Business
Five Findings on Community Management
Posted on Friday, April 1, 2011 by Amanda Wilson RSS
If you haven’t seen it already, last week Jim Storer and The Community Roundtable team released their 2011 State of Community Management Report. I’m just getting my hands on it now as I was out on vacation last week (thank a niece and nephew who had to go to Disney World!). But I was happy to come back to see the report was released! More...
Taking aim at a box of Legos
Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by Robert Douglass RSS
One can only assume that Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal are making it hard to close deals for Adobe's Business Catalyst (BC). Why else would Brent Weaver - a BC partner(?) - have to blow off steam shooting pieces of paper with a machine gun? More...
Drupal Gardens Surpasses 40,000 Sites
Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Thomas Erickson RSS
Drupal Gardens passed a significant milestone yesterday, 40,000 sites created! This is an especially exciting moment for me as Acquia gets ready to exit the Drupal Gardens beta program tomorrow. Reaching 40,000 blew away my expectations for the number of beta sites, a testament to the market’s excitement of having the most powerful social publishing system available in a SaaS environment. More...
Acquia Gives Back (by sorting four tons of food!)
Posted on Thursday, February 24, 2011 by Jim Salem RSS
Acquians had a great day yesterday at the Greater Boston Food Bank preparing food and household goods for distribution to 550 charitable organization throughout eastern Massachusetts. We combed through 7,661 pounds of donations, discarding spoiled, leaking and post-dated items, and put the remainder in boxes of related items, ready for delivery. On average, each volunteer made possible 112 meals for the needy. More...
Drupal... Marketing. Marketing... Drupal. Nice to meet you!
Posted on Monday, February 7, 2011 by Katie Staveley RSS
We are only a couple of weeks into 2011, but we’ve already had a very exciting start to the New Year with the launch of Drupal 7, version 1.3 of Drupal Commons, and the release of the upgrades in functionality for Drupal Gardens. Not to mention, it was announced that all Acquians +1 are invited to celebrate our 2010 success in Puerto Rico this April. It’s the beginning of a year that we anticipate will be filled with fantastic growth, challenges, learning, and fun! More...
Proprietary Social Business Software and Its Dirty Little Secrets
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Tim Bertrand RSS
I love it when, for the third time in the past week, we get off the phone with a customer of our Social Business Software (SBS) competitor, Jive Software, and we hear that they are playing the same games that Enterprise software companies have played for the last thirty years: More...
The Future is OpenSaaS
Posted on Friday, February 4, 2011 by Thomas Erickson RSS
This blog post is cross-posted from the 2011 Future of Open Source Forum website. More...
Drupal Gardens adds SSL, RTL language support, streamlined block editing and more
Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Chris Brookins RSS
This sprint the Drupal Gardens team worked on several areas of polish including internationalization, security, multi-image handling, performance and general UX. We hope you like the changes and additions outlined below: More...
Finishing my first week at Acquia
Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Jakub Suchy RSS
I am just finishing my first week at Acquia, boy what a rocket ride! As you may have heard, read or known, Acquia is making connection with its roots - Europe. As you may have also probably heard or known, Acquia has recently established operations in the UK, the overall aim of which is to serve customers from all over the Europe. More...
Acquia's Invite Lost in the Mail?
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Amanda Wilson RSS
It’s a bummer Acquia’s invitation to discuss social business software for the enterprise with TechCrunch’s Sarah Lacy got lost in the mail. I hate when that happens. Good news is we’re not easily offended, and will contribute to the discussion anyway. More...

