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CMS Expo 2011 - Social Drupal
1. Social Drupal
Community Plumbing
(without the crack)
BLAKE HALL * CMS EXPO 5TH MAY, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
2. Consulting | Development | Training
P O W E R E D b y S E R V I C E™
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Why am I up here? Who am I?
I’m a developer at Lullabot, which means I spend my days working with fun clients building
cool drupal sites.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
4. Come for the software, stay for the community
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Here’s a photo from DrupalConSF taken in an airplane hangar called the Moscone Center.
Note the goofy guy front and center in the green sweater.
Community Plumbing (without the crack)? New community slogan.
5. Thursday, May 26, 2011
brazencareerist.com
Before Lullabot I worked at a Social Networking Startup for young professionals, Brazen
Careerist. (built on drupal)
We’ll come back to this later
6. Compact
Muon
Solenoid
Content
Management
System
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In college I was convinced I’d be a Physicist, so the CMS in my world used to be a bit
different...
7. What?
Am I in the wrong room?
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What does a crazy particle physics detector have to do with Social Drupal?
Drupal started as community organization software for Dries’ friends in grad school.
8. thanks WayBack Machine!
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From the very beginning Drupal has “social” woven into it’s DNA, it was the reason for it’s
existence in the first place.
9. Suspend Disbelief
for a moment at least
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Set aside the assumption that Drupal’s you best choice for a moment. What kinds of things
make a site “social” what sort of feature requirements are we talking about here?
10. Social Media Strategy
Authentic
Dialogue
Engage
Activate
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Crowdsourcing, and other buzz words here... What does this really mean in terms of useful
features.
Social News? Social Network? Just forums? User generated content? Just user comments?
Rating?
Let’s take a look at an example...
17. First Steps
Business Goals
Resources Available
Can I build Facebook for $1,000?
I have a nephew that does HTML!
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Is what you want to build realistic with your budget? What ongoing development needs will
you have? Is that actually available?
18. Can Drupal do THAT?
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Core covers user profiles, commenting, taxonomy, search,
