The 'C' in CMS

In this first installment of a two part essay exploring Content and planning for its uses in the future, I’ll look at how technologists and creatives should be thinking about content and how to label and structure it in that place where the rubber hits the road – the CMS.

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Dispatches from DrupalCon Day Three

Day 3 got underway with many if not all of the attendees roaming the convention center with a painfully large amount of new information rattling around their heads.

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DISPATCHES FROM DRUPALCON DAY TWO

Day two of DrupalCon Denver kicked off with a keynote presentation from Mitchell Baker of the Mozilla Foundation. The prentation was insightful and dug into what Mozilla is all about. Most people think Mozilla is synominous with Firefox, but the organization goes beyond just products.

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Dispatches from DrupalCon Day One

Highlights of Day 1

DrupalCon is alive and thriving. I have yet to hear any attendance numbers but this conference is huge!

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Pinterest - Get Back to Exploring

As a user interface guy, I am fascinated by the phenomenon of Pinterest. 

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Is Google Really Evil?

Google was famously founded by two math geeks with an interest in making things better.

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Politics of the Internet

Early Internet adopters took advantage of the vast, unexplored network for communications, collaboration and massive amounts of innovation. With unabashed determination and curiosity, they latched on to the Internet frontier and their creativity exploded into a technological frenzy. Today we all reap the benefits.

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CMS Solutions and I.S.: Part Two

In the first of this two part essay on CMS platforms and our agency, I explored our history, which encapsulates the experiences many web agencies have had in the past decade.    In this installment, I will lay out the present landscape of open source CMS platforms and a very valuable proprietary platform, and our consolidation around three systems we feel very confident about for the future. 

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Drupal.org contribution - the iMIS ISGweb module

A few weeks ago, I posted a new module to drupal.org -- the iMIS ISGweb module. The module is used to integrate a Drupal 6 site with the "ISGweb for iMIS" product developed and hosted by ISG Solutions.

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