Journalism
Have you ever wanted to show a pie-chart of most common terms in your system? How about designing a multi-part report like the "big boys" do with just couple of clicks?
This presentation will talk about designing professional reports in Drupal using Views. The modules showcased in the presentation are authored by the presenters.
errie Lapworth (Production Manager) and Barney Southin (Managing Editor, Economist.com) talk about the Drupal Publishing Tools project that we're kicking off at The Economist - wrangling the Drupal user experience to make it journalist friendly.
This is an acquia webinar deliver on August 27. 2009 by Brenda Boggs, Drupalist, Acquia and Bryan House, Director Marketing, Acquia
Acquia said in the webinar invitaion:
Workflow management in Drupal provides a wonderful automated framework for improving the visibility, reliability and accountability throughout the content development and publishing lifecycle. The result - higher productivity for your editorial processes and reduced errors.
Join us and learn why Drupal succeeds in meeting the unique needs of automated workflow management for newspaper, magazine and radio/television sites (see the Drupal in Media list: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5100)
If you are managing a team of content providers or looking to automate publishing processes, this Webinar is for you.
Key takeaways:
- Best practices for implementing, managing, and streamlining workflows in Drupal
- Learn what options you have for creating workflow processes in Drupal and what modules you should consider.
Answers to frequently asked questions on roles definition and permissions, actions, triggers, and other hot topics.
This is a 1 hour Acquia webinar delivered on December 17, 2009,
Acquai said in the event invitation:
Join Kieran Lal, Acquia's Drupal community adventure guide, for a review of best practices to insure Drupal site scalability and performance. He will review the latest techniques for insuring scalability based on Acquia's expertise in supporting customer sites. Drupal site performance is often a combination of monitoring and tuning several underlying technologies.
Key takeways from the Webinar will include:
- overview of Web scaling technologies such as reverse proxies, memcache, Web server clustering, and master-slave databases
- best practice architectures for scalability for Drupal sites of various sizes, including the highest traffic Drupal site - myLifetime.com
- a performance checklist and recommended tools for debugging Drupal site performance
- best practices and frontline lessons learned by the Acquia support team based on improving the performance of sites such as MotherJones.com
Kieran is a member of the Drupal.org infrastructure team, a Drupal website which supports approximately 30 million page views per month.

















