Spooktober: Scary Tales of Online Presentations
Later this week, I’ll be presenting at the Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp). But instead of waking up and looking out of a hotel window at the sprawling…
Local Efforts Can Lead to Global Impact - Open-Source Lessons
One of the best things about working in open-source technology -- and, in our case, Drupal specifically -- is the fact that your local efforts can…
Planning The Move to Drupal 8/9
Drupal 9 is coming! The release date is set for June 2020. If you were around for the introduction of Drupal 8 in November 2015, you will remember it…
Are You There Mandi Fields? It’s Me, Digital Echidna
Inspired by several other local businesses and organizations, we have committed to the 2019 United Way Tampon Tuesday campaign. This means, over the…
Drupal Modules as Solutions, Toolkits and a Middle Way
There is a lot of excitement in the Drupal community about the release of Drupal 9. In particular, one of the most appealing elements is how the…
How to Turn Your Holiday Data Into Year-Round Sales
Need to Know Fifty percent of holiday shoppers will try out new brands, and 40% will return to familiar retailers during the holidays, creating ample…
Precious Little to Celebrate for NDEAM - But Your Small Efforts Can Help
“Celebrating Disability Inclusion for More than 70 Years” the US department of labour site proudly proclaims. But for many on both sides of the border…
No Short Cut to Quality Content - Despite What the Black-Hat Snake-Oil Salesmen May Say
I have a few posts running in my head, but none have tapped that vein which allows them just to spill right out on the page. So when the Twitters…
Being SMART About Networking Gets Results
Today Echidna’s director of development, Yan Zhang, and I are attending Western University’s Computer Science Breakfast. But we want to do more than…
Content Marketing? Simple, but Not Easy.
Recently a site that I've long respected posted a question on one of its social media channels. They asked a simple question, "How do you define…