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Back in January I posted a blog about my carbon footprint for 2007 . With 36 flights spanning nearly 70,000 miles, I had calculate my carbon footprint at a little bit more than 14 tons of CO2, turns out I had some bad numbers in there and overestimated it by maybe 2 or 3 tons.
Drupal Project founder Dries Buytaert’s recent blog post on Contributing Back to Drupal came on the heals of much discussion of the same topic while I was the Lullabot DIWD Seminar. It is not a new conversation, at CivicActions we have been having it for as long as I can remember. The Community Stipend Program Recognizing that it was hard for our company as a company to “give back” beyond our sponsorship of DrupalCons and DrupalCamps we have made efforts to empower all of our team members to give back. A big part of this is our Community Work Stipend Program which we started in 2006. Team members who achieve a threshold of client work each month earn an additional stipend to do “community work”. This can take the form of maintaining modules, working on patches for contrib or core, organizing or presenting at Drupal events like camps, cons or user groups, or writing documentation.
In this fifth and final article in our series on creating an SEO strategy we will tackle the topic of community . Websites are not like the “field of dreams” — if you build it, they won’t necessarily come. Certainly if you do everything right up to this point: write good content, use appropriate markup and install the right Drupal modules, the search engines will index your site. However, when you start receiving quality inbound links is when your organic search results will increase exponentially.
In Part 3 of Creating An SEO Strategy we discussed ways of writing better HTML markup in your content. In this part of the series, we will discuss some Drupal specific modules and tips, as well as other resources for learning more about SEO.
Early (far too early) Tuesday morning I am heading to New Orleans for Do It With Drupal , the Lullabot training conference. I’m totally psyched for the trip, not just because I can’t wait to see so many Drupalistas and see what other folks have got cookin’ with Drupal, but also because I love New Orleans. When I used to work for ACORN , we traveled to New Orleans every December for a national conference. I visited a few more times for Vintage Scooter Rallies in 2004 and 2006. In February of 2007, CivicActions held one of our full team retreats in the Garden District , and spent a day volunteering with Habitat For Humanity in the 9th Ward. Most recently I visited the Crescent City for the NTEN NTC in March. The city’s recovery has been slow, but every event and conference that take place there help the locals, and help move the city closer to recovery.
Last week I emptied my inbox completely. And from this point forward I pledge (to myself I guess) that I will only “check” email if I am going to “deal” with my email. Every email that lands in my inbox and is not filtered into a specific mailbox will be dealt with: archived, deleted, responded to.
In Part II of Creating An SEO Strategy , Ron focused on content and keywords. But there is more to content than just the keywords. The markup and code underneath can make your content even more attractive to search engines and help your visitors find what they are looking for faster.
Over the past few weeks, in fits and starts, I have made some updates to this site. The goal is not so much to generate new content here at GregoryHeller.com, but rather to aggregate all the content I create on other sites. So you will see lots of lists of content coming in from places…