Without the love and support of my wife Veronica and our twin daughters Clare and Francesca, this book would not have seen the light of day. I cannot express enough love and grace to the three of you for your encouragement and enthusiasm for my writing career.

Thanks (again!) to my father-in-law Tony Gornik for offering his residence in Hershey, PA as writing space on weekends.

Many thanks to the entire Packt editorial, project, marketing, and production teams for inviting me to work on this project and for continuing to publish exceptional titles on Drupal and open source applications. Many thanks to Steven Wilding, Packt Acquisition Editor, for serving as the lead editor on this title. Steven’s encouragement and wisdom kept me on task with this book.

Thanks to Zainab Bagasrawala, Project Coordinator; Poorvi Nair, Project Coordinator; Akash Johari, Development Editor; Meeta Rajani, Development Editor; Lata Basantani, Projects Team Leader; Mohd Sahil, Technical Editor; and Patricia Weir, for keeping the project on track and for guiding the construction of this title.

A special thanks to Radha Iyer, Marketing Research Executive at Packt. I’ve worked closely with Radha on all aspects of marketing my first book, as well as having the opportunity to write multiple book reviews for Packt under Radha’s guidance and vision. I am always impressed with Radha’s ability to locate new marketing opportunities and applications to help increase knowledge about Drupal and open source.

Thank you to Jim Mason and Eric Condren for their help and knowledge using Drupal and CiviCRM at Frederick County Public Schools on multiple projects.

Susan Morrison and Ryan Wexler of Medical Business Systems were instrumental in testing and implementing many of the social application service integrations documented in this book. While writing the book, I worked closely with them on a redesign of the MBS website and integrated Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn with their new site. They taught me a great deal about these integrations from the end user and website manager perspectives.

Last but certainly not least, thanks to my friend and colleague Will McGrouther. Will is an expert on social web applications and the many discussions we had over the course of this book’s roadmap inspired the text in many ways.

I look forward to working with you all in the near future. Drupal on!