State of Drupal
(First part of this week I am attending DrupalCon 2008) [Update 3/4/08: Audio from the State of Drupal as well as Jay Batson and Dries' "Presenting Acquia" talk are available on Shai's podcast]...
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Enterprise 2.0 Conference – Social Bookmarking and Tagging
One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of...
View ArticleEnterprise 2.0 Panel on Open Source
Last week, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I moderated a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panelists were: Bob Bickel, from Ringside Networks John Newton, from Alfresco Jeff Whatcott,...
View ArticleState of Drupal (Szeged 2008)
I was unfortunately unable to get to Drupalcon Szeged last month, so I’m now making my way through the videos and slide decks from sessions there. One of the favorite keynotes of any Drupalcon of...
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Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current...
View ArticleMultiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?
Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the social software marketplace and the fact that Intel leverages multiple community software vendors: What this should...
View ArticleZeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web...
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Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open...
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This Week: The Great CMS Debate
Happy to announce (a bit late, I suppose, in that the event is sold out - though folks coming who don’t get to see the debate can still join us for networking and beer) that I’ll be moderating the...
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CMS Debate from North Shore Web Geeks
A few weeks back I was part of a panel at North Shore Web Geeks which they titled The Great CMS Debate. John Eckman, Jay Batson, Marc Amos, and Tom Herer. Photo (c) Trev Stair Unfortunately Jake...
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Open Source Business Social Software
Two projects I’ve been looking at this summer show just how far the Open Source world has come with respect to social business software. Eureka Streams, which is a new open source project sponsored by...
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Post-Vox, Ex-Ning? Consider WordPress, Drupal
Photo by Brian Arnold - http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianarn/265152959/ SixApart recently announced that they will be closing Vox, their hosted blog service, at the end of September. Earlier this...
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Drupal communities at AIIM
Photo by galawebdesign - http://www.flickr.com/photos/galawebdesign/2315810343/in/pool-644862@N21/ It wasn’t so long ago that Drupalcon was in the upstairs rooms at the BCEC while AIIM met downstairs...
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No more Chat Catcher
Photo by Chris Sternal-Johnson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceejayoz/371137761/ This is all a bit anti-climactic given that if you were an actual Chat Catcher user, you’ve known that the system was...
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DrupalCamp CT and the Legacy of Henry R. Luce
Last weekend I went down to New Haven for DrupalCamp CT 2011, at Yale. It was a smaller camp (compared to Design4Drupal Boston, or DrupalCon) but had excellent content and showed there is a strong...
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DrupalCamp Montreal
Just found out I will be speaking at DrupalCamp Montreal in a few weeks, on the subject of Open Source Video, using Kaltura with Drupal. We’re doing some work with an institute at a local university...
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Videos from DrupalCamp Montreal
McIntyre Medical Building (Photo by un flaneur, cc-by-nc-nd license) DrupalCamp Montreal was this past weekend, and the videos are already posted! The event venue was McGill University’s McIntyre...
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Western Mass Drupal Camp
Western Mass Drupal Camp will be held in Amherst MA on 1/21/12 I was very happy to find out this weekend that I will be speaking next weekend (1/21/12) at Western Mass Drupal Camp in Amherst. I’ll be...
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Heading to Denver for DrupalCon
Next week I’m off to Denver for DrupalCon 2012. Since DrupalCon 2008 (which was in Boston) I’ve done both SXSW and DrupalCon each year, but that was proving to be a bit of an overload, so this year...
View ArticleDries’ Keynote and the Assembled Web
At this morning’s DrupalCon Denver keynote, Dries mentioned the concept of the Assembled Web a number of times: how Drupal enables web applications to be assembled from component parts (both parts from...
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WordCamp Boston 2012, Design for Drupal 4
This weekend Boston lives up to its reputation as a strong city for open source CMS activities, with both WordCamp Boston 2012 and Design for Drupal 4 in the same weekend. WordCamp will be at the...
View ArticleWhy the heck isn’t WordPress a CMS?
Slides from my WordCamp Boston 2012 talk on Why the @#!!@ isn’t WordPress a CMS: Why the heck isnt word press a cms View more PowerPoint from John Eckman Obviously it’ll be more useful once the video...
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DrupalCampCT
Very excited to announce I’ll be giving the keynote talk at DrupalCampCT later this month (August 18th, 2012)! 2012 CT Drupal Camp Keynote: Delivering Results: The State of Content Management and the...
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Western Mass DrupalCamp
With the arrival of the new year, it’s time again for DrupalCamp Western MA. This year it will be held January 19th, with (I believe – doesn’t say on the site anymore) the 26th as a potential if it...
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WordPress talks at CMS Expo
Last year I spoke at CMS Expo in Chicago about Busting Web Experience Management Myths. But while covering the event for the CMS Myth, I noticed that WordPress was visibly absent from the Showcase. In...
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Truly Responsive Design
A few weekends ago, I spoke at Design 4 Drupal Boston 2013. It was a great opportunity to update and give a talk I had been scheduled to give at WordCamp Providence (but was unable to deliver), on the...
View ArticleWhat can the WordPress community learn from the State of Drupal?
This week, the Drupal community gathered in Austin for DrupalCon 2014, including the annual “State of Drupal” address from Dries Buytaert. It’s the first North American Drupalcon I’ve missed since...
View ArticleIs there a single WordPress community, or a single Drupal community?
(Photo credit: Schipulcon 2011 Day 2 Photos under CC Attribution Share-Alike license) Two recent posts got me thinking about the Drupal community and the WordPress community. First, Mendel Kurland...
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What can the WordPress community learn from the State of Drupal (2015)?
Last year I wrote a post about what the WordPress community could learn from the State of Drupal, Dries’ annual address at DrupalCon (aka the Driesnote, carrying a similar importance as Matt’s State of...
View ArticleWhat the Drupal Community Can Learn From WordPress: Philosophy Driven...
(Image courtesy of Maura Teal) I’ve written now a couple of times about what I think the WordPress community can learn from Drupal, and specifically Dries’ keynotes at DrupalCon, which I always make...
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