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Backend of Frontend Development iamcarrico Sass and Compass have changed the way that we have made CSS, and the tools that they provide are growing and becoming increasingly important. As these tools grow, the need to know how to code with... Intermediate Coding + Development
Shiny Object: Developing a cohesive PMO toolset that doesn’t overwhelm your team mistcat, Betsy Ensley While we all love the shiny new tool in the tech world toolbox, overload can diminish productivity, inhibit clear process guidelines for project teams, and fog the path to project profitability. By... Beginner Business + Strategy
Creating a User-Centered Design Strategy for Improved Business Performance DSheffler When most people think of usability, they think of time-consuming and expensive testing and design. Realistically, however, there are several easy and inexpensive ways to incorporate user-centered... Beginner User Experience (UX)
When Data is Everywhere, Where Do You Start? Using Drupal to Manage, Distribute, and Visualize Data kvoelker Data visualizations, open data, aggregation, infographics, data stories... It seems we're all supposed to be doing amazing things with our data these days. But getting there still seems hard. In... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Druplicon's Fables deviantintegral, blakehall As project managers and architects, it's easy to forget lessons learned after participating in countless successful (and failed) projects. Like the fables of childhood, there are many fables of... Beginner Business + Strategy
Using Drupal to transform the way your organization manages its web content Nechumah Getz, Cathleen Tracy This session will provide strategies to engage and empower your content owners while transforming from a centralized to a distributed model. We will present a case study about how we used Drupal at... Beginner Business + Strategy
Using Drupal to transform the way your organization manages its web content Nechumah Getz, Cathleen Tracy This session will provide strategies to engage and empower your content owners while transforming from a centralized to a distributed model. We will present a case study about how we used Drupal at... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Drupal, Solr, and When Governments Collaborate to Reduce Landfill Waste notoriousjlb, capellic Learn how 5 San Francisco Bay area government agencies came together to launch a Drupal 7 and Solr Search powered search tool for residents and businesses to learn how to correctly dispose of things... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Agile & Drupal Perfect Together adzuki3, cherringland, bleen18 A panel discussion... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Accessibility Demystified: 3 Accessibility Myths and Why They're So So, So Very Wrong cmcnally Do you find yourself in a noisy sports bar thankful for closed captioning on TVs? Or easily tabbing through online "contact us" forms? Did you realize that these "features" are designed for... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Blocks & Layouts Initiative Update EclipseGc Blocks... Advanced Core Conversations
Drupal and Facebook: How to Make it Work notoriousjlb, capellic Drupal and Facebook may not be two peas in a pod, but with a little cajoling, you can get them to play happily together for your nonprofit. In this session, we will examine when to use social... Advanced Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Using Drupal and Lean Methodology to Succeed in Business greggles, ajzz The Lean Startup is so popular it's becoming passe, but there are valuable lessons worth learning. Greg and Ajay will give you their first-hand perspective from several experiments inside CARD.com We... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Simplifying Search: Understanding Concepts, Patterns, And Techniques To Create Better Search Experiences cpliakas Search is hard. There are solutions in the Drupal community that attempt to simplify the problem of creating engaging search experiences, however it is important to understand the general concepts... Beginner Site Building
Changing Cars at 55 m.p.h.: A Case Study johntelford, cgreaten In 2012, the car sharing company that many of us know and love was growing internationally and was about to enter their fourth international market which required support for two additional languages... Beginner Site Building
The Drupal Ladder: Materials and activities for meetups to learn about and contribute to Drupal 8 bryanhirsch, kay_v, add1sun As Drupal’s popularity sky-rockets, so does the volume of issues and sense of urgency for problems to get solved fast. To keep up, we need to get more people contributing to Drupal core. There are a... Intermediate Community
The Story of 10gen.com riboflavin, DyanneNova 10gen.com is the corporate site for 10gen, the makers of MongoDB. Last year, 10gen made the decision to migrate away from its legacy website backend, built in-house using the WebPy framework, to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Managing Multi-lingual Content for Multi-Plaform Native Mobile Apps using Drupal jwsj11, djeannot In this session, we demonstrate how Drupal is used as an easy to use, custom frontend to manage multi lingual content published and packaged in native mobile apps (including iOS and Android)--based... Advanced Site Building
Essentials for Email Campaigning ira@cornershop It takes time and effort to coordinate your communications campaigns, but once you do, you'll reap rich rewards: higher click-through rate on your emails, increased website traffic, and more... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Hiring from wide open talent pools: practical steps for screening and growing new Drupalists kay_v, jesse.d This presentation focuses on practical strategies for identifying and training/transitioning new talent from outside the Drupal community. To keep the discussion concrete, we lay hiring profiles... Advanced Business + Strategy

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