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The New and Improved Drupal Commons

Posted by Avani Cheriathundam on Monday, August 26, 2013 - 15:12 Web Experience Management Acquia, Collaboration, Commons, Drupal

On February 26, 2013 Acquia announced the release of Drupal Commons 3.0 to the public for Drupal 7.  This third generation release by Acquia included several new features to help enhance and accelerate the creation of communities and social applications within Drupal. This distribution is bundled with other modules that are pre-configured to work with Drupal Core.  While Drupal core was designed to be flexible, without much attention to the look and feel, Commons was designed as more of a complete package out of the box.  And Commons is also free to all users.

The first release of...

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On meetings and coming together

Posted by Allan Mai on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 17:35 Cool Tools 37signals, basecamp, Collaboration, Cool Tools

It is hard to justify calling a meeting. Do all five of these people need to be here for the next hour? Are we brainstorming? Is something unclear?

Brainstorming during a meeting is not always a good use of time.

When is the last time that, when called upon, you were able to summon all of your creative energies to focus into a burst of inspiration about something, anything? Can you do it in the next 10 minutes? Hour? Or in a room with all these other people, at the same time? In the ideal situation this would be a difficult task, in reality, Mary didn't get her coffee yet and...

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Moving to ECM

Posted by Hani Atalla on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 00:08 Development, Function1, Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration, Development, General, UCM, WebCenter Content

Companies, similar to humans, have norms and habits and Function1 has one.  Towards the last quarter of the year, the Function1 fraternity gets to be in teams of threes where each team is tasked with selecting a technology, researching it and, in an exotic company retreat during the month of January, presenting it to the other team members.  Given that we come from different schools of thought, it isn't always easy to agree on a technology among the team members (though we are only three) but then democracy prevails (sort of) and the most senior person picks a technology! In the end, our...

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Product Announcement: Collab Explorer 1.0 Released

Posted by Vasanth Manikumar on Thursday, December 23, 2010 - 14:07 Collaboration, F1 Product

Hi all,

Please pardon the interruption in our blog posts for the past month. It's not that we didn't have anything to write about, but wanted to focus on delivering some important Function1 products. As usual, at Function1, we are always looking for ways to improve the user experience for our customers. And today, we are staying on course with that mantra with the release of our Collab Explorer product for customers using Oracle WebCenter Collaboration. This product is essentially a portlet which...

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