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Save Money, Save the Planet: How to Become a Certified Green Business

By The Kalamuna Team, June 1, 2018
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Some experts believe world-wide Internet use puts out as much CO2 into the atmosphere as all the coal, gas and oil burned in Turkey or Poland1. Cloud computing alone is thought to be responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions2. Kalamuna is a small business, but we recognize our role in all that energy use, and want to do something to counteract it.

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Drupalistas Spent Our Entire Swag Budget. Where did the Money Go?

By Shannon O'Malley, May 22, 2018
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This April at DrupalCon Nashville, in addition to wanting to meet colleagues and soak up the great talks, we wanted to create a forum for the international Drupal community to do good. That’s why we used our sponsor booth wall as a space for attendees to promote nonprofits that work for causes that matter to them.

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Topics: Articles Community Drupal Nonprofits

Spread the love on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

By Crispin Bailey, May 17, 2018
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At Kalamuna, we believe that everyone, regardless of ability, has a fundamental right to access the information and tools on the Web. Our job, as a digital agency for numerous institutions and organizations trying to make the world a fair and equitable place, is to ensure that the websites and products we design and build for our clients are accessible.

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Topics: Accessibility Articles Guidance

What is GDPR and Why Should I Care?

By Crispin Bailey, May 2, 2018
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Does your website collect visitors’ names, email addresses, or any other personal information? If so, the GDPR, which comes into effect in May 2018, likely affects you.

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Topics: Articles Security

How-to: Using Drupal-Project to Craft Your Perfect Start State

By Hawkeye Tenderwolf, April 3, 2018
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The drupal-project repository is quickly becoming the de facto starter for all Drupal 8 projects. So how can you quickly spin up a new site with Composer and drupal-project? How do you take drupal-project and customize it to suit your particular needs? And, how do you leverage post-install tasks to keep yourself DRY? This February I gave a talk at DrupalCamp Florida where I got into all of these questions.

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Topics: Articles Drupal

Understand Analytics with a Free Google Data Studio Report

By Andrew Mallis, March 27, 2018
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Are you a marketing or IT manager who’s confused when navigating Google Analytics? Wish you could see only key performance indicators in one place? Or, do you want to share only some of your data in an automatically updated report? Kalamuna has created a Google Data Studio (GDS) report template to help our clients better visualize their data, and because part of our mission is to help colleges and universities meet their goals through technology, we’re creating free reports for higher-ed professionals now until April 30.

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Topics: Analytics Articles Discovery Guidance Higher Education Nonprofits Strategy

Help! Why does Composer keep installing Drupal 8.5 "BETA" instead of the stable version?

By Hawkeye Tenderwolf, March 8, 2018
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Drupal core 8.5.0-stable was released just a few days ago, and I imagine other folks may run into the same installation problem as I did when attempting to upgrade. If you think this might be you, then read on...


Problem: When trying to upgrade from any previous version of Drupal core to ~8.5, Composer delivers 8.5.0-beta1 instead of the latest stable version.

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Topics: Articles Drupal

Build a Better JIRA Dashboard in 6 Steps

By Kristin Sartain, February 27, 2018
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Building a JIRA dashboard to encompass all projects and team members can be challenging in an agency. We have multiple projects of differing scope and scale running at the same time using various agile methodologies. The dashboard needs to give team members and stakeholders an overall sense of the work we’re doing, as well as motivation to act to move the project forward. Check out these six steps you can take (we did!) to supercharge your JIRA dashboard and make it more useful for everyone.  

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Topics: Articles Project Management

Design Inspiration: From the Obvious to São Paulo's Urban Centers and Fundamental Physics

By Thiago de Mello Bueno, January 16, 2018
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São Paulos Batman's Alley hosts an ever-changing tapestry of works from local street artists

 

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Why Content and IT Managers Don’t Have to Fear Drupal 8

By Katy Pool, December 18, 2017
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It can sometimes feel overwhelming to keep up with evolving technology. If you’re worried that migrating your organization’s Drupal 6 or 7 site to the latest version, Drupal 8, is going to cause headaches, this post is for you. Major benefits of migrating your site to D8 include: built-in responsiveness for mobile and other platforms, faster page loads and optimized performance, and a more streamlined and intuitive content editing experience. But change can be scary, I know.

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Topics: Articles Community Drupal Guidance

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