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 »

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 »

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 »

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.

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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

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 »