In the world where Online Marketing is becoming the norm, it's all too easy to overlook the strategy, and jump right into developing the tactics. We've all heard someone at our company say "we need a [Insert nearly any social media company] page!" Well, next time you hear that, say "NO!" Ok, well you may want to be more subtle, so how about start with "Ok, let's discuss further". To help with that discussion, I've outlined 4 simple steps you must follow before starting that Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter page. 

Creating a website is usually a pretty straight forward process. Meetings with the client turn into planning sessions, planning sessions turn into coding sessions, and coding sessions turn into a website that fits the client your developing for. It's not until you design a website for yourself that you are able to gain an interesting perspective on the whole process.  When creating the Click Ninjas website you're currently viewing, we ran into a few things that you only see when you're on the client's side.

Here at Click Ninjas we strongly believe in an open, and free internet. One of the things that make the internet so great is its ability to provide you with all the information the world has to offer.  Until now, America has never been faced with the possibility of a censored internet.  Some countries, unfortunately, aren't so lucky. The Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA), although designed with good intentions, could be exactly that, internet censorship.  

One thing was clear to me while attending the Drupal 7 release party tonight: Bigger is better--especially when it comes to CMS platforms.

As per the official release of Drupal 7 today, the size of the core package is 8.51 mb. Over 2.5x larger than Drupal 6! Now that may not sound impressive to anyone outside of the Drupal community, but one thing is clear, Drupal 7 is, and will continue to be, the leading CMS platform of 2011.

If you've ever been tasked with leading the development of a corporate website, or any website for that matter, my guess is you have found yourself facing a tedious request: Develop the website, in as little time as possible, with little to no resources to do it with. Welcome to the lifestyle of the project manager. The problem with most organizations is that they fail to recognize the importance of project management.

As of yesterday, Google announced that it will no longer be actively developing Google Wave. For those of you who don't know what Google Wave is, it was Googles answer to what email would look like if it were built today, instead of 30 years ago like the current standard. This doesn't come as much of a shock to the tech community considering the adoption rate of such a radically different platform was less than impressive. Most people, myself included, are thankful for not diving head first (pun intended) into this new technology.

Recently we've been looking for a customer facing portal to store all of our project files and legal documents. After a little research we found Open Atrium (http://openatrium.com/). Open Atrium is an open source intranet portal for customer relations management. Built on top of the Drupal stack, Open Atrium is a super powerful tool for organizing your customer data.