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Sunday, February 27, 2011 - 09:36

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.

Monday, February 21, 2011 - 15:50

Alaska Dispatch launched its new website today using Drupal and Open Publish. The online news site, founded by journalists and majority-owned by former U.S. News and World Report CFO Alice Rogoff, received a complete redesign and migration from Joomla. Mediacurrent joined the Alaska Dispatch team to assist with the final phases of the project.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 14:13

The famous Greek philosopher Aristotle stated, “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”  Aristotle's dialogues have been used to teach an array of subjects  from physics to poetry.  Mediacurrent has heeded Aristotle's words and has recently stood up a new training division.    As countless Drupal sites are launched daily across the web the demand for sound Drupal specific training has exploded.    The increased number of  Drupal books published over the last several years mirror the Drupal community’s desire for increased training.

Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 14:44

This blog post is part of a series on Drupal distributions. The first post discussed the difference between distributions, installation profiles, and Features.

Drupal distributions are the foundation of what I like to call "Drupal as a product." Distributions are like pre-packaged websites: where Drupal core can be turned into any kind of website by configuring it and adding modules, distributions come pre-configured and with the modules needed for a certain type of website.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 08:45

You may have heard the buzz about ways to make building certain kinds of Drupal sites easier. The terms "installation profile," "distribution," and "feature module" get thrown around a lot. But what do these terms really mean, and why do they matter?

Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 08:00

Drupal Commons 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. Drupal Commons 1.0 was released on August 5th.

The Purpose of Drupal Commons

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 00:30

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.

Monday, July 26, 2010 - 08:58

Recently I’ve given presentations on Social Networking in Drupal. In my mind, status updates are a central tenet of any successful social networking platform, which is why I built the Facebook-style Statuses module for Drupal.

Friday, April 16, 2010 - 16:00

Building Large-scale Publishing Sites with Drupal Mediacurrent and Phase2 Technology are proud to co-release and announce the availability of a white paper titled Building Large-Scale Publishing Sit

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 11:00

Mediacurrent & Open Source Training
Today, Mediacurrent and Open Source Training are proud to announce a partnership. Open Source (OS) Training is a recognized leader in the content management system (CMS) training field. As a result of this collaboration, Mediacurrent will work to expand and grow Open Source (OS) Training’s Drupal division.