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Building Presidential Campaign on Drupal. Five Months of Incredible Innovation. john.money, Jonathan Webb, jduff The Romney for President campaign used Drupal as its main website and the hub for connecting websites, apps, email, and social media. Over 5 months in the summer of 2012 the web team grew from a... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Content Strategies, SEO, and Social Media: Secret Weapons for Driving Traffic, Engaging, and Converting TomDude48 All companies, no matter what the size, must start to think more like publishers than ever before. Consumer behavior has changed drastically over the past few years. Joe Pulizzie Author:... Beginner Business + Strategy
10 Ways to Cost Drupal Projects Mark Matuschka If there are 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, there have to be at just about as many ways to cost a Drupal project. I’m going to discuss ten of them and show how all ten are valid in different... Beginner Business + Strategy
PANEL: State of the (Freelance) Union kbell, stevepurkiss, pirog, Andrew_Mallis, j. ayen green Are you a Drupal freelancer? Do you love the freelancing life (at least most of the time)? You're not alone! This session will share strategies designed to help you love your life ALL the time.... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Value Based Sales Techniques and Drupal jlambert At Workhabit, we've been selling Drupal for more than seven years, to some of the largest organizations in the world. We're going to cover the inside tips that Drupal organizations really need to... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Extending Drupal with a CRM ChrisChinchilla A CRM (Contact Relationship Manager or Constituent Relationship Manager depending on your sector) is a fantastic way to take your Drupal installation further and streamline your business practises... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Delivering Drupal: Processes for Success rcross Drupal websites aren’t just a matter of downloading the package from drupal.org, whipping up a database and installing a stack of modules. The actual site build can often be the tip of a much larger... Beginner Business + Strategy
Why Drupal Developers are Different ldpm Drupal attracts many developers who want to help create solutions, not just outcomes. If you are just giving your developers tasks to work on and leaving them alone until they're done, you're not... Beginner Business + Strategy
Hack your team, your department, and your organization for the greater good jmertic Many of us complain about how "pointy hair bosses", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Break the Mold; Build a Better Team; See Big Results jwalpole, febbraro It's no secret that building a team for your Drupal shop is a big challenge facing our space right now. Finding enough qualified Drupal developers -- and keeping them -- keeps many of us up at night... Beginner Business + Strategy
Bloated eCommerce Platforms Kill Conversion Rates johnkennedy, pcambra Executive Summary Completing Stage 1 of an eCommerce site for a +$40 Billion luxury retailer has taught us valuable lessons about content-driven commerce. Find out how we brought simplicity to the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades: A Case Study of upgrading County HealthRankings.org jennjohnson, setvik Are you considering a major Drupal upgrade? Forum One will present lessons learned from our recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Let's Talk About PCI Compliance for Drupal rickmanelius Drupal makes it incredibly easy to turn even the simplest website into a full fledged commerce solution. All you have to do is download a few modules, check a few boxes, and you’re up and running in... Beginner Business + Strategy
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
Drupal Assumptions: Common Assumptions that Kill Projects (and how to handle them) svettes, rcross, DSheffler, DSquaredB Lets not kid ourselves, Drupal projects have some unique aspects to them and its easy to make assumptions that can be devastating to a project if left unchecked. This session will talk through... Beginner Business + Strategy
Lies about the job market: How to apply for jobs in the 21st century cecycorrea Obviously, if you're reading this, you probably already have a job in the tech industry. But how do you get the job you want? Sometimes it seems the odds are stacked against you: there are... Beginner Business + Strategy
The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate 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
How Therapy Helped My Client Relationships nicelobster Knowing how to collaborate effectively with clients and co-workers largely accounts for the success of our projects. Yet navigating these waters is not always easy. All of us have encountered sticky... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Four Pillars of Data dianadupuis, StevenWill As Drupal moves beyond "content publishing" and towards "content as data", are you managing data to its full potential? Are you storing content, but should you be proving systems to develop... Beginner Business + Strategy

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