Published in Open Strategy Partners·Jun 15, 2021Open Strategy Partners Launches Communication Podcast!Communicate, Connect, Grow: the OSP Podcast At Open Strategy Partners, we help you communicate the value of what you do to connect you with the people who need to know about it, and grow. We do a lot of thinking about what makes for effective, consistent, strategic product communication. In this podcast, we want to show…Podcast2 min readPodcast2 min read
May 5, 2017Beyond Code — Contributing to Community SpiritHow the DrupalCon Prenote helps us laugh, learn, and be a community. Four other Acquians joined me on stage in the DrupalCon Baltimore Prenote, helping spread a little joy and silliness. Drupal gets better when companies, organizations, and individuals build or fix something they need and then share it with…Drupal5 min readDrupal5 min read
Published in Open Source Voices·May 4, 2017256: Drupal 8 Certification Crash Course at Texas Camp 2017!At DrupalCon Baltimore, I got the chance to chat with David Porter and David Stinemetze from Rackspace. Listen to this conversation to learn a little more about the Daves, Drupal at Rackspace, and the value of Acquia’s certification program to individuals and organisations. …Drupal3 min readDrupal3 min read
Apr 7, 2017Building a community that we want to be a part of.In my post, Drupal, I’m taking sides, I said that Drupal and our community are worth staying in and fighting for despite recent, awful events. What is a community? What’s missing here? For me, the definition of community is a group of people with shared goals and values. Our goals in the Drupal community are pretty clear…Drupal7 min readDrupal7 min read
Published in Open Source Voices·Mar 31, 2017255: No one wants a website — Don’t sell Drupal, move up the value chain!Thank you, Drupal community — I want to express my sincere thanks to everyone who helped me prepare this presentation, sharing their insights into how Drupal fits into bigger and better ways of doing business. The fact that we can all talk about this so openly while competing for business…Drupal2 min readDrupal2 min read
Mar 30, 2017Drupal, I’m taking sides.Like so many of you in our community, I have been consumed by the awful, messy events unfolding before our eyes in the last week, the “Crellpocalypse”. I’ve lost sleep, been upset, and fielded a lot of questions from friends, colleagues, and others. It’s been pretty awful. …Drupal4 min readDrupal4 min read
Mar 24, 2017United by Contribution — Two Takes on Open SourceA couple of Drupalists meet WordCamp London 2017 WordCamp London 2017 was my very first WordPress community event; my first time up close with a community rumoured to have a very different focus and feeling than the Drupal community I know and love. …Drupal5 min readDrupal5 min read
Published in Open Source Voices·Mar 22, 2017254: Mumbai Memories — meet Rakesh JamesMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations at DrupalCon in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, a conversation with Rakesh James, who credits Dries for giving him a way to live and support his family with Drupal. Rakesh is an extraordinary and generous…Drupal2 min readDrupal2 min read
Published in Open Source Voices·Mar 17, 2017253: Mumbai Memories — Abhishek AnandMy trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. …Drupal2 min readDrupal2 min read
Mar 16, 2017Making a splash, 2017 German Drupal AwardsHamburg, March 15, 2017: Members of the German Drupal community — contributors, service providers, end users — came together to celebrate their successes in 2016 with the world’s leading open source content management system and application platform at the 2017 German Splash Awards. Compared to many other countries, Drupal is…20175 min read20175 min read
