The Acquia JumpStart program gives organizations the opportunity to work side by side with Drupal experts for quick team mentoring and development. Over the course of a week, your team will gain the familiarity and experience necessary to make the transition to Drupal. Learn the "ins and outs" of the Drupal framework platform. Whether you are new to Drupal and just getting started moving your website operations to Drupal, or you are a Drupal veteran, the JumpStart program can be customized to meet your requirements.

Join Robert Douglass of the Acquia Professional Services team as he details some of the lessons learned from JumpStarts we have delivered and what you can expect Read full article »

With over 21,000 content contributors, Examiner.com has enjoyed some of the fastest year-over-year growth of any online media company. Examiner.com has grown tremendously, both in the scope of functionality and the communities it covers, with over 100 markets throughout North America.

Behind the scenes, the massive production of news content has been facilitated through custom-coded Cold Fusion pages, and SQL Server databases. As with many fast-growing online ventures, Examiner.com began to face challenges caused by its own success. With Examiner.com’s entire business model dependent on substantial volumes of content, the management team decided to engage in careful planning for change, followed by swift action. If your business is being held back by inefficient systems and you are evaluating Drupal 7 as a solution, you will not want to miss this Webinar.

The Webinar, hosted by Drupal experts from Examiner.com, Tag 1 consulting, and Cyrve will explore the technology migration challenges and the Drupal solutions implemented to date. Read full article »

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. Read full article »

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

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. Read full article »

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 Read full article »

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. Read full article »