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 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

Join Greg Knaddison of Growing Venture Solutions, Drupal expert and renowned author of “Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket” as he discusses best practices for identifying and preventing security vulnerabilities on Drupal sites. This Webinar is essential for anyone connected with developing, theming, or maintaining a Drupal site.

Now is the time to take control of your Drupal site security by learning how to:

• understand and prioritize the risks your site faces;
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In today’s challenging media environment, publishers are struggling to make their online services more flexible and engaging -- to keep users coming back. Publishers are being asked to do more with less while competing with a myriad of new content sources.

Publishers need to deliver rich content faster while engaging their audience in the topics of the day. These critical social publishing requirements, easily addressed with Drupal, cannot be met with conventional content management systems that are both cumbersome and inadequate.

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

Gigya Socialize provides a single API that aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and AOL. The new Socialize module for Drupal is fully configurable and installs in minutes with no programming. To see the new module in action.