The Public Relations and Marketing Group

Submitted by Steve Gerbino on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 22:05
Intranet dashboard

Brief overview

The Public Relations and Marketing Group required a system that would not only allow them to keep track of all their clients, but generate reports, keep track of meetings and events, notify employees when necessary, be accessible from outside the office, and most of all -- be easy to use. Our solution for them was to utilize Open Atrium, a powerful collaboration tool based on our most highly endorsed Content Management Framework, Drupal.

Using our custom implementation of OpenAtrium, The Public Relations and Marketing Group enjoys easy access to their system from anywhere. The system provides instant E-mail notifications to employees on cases and projects, detailed project and case tracking, a contact book module to hold clients contact information, and a global events and meetings calendar.

Thomas Knoell Designs

Submitted by Steve Gerbino on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 01:25
Homepage of thomasknoell.com

Brief overview

Thomas Knoell Designs is a premier custom design jewelry studio, they came to us in need a brand new web presence. They required some common functionalities, such as an E-commerce shopping cart, a blog, an events calendar, numerous static pages, and a store locator.

The site is maintainable by the Thomas Knoell Designs staff, and it is powered by the popular content management system, Joomla!. Through the use of their web store, Thomas Knoell Designs is able to reach a broader demographic selling through the internet to consumers across North America. Their store locator provides an easy means for consumers to find their nearest Thomas Knoell Designs retailer. Those interested may now also find Bridal show event locations and times through their sites event calendar.

Squirrelmail on Ubuntu for all domains

Submitted by Steve Gerbino on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 00:30

Suppose you host several different domains names that may or may not change over time. Wouldn't you like them all to access webmail the same way, automatically? This step by step guide will set up your Ubuntu 10.04 machine to do just that.

Prerequisites: A working IMAP/POP3 server, a working MTA (Mail Transfer Agent), Apache2, PHP

Ubuntu's repository has a squirrelmail package -- so first install squirrelmail:

sudo apt-get install squirrelmail

Now rather than following squirrelmail tutorials and including squirrelmail's apache.conf, go in to /etc/apache2/sites-available and create a file called webmail.

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
sudo nano webmail

Once in the text editor, paste the following configurations in to the file:

Creating a Contact book feature in OpenAtrium

Submitted by Steve Gerbino on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 00:17

My company had recently lost their Microsoft Exchange server due to age of the actual hardware. Slowly we've been replacing software with open source technologies like Linux and now OpenAtrium/Drupal. The idea was that a well designed Intranet could replace some of the functionality they were used to -- Calendars, Contacts, etc.

OpenAtrium doesn not come with a Contact book, but fortunately it isn't too difficult to create the feature yourself. There actually will be little coding involved, thanks to the Feature module. If you don't know what the feature module is -- don't worry, you don't need to. If you have knowledge of the underlying Drupal system, this walk-through will be trivial for you.
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