Management Channel
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 session is a condensed version of Improving Enterprises' Intro to Agile and Scrum publicly available class. A short history of the agile movement and a survey of the essential elements of agile will be followed by a look at the process, artifacts, and roles in Scrum. This session is intended to introduce attendees to agile and Scrum, as well as start conversations and power breakout sessions on specific topics.
Gary is a Principle Consultant with Improving Enterprises' Agile Practice. He is a Certified ScrumMaster and possesses strength in product, project, requirements and testing control, and most often gets to play the role of mentor and coach to those seeking to adopt agile methods.
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.
In this video, we see members of the whitehouse.gov team discussing some of the ideas implemented in the new white house website.
This is a 90 minutes webinar by Acquia delivered on January 7, 2010
Acquia said in the webinar invitation:
The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. Join Ben Finklea, founder of Volacci and author of Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization and Bryan House, Senior Marketing Director, Acquia as they provide a practical walk through showing you which modules to install, which settings to use, and dozens of the most closely guarded "tricks of the trade" to get your web site optimized, higher in the search engines,
and more profitable.
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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.
This is a 1 hour Acquia webinar delivered on December 10, 2009.
Acquia said in the seminar invitation:
The explicit purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the Directive will require significant web site innovation for many departments and agencies. Join us for this complimentary overview of Drupal to learn how and why it is being quickly adopted across U.S. federal, state and local governments for social publishing.
Featured Guest Speaker: Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate
Proprietary web content management products may improve complex publishing workflows – addressing the transparency principle – but few are “state of the art” with regard to social interactivity on the web. Achieving this mandated interactivity with citizens will require new government sites to implement social publishing capabilities – because participation and collaboration can only happen if citizens can both share their feedback on actions
taken by their government, and contribute their own ideas to the
process.
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This is a 1 hour webinar by Acquia delivered on December 3, 2009.
Acquia said in the webinar invitation:
In this Webinar, Larry Garfield, Matt Butcher and Ken Rickard from Palantir.net join Acquia to explore some of the ways that they’ve integrated large amounts of third-party data into Drupal, leveraging the platform’s tremendous flexibility and bringing additional value and opportunities to higher education, publishing, and museum clients. If you've got a basic understanding of Drupal concepts and terminology and want to learn how to take the system to the next level.
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This is a 1 hour recorder webinar by Acquia, delivered on November 17, 2009.
Acquia says in the webinar invitation:
Fall, winter, spring, summer all year round admission offices hustle and grind to recruit the best students fitted for their institutions. Key to meeting this challenge is being able to answer the following questions: Where are your candidates? Where and how are you engaging with them? How are your conversion numbers doing? Drawing on our research and development experience in reaching teens and young adults, building academic websites, and developing online recruitment strategies this Webinar will cover:
- What does the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 mean for your university website?
- What are prospective undergraduate and graduates looking for on a website?
- The impact of video on your website
- Developing a pipeline of applicants
- How social media such as Facebook and Twitter fit into the recruitment mix
- Learn why educational institutions are adopting Acquia support to ensure optimal performance of their Drupal site
The webinar will also cover key components and features of the university website helpful for organizations thinking about a website redesign or relaunch. OHO Interactive has developed websites and online learning communities for Harvard University, Yale University, Northwestern, Lesley University and the MIT Media Lab.
