Who sponsors Drupal development?
There exist millions of Open Source projects today, but many of them aren't sustainable. Scaling Open Source projects in a sustainable manner is difficult. A prime example is OpenSSL, which plays a critical role in securing the internet. Despite its... More
By Dries Buytaert Posted on Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Why Website Personalization Is Harder Than You Think
Over the past 3-5 years I’ve been hearing a lot about website personalization. I have battled a lot with personalization over the years, and to be honest, good personalization can be difficult to... More
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Thursday, Sep 22, 2016
by kate fogarty
Thursday, Sep 22, 2016
by kate fogarty
JIRA for Marketers: How It Works and Why We Picked It
What’s your plan for managing your enterprise content creation strategy? If it’s “attempt to keep track of everything in a spreadsheet,” you’re going to have some problems — trust me, I’ve tried!
It’... More
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Thursday, Sep 8, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Thursday, Sep 8, 2016
by Taryn Collins
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4 Weeks, 4 Events - Where’s Drupal in mid-2016?
Drupal is way more than websites and our community is thriving and making a difference all around the world. That’s the shortest way I can sum it up.
4 Weeks, 4 Events
It’s September, 2016 and DrupalCon Dublin is on next week! In the last four weeks, I’ve had the privilege of visiting and speaking at Drupal “SaunaCamp” Helsinki, Drupal Camp Costa Rica, and Drupal Camp Ghent. I was also part of the team of Acquians and Acquia-partners at ... More
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Sneak Peek: A Look at Our Upcoming Blog Refresh
In last week’s blog I talked about our iterative design and development approach, so this week I wanted to show this method in practice and share a recent project that I’ve been working on: refreshing the blog section of our website.
Why are we redesigning our blog?
A lot has happened in our blog strategy since the last time we updated the design. The current blog design was done about 2 years ago with a very different plan and target... More
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Acquia Announces Launch of Acquia Cloud Site Factory Stacks
Acquia is proud to announce the release of a new, breakthrough capability within Acquia Cloud Site Factory. Available today, Acquia Cloud Site Factory Stacks brings ubiquitous multisite delivery, management and control, empowering different brands, regions, and teams to manage their own digital experiences.
Acquia’s solution for multisite management is now the industry’s only digital experience platform that can deliver strong governance along with the flexibility to support multiple development teams, multiple... More
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
by David Butler
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
by David Butler
Engage 2016: A Peek at This Year's Talk Tracks
The beginning of September marks not only the end of summer for most, but the beginning of Engage season! With less than two months to go until our annual customer conference, we’re kicking things into high gear.
We’ve got some great speakers lined up — including Dan Lyons, author of the book Disrupted, and Filippo Catalano, Chief Digital Operations Officer at Nestle — and our full agenda is now available online for a peek into what your an expect this year.
This week, I’m... More
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Friday, September 9, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Friday, September 9, 2016
by Taryn Collins
Iterative Design and Development: Update Your Site Without Doing a Redesign
Amazon’s website looks completely different than it did a few years ago, but did you ever notice it changing? I think they do the best job at making small adjustments over a long period of time. This means they avoid killing user experience and make site adjustments manageable for their business. Not only does completing a full site redesign kills your web team’s velocity, but it can also be very intimidating and costly for large enterprises.
At Acquia, we implement a similar approach but we also mold it to fit our business. We call it Iterative Design and Development. Our approach is simple... More
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
The Time is Now
As I near the one year anniversary of my arrival at our regional headquarters in Sydney, I had a moment last week where, despite 3.5 years at Acquia HQ, l was reminded about the journey Drupal (and Acquia) has had around the world.
It’s easy to think that a certain technology reaches a critical mass at a certain point everywhere, especially when it’s used by some of the world’s globally leading organisations, especially in your own country. However, I found myself again on a learning curve about the kind of help, questions, and objectives that organisations in Australia need and have as they... More
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Tahlor DiCicco
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
by Tahlor DiCicco
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: A Primer
The technology press is abuzz these days with stories about Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) — every other week it seems we’re hearing about a new AI surpassing human ability at some task or other, and just as often we hear about exciting new start-ups revolutionizing traditional problem spaces using machine learning. We also see the odd notable... More
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
by Katherine Bailey
What a digital marketer needs to know about website performance
Website performance is one of those things that keeps me up at night. How do we improve our performance? When is our performance bad? Does it affect our user experience? These are all questions that run through my head in regards to our website, and I’m here to help you get answers for your site. Performance discussions can get very technical very fast, so my goal in this post is to maintain a balance between high level and informative so you can go to your dev team and ask the right questions.
Do you know what cache is?... More
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Open Source in Practice: Moving Off of a Proprietary CMS
Guest blogger Jenna Bos is the Senior Marketing Manager at Blue Coda, an Acquia Partner. Blue Coda is an agency focused on ROI-driven website development. Jenna believes in generating results through the combination of creating outstanding content and implementing a smart digital strategy.
The implementation of an open source solution for an end-user involves a combination of the available software and the people who know how to implement the software in a way that is tailored to the client’s needs.
Blue Coda has worked with Acquia for... More
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016
by Jenna Bos
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
by Jenna Bos
When to consider the move to Drupal 8
Question: “When should I move to Drupal 8?”
Answer: “It all depends.”
You thought you were going to get an easy answer? I wish! Even with my own sites I’ve had to evaluate and spend time determining the best plans for migration. But when it’s time to figure out what to do with your site, here are my suggestions.
If you are building a website for a new project or idea, I would create it using Drupal 8. In my opinion, Drupal 8 has progressed enough that building a site with Drupal 7 will cost you more money, because you will need to rebuild it on Drupal 8 within the next year.
But if your... More
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
by Katelyn Fogarty
Drupal 8.2, now with more outside-in
Over the weekend, Drupal 8.2 beta was released. One of the reasons why I'm so excited about this release is that it ships with "more outside-in". In an "outside-in experience", you can click anything on the page, edit its configuration in place without having to navigate to the administration back end, and watch it take effect immediately. This kind of on-the-fly editorial experience could be a game changer for Drupal's usability.
When I last discussed turning... More
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
by Dries Buytaert
Developer Relations: Let’s Talk About reddit
Writing great content for developers is, well, great and all, but if it’s not distributed properly, how will they find it? In the world of content distribution, the mantra is simple: go where the people are... because they probably aren’t coming to you. However, once you enter their world, you need to remember there are rules and other subtle cultural norms to follow. Not just community rules but parameters set up by certain sites to keep marketers and others from spamming. One of these sites is reddit.
In the off-chance that you’ve been... More
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Monday, August 22, 2016
by Reena Leone
Monday, August 22, 2016
by Reena Leone
Vote for making a difference - SXSW 2017 session selection
Vote for open source, open culture, and making a difference. Community voting is open until September 2 for the SXSW 2017 conferences. I've been looking through the proposed session catalog and I've picked out a few that I really like and care about.
You go vote, too!
I encourage you to go have a look and vote, too, since I discovered last year that community voting is 30% of the selection process. You’ll need to register on the SXSW Panel Picker to be able to vote. It only took me a few seconds and the... More
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Monday, August 22, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Monday, August 22, 2016
by Jeffrey McGuire
Announcing the Acquia Engage Awards
Acquia partners are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with digital. They’re helping their clients achieve their great ambitions, and creating digital experiences that inspire, entertain, and inform. Experiences that extend from mobile to a rapidly growing ecosystem of Internet-connected objects that are located just about everywhere we go. Experiences that through context cut away the clutter and give the user a clear path forward.
Nowhere is their innovation more evident than at ... More
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Monday, August 22, 2016
by Sasa Zelenovic
Monday, August 22, 2016
by Sasa Zelenovic
Seeing Screens? Welcome to the Digital Signage Revolution
Pop quiz: If you walk into a store today, will you be greeted first by a salesperson, or big screens running video loops showing beautiful product images and happy people loving that brand? Probably the latter. Video screens are engaging, inviting, eye-catching, and inspirational - they help shake money out of your pockets.
Digital signage, screens, and billboards have become part of the customer experience journey. They exist in the moment as one part inspiration, one part explanation, but are 100% designed to drive a purchase.
About five years ago everyone said it was the Year of Mobile.... More
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Friday, August 19, 2016
by David Aponovich
Friday, August 19, 2016
by David Aponovich
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