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 »

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