; Dean Whitney, President, Garfield Group Interactive, and others in a panel discussion on the vendor landscape and strategies organizations are using in approaching the technology behind social networking and social media as marketing tools.

This event is sponsored by MITX, the Massachusetts Information & Technology Exchange.

To register for this event, please visit the MITX web site via the link shown below.

Type: 
Seminar