 | You've built a great site and spent a countless hours creating compelling content, but important questions remain. Can your visitors quickly find what they need on your site? Is your current search strategy helping visitors find information, or is it slowing them down? Speakers: Robert Douglass and Bryan House |
| The social web is free, shouldn't your social business software be free too?
Join Jay Batson, Acquia co-founder, and Bryan House, senior director of marketing at Acquia, for a one-hour webinar presentation. Drupal Commons is a pre-configured distribution to help organizations quickly build and deploy community-based business applications. Built according to standard Drupal practices, Drupal Commons includes a collection of community contributed modules and Fusion-based theme, giving developers and themers a flexible platform to create custom social business applications. Speakers: Bryan House, senior director of marketing at Acquia, and Jay Batson, Acquia co-founder |
| 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:
- 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
Speakers: Dries Buytaert, Barry Jaspan, Jacob Singh, and Bryan House, Acquia |
| Cloud computing offers many advantages and challenges for hosting Drupal sites. Acquia Hosting is a highly available cloud-based hosting platform tuned for Drupal performance and scalability. Acquia Hosting built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), takes advantage of an industry leading cloud-computing platform to provide the highest levels of security, fault-tolerance and operational controls possible in the cloud. This Webinar, featuring Barry Jaspan, Senior Architect at Acquia and Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist Amazon Web Services, discusses how Amazon's Web Services can help Drupal site developers and managers solve common but vexing problems, including scaling. The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) components will be discussed in detail.
In addition we will discuss specific best practices for:
- Creating a high-performance, high-availability Drupal tuned hosting environment on AWS
- Load balancing: Elastic IP vs. Elastic Load Balancing
- Handling user-uploaded files with multiple web nodes
- Achieving true high-availability with multiple availability zones
- Choosing between Amazon Relational Database Service and building it yourself
- Configuring and managing your cloud servers
Speakers: Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web Services and Barry Jaspan, Senior Architect, Acquia |
| Fusion is a powerful Drupal grid theme framework with point-and-click layouts & built in styles for Blocks, Views, and other modules. Learn how to unlock more of Drupal's potential with Fusion theming without needing to be a coder. Over 7000 sites today are using Fusion – join us and see why.
Key takeaways will include:
- A review of Fusion and Skinr key features
- How to build more flexible themes faster, without reinventing the wheel
- How to harness the power of Fusion to build themes faster and simplify future changes
- A tour of Drupal sites built using Fusion and Skinr
Speakers: Stephanie Pakrul, Co-founder, TopNotchThemes and Bryan House, Senior Director of Marketing, Acquia |
| Acquia Client Advisor Webinar Series:
The Views module (http://drupal.org/project/views) is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools in a Drupal site-builder’s arsenal. It empowers the user with a smart query builder which can be used to gather lists of users, comments, nodes (and revisions), files and taxonomy terms from a Drupal site - displaying them in ways only limited by the imagination of the site owner.
In this one hour webinar, you’ll learn:
• What is Views? What is the Views UI?
• Where to find the documentation for Views. Helpful Links.
• How to use Views to display simple lists of content.
• The many forms of Views, by example.
• How to leverage Views as a Data Provider.
Speakers: Kenny Silanskas, Client Advisor, Acquia |
| 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:
Speakers: Jim Salem, VP of Platform Services |
| Marketing people in all industries face new challenges, thanks to innovation in technology generally and on the
web specifically. It is no longer sufficient to use traditional, vendor-driven, “outbound marketing” activities. Today, marketing must also leverage “inbound marketing” technologies and best practices. Inbound marketing refers to an emerging class of web marketing methods by which customers and prospects find vendor websites under their own initiative.
Join us for a demonstration of Drupal Gardens, a SaaS version of Drupal 7, and learn how you can get ahead of the hype, trends and the competition – and stay there. We will discuss how Drupal Gardens websites deliver key abilities required for marketing success today that are not achievable with proprietary content management and social business software.
Speakers: Lynne Capozzi - VP Marketing & Linea Rowe - Director Product Management |
| 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.
Speakers: Jacob Morgan, Principal of Chess Media Group and Rick Mann, IT Manager, Florida Hospital |
| 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
Speakers: Robert Douglass, Acquia |
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