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Drupal For Associations: An Executive Breakfast Success Story
It came and went so fast, it’s more of a blur than anything else. At least that was my recollection and thankfully not how our guests remembered our Executive Breakfast, Drupal for Associations. Our tradeshow booth stood tall against a far...

Why Good Content Makes Development Harder
Here at Balance, content strategists are involved in every aspect of a project. You’d think our job was over after we laid out what will be on the site and wrote the content. But that is just the beginning of the work. We stick around and make...

There's a Strategy to Community Outreach, Really!
Event planning has been in my blood for generations. So, naturally the first marketing meeting I had with Tracy Betts, our CEO, left me bubbling with excitement. Tracy shared with me a point of pain in the association space: a need for a leader in...

Capital Camp Here We Come!
Balance Interactive is excited to be part of the first ever gathering of Drupaldom in DC. Capital Camp starts tomorrow and we will be there! This event will be a great gathering of the Drupal community - organizations that use it or want to use it...

Lessons Learned About Drupal 7
We recently launched our first Drupal 7 site for The George Washington University Medical Education Futures (GWU MEFS). We chose GWU MEFS as our Drupal 7 guinea pig because they had a pretty straightforward site. They didn't require any...

Does your website budget need to go on a diet?
The other day I was watching Top Chef Masters on Bravo TV. The cooking challenge posed to some of the country’s top chefs was to create a 1,500 calorie meal. I thought easy – I budget calories with every meal I prepare. Well, not so much...

Notify Organic Group Members for Webforms and Rules in Drupal
Don't you hate when it takes hours to find a solution for a specific Drupal problem? This recently happened to me when trying to find out how to email all the members of an organic group when a webform is submitted and as an action for Rules. In an...

New Favorite Drupal Module: Node Reference Embedded Media Browser
Here at Balance, we are big fans of using node reference fields in our content types as a way to reuse content throughout our clients' sites. We use node references to select relevent content on a per node basis to display in blocks on the page....

Video and More Video
Everyone loves the idea of adding video to their website. One would think this would be something simple to do, right? Sure, we make it look easy because we have the tools to accomplish this, but there are complex interfaces going on behind the...

Why We are Excited about Drupal 7
Drupal 7 recently launched with parties across the world, and Balance Interactive is just as excited about the new features. Here is a list of our top 5 reasons why we are excited about Drupal 7: A Strong Focus on Usability A big push has been to...

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