Danielle:
There's nothing like filling a brand new role in an organization. Sure there are the new challenges of uncharted territory, and the opportunity to build a new area of expertise in the company, but the best part is everyone at the office asking "so what do you DO here, again?"
Jeff:
As the Drupal community and lots of newcomers all descend on San Francisco this week, I am making just one (maybe not so bold) prediction: This conference is the tipping point. Drupal is officially big. Why is this all happening now? It is likely a combination of many things: maturity of the product itself, size of the installed base, growth in community popularity and participation, lack of affordable alternatives for comparable web 2.0 functionality, etc. I actually prefer to view it more as the maturity of Drupal as a platform through which the Drupal technology community is pushing Drupal forward - potentially straight into enterprise software territory. Here is my "top ten style" list of the technology trends I see fueling this growth.
Jeff:
Today we are releasing our first publicly available open source version of Tattler on Drupal.org. Tattler is a way to monitor topics you are interested in and learn who is talking about them, where, when and how.
Tattler might be used by a researcher, journalist, blogger, technology analyst, or PR specialist or anyone looking for a better way to research on the web. In other words, Tattler is for those that don't just listen to, but help shape the public policy debate - either with coverage or research. So what is unique about Tattler?
Tiffany:
If you missed Wednesday's webinar, you can still listen to the recording. The webinar is entitled Drupal Publishing & Social Media Solutions for Online Publishers and is chock-full of great information.
Jeff:
In this podcast, Bryan House from Acquia talks to Frank Febbraro, Jeff Walpole and Irakli Nadareishvili at Phase2 as they talk about Tattler, OpenPublish and the role of solution-oriented distributions in Drupal.
Irakli:
Today Phase2 announced our second turn-key open-source solution: Tattler (app), a topic monitoring tool for the Web. Tattler finds and aggregates content from the Web on topics you ask it to monitor. Using Semantic Web technologies, Tattler mines news, websites, blogs, multimedia sites, and other social media like Twitter, to find mentions of the issues most relevant to your organization.
