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If there's one thing near and dear to a writer's hard little heart, it's content. Unfortunately through much of the history of the web, content is always the last thing people worry about when building a site. Content Strategist Kristina Halvorson, CEO and Founder of BrainTraffic.com, aims to change all that.

Are you the type that just uses sites like MTV.co.uk, or are you more one to stare at it and try to figure out what it's running? I could say that it's running Drupal (news, site), which it is, but the answer isn't quite that simple.

On July 17 Open Atrium (news, site) was introduced to the world. The software is a distribution of the popular open source Drupal CMS framework (news, site) packaged up in the form of an intranet and knowledge management tool.

A mere 75,000 downloads later, Open Atrium now support 31 languages at varying levels of translation. The team behind this social business software used by small groups working together as well as large, geographically distributed organizations, has some firm ideas about the future.

The New York State Senate was in the hands of the same political party for 44 years. In 2009 that finally changed. With the new administration came new ways, including hiring the state senate's first CIO, Andrew Hoppin. Within months, their web presence would completely change.
 

Deciding that you need a content management system is a no-brainer for online publishers. And given the veritable financial bloodbath happening in the publishing industry -- thanks to the drop in advertising revenue -- it shouldn't come as a surprise that the idea of a free, open source CMS holds a great deal of appeal. However, in the case of The Economist, it didn't start out this way.

There are a variety of conferences out there for the discerning web denizen, designer, and programmer. In the Drupal (news, site) community the biggest is Drupalcon, where Drupal developers, project members, and fans gather to work, celebrate, plot, plan, and look in many ways to the future.

This week in New Orleans is a bit different. Lullabot's "Do it with Drupal" promises three packed days of pragmatic discussions around site building, theming, and other nuts and bolts issues.