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17:48:18 08/24/11
Higher Margins From Online Communities Leveraging Cloud To Optimize It Investment
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Social networking has changed the way we communicate, connect and learn. World events cause peaks and valleys in our social stream; as do our business lives riddled with unexpected events as well as our daily collaboration amongst co-workers. As such, social is increasingly relied upon and continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. How are organizations able to maintain, support, and scale to meet the needs of that activity stream? The expectation remains that these networks will always be available and responsive as these peaks and valleys are encountered. This massive growth of social media has directly impacted IT resources and budgets; increasing volume and variability of requests from different departments potentially using a variety of systems has created an ongoing maintenance and management challenge. Join Acquia for this upcoming webinar where attendees will learn how: To scale with the growth and challenges of managing social networks Other organizations have addressed their own social needs and strengthened their brand Social-as-a-Service, delivered in the Cloud can help address these challenges and relieve IT burdens Jeff Kaplan, who has been at the forefront of exploring the business implications of “on-demand” services, will help us to explore the business challenges posed by social media and facilitate the conversation around how Social-as-a-Service can help address the growing pains of accommodating organizations’ immediate community needs.
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14:34:46 08/22/11
Lessons Learned Building Bass Master Com With Open Publish And Acquia Cloud
[LESS INFO] 18 VIEWS | ADDED 14:34:46 08/22/11
How Publishers can use Drupal to build a cost-effective, scalable content platform Join Go Sportn President and Founder Ned Desmond as he walks through how and why he built bassmaster.com on Drupal distribution OpenPublish, running on Acquia Managed Cloud. Bassmaster.com is the website for the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, or B.A.S.S., with more than a half-million members. Bassmaster.com is the digital home for many annual bass angler tournaments, where members connect, share results and talk about the sport of bass fishing. In this webinar, Ned will walk the audience through the process Bassmaster.com went through to select Drupal, OpenPublish and Acquia Managed Cloud. He will discuss his CMS, design and hosting requirements for the site and why they ultimately choose the Drupal distribution OpenPublish developed by Phase2 Technology. Additionally, he'll discuss the process of selecting a hosting provider for the site and why they chose Acquia Managed Cloud. Ned will share the lessons his team learned along the way while building a high traffic publishing site on open source Drupal. This webinar is intended for business decision-makers and site owners. Attendees will learn: how to evaluate key CMS requirements when making technology selection how OpenPublish made the Drupal selection process easier how to approach Drupal site development and operations to ensure successful outcomes
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20:07:28 08/19/11
Customizing Commons
[LESS INFO] 11 VIEWS | ADDED 20:07:28 08/19/11
Acquia Commons off-the-shelf is a ready-to-use, open source solution for building social business community sites. Without any customization, individuals can easily create communities for collaboration and corporate communication, or they can create communities for targeted audiences like developers and customer support teams. There can be, however, circumstances where specific site requirements must be met, leading to an increased demand for customization and additional configuration tricks to “make it work.” During this webinar, we will explore the most popular customizations for Commons, including how to deploy them. We’ll also discuss issues like adding new menu items, working with filters, making modifications to views, and more! Speakers: Chris Shattuck, Founder of Build a Module.com; Amanda Wilson, Product Marketing Manager, Acquia
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18:17:37 08/17/11
Drupal The Cloud And Security
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You've heard all the great things about launching your website in the Cloud -- elastic resources that respond to traffic variability, scalable data storage, reduced human and capital costs and the list goes on. But is it secure? Many today have outstanding questions about data integrity, encryption, user authentication, compliance, and disaster recovery. Organizations need to take a comprehensive approach to how they address security. It's not just about the infrastructure or just about the site architecture - the entire solution needs to be considered from end-to-end. A Drupal website deployed on the Acquia Cloud running on Amazon Web Services gives an organization a battle-tested, Drupal-optimized platform powered by two companies that take security very seriously. Representatives from Amazon Web Services, Acquia, and a member of the Drupal security team will demonstrate how this combined solution enables a comprehensive, proactive approach to deploying a secure website. They will highlight the architecture utilized by Amazon Web Services and Acquia, discuss Drupal security, and through a series of customer examples, demonstrate how Amazon Web Services and Acquia offer solutions that specifically address security concerns.
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19:07:55 08/11/11
The Better Way To Social Business Communities A Commons 2 0 Sneak Peek
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 19:07:55 08/11/11
What’s the better way to social business? Commons 2.0! Since the announcement at Enterprise 2.0, the much awaited release has seen lots of buzz and questions on what to expect. Activity streams, “like” buttons, group hierarchies, daily digests and more - join us to find out what all the buzz has been about for Commons 2.0! Attendees will learn: * How Commons 2.0 came to be * Major feature enhancements of Commons 2.0 * Deployment options for your Community
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19:06:02 08/08/11
Intoducting To Mongo Db And Integrating It With Drupal 7 For Examiner Com
[LESS INFO] 51 VIEWS | ADDED 19:06:02 08/08/11
MongoDB -- from "humongous" -- is an open source, non-relational, document-oriented database, supported in Drupal 7. The goal of MongoDB is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide rich queries and deep functionality). Nosh Petigara of 10gen, the company that develops and supports MongoDB, will introduce the basic functionality of MongoDB and common deployment strategies. Following this introduction, Doug Green of Examiner.com, a top 100 North American website, will talk about how Examiner.com pioneered the use of MongoDB and Drupal to serve millions of dynamic pages (no page caching) every day. This session will teach you how and why you should use several new MongoDB-based modules created by Examiner.com to speed up your site. We'll cover using MongoDB field storage to read and write complete documents in a single query, using MongoDB watchdog to store application logs with counts and automated rollover at virtually no system cost, using MongoDB block for sites with many blocks and complicated visibility rules, and using MongoDB sessions and queues because these are extremely fast. Learn how to query using Field API or directly in MongoDB and how to write great NoSQL queries and create indexes.
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16:58:07 08/08/11
How Cloud Paa S Can Improve Performance While Reducing Operational Costs
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 16:58:07 08/08/11
As IT organizations increasingly face the challenges of managing the complexity of delivering superior application performance and reliability across a disparate range of technology and deployment environments, the Cloud has emerged as a cost-effective means to build virtual data centers. But Infrastructure platforms like Amazon Web Services don't preclude companies from needing experienced systems administrators to build and manage their applications. In order to address this gap, companies such as Acquia, have begun providing PaaS, Platform as a Service offerings, which includes not only the physical hardware, but also provides an expertly managed, application appropriate stack. Which means organizations can focus more singularly on their applications. Jeff Kaplan, who has been at the forefront of exploring the business implications of “on-demand” services, will lead a discussion with Bryan House, the VP Product Marketing at Acquia, around how Acquia's offering of a Drupal Platform as a Service is helping IT organizations meet this challenge. Using the open-source WCMS, Drupal, Acquia's Cloud platform and specific customer case studies, participants will learn what PaaS really means to an organization in terms of both delivering improved performance while reducing costs.
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20:19:36 08/04/11
The Value Of Building An Online Community
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Social business is no longer a nice to have, but now a business imperative to improve customer engagement, build loyal partner networks, and improve internal collaboration. All of the most popular web sites on the Internet today — meaning the most visited and most engaging — are either social networks or online communities. It is now a leading trend that these social elements take place within a company or organisations own online space, providing a number of user and stakeholder benefits. Join BrightLemon and Acquia for a one-hour webinar where we will discuss what the key components of these online communities are and how they contribute to creating a strong, engaging online network which grows organically. This presentation will discuss: * Key components and best practices in building communities of value * Benefits and value of the community to the business stake holder and end user * Case study examples of these what online communities can achieve * Benefits of using Drupal to build your community with long-term goals in mind
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18:27:54 08/04/11
Tweet This! Leveraging Twitter Into Your Commons Community
[LESS INFO] 6 VIEWS | ADDED 18:27:54 08/04/11
Twitter now handles over a billion tweets every week. With over 200 million users, and almost half a million new users created every day, the power of Twitter is critical for any community to harness in order to ensure success. It has changed how we consume our information - how we get our news updates, celebrity gossip, coupons, deals, and connect with friends. All in 140 characters or less. Acquia’s Commons is the easiest way to deploy a Drupal community site. There are over 170 modules in Drupal.org that relate to Twitter - how do you know which ones will work best for you? Do you want to send status updates to Twitter? Or maybe follow topics or accounts from Twitter in your community site to stay up to date on key issues important to your community? This webinar surveys useful Twitter features that incorporate well into Commons communities. Attendees will learn: * how to install and configure Twitter modules on an existing Commons site * how to display Twitter feeds * how to set up and manage which content types post automatically to Twitter
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19:22:04 07/25/11
B2 C Branded Communities Delivering Roi Making Customers Happy
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What does “engage” really mean? How do you truly engage your community while still meeting marketing goals? In this webinar, we’ll explore how to use the newest tools that keep consumers engaged - like social gaming and couponing - can be used to capture your audience and build loyalty. We’ll look at some of the issues that B2C marketers face when deciding to use emerging technologies: * Is there a way to make couponing work for awareness and the bottom line? * Can social games have a purpose, driving deep engagement and providing meaningful real-life consumer experiences? * How does a branded community maintain its own momentum while still being part of the brand? Learn what features work and how to structure your community for long-term engagement. You’ll learn: * How to built a community that reflects your brand, not a cookie-cookie cutter application * How to market via your community while still keeping the message customer-focused * How to integrate your marketing message in ways that deliver real value Acquia is pleased to present this webinar with OHO Interactive. OHO is an interactive firm based in Cambridge, MA that creates exceptional web experiences for clients, connecting people to their mission, moving individuals to respond, and making an impact. With a team consisting of one-third front-end user experience developers, one-third software developers and engineers, and one-third strategy and project management, OHO provides robust strategic consulting and cutting-edge, reliable technology.
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18:04:12 07/25/11
Learn To Love The Drop Expert Advice For Novice Drupal Developers 2
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 18:04:12 07/25/11
Are you an experienced developer who is now learning Drupal? Join Acquia for this one-hour webinar where you will gain practical tips for accelerating your learning curve for Drupal. This will be an interactive session where a panel of experienced Drupal professionals discuss what they wish they knew about Drupal when they started. The participants in this webinar come from diverse technical backgrounds and will be speaking about how they overcame specific challenges associated with Java, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress and other systems when they moved to Drupal. Topics covered: * The value of community contribution * Best practices for debugging a Drupal site * Recommendations on the best development tools * Top API functions you absolutely must know * Theme “the right way” * Translating J2EE knowledge to Drupal
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16:55:15 07/25/11
Learn To Love The Drop Expert Advice For Novice Drupal Developers
[LESS INFO] 1 VIEWS | ADDED 16:55:15 07/25/11
Are you an experienced developer who is now learning Drupal? Join Acquia for this one-hour webinar where you will gain practical tips for accelerating your learning curve for Drupal. This will be an interactive session where a panel of experienced Drupal professionals discuss what they wish they knew about Drupal when they started. The participants in this webinar come from diverse technical backgrounds and will be speaking about how they overcame specific challenges associated with Java, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress and other systems when they moved to Drupal. Topics covered: * The value of community contribution * Best practices for debugging a Drupal site * Recommendations on the best development tools * Top API functions you absolutely must know * Theme “the right way” * Translating J2EE knowledge to Drupal
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18:58:06 07/18/11
Drupal And Microsoft Dynamics Crm Integration
[LESS INFO] 17 VIEWS | ADDED 18:58:06 07/18/11
One of the most popular trends in web development is the integration of Websites with enterprise business systems to deliver business value beyond marketing and lead generation. In this webinar we will showcase four use cases for integrating Drupal with Microsoft Dynamics: Web retail, Staff Point Of Sale, Web CRM profile, and customer feedback management. We will demonstrate two integrations. The first is Web CRM profile integration and customer feedback management with Dynamics CRM, for APQC. APQC is the trusted leader in performance improvement. APQC is a membership based site with access to the world's largest database of benchmarks and best practices. The second integration is the web retail for Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, and the staff point of sales integration. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is a brewing company based in Milton, Delaware. The brewery is prominently featured in the Discovery channel series Brew Masters, is one of the top 20 microbreweries in North America, and thousands of people visit their brewery for tours each year. Their online store as well as their point of sale terminals in the brewery are powered by Drupal with data controlled entirely from Microsoft Dynamics, requiring little to no human management of products on the Drupal side. In this webinar the developers will discuss how to integrate Microsoft Dynamics with Drupal to power their Ubercart commerce system from Great Plains controlled product database, send Ubercart orders back to Great Plains as invoices (Documents), receive products from Great Plains and create attributes/options from SKUs, create role based pricing mapped to Great Plains product price levels, and sync Drupal/Ubercart data with the Great Plains backend.
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16:01:29 07/18/11
Improving The Drupal Developer Experience With Dev Cloud Managed Cloud And The Acquia Network
[LESS INFO] 5 VIEWS | ADDED 16:01:29 07/18/11
In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate our latest product offerings to help Drupal developers build and deploy sites more efficiently. From your desktop development environment to pre-configured, self-service Drupal runtime environments to fully managed, white glove hosting services, Acquia cloud offerings help sites big and small perform better. We will demonstrate our latest hosting offerings, currently serving more than 2 billion http requests per month, and our completely redesigned Acquia Network, which provides software and services to help developers build sites faster. This session is intended for Drupal developers and architects, as well as Drupal development shops seeking to learn more about Acquia's deployment offerings.
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13:50:47 07/08/11
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16:12:49 07/07/11
Ain't No Mountain High Enough Top Ten Ways Acquia Pro Serve Can Help You Succeed With Large Drupal Projects
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 16:12:49 07/07/11
Acquia PS team works with some of the largest organizations using Drupal to power their social publishing strategy, but we don't build websites. The question therefore - what does Acquia PS do when working with clients? Large, complex Drupal engagements require much more than just site development, hosting and support. In this session, we will discuss how Acquia' Professional Services team can compliment your development team by providing guidance and expertise in the following areas: * Project management * Architectural assessments and planning * Migration planning * Technical architecture design * Pilot development * Pre-launch site audits * Enterprise application integration * Performance audits & testing * Security assessments * Deployment validation
08/08/11