Business

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At Mediacurrent, as with many digital and web development agencies, we build projects using a wide variety of open source software (OSS).

Happy Friday! This episode we are talking to Sr Business Analyst, Bill Shaouy, to talk to us about the who, what, where, why, and when for preforming business analysis on your website.

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This release has been 4+ years in the making, had 3000+ code contributors, and represents a huge opportunity for you. We believe your presence on the web is the single greatest marketing tool that exists within your organization. Even if a major site redesign is not on your short-term horizon, we highly recommend educating yourself on what this release means to your organization.

This blog post is part of a series on Drupal distributions.

If you stay up-to-date in the world of Drupal news, you've probably read that Phase2 Technology has recently acquired Development Seed's Drupal distributions, OpenAtrium and Managing News.

This summer I was a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program for Drupal. I maintain the Facebook-style Statuses module, which allows users to have a stream of “status updates” on their user profiles and to write messages on other users’ profiles, like Facebook.

Drupal Commons (DC) is a Drupal distribution billed as “social business software.” That means that Acquia is distributing Drupal bundled with some other modules preconfigured to work as a company’s interactive user-facing website. The most recent DC update 1.0 was released on August 5th.

DrivenByYou.com represents a new approach to buying cars online. Traditional online car buying guides users to shop for automobiles by selecting a make, model or year as the first step of the buying process. Autotrader.com decided to take lessons learned from shoppers at brick-and-mortar auto dealerships and apply them to an online car buying experience.

I got involved with Drupal in 2007 when I decided I wanted to build an online community of young people interested in politics in order to encourage their interest and activism. I was in way over my head; I had dabbled with a number of desktop programming languages, but I had never built a website. I got my first hosting account on my dad's recommendation, and it came with an installer for a large number of open-source software in a variety of categories.