It may be a recession, but if you're a Drupal developer, the job market is looking pretty good right now. At least it seems so. You'll have no problem finding companies that are looking to add Drupal talent. Some companies seem to have been looking for quite some time. Why is that? If they need Drupal folks, why can't they find them or attract them? I have some theories, and I'll also offer what help we can provide to help you find Drupal talent.

Many of us own domain names that aren't in use. There's minimal cost in buying a domain name and tales of big payoffs are familiar to many of us. Each year when you have to renew those domain names you're caught in a sense that you're wasting away ~$10 x #of domains per year.

Ask any SEO expert what the most import thing to do to insure you get plenty of traffic to your site and they'll tell you, before you worry about keywords, or H1 or H2 tags or good summaries or anything like that, it's all about good content. We've all heard it, content is king. Visitors like plenty of quality content coming out in a somewhat consistent fashion. That's why they'll come back. That's what will encourage people to link to your site and refer it to others.

In reading through some old files and deciding what will be purged and what will be saved, I found a Forrester report from 2007 on the return on investment (ROI) of blogging. The points in the paper are still valid even if nearly 3 years is an eternity in Internet time.

There's a lot of talk about using social media, typically assumed to mean Twitter and Facebook, to address publicly posted complaints or to advertise your company's products or services. If you look deeper into social media as a marketing and PR tool you'll find a lot of companies aren't finding it to be very helpful in sales. It's likely it's not working well as a sales tool for companies that treat it simply as a way to draw in customers or promote the latest deal.

We're looking to add one or more people to our team. All positions are remote. No recruiters please. Contact us via the contact form above, or Josh McCormack's contact info at the side.

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Here's a link for a summary of information from a recent Nielsen report on Internet usage and specifically use of social networking. Report.

This is tremendous news, and something that should be referenced early on in any justification you have to give for investing in a social networking site. The time is now. People are spending huge amounts of time online, and even more time online with social networking sites than with email.

I recently spoke with someone interested in starting out in Drupal. He saw Drupal's potential, asked about what it wasn't good for, and was receptive to pointers to getting going.

One big thing I suggested was don't try, at least initially, to learn everything there is to know about Drupal. Get the basics down, read stuff on Drupal.org and other Drupal sites, listen to podcasts, lurk in the support IRC channel, follow the RSS feed of the search results of Drupal on Twitter.

There's a lot of talk in Drupal circles on the Drupal usability tests (Formal usability testing of Drupal 7 at the University of Baltimore, February 2009, and on James Walker's Drupalcon talk "Why Drupal Sucks" (Bivings Report).

Last night Dries posted on the Acquia site on their release of a Mac & Windows installer of a Drupal environment.

The installer includes "...Acquia Drupal, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PhpMyAdmin, and an Acquia Drupal Control Panel." I downloaded and installed it on a Vista system, and quickly had a fully functional localhost Drupal environment with PhpMyAdmin easily accessible.