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Maintaining and marketing the LevelTen website comes with it's positives and negatives.

Big positive: we get tons of traffic.

Big negative: we get tons of spam.

As web browsing on mobile devices is increasing in frequency and ease of use, the need for mobile optimized websites is pressing. The Drupal community has picked up on this need and have developed modules specific to the display of mobile websites.

Some of you might have noticed that we took a week off from our podcast recording. It is the Summer, and people at LevelTen were doing what the Summer is best for - taking vacations! After some much needed R&R, we've returned with a killer podcast episode - just for you! This week we're discussing a topic that the staff at LevelTen is VERY familiar with - how to optimize your Drupal website for the search engines, and some of the best tools you can use to optimize more effectively.

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Joining us this week for Speak Easy Drupal:

• Rachel Scott
• Lee Rainey
• Brent Bice
• Dustin Currie

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This week's Speak Easy Drupal is all about social communities. If you've been around Drupal for very long, you know that a lot of Drupal's power and appeal lies in it's ability to easily create next generation, web 2.0 community based websites. In this episode, we go over the best modules to test for your community website, propper ettiquite for any social community, and examples of top Drupal community websites.

Our panelists this week include:

• Rachel Scott

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Drupal, and its contributed social modules, is the perfect system to create a powerful, feature-rich, online social community or networking website, while limiting development expenses and time to get up and running. Here are the best Drupal modules, default and contributed, for social networking that LevelTen has utilized on our community websites:

This week, @levelten_tom and @dustincurrie discuss essential Drupal modules for your website. From search engine optimization to WYSIWYG editing to backend configuration, Tom and Dustin cover it all.

Modules Covered:

• CCK (Content Construction Kit)
• Views
• Panels
• IMCE
• ImageAPI
• ImageCache
• TinyMCE
• FCK Editor
• Mollom
• ReCaptcha
• Webform
• JS Tools
• Lightbox2

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Drupal's core is a solid framework in which users with no programming experience can build a website, but there are some features you may need that Drupal core does not support. Before you consider custom development, try looking for a contributed Drupal module. Contributed modules allow functionality for extended features such as having a Twitter feed on your website or allowing users to create friendships and message each other. So how do you find these modules?

This week is an extra special week, as it's our 10th episode of our podcast! In this milestone episode, we'll be discussing features that are important to your website, from SEO/SEM friendly content management systems, things to look for in a CMS and the importance of RSS feeds.

Create a RSS Feed from a Drupal View

Panelist: Jennifer Conley

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If you work in search engine optimization, or Internet marketing and you haven't been exposed to Drupal yet, it's a wonderful CMS for a variety of applications. Specific to this blog post, however, Drupal is a phenomenal platform for search engine optimization and Internet marketing. With the right modules installed and configured, Drupal can be a complete joy to work with for an SEO. Use the following as a guide for the best SEO and SEM modules to install for your Drupal website.

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