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Drupal is now Z-Com's current official CMS solution

Now that I've spent the past three months really exploring the possibilities and limitations of Drupal, I feel confident in offering this solution to my clients. Website clients going forward who need a complete content management system will be receiving a Drupal build. Past clients will be upgraded as needed. If you're one of our clients and want to talk about the benefits and costs of this upgrade, contact me.
I feel it's inevitable that most businesses will be best served by producing a large, prominent digital footprint. Your blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter -- the whole social media universe -- interlock and feed each other. That's a good thing, but it takes more hands-on marketing time with your nose stuck to a computer monitor to do that. This, to me, is the biggest sales point for Drupal. The system comes with a lot of tools built in to make this possible.
Another good reason we're committing to Drupal is that it's open-source. That's a somewhat political decision, but mostly it's practical: I'd rather put my trust in the thousands of developers working for Drupal on their own dime than in the dozens of developers at Adobe or Microsoft whose only mission is to create reasons for users to upgrade their licenses. We've been burned on private-label CMS companies in the past, and while I don't see Adobe or MS disappearing any time soon, I like that there are many, many more stakeholders in Drupal's success.
And finally, it's just a neat system. Visit the Drupal website if you have a head for technical stuff. Recent tests and deployments prove that working with their templating system doesn't have to produce a blocky, Drupal-y site. There's just a ton of functionality that's (so far) proven easy to implement. In short, it's a very flexible solution in a time when I believe my clients' sites need to be as flexible as possible.

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