Join us for a walk-through of the major features of Drupal Gardens Beta. Drupal Gardens is a hosted version of Drupal 7, empowering users to quickly and easily assemble socially smart and powerful Websites without having to do any programming. During the demo we will highlight some of the main features, including the theme builder and site templates. We'll also demonstrate some of the features that can be added to a site like a Follow us feature, Share this, email signup list, and comment notify.

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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.

Over the past year, the Drupal community has focused on improving the Drupal user experience, making Drupal more friendly to a less technical user-base and rolling those improvements into Drupal 7. Join Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform and Jeff Noyes, Acquia's director of user experience and contributor to the D7UX team contributor, for a one-hour tour of the new Drupal 7 usability features and the driving forces behind them. This will be the first in a series of Drupal 7 Webinars hosted by Dries this year.

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Over the past year, the Drupal community has focused on improving the Drupal user experience, making Drupal more friendly to a less technical user-base and rolling those improvements into Drupal 7. Join Dries Buytaert, the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform and Jeff Noyes, Acquia's director of user experience and contributor to the D7UX team contributor, for a one-hour tour of the new Drupal 7 usability features and the driving forces behind them. This will be the first in a series of Drupal 7 Webinars hosted by Dries this year.

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Join Drupal experts from IBM Global Business Services as they detail the process of defining business requirements, selecting the appropriate technologies, overcoming the technical enterprise integration challenges, and ultimately launching best of breed e-commerce sites with Drupal.

Key takeaways include:

• A review of the key business and technology decision criteria for selecting Drupal and Acquia
• An example of a 3 tiered architecture implemented to deliver end-end automation and a flexible platform for future innovation
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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

There are many moving parts when it comes to hosting any website - database tuning, caching layers, Drupal patches and settings, monitoring, backup, staging and more. Your website is more than content and design, its a 24x7 IT operations process. Do you have the resources to build and maintain this internally or a via third party hosting provider? That's where Acquia comes in. Our Drupal operations and support experts are available 24x7 to make sure your site performs and scales, so you don't have to.

Join us for a sneak preview of Drupal Gardens Beta on Jan 28th at 1:00. We will be giving a complete walk through of the new features planned for version 1.0. One of the primary goals of Drupal Gardens is to empower users to quickly and easily assemble socially smart and powerful Drupal 7 Websites without having to do any programming.

Join Kieran Lal, Acquia's Drupal community adventure guide, for a review of best practices to insure Drupal site scalability and performance. He will review the latest techniques for insuring scalability based on Acquia's expertise in supporting customer sites. Drupal site performance is often a combination of monitoring and tuning several underlying technologies.