social publishing

Roadmap, or Roadblock?

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I continually marvel at how much better the open source world works than the old proprietary software software world.

Yesterday I encountered an amazingly good illustration. I was discussing Drupal Commons with a team from a large, household-name enterprise that is planning a social business site. And boy, they had lots of questions! Read full article »

The web is free; shouldn't your social business software be?

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Today is a fun day for me: We’re releasing Drupal Commons as a 1.0 release. Woo hoo! Time - once again - for open source to go blow the doors off another proprietary software cathedral.

Drupal Commons is Acquia’s project to create an open source social business software solution for enterprises deploying a community site - either externally-facing, or for an internal community. Read full article »

Are you thinking like a marketer? If not, you should be!

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that traditional notions of “marketer” are long gone. Ten years ago you’d pretty much be able to categorize marketers into one or a few main buckets. We hung out at tradeshows, we had a handful of tools at our disposal to measure customer acquisition, engagement and ROI. For the most part we all worked in the same department- the marketing department. I was at Lotus at the time. It was a great little club and to all my fellow marketers who can actually remember what it was like back then, you know what I’m talking about. Read full article »

It takes most hosting companies weeks or months to roll out, configure and tweak all the servers required to host a high-traffic traffic sites. During this Webinar we will explore several use case scenarios describing typical customer challenges and the Acquia hosting and management solution delivered. Specific examples will include Mother Jones, NY State Senate, Sunshine State News, and a large global PR firm and will describe how Acquia quickly addressed these typical Drupal enterprise site challenges: Read full article »

Date & time: Thursday, June 3, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Jim Salem, VP of Platform Services

Top 10 Reasons for Marketers to build Microsites

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You have heard us talk a lot about the benefits of Drupal, specifically Drupal Gardens, when it comes to speeding the creation of building microsites. But I get asked a lot by fellow marketers “what is it that I can really gain from microsites that I’m not already getting from my other web marketing tactics?” In fact I get asked that question so much, that I’ve come up with my Top Ten on why marketers will be (and should be) building more microsites.

For those of you who are building microsites, what do you think? Read full article »

Take advantage of the social web to help your people become your competitive advantage.

Join Jacob Morgan, Principal of Chess Media Group, and Rick Mann, IT Manager, Florida Hospital, for a discussion on the best practices and upcoming trends in Enterprise 2.0 collaboration. Jacob works with clients on developing Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM, and Social Media strategies and Rick manages the Small Business Applications and Intranet Web Team, whose primary responsibilities include developing for and overseeing the organization's intranet. Read full article »

Date & time: Thursday, May 20, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Jacob Morgan, Principal of Chess Media Group and Rick Mann, IT Manager, Florida Hospital

Lifetime Networks, the most powerful media brand targeted to women, is a diverse, multi-media company, committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and informational content that celebrates, entertains and supports women. Among the top 500 most visited sites on the Internet, myLifetime.com, which is built on Drupal, receives 6.5 million visitors (3.6 million unique) and 50 million page views per month. Because of online campaigns, and the popularity of associated television shows, the Lifetime family of sites must be prepared to accommodate significant volume spikes. Read full article »

Date & time: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
12:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Nathan Potter, VP of Digital Media Technology, myLifetime.com

Mother Jones is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting. There are currently two main “channels” of distribution: an award-winning bimonthly national magazine (paid circulation 220,000), and a website featuring new, original reporting 24/7 with average monthly page views of 2.2 million.

In recent years the constraints of their old site proved too great for the quality and quantity of content, and the needs of its increasingly engaged readership. Mother Jones sought to increase the loyalty and involvement of readers through community driven dialog and information sharing.

Register Now Read full article »

Date & time: Thursday, May 13, 2010
1:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Robert Wise, Online Technology Director, Mother Jones and Kieran Lal, Drupal Community Adventure Guide, Acquia, Inc.

Join Dries Buytaert, Barry Jaspan, Jacob Singh for a one-hour presentation on the new Drupal 7. Dries will discuss the changes to Drupal 7, the new modules that have been added to core, and how these new modules will impact the Drupal 7 platform for developers, designers, site administrators and end-users. This is the second in a series of Drupal 7 Webinars hosted by Dries.

Key takeaways will include: Read full article »

  • Which new modules have been included in core and why
  • A quick review of the Drupal 7 capabilities and their relevancy to different user roles
Date & time: Thursday, July 29, 2010
3:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Dries Buytaert, Barry Jaspan, Jacob Singh, and Bryan House, Acquia

To meet Open Government Directive (OGD) requirements of transparency, participation, and collaboration, government agencies are using open source technology to power their websites including Recovery.Commerce.gov and NYSenate.gov. In addition to openness, freedom of information, and delivery of quality content to citizens, OGD requirements include:

  • Continually managing the content
  • Delivering content in an open format using open standards
  • Maintaining records management and security
  • Controlling costs

Acquia and Alfresco for this complimentary Webcast, as they explore the requirements Government 2.0 places on Social Publishing, Document Management, and Records Management, and the top ten ways Acquia and Alfresco deliver Government 2.0. Read full article »

Date & time: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
11:00 AM EDT
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Ian Howells, Alfresco and Bryan House, Acquia