Best Practices

A Quick Migration of Drupal 6 to Drupal 8

Posted by David Thompson on Friday, April 15, 2016 - 12:09 Best Practices, Drupal Drupal 8, Drupal, Migration, Upgrade

Over the last half year I’ve been involved in different migration projects for different customers. These migrations commonly involved moving WordPress to Drupal-6, WP-to-D7, D6-to-D7, and D7-to-D8.

Migrations are way to move content from its original (source) site to its updated (target) site. It's done in a structured way to save a LOT of work when compared to rebuilding a site from scratch.

The funnest migration so far I’ve been involved with migrated a very large proprietary CMS portal site into a customized Drupal 7 distribution (OpenAtrium). The original site was...

It's Raining Email

Posted by Puja Katari on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 15:08 Best Practices Organize, email, File, Best Practices, Time Management

Email Inbox – 1,846,752 You - 0

Feel defeated by the amount of emails in your inbox? Managing your e-mail inbox can be a chore, especially if you receive hundreds of messages a day. As messages build up, the task of reading and addressing each one may seem impossible, and for most becomes a daunting task. For some, the go-to answer is to ignore some correspondences because most of them are spam or junk and don't require a response. This isn’t the best solution as one can miss deadlines or get on someone’s bad side if something urgent isn’t addressed in a...

5 Ways to Beat Creative Block

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 08:55 Best Practices ux, design, Creative Block, tips, Techniques, Creative

We've all heard of (and have probably experienced) the much-feared Writer's Block so it should come as no surprise that the designer's version, Creative Block, haunts even the best in the game from time-to-time. Let's face it, when being creative is your lifeline day-in and day-out, it's easy to feel overwhelmed at just the thought of ideating. Is the idea of coming up with yet another innovative, mind-blowing and client-pleasing layout keeping you up at night? You're probably experiencing that dreaded Creative Block. But, not to worry! This is so common among creators that you'll find...

Connecting the Puzzle Pieces: Ensuring Better Management, Organization, and Tracking for Every Team

Posted by Rishi Das on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 10:17 Best Practices project management, productivity, Best Practices

No matter how small or large a team, enabling a methodology to understand "Who does what" can greatly improve process, organization, project management, and teaming structures. One of the most versatile tools for a team - outside of its staff and their expertise - is a roles and responsibilities chart. This kind of charting yields performance improvement and often can be an easy to create and easy to follow tool.

Although there are a multitude of different models for organizations and teams to visually map out a roles and responsibilities chart, this post focuses...

All Aboard! On-boarding Data Sources into Splunk

Posted by Anshu Rastogi on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 09:12 Best Practices, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Governance, Data On-boarding

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UX Essentials: The Tao of Stakeholder Interviews

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 09:42 Best Practices content strategy, ux, User Experience Design, Rebranding, Stakeholder Interviews

PROJECT VISION

What is your vision for this offering?
What defines success for this project?
What are the potential pitfalls (i.e. what keeps you up at night about this project)?

USERS

Different types of users (salesperson vs supervisor vs analyst)

Challenges in Creating a Project Management Office

Posted by Sarika Singh on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - 11:27 Best Practices project management office

Last time we talked about why a Project Management Office can be vital to the success of your organization. Today, we’ll highlight some of the challenges in creating a Project Management Office and how to help overcome them.

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No Take Backs – Tips on Email Etiquette

Posted by Puja Katari on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - 10:50 Best Practices etiquette, tips, tools, communication, email

I’m sure you send and receive so many messages each day and have made a mistake or two that you wish you could take back. We’ve all been there and it’s something that sticks with us for days. You think about the all the other different ways you should’ve written the message whether it’s right before you go to bed or when you’re taking a shower.

In face-to-face communication, we rely heavily on non-verbal information like facial expression, body posture, gestures, and the tone on one’s voice to interpret a message. None of this exists when communicating electronically. Without...

Splunking the Linux Audit System

Posted by Naveed Krabbe on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 09:48 Best Practices, Data Security, Operational Intelligence Splunk, Security, linux, Unix, Audit

For my last blog we discussed a Splunk topic geared towards the Windows side of the shop (Splunking Microsoft Windows Firewalls). So now it’s time to show some love to the Linux admins out there. More specifically, in today’s blog we will explore some tips for gaining insight into Linux audit logs using Splunk.

A little background on the Linux Audit System

The Linux Audit system provides a way to track security-relevant information on your...

User-Centered Design: User Personas vs. User Stories

Posted by Caroline Givnish on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 10:47 Best Practices user personas, user stories, ux, user experiece, ucd, user-centered design, content strategy

In my last post, Content Strategy is the New Black, I walked through the process of planning for the creation, delivery and maintenance of web content and alluded to its crucial role in User Experience and User-centered Design. But, if you’re new to User Experience and/or Content Strategy (and let’s face it – with both being relatively new-ish to the web scene – you most likely are) then there are probably some parts of the methodology causing confusion. No stranger to this, for my next article, I wanted to...