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Policy Patrol Enterprise Version 5 Now Available
Enhance your organization’s resistance to spam and phishing with Policy Patrol Enterprise Version 5, a server-based email filtering suite recently made available by Red Earth Software to eligible organizations through TechSoup Stock. You can also use Policy Patrol to standardize email signatures and disclaimers, turning email communications into promotional tools.
NetSquared Teaming Up with Sun Microsystems for Global Hack Days!
NetSquared is teaming up with Sun Microsystems to create community hack days in conjunction with a series of recruiting events that Sun hosts called "Tech Days." First stop San Paolo, Brazil on October 1, 2008. Next up, China.
A Few Good Page Layout Tools for Nonprofits
Do you want to create a letterhead for your nonprofit or lay out a monthly newsletter or report? Send thank-you cards to donors? Create an invite for your next event? All these tasks fall under the umbrella of page layout. Idealware spoke to five nonprofit technology and creative professionals about the page layout tools that have worked for them and their organizations. We’ve consolidated their advice to help you find the tool you need.
Kicking Paper with Google Notebook and Dabbleboard
Drop the paper habit with two simple online tools for note-taking and collaboration.
How Do Nonprofits Take Second Life to the Next Level?
Rik Panganiban of Global Kids explores how nonprofits can use Second Life effectively in his recent presentation .
Industry Standard using Drupal
The Industry Standard, aka thestandard.com, is using Drupal. The Industry Standard features news and analysis that covers emerging technologies and companies, venture funding, acquisitions, site launches, and other developments in the internet space. This system is built as a prediction market, intersected with a reputation-based social network. The site is part of the IDG network, which includes sites like Computerworld, Infoworld, JavaWorld.com, Macworld, PC World, and more.
Like most big Drupal sites, they use CCK, Views, memcache, and a master-slave database configuration. Two noteworthy items are the fact that they use Apache Solr for search, and Mollom as their spam deterrent.
Hagen's Drupal 6 book in the mail
Hagen Graf has written his second German Drupal book: Drupal 6: Websites entwickeln und verwalten mit dem Open Source-CMS published by Addison-Wesley. The book also comes with a German Drupal 6 training video. And for every copy sold, 1 EUR is donated to the Drupal Association Thanks Hagen!
@Hagen, next time take a picture of your book on my website? ;-)
The book talks about Mollom!
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 book
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 is an update to David Mercer's two year old book Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites.
Just like David's previous book, this book is geared towards people who are new to Drupal and that have little or no experience in website design, PHP, MySQL or HTML. If you want practical advice on how to get a Drupal site up and running, this book is for you. Unlike David's first Drupal book, this book also caters to the intermediate Drupal user as it talks about Drupal's content construction kit, actions, triggers and even jQuery. Reading this book won't make you a Drupal expert, but it will give you a solid base from which to build.
Learning Drupal 6 module development book
Matt Butcher's Learning Drupal 6 module development book an great introduction to begin developing on Drupal. It is not for the die-hard developer, but it looks like a must have for new Drupal developers. Thanks for for putting this book together, Matt!
State of Drupal presentation (August 2008)
Last week at DrupalCon Szeged I gave my traditional state of Drupal presentation. The video of the presentation is provided below, and you can download a copy of my slides (PDF, 11MB) as well.
The presentation discusses the results of the recent survey that I conducted; the survey ran for 30+ days and collected more than 1300 responses so it should provide a good idea of the community's current thinking. I'll provide more color and details about the survey results in a number of follow-up posts.
Announcing a New Book: Drupal in Education and E-Learning
Bill Fitzgerald, of FunnyMonkey, has written Drupal for Education and E-learning, due out from Packt Publishing in late October. Targeted for Drupal 6, this book covers how to set up community sites to support interactive teaching and learning. This book gives an overview of the functionality of Drupal core, and then gives precise instructions on using CCK, Views 2, Organic Groups, and a range of other contributed modules to extend the functionality of your site.
This book is written with the needs of educational users in mind, but the information in this book can be useful for site administrators, or for people looking to build a community/social networking site in Drupal.
The Do It With Drupal Seminar
Lullabot is pleased to announce the largest independent Drupal event ever. Do It With Drupal is a 3-day seminar focused on the configuration, architecture, and processes behind building successful Drupal websites and communities.
The event is geared at attendees with a wide range of Drupal experience. For new developers and decision-makers, DIWD will offer a great introduction to Drupal and the Drupal community. For more experienced Drupalers, DIWD will offer a great chance to pick up tips and tricks straight from the experts and a chance to connect and socialize with other Drupal professionals.
The Do It With Drupal Seminar will feature the following highlights:
Raincity Studios Releases Improved Bryght Drupal Hosting Platform
Some of you may have noticed we recently gave the Bryght hosting system a facelift and added some functionality under the hood. Bryght Drupal hosting combines a custom install profile with a tuned hosting environment, incorporating best practices used on Drupal.org, to make a fully functional, out-of-the-box VPS.
Knight Drupal Initiative monthly proposal review -- 11 September 2008
After a week of delay due to DrupalCON related travel, it is time for our monthly open review meeting. We will meet for the next round of proposal reviews on Thursday, September 11th at 14:00 Eastern (US) (18:00 UTC).
The meeting will be held in IRC #drupal-dojo on irc.freenode.net. (See http://drupal.org/irc for information about using IRC.) We will meet for 1:30 with the following agenda:
iCitizenForum.com Case Study
At the end of 2007, Aten Design Group worked with The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to deploy iCitizenForum.com, a Drupal website about Citizenship. The following case study documents some of the factors that led to choosing Drupal, and outlines the technical approach for the project.
BackgroundThe Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world's largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. The foundation preserves and interprets a 301-acre Historic Area; operates museums, outreach programs, and the John D. Rockefeller Library; and carries out important research and archaeology pertaining to the origins of America. In accordance with its mission, "That the Future May Learn from the Past", the foundation is concerned not only with recreating the 18th-century experience, but with facilitating education about the idea of America–both in its beginnings, and in its relevance for the future.
iCitizenForum.com, a website that promotes discussion around the topic of Citizenship, is a fitting extension of this core mission.
FDA Mulls Changes to Allergy Labeling on Foods - Washington Post
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Odierno Succeeds Petraeus as Iraq Commander - New York Times
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Georgia: Intercepted calls prove self-defense - The Associated Press
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Credit Suisse sees higher chance of AIG bankruptcy - Reuters
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ECONOMIC REPORT Consumer prices fall 0.1% on weaker energy prices - MarketWatch
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