Our offices will be manned by a skeleton crew this week as most of us head off to DrupalCon DC. The agenda looks great. I’m personally excited to attend some of the performance and scaling sessions, as well as quality assurance, and process management talks, but just about everything looks interesting. Cheers to all the organizers and sponsors, we are blown away already!

If you want to follow the action play by play, keep an eye on #drupalcon on twitter or follow ezraw, jeremylundberg, or mhuntdesign.

Over the next few months we are also attending HealthCampPhila and MedBiquitous to share ideas, present and talk about our soon-to-be released EthosCE platform, which provides CME and quality improvement practice management tools using Drupal and Moodle. We’re proud to be a sponsor of the MedBiquitous Annual Meeting 2009. Hope to see you there!

Today was a busy day here at DLC Solutions. Cochlear Americas and DLC Solutions launched a “refresh” of www.cochlearamericas.com.

What’s a refresh, you ask? Not quite a redesign, but more than just adding a few new photos and pages.

Cochlear told us they were happy with their website, and for a number of reasons weren’t quite ready to redesign. Yet, they still wanted a fresh coat of paint to spruce things up. Of course it had to be done fast. So, we leveraged the strengths of the existing site and focused on improving the weaknesses.

We updated the home page, built a new product introduction, and lauched a new product selector wizard. Next up is a revised professional information center.

Our team worked hand-in-hand with the web and marketing team at Cochlear to launch the revisions using Drupal and Cochlear’s Reddot Content Management systems.

Cochlear is in the midst of a migration to Drupal of nearly 20 global websites in 14 languages. DLC Solutions is pleased to assist one of the world’s leading medical device manufacturers in moving to open source software.

Our behalf of our employees, I am pleased to announce that DLC Solutions has donated $5,000 to support The Wellness Community’s 25th Anniversary Gala and STAR Campaign. The event was held on November 3rd, 2007 in Washington, DC and celebrated the dedicated caregivers of cancer patients everywhere. The program included a conference about psychosocial aspects of cancer and was concluded with a beautiful dinner at the National Women’s Museum. Award-winning actress and breast cancer survivor, Diahann Carroll, gave a moving tribute to people who have supported a loved one coping with cancer. DLC Solutions is proud to have been a Silver Partner for this important event.

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Since 2003, DLC Solutions has been proud to be the technology partner of The Wellness Community’s GroupLoop.org, a free support community for teens with cancer and their parents. This online social networking and support community provides support groups by trained health care professionals and a safe environment for teens to connect with other teens confronted with similar issues. This informational video provides personal stories about how GroupLoop.org has helped these teenager cope with their cancer experience.