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: Read full article »

• 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

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.

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• 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

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. Read full article »

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 »

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. 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.

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• 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 »