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Many to One: How FEMA utilized Drupal to Consolidate its Websites and Ultimately Control its Message tinaadinolfi, mtharmon-fema Faced with the challenge to consolidate dozens of FEMA websites, FEMA turned to Drupal to standardize its content management into 3 primary websites. This session is a case study on how FEMA... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
How to Train Your Agency: A Panel Discussion on Teaching Your Tech Partner to Speak EDU HankVanZile, jake.redekop, zchandler, santhana.naidu, girljournalist Universities are from Mars, Agencies are from Venus. With representatives from both sides of the relationship, we will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that arise when higher... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Applied agile for Drupal projects wesku Over 15 years of software project experience, 100s of large projects, tens of large failures, millions of small failures, hundreds of big successes. I have been both selling and buying software... Beginner Business + Strategy
Agile for Agency Management - it’s not just for developers anymore sadie.honey At CivicActions we are using Agile practices in every aspect of our firm’s operations to build bridges and connect communities within our organization. These practices help us create change when we... Beginner Business + Strategy
Using Drupal at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory lalweil The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) Lab located in Eastern Washington. Our research strengthens the U.S. foundation for innovation, and we... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Frontend R.I.D.E. (how we made Grammy.com beautiful) webthingee, carwin RIDE (Responisve Implementation from Design Expectations) Storyline: The scene opens and we fine our hero (the frontend developer) faced with what seems an impossible, insurmountable, and... Beginner Frontend
Introduction to Module Development ezra-g This thoroughly-honed session provides a fun introduction for people who want to get started writing their first module or extending an existing one. The presentation is both conceptual and hands-on... Beginner Coding + Development
Media, StreamWrappers and You - Powering a rich video experience through Drupal using thePlatform bshort, mikedikan, aaronschachter Rich media has long been an area of confusion and frustration for any web publisher wishing to display rich media content to users in Drupal. Further, in order to achieve this online rich media... Beginner Coding + Development
Drupal SEO Basics: A Drupaler's Guide to the SEO Galaxy Kristen Pol, Aimee Degnan In case you've been living in a cave (or maybe a Vogon ship's cabin) the last few years, SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization." Improving your website's SEO can translate into more visitors,... Beginner Site Building
Results Oriented Web – The Secrets Online Leaders Use to Build Highly Effective Websites TomDude48 The web is redefining human interaction, markets and brands. Powerful new hubs of influence are continually emerging. The opportunities for David to topple Goliath has never been greater – and may... Beginner Business + Strategy
Merging Two Tracks: Supporting Drupal 5.x and 7.x in Parallel huartson, dpfitzsi How do you support two very different versions of Drupal in an enterprise environment? This is a problem that the University of Calgary currently faces running Drupal 5.x and 7.x in parallel. The... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
100 modules and a baby Dave Reid, Oliver Reid While I have been a Drupal developer, I've gone through several major life changes in the last two years alone. I started my first real full-time Drupal job, I got married, and last October I became... Beginner Community
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
45 MODULES IN 45 MINUTES – Kickstart your site building with introductions to essential modules, and where to go to learn more Michael Hofmockel, horncologne Want to build good Drupal sites? Go study all ten to twenty thousand modules in the contributed module repository on Drupal.org! Should only take you a few ... oh ... Get on the right track faster... Beginner Site Building
Caching and Tuning fun for high scalability wimg Caching has been a 'hot' topic for a few years. But caching takes more than merely taking data and putting it in a cache : the right caching techniques can improve performance and reduce load... Beginner Coding + Development
Adopting the Drupal Culture Jon Pugh Drupal is more than the code and more than a community, but is an entire culture. If your Drupal projects are consistently troublesome, and your team is often frustrated, you might be having trouble... Beginner Business + Strategy
Quick & Dirty Guide to Drush and Devel rlnorthcutt Alot of developers use devel (to clear the cache on their sites) and drush (to clear the cache on their sites), but these tools are amazingly handy in all kinds of ways. The problem is that lots of... Beginner Coding + Development
Writing Documentation for Fun and Profit! noirin When all else fails, write the manual! Too many open source projects operate on the assumption that, since your users have access to the source code, they can figure out what your software does... Beginner Community
Setting up Drupal as an OData provider on Windows Azure brianbenz In this session we’ll take you through the steps to set up Drupal on Windows Azure as an OData provider, and show you examples of working with OData on a live example. As you’ll see, this is a great... Beginner Site Building
Large Scale Drupal - Open Source for the Enterprise michaelemeyers Many large organizations are doing amazing things with the Drupal framework and innovating by breaking through prior limitations. However, there is limited knowledge sharing and discussion happening... Beginner Business + Strategy

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