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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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.

The purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve transparency, participation, and collaboration. The directive requires significant website innovation for all departments and agencies. This overview will cover how open standards and semantic web technologies can help aid transparency. The Webinar will also demonstrate how Drupal's ecosystem of features and contributors provide a rich social publishing platform for collaboration and participation. We will review three Drupal sites featured in the open government innovations gallery.

Featured Guest Speaker: Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate

The explicit purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the Directive will require significant web site innovation for many departments and agencies. Join us for this complimentary overview of Drupal to learn how and why it is being quickly adopted across U.S. federal, state and local governments for social publishing.

Featured Guest Speaker: Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate