Awakened Voice

Are rumors of the death of the traditional webmaster greatly exaggerated? Maybe not. I’ve stated previously that a new type of webmaster is needed in order to leverage the powerful new tools available to those doing business via the web.
This video features Drupal founder Dries Buytaert speaking at the Open Source CMS Summit at Yahoo! [...]

A post on Drupal.org has announced that a book titled Pro Drupal Development is now shipping.
Based on the comment in the announcement that, “Many heavy hitters in the Drupal community contributed to the book by reviewing drafts and offering suggestions and improvements.” I’d have to say that this book is worth a look for anyone [...]

I’ve written about Drupal here before. I think it’s the best open source community building tool out there.
If you want to start a single blog get WordPress. If you want a robust forum try PhpBB. If you want to build a rich media gallery try Broadcast Machine. If you want to do all three together [...]

A few months ago I was introduced to a new, Open Source project management tool called activeCollab. The developer is a young man from Serbia who aimed to take the features provided by the commercial BaseCamp software and make them available for free.
So far so good. Release 0.7 takes this product even closer to BaseCamp [...]

There’s a new tutorial playing over in the Learning Center. Learn how to use the Feed2JS tool to place RSS feed items on just about any web page.
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Drupal is moving forward with the first release candidate for their upcoming 5.0 release. Sound like there are some excellent new features to look forward to.
According to their blog post, “It comes with many new features, including a web-based install system, improved administration tools, and a shiny new theme!”
I’ve pointed out Drupal before because there’s [...]

There’s probably no more fitting way to end the week of Open Source tools by highlighting the mack daddy of free blogging tools. I’m talking about WordPress of course.
Stand around a room full of bloggers and start talking about blogging tools. You’ll hear people mention Movable Type, Typepad, Typo and Blogger along with WordPress.
I’ve used (and still [...]

One of the biggest problems that organizations have is efficiency in collaboration. Just recently I talked to a colleague who was frustrated about the process of sharing large files via email. People sending him email would constantly get the dreaded ‘mailbox full’ notification.
Wikis offer an alternative approach to mailing documents back and forth. As many [...]

I’ve come to think of RSS as the grease for the social web. If that’s true then I think it’s fair to say that a tool called Feed2JS is the grease gun, easily allowing users to insert the grease where it needs to go.
Feed2JS is short for “Feed To Javascript”. The tool allows you to convert [...]

In preparing to write a post about another great social web tool I suddenly had a problem. I didn’t know what to call it. This tool is not easy to describe because it can help you to do so many different things on the web.
This tool can allow you to host one or many [...]