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Greenopolis.com (Beta) was featured as a Gold Sponsor of Drupalcon Boston 2008, a gathering of over 800 Drupal professionals.

Boston, MA, March 3, 2008 -  Greenopolis.com (Beta) was featured as a Gold Sponsor of Drupalcon Boston 2008. Over 800 Web professionals gathered at the four day event to discuss the future of Drupal and Web content creation. The convention is held twice yearly in different cities around the globe.

Greenopolis.com (Beta) is an educational and collaborative “green” social networking website commissioned by Waste Management and developed by CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc. The site was created entirely with Drupal.

So what is Drupal? According to drupal.org, “Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.” Drupal is also open-source, which means that it can be modified and improved by anyone that uses it.

“It was great to see all of these members of the Drupal community come together in one place and freely exchange ideas. We all left with improved skills and fresh ideas to create better websites and better serve our clients,” said Seth Cohn, a Senior Internet Engineer at CommonPlaces.

Drupal places a large emphasis on user interaction, and facilitates the creation of Blogs, polls, forums, and other user-created content. As a site based on social interaction, Greenopolis.com (Beta) puts all of these features to good use. The result is a very rich user experience that is both educational and fun.

About CommonPlaces
With our years of experience in strategic planning, interactive marketing, website design and development, and web-based application development, CommonPlaces is able to provide you with successful e-business solutions and a competitive edge. Our unique strategic approach to building, designing, and promoting web solutions and applications empowers small to mid-sized e-commerce and e-business initiatives to compete with industry leaders at a fraction of the cost.

Greenopolis.com was awarded for its design at Drupalcon Boston 2008 Thursday, and was praised by attendees of the conference.

Boston, MA, March 6, 2008 – Greenopolis.com (Beta) was awarded First Runner-Up for the Drupal Design of the Year Award Thursday, announced on the final day of Drupalcon Boston 2008, a gathering of Drupal professionals from around the globe.

Greenopolis.com (Beta) is an educational and collaborative “green” social networking website commissioned by Waste Management and developed by CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc. The site was created entirely with Drupal.

The Greenopolis site was much talked about around Drupalcon. “We received a huge ovation after our presentation [at Drupalcon],” said Ben Bassi, President and CEO of CommonPlaces e-Solutions. He continued, “People from all around the world would stop me to say how much they liked the site.”

Drupal is a free, open-source software package that simplifies content management for the Web. Drupal facilitates the creation of Blogs, polls, forums, and other user-created content. As a site based on social interaction, Greenopolis.com (Beta) puts all of these features to good use. The result is a very rich user experience that is educational, fun, and now, award-winning.
About CommonPlaces
With our years of experience in strategic planning, interactive marketing, website design and development, and web-based application development, CommonPlaces is able to provide you with successful e-business solutions and a competitive edge. Our unique strategic approach to building, designing, and promoting web solutions and applications empowers small to mid-sized e-commerce and e-business initiatives to compete with industry leaders at a fraction of the cost.

Talent exists in New Hampshire, but the challenge lies in finding it, Ben Bassi told Laura Knoy and her guests on “The Exchange” Thursday.

CommonPlaces President & CEO on New Hampshire Public Radio

Concord, NH, February 28, 2008 - Ben Bassi, President & CEO of CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc., appeared on New Hampshire Public Radio Thursday to comment on the experience of running a high-tech business in New Hampshire. He chiefly spoke about challenge of recruiting high-tech employees in the state.

Bassi contributed to “The Exchange,” a daily program hosted by Laura Knoy and featured on NHPR. The featured topic was “Branding High-Tech in New Hampshire,” which contrasted the growing success of the high technology industry in the state with the relative obscurity it continues to operate under.

“We have no problem finding customers [in New Hampshire],” Bassi explained, “but we do have a problem finding good talent.” Bassi expressed enthusiasm with the employees he has found, but addressed the difficulty of locating them in New Hampshire, comparing it to “finding them under a rock.”

Bassi attributed the relative ease of locating high-tech employees in neighboring Massachusetts to the recruiting systems that are in place there. “The state [of New Hampshire] and the university system could do a better job of getting the word out that there are phenomenal opportunities right in their backyard.”

His company, CommonPlaces e-Solutions, provides online business solutions to small to mid-sized businesses through Fortune 200 companies, enabling their clients to compete with industry leaders. Located in Hampstead, New Hampshire, the company currently employs twenty individuals, most of whom live in the state.

About CommonPlaces
With our years of experience in strategic planning, interactive marketing, website design and development, and web-based application development, CommonPlaces is able to provide you with successful e-business solutions and a competitive edge. Our unique strategic approach to building, designing, and promoting web solutions and applications empowers small to mid-sized e-commerce and e-business initiatives to compete with industry leaders at a fraction of the cost.

For additional information, please contact:

CommonPlaces e-Solutions, Inc.
2 Village Green Rd, Suite B-4
Hampstead, NH 03841
(603) 362-8227
http://www.commonplaces.com/