Sat, 03/10/2012
We got a chance to catch up with Lance Ulanoff, Editor in Chief at Mashable, today at SXSWi 2012. Lance explained the secret to how Mashable has become so darn big. In 2012 Mashable is driving 23 million uniques and 100 million page views a month.
Sat, 03/10/2012
Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a team of others are rushing to fundamentally transform the way we do computing. We have all been witness to “The Cloud" revolution. While services like iCloud and Amazon's cloud are the faces of this revolution, there is another more...
Wed, 02/29/2012
Drupal Apps are crazy cool. They make Drupal site building fast and fun for everyone. That’s right, everyone and anyone. Even if you are new to Drupal. They are that simple.
Despite their coolness, apps are new to a lot of people. So we thought we would put together this quick...
Thu, 02/23/2012
Making Drupal more accessible is a never ending quest - but we just hit a big milestone. Just released: five new Drupal apps for Open Enterprise covering some of the most requested features from our clients. These new apps join the existing apps such as the blog to give site...
Tue, 02/21/2012
There is no doubt that Drupal 7's admin is light years better from a usability perspective. Yet, even with all the enhancements, we find site admins still stumbling to manage their content. Over the last few months we have worked out a set of enhancements that have made our...
Fri, 02/10/2012
The Social Media and Widgets modules have become pretty popular in the months since they launched. The feature request queues have been filling up. Mostly with requests to customize widgets or add new ones.
Thu, 01/19/2012
A modern day web presence is not just your website. To be successful you have to expand your digital footprint to include social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube. You need to enable your site visitors to Tweet, Like, +1 and share your content on the...
Tue, 01/17/2012
During 2011 the list of requests to port the Drupal SEO Tools suite had grown quite long. After a few months of brushing up on the new D7 changes, I finally got a chance to sit down and do some programming over the holidays. So for all of you who have been encouraging the D7...
Tue, 12/13/2011
Have you ever needed to put Service links or ShareThis into block? How about AddToAny in a node link? Want to have different share buttons per content type? Want a simple way to add the latest widgets from Twitter, Facebook or Google to your site. Want to enable admins to...
Wed, 12/07/2011
The web has gone crazy for social media widgets. What's not to love? Magic little boxes that connect our sites to the social power of the web in convenient little code snippets. They are all the rage with the hip, in-the-know online pundits.
Tue, 11/22/2011
It is amazing in three short years how much more powerful and easy to use Drupal distributions have come. Three years ago I spent the holidays converting our base Drupal installation into a distribution. Friday, we launched the fourth generation of the OpenEnterprise...
Tue, 11/08/2011
What is the purpose of website planning?
That's not meant to be a rhetorical question. Think about it. Write down your answers.
This is a question I ask at a lot of conferences. Most audiences I present to are...
Thu, 10/06/2011
A friend texted me last night with three short words. "Steve Jobs died"
Suddenly I saw my life play itself back, paralleled to a track of products his company built. I never thought about it before, at least not at this level, but Steve Jobs is one of the greatest influencers in...
Thu, 09/22/2011
A week or so back, Mediacurrent wrote a thought provoking blog post about how Drupal is at a crisis point and losing the CMS marketing battle. The article expounds upon Dries' DrupalCon London State of Drupal keynote, calling on the community to better market Drupal. While I...
Tue, 09/20/2011
So there I was. Standing in front of a room of 150 or so small business owners stumped by a single question. Probably the most astute question a small business owner could ask about the web.
"How can I get a results oriented website on a tight budget?"
I had just spent the last...
Tue, 08/30/2011
Over the last two years we have spent a lot of time working on a series of content-focused Drupal SEO modules. Just before DrupalCon Chicago, we released the final module that integrated the whole system together: Drupal SEO Tools. The module provides a presets system to...
Mon, 08/15/2011
Jim Highsmith wrote an insightful blog post about how waterfall project management is about "plan and do" whereas agile is about "envision and explore." This weekend I was working on a video statistics system for Tutr.tv. It ended up being another one of those ah-ha moments of...
Tue, 08/09/2011
Humans are naturally social. Progressive organizations have created a unique, differential advantage by becoming social. Social media has exploded over the last few years.
Businesses are blogging, building their YouTube channels, tweeting and cultivating their LinkedIn groups...
Mon, 08/01/2011
Recently I was trying to build a user view for Tutr.tv that would include statistics on user flags. I fought views for a couple hours to try to generate the number of videos a user had flagged as watched and favorite. Then I took another direction that solved the problem in 30...
Tue, 04/26/2011
Fields provides a system for extending content in a very elegant way. Drupal 7's core provides a set of basic, yet highly adaptable field types. However, it can be daunting, especially if you are new to Drupal, to wrap your head around all the different types and when to use...
