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June 1, 2011
A Social Site with a Focus on Higher Education
Zinch (www.Zinch.com) an online social network that enables students to demonstrate to colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education they are more than just a test score and a GPA (grade point average). Zinch also enables college administrators to recruit and evaluate students in a more personal way.
Zinch is an...
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February 18, 2011
Achieve Internet CEO Visits High Tech High in San Diego
Achieve Internet CEO Ron Huber visited High Tech High Chula Vista last week to discuss leadership with a group of Tim McNamara’s 12th grade English students. During the hour discussion, Huber spoke about motivation, communication, and related topics, drawing on his years of industry experience. Students asked questions about...
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August 13, 2010
Drupal.org Team
The Drupal.org redesign team just released the results from their first major code sprint started in Portland, OR during OSCON in July. This first release included a significant amount of infrastructure and under-the-hood implementation. One of the visible portions of this sprint is the Solr search deployed by Achieve's CTO, Bill O'Connor (cveb10). ...
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January 25, 2010
Welcome to SandCamp
The second annual SandCamp (San Diego Drupal Camp http://sandcamp.org/) was January 23rd and 24th. The non-conference was a great success, with over 200 Drupalers in attendance. The new location at Balboa Park’s Hall of Champion was a dramatic improvement over last year and the organizing team http://sandcamp.org/information/event-organizers did an...
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August 25, 2009
Drupal Multi-site Installation
We have recently had a number of projects involving some form of multi-site installation. It is interesting to note that multi-site in most cases is different for each client. For instance, we have a credit bureau client that uses multi-site to offer their Fortune 500 banking clients access to credit score and history data on some 3 million...
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April 21, 2008
Drupal is Finalist in Webware 100 Awards
Drupal earns another feather in it's cap today with the announcement of the Webware 100 awards. The Drupal CMS is one of the nine finalists in the "Photos and Pubishing" category, selected by Webware and voted on by over two million Web 2.0 application users.
The 2008 Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and...
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July 31, 2007
Drupal for Social Networking
The thought of using an open source platform for a professional deployment within a demanding enterprise brings to mind a harrying array of possibilities: programmers unable to see the business issues and work as part of a team, a lack of documentation, hacked code and non-existent project management skills. Well, not anymore.
The Blue Shirt Nation team of Best...
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December 1, 2006
Website Design
Your Web visitors know great design when they see it, instantly in fact. Some studies suggest it takes a fraction of a second for them to make up their mind about a website.
We believe this decisive instant when visitors decide if your website must be explored or evacuated is equivalent to the Gruen Transfer, a controversial term borrowed from the world of environmental...
by Ron Huber
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November 30, 2006
Website Navigation
Have you ever been to a website and read through a page or two only to find yourself wondering how to purchase, how to get more information, or how to see what other items might be related to what you're viewing?
If you are a marketing professional with the responsibility for your company's website, make sure you don't let your website visitors try to figure...



