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I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no usability expert, but I do know pretty quickly when a feature on a site is hard, tedious or confusing. In that same vein I’m a sucker for when things make my life easier! I can do the same amount of work in less time to get to doing the things I enjoy; which is why I love these five easy Drupal usability modules. Setup on all of them is a snap and when you’re done you’ll actually have more free time, and we all need more of that.

CCK, Views, and Panels, are top Drupal modules we all know and love because they're necessary for building amazing Drupal websites; but what about the modules you haven’t heard of, those little gems that can really give your site something extra? I’m going to take a look at the top 5 Drupal modules that you might not know about but are worth a look. Some of them are still in Alpha or Beta so be sure install with caution as they may not be ready for prime-time.

Since the emergence of Social Media marketing a few years back there have been countless books, blog posts, videos and every other form of how you should be using it to your advantage. Let’s be real though, there’s really an information overload out there of what you should be doing and sometimes its hard to get through the muck. If you’re new to the game, welcome; in this post you’ll find 5 simple tips about what Social Media marketing is not. Hopefully you’ll walk away with a better idea of where to focus.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about how much someone has to know to be considered an expert in their field and I’ve come to the conclusion that defining someone’s expertise is not easy. Take a doctor as an example; let’s say that this particular doctor is a neurosurgeon, quite possibly one of the most skilled and trained of all doctors, and that this doctor has been practicing for 10 years in his field. At that point I’d probably have no problem saying that they’re a neurological expert; however, that does not make him an expert podiatrist.

Over the past few weeks I’ve had a couple of clients who were using webform for registrations, and while it can work on a small scale, for their needs it just wasn’t right. The problem is that having used webform, their accustom to 3 things: an easy thank you message or page redirect to a thank you page, a generated email informing the site administrator about the submission and finally an easy to export option for the data from webforms.

Drupal for the enterprise, enterprise Drupal; however you want to frame it, the conversation continues to evolve as more and more “Enterprise” organizations move to Drupal.

Before I go too far, let me start by putting a framework around how we define enterprise. According to Wikipedia, enterprise content management system is defined as:

We live in a world where we are constantly judged by our possessions; the size of our house, the size of our boat, the length of time to first byte; but lets be honest performance is where it really matters!

Today as part of several exercises that were doing, we voted on terms we felt to be good descriptions of how we would like to be perceived as a company. We started with a pretty broad list and then narrowed that list down to 3 terms: Innovative, Trustworthy & Strategic.

The more I think about it, the more I really like those 3 options, but I think the order should be trustworthy, strategic and then innovative and here's why:

Okay, so this is a promotional video but it's done very well and I think that it really speaks to the heart of why were starting to see the David interactive agencies conquer over the Goliath traditional agencies. I once was told that it is no longer the big companies eating the small, but rather the fast companies eating the slow; change with the times or be eaten alive!

I can't express how excited I am to be able to attend this years DrupalCon SF 2010; yes it's like a mini vacation and I know my wife hates that she doesn't get to tag along, but the sessions have been released and there are so many good topics that I'm upset I won't be able to attend them all.