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Best Practices to Transform Your Online Publication and Engage Your Community no longer here 1018034, bnthms88 Just having a PDF version of your print publication on your website does not mean that your publication is easily readable – or even found – online. For many government, nonprofit and education-based... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Responding to touch LewisNyman The popularity and diversity of mobile devices forced us to create sites that work at any screen size. Big, small, and everywhere inbetween. But making a site mobile friendly is more than just... Beginner Frontend
Modern Databases DyanneNova Since the early 2000s, the variety of available persistent storage solutions has increased dramatically, with dozens of open source “NoSQL” databases becoming available that function using non-... Advanced Coding + Development
Beginner Responsive Theming with AdaptiveTheme - Build Your Site in a Snap! Kendall Totten If you're a beginner who is a bit overwhelmed by all the talk about responsive design and you don't know where to start, this is the session for you! We will be using the AdaptiveTheme (a... Beginner Frontend
Canopy Case Study: Sisters of Mercy jmacinne The Sisters of Mercy (Mercy) are one of the largest health care providers in the US. They wanted to leverage their existing and future Drupal infrastructure and combine it with a document repository... Advanced Coding + Development
Fearless Development with Drush, Vagrant and Aegir ergonlogic You've most likely heard of Vagrant by now. It's the command-line tool that allows you to "create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments." So why is... Advanced DevOps
Responsive HTML email and Drupal dgorton This session will cover the case-study of an organization's weekly e-newsletter template re-design, the steps taken to optimize it for mobile, and the testing it took to ensure it looks good across a... Intermediate Coding + Development
The Care and Feeding of your Online Community (with ice cream!) deviantintegral You've installed Drupal, downloaded Organic Groups, added a few content types, and have your first community site. Ready to launch! Right? It's really easy to get excited about about all of the... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Building a Higher Education Drupal Community jkealy, zchandler UCSF has begun moving towards Drupal as a Campus wide CMS via a grassroots movement. We've pioneered an "all carrot" approach to community building by subsidizing Drupal hosting from Central IT and... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Firing on all cylinders: A case study of a successful agile web project mirzu, discofk, jugglerpm, Jared Rogers Client projects are sometimes good and sometimes bad, but rarely do things come together in such a way that they are great. In summer 2012, Full Plate Living approached Four Kitchens with a "Big... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Integrating with Nonprofit CRM Solutions notoriousjlb, capellic Integrating with popular nonprofit CRM and fundraising platforms should not be that daunting. In this session, you will learn about how to evaluate the level of integration necessary for your... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Personalization: Spicing Up the Customer Experience krysgeek It’s time to kick personalization up a notch. Hot sauce won’t do the trick, but the ability to expose, transform, and record data will. Membership organizations integrate Drupal with their... Intermediate Site Building
Enterprise Content Management Is Hard – How AAAS Is Using Drupal to Make It Easier no longer here 1018034, bnthms88 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the largest general science membership organization in the world with several publications and an extensive web presence. In addition to... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
So Happy Together: Sales, Client Services, and Engineering dianadupuis, tim-hamilton, robb-astonish Do the developers fight a guerrila war against the sales people? Does the sales process exists in a galaxy far far away from the development process? Are client managers the great disempowered middle... Beginner Business + Strategy
Behavior Driven Development with Behat and Mink nielsonm, eliza411 Behat testing is a new method of testing for functionality. Unlike normal test driven development, it takes nontechnical statements such as “Given I am on the homepage, When click on ‘About us’, Then... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Too Much and Never Enough: What is the Content Curation Cure for Drupal? mhackner Why is Pandora the most popular way to listen to music online, and the number one competitor to NPR? Because it can guess what you want, when you want it, using information you and the broader... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Manage easily your media assets in drupal 7, Enhance your contributors experience drico, noisetteprod In this session we will introduce the Scald module, an awesome media management suite and editor toolbox for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 and soon to come for Drupal 8, a real alternative to the media... Intermediate Site Building
Make Publishing Rock! How developers can take advantage of existing useability modules to make Content editors happy. mirzu As developers its easy to forget about the site admin/content editor experience. We work hard to make the site features, and spend lots of time on the end user experience, but more often than not we... Intermediate Coding + Development
Advanced Responsive Web Design in Drupal Snugug, iamcarrico As more and more of internet browsing is occurring across non-desktop devices, responsive web design is becoming more the standard and a requirement for new websites. At the same time, the tools at... Advanced Frontend
Enterprise-level Drupal Baseline: Lesson learned in creating an organization-specific light-weight Drupal distribution rocket777 Open source technologies and Drupal does save an organization money in licensing fees. However, how do you truly save hundreds of thousands of dollars in website development costs at the enterprise-... Intermediate Site Building

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