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Taking advantage of PR opportunities like Red Herring 100
We announced yesterday that Acquia has been selected as a Red Herring 100 North America winner for 2008. A cool honor - and another data point that speaks to the growing interest in Drupal and to the validation of Acquia's business model to provide commercial support for Drupal.
Every year, Red Herring editors create their list of the top private companies in both North America and Europe. Its good publicity for the magazine trying to... More
UX improvements in Drupal 6: Internationalization
This is the first blog post of a series of posts that will examine the Drupal core contributors user experience (UX) improvements in Drupal 6. My intent is to help shed some light on the kind of user experience improvements the core contributors are good at and the kind they need help with. I will identify the number of contributors and the number of patches, and I will also help the community understand how we can best make further user experience improvements in Drupal 7. There are currently thousands of designers and other user experience professionals who are capable of helping improve... More
Winning More by Hating Professional PR Less
Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by Jeff Whatcott RSS
Bert Boerland just posted his take on press releases by the Drupal Association and Drupal community members. Like many developers I talk to, Bert is suspicious of professional PR and marketing. He would rather see more leveraged use of the community to get the word out about Drupal.
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Need your vote - Acquia round 2 video @ Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad
Thanks to everyone who voted for Acquia in the first round of Enterprise 2.0's people's choice (aka American Idol) contest for their Launchpad event. We received 80 votes in the first round and made it to Round 2. The top 4 vote getters in Round 2 will present on stage at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
Please take a moment to view & vote for Acquia's 2nd round video.
In the 2nd round, the top 8 vote getters were given 2 minutes to demo and tell their story. Demonstrating Drupal in 2... More
Drupal.org re-design business kick-off meeting
Last week we had a business kick-off meeting for the Drupal.org re-design. The purpose of this meeting was to start two important efforts: establishing business objectives for the re-design, and begin the re-design request for qualifications and request for proposals process.
Drupal.org is many things to many people, and there are a lot of ideas about how to improve the site. The Drupal association has limited cash resources, and limited volunteer resources to implement a re-design so it's important that the association has clear business objectives to help prioritize the scope of this... More
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