you own your website. we help.
included with OwnSourcing workshops
OwnSourcing Workshops Include Best-of-Breed Hosting
OwnSourcing is excited to announce that workshop participants can now enjoy 3 months of a monthly subscription to Acquia Dev Cloud as a free added benefit.
Dev Cloud is a Drupal-optimized run-time environment loaded with goodies. Register for the workshop you've always wanted to attend and start off your next project on Dev Cloud.
Self-study PHP or jQuery
Want to Learn PHP? Want to Learn jQuery?
Two useful self-study groups kick off online on Thu, Sep 1. Both are organized by the Boston PHP meetup group, and are well worth attending.
The PHP self-study group uses David Powers' excellent book PHP Solutions.
The jQuery self study group uses David Sawyer McFarland's book JavaScript: The Missing Manual.
Give them a try, and come back as you make progress to leave us your comments on how it's going!
Webinar
Tweet This! Integrate Your Commons Community with Twitter
recorded live on Wednesday July 27, 2011
Topic of discussion:
Create a powerful outreach tool for your online community: learn to integrate Twitter and Commons. Take a look at this Ownsourcing/Acquia Webinar.
And of course, ADD your comments and questions...
See you at the Boston Drupal Design Camp
Recent EVENT -- panel discussion
What Breaks (and Makes) Websites: Six big topics and how startups can manage them
This event was held Oct 28
Topic of discussion:
What is essential to the success of a startup company's website, and how do startups address these items with available resources?
You are invited to continue to pose questions and provide feedback.
Sites to see
What websites have been built using open source tools?
www.whitehouse.gov [Drupal]
www.economist.com [Drupal]
www.unitedway.org [Drupal]
Have you spotted other noteworthy sites built on open source software? Add your review of the site and of the tools they use.
Build your website in a classroom setting. Have it online in the first session.
- Ownsourcing courses get you up and running quickly.
- Courses are brief and focused. Select just the modules that you need. Chain them together as you add more functionality to your site.
- Learn to use best-in-class tools and create your site according to industry standards. As your team grows and changes, you can count on new people to know how to do things, whether they have taken an Ownsourcing course or taken a different path.
Web publishing skills: as essential to learn as word processing (and as simple)
Web publishing skills are the next resume builder. They are now within the reach of every internet user: no more programming languages to learn. No more alphabet soup.
To outsource or to ownsource your website?
There are some things that businesses should outsource. These are the non-essential function that someone else can do better, faster and cheaper.
Until recently, your web site met these criteria for outsourcing: a programmer was needed to make changes. Developments in the last few years have made open source content management systems as easy to use as word processors (and as essential to know).
Want more information about Drupal? see what analysts are saying:
-Forrester
-Gilbane
some things you should outsource. your website you shouldn't.
First impressions
Your website sets the first impression. Is yours out of date?
When potential customers ask themselves whether to come to you or your competition, they go online.
Where does the web figure in your company's future?
A website in a class
In your 1st class, your site is online and you are building it out. In 2 more classes you learn everything you need to run a basic site. Guaranteed.
What are these open source Content Management Systems?
Drupal is the preferred tool of our web-centric courses. It's the content management system (CMS) we feel has the quickest startup path in instructor-led courses. It's also the one your organization will never outgrow as its web requirements change.
Reduced rates for public school educators
Public schools, teachers, counselors and administrators benefit from significantly reduced prices over the 2010-2011 schoolyear. It's our way of acknowledging the importance both of quality public education and of open source Content Management Systems to our future.
What does it mean to 'own your website'?
Technology is now the easy part of creating an online presence. Ownsourcing courses guide you through setting up your site quickly and inexpensively with open source software. Once it is set up, you can give any trusted contributor access to post updates easily and instantaneously.
Look through the standard Ownsourcing courses, or contact us about creating a custom workshop for your colleagues, your community, or your company.
