Maintaining an e-commerce website in today's fast-paced world can be extremely challenging. Consumers demand the same ground breaking features as seen on sites like Amazon.com for all their e-commerce web experiences; while marketers are demanding sites that achieve higher conversion rates and program ROI. Not only are IT managers are faced with the pressure from these constituencies, they have to reconcile these demands against the limitations of their proprietary software solutions.

Many organizations today have been able to better meet these demands by building their website with Drupal. The Drupal community currently maintains and continues to develop hundreds of highly effective modules and features that allow organizations like yours to be more agile and rollout better e-commerce features faster and gain the competitive advantage they need.

By Michael Hugos @ Dell.com

Your company has to keep exploring new markets and introducing new products because existing products become obsolete so fast and profits get squeezed. Since all new products need systems support to bring them to market, you will be an indispensable player on your company’s senior management team if you can quickly deploy flexible and scalable systems without spending a lot of money up front to get started.

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Friday turned out to be a huge success for the first annual Rocked the Recession, hosted by SocialTechPop and Flyover Geeks http://2010rock.com/.  I had a blast moderating the event and networking with so many other techies and entrepreneurs from the area, and some from around the country.

Thanks again to all that attended!

Ed Swiderski and Katy Lynch are teaming up once again to host interviews for the panelists and speakers at midVentures --the largest startup and innovation conference in the Midwest.  See the list of speakers here, which includes Brad Keywell co-founder of Groupon, Steve Huffman of Reddit, and many more.

CHICAGO (September 2010) - GreenCanyon, LLC, a business technology consulting firm based in Chicago that specializes in web and mobile development, cloud computing and social media, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Michael Hugos and the Center for Systems Innovation [c4si].

The strategic partnership allows GreenCanyon access to the industry expertise of published author and noted business agility strategist Michael Hugos. We will focus on solving acute business problems with practical agile development “in the cloud”. The partnership also allows GreenCanyon to offer the Center’s Agile System Development Process known as “The 30-Day Blitz”.

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Ed Swiderski and Katy Lynch (of SocialKaty & Where I've Been) will be hosting speaker interviews at this year's "Tech in the Middle" cloud and mobile computing conference at the Illinois Institute of Technology on September 11th, 2010.

Register for the conference here!
http://www.techinthemiddle.com/Register

Ed will co-host the interviewing portion of Social Dev Camp this weekend at IIT.  Look for him at the conference!