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Join the Social Business Revolution
Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by Thomas Erickson RSS
The social web is dramatically changing the way we work and play. Organizations are gaining substantial productivity improvements from what the inventor of the term web 2.0, Tim O’Reilly, describes as “harnessing the collective intelligence.” More...
Social business software gets common
Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 by Jay Batson RSS
A few of days ago I blogged about a conversation I had with an industry analyst. A key quote I heard from him that conversation was this: "The feature set for social business software is now pretty well known." And again today I heard from another well-known social business software consultant that he thinks "There's not much IP (intellectual property) in social business software; it's not hard software to create."
If I were an analyst today (I was one at Forrester in the mid 1990's), I'd say it's time to write a complete report about what this means for enterprises.
What it means is that organizations should be cautious about buying into expensive proprietary solutions, since those products - and companies - are now highly vulnerable to being commoditized.
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Acquia Expanding to Europe
Posted on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 by Thomas Erickson RSS
Ever since Dries co-founded Acquia, having a commercial presence in Europe has been an oft discussed topic inside the company. We do have European customers today, and we have Europe based team members in our technical teams, but we have not had multi-language sales and support teams based in Europe.
That’s all about to change. More...
Drupal Gardens site design contest winners
Posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Linea Rowe RSS
The Drupal Gardens sites submitted for our recent contest were fantastic and it was really hard to pick just one winner. The site designs were judged on their creativity, attractiveness, and complexity. The winner is Susan MacPhee who built Ipswich Ale Brewery, the website for a New England craft brewer. Congratulations Susan - enjoy your new iPad! More...
Drupal Commons isn't dependent on using Drupal
Posted on Friday, October 8, 2010 by Jay Batson RSS
Ok, so yes - the title is a bit misleading in one sense; but in another it's totally true. Let me explain.
While briefing an industry analyst yesterday, I realized that the analyst was presuming that an organization needed to have adopted Drupal in some way before they would could use Drupal Commons. This is not the case.
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The time is right for Drupal products
Posted on Monday, October 4, 2010 by Jeffrey A. "jam... RSS
The very best session I attended at DrupalCon Copenhagen was
"WordPress is better than Drupal: developers take note" by Jennifer Lea Lampton. While I
disagree with the premise - comparing a purpose-built product (WP) to a
framework designed to be completely flexible (Drupal) - the session was
fantastic, well-presented and raised many valid points. It sparked
intense, productive discussions about usability, functionality and More...
Drupal Gardens adds video support with media galleries
Posted on Friday, October 1, 2010 by Chris Brookins RSS
Four weeks ago, the Drupal Gardens team introduced the image gallery feature to all Drupal Gardens sites. While that was great, we wanted galleries to be true media galleries, and so last week the team introduced video support to galleries in a seamless way. Built on top of the awesome Media module and supporting Media: YouTube module, it's architecture is easily extended to support video from many other sources in the future. More...
Marketers - what's in your toolbox?
Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 by Lynne Capozzi RSS
There will always be debate over which tools will best serve marketing efforts. Wordpress for blogging, Facebook for networking building; the list goes on and on. As I find myself in the crux of these discussions more and more (most recently I attend OMMA Social in New York) my answer is always the same: there isn’t just one tool that can do it all. Sure there are technologies that market themselves as all-you-need solutions: “Wordpress is not just a blogging platform it’s more … ”. More...
Expanding Acquia's Partner Program in Europe
Posted on Thursday, September 2, 2010 by Bryan House RSS
2010 has been an inflection point for the Acquia partner program. We are doing more business than ever with partners, including case studies with Palantir.net, Blink Reaction, and IBM Global Services. More...
Using OpenScholar for Collaborative Research
Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 by Alex Lindahl RSS
Open source is not only a growing movement in the software industry. Open source philosophies are being adopted in many other verticals such as education, government, and scientific research. One recent example is in collaborative drug research. Now, thanks to a “rare sharing of data”, there are over 100 new studies underway that are accelerating the progress of developing drugs to slow or stop Alzheimer’s disease. More...
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