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Google Drive has arrived

Posted by mmcintosh on 04/26/2012 - 6:05pm

Google Drive has arrived if you have a google email account you can request to find out when your drive will be ready and a day or two later you get an email letting you know it is ready and 5GB of free space is yours.

If you need more and who doesn't then you can get up to 16TB for a mere $800.00 per month ------------ Nice I mean 1TB for only $49.00 per month. ------------ (see price sheet below) The storage is for both google drive and picasa mixed so keep all you pics up and your data. The privacy policy looks similar to all of the existing players and speaking of existing players this cuts Dropbox by 40% at the 100GB range. What do you think who will survive this latest entry into the online storage foray. JungleDisk = Rackspace, Dropbox, Justcloud, Carbonite, Box ElephantDrive, Mozy, OpenDrive, YouSendIt, Egnyte HibridCloud, SkyDrive = Microsoft LiveDrive and SugarSync; these are just a few of the players in the market there are so many more I can't...

Ins and Outs of CSS3

Posted by Cheryl Amato on 03/14/2012 - 2:16pm

Last night I gave a presentation at the Baltimore Drupal Meetup. The meetup was well attended and I was asked to post the presentation and some of the tips I had. So, here's the presentation - download it and enjoy.

Several people said they would like the list of screen sizes for testing a responsive site:

iPhone - portrait - 320 x 356
iPhone - landscape - 480 x 320
small tablets - 600 x 600
iPad - portrait - 768 x 1024
iPad - landscape - 1024 x 768
I also suggest constraining the width to no more than 1200 pixels. You don't want excessively long lines of text on large monitors - they are too hard to read.

I was also asked about the css reset file I use. I use Eric Meyer's reset - with some custom tweaks when needed. Read his post and copy the file. He's also a good person to...

Facebook Group Branding

Posted by Stephanie Dickard on 02/24/2012 - 1:15pm

Did you notice the new Facebook group changes? No? Well not many people have either... some things you need to consider:

maryland music network

Facebook generates a bar at the top of the group page with photos of members who have recently interacted with the group. Depending on the group, this can be an invasion that members are not prepared for. These photos (blurred above) when hovered over display a member's name and a link to their profile page. Granted, you can access a list of group members, but never at this level of fanfare.

The group in the screen shot above is the Maryland Music Network, a group that connects the Maryland music...

How to Develop with Drupal

Posted by Daniel Schiavone on 11/07/2011 - 2:43pm

In preparation for tomorrow night's Baltimore Drupal Meetup I've been thinking of different topics to address. By putting some out beforehand I hope to stir up some ideas and best practices for discussion.

Version Control: Following the rest of the Drupal community we've been moving to GIT. GIT makes branching a lot easier. With larger projects our releases are organized into sprints. This means a release every two weeks. How do you leverage branches to manage releases?
Configuration Management: This is always a hot topic. In Drupal all your configurations are trapped in the database where they can't be put under version control and synchronizing between different environments is next to impossible. Features can get you 80% there. How do you use features? What do you do for the other 20%?

Three Things Most Nonprofits Do Better Than Your Business on the Web

Posted by Stephanie Dickard on 10/27/2011 - 6:15pm

Engaging with their greater community

Nonprofits are typically the kings and queens of networking and cross promoting with one another, because they have to so they can survive. Most are out there for the greater good and can easily compliment one another despite the possibility of being in “competition” with one another. That is such a fine line for businesses in the for-profit world, the idea of marketing together with another similar business is daunting and seems counter-productive…but in the social media world it is seen as strategic.

Asking for awareness over money

Nonprofits thrive on donations, but they flourish more with awareness. They know this, so they ask for it over money when it comes to social media. Sure, they solicit donations for their causes, but they still say thank you the same way for sharing their messages that they do for money.

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Four Big Mistakes In Event Planning

Posted by Stephanie Dickard on 10/15/2011 - 12:26pm

I’ve been planning events for over ten years, and well if you include the countless family extravaganzas and rallying together volunteers for ridiculous tasks that number is probably doubled just on frustration and learning the hard way alone.

Remember putting together events without social media, you know when you actually had to go out and talk to people or pick up the phone? It all has changed, but that does not mean your strategy should be all that different. The “build it and they will come” philosophy just leaves you with an empty room and eventually your ramblings about “what went wrong” leads to blaming the current economy.

So, here are my four mistakes of event planning with some easy suggestions to make your next event a success:

Relying on Facebook

Do not rely on Facebook for anything at all. I currently have over 20 event invitations in my Facebook inbox. I can barely tell what is relevant to me, I might be missing out on a...

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