Where to start? Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube - these public platforms are free to use, but they still require people and time to maintain and sustain an effective presence. What questions should we be asking to choose where and how we can best use these tools to serve our mission and support our constituencies. This session is a workshop that will help attendees focus on how to plan, launch and grow a strong social media presence that meets their organizational goals.

The role of libraries in today’s technology culture is expanding: To serve the increasing base of socially-needy in our communities, libaries now provide ready access to family assistance, healthcase, housing to immigration. Learn how OCLS got an online system up adn running quickly and easily using Drupal.

This session will provide a step-by-step guide to building a simple application that communicates with Drupal to save and read nodes. The session is intended to help interested developers who already have a high level understanding of how web services communication works but are interested in the coding details on how to actually do it. Code will be explained and demonstrated for each step. Consequently, this session will be very workshop-like and attendees are encouraged to come with laptops pre-loaded with Titanium Studio and a barebones Drupal development test site set up somewhere.

Slides: 

Intro-to-using-Titanium-with-Drupal-Services.pdf

Want to create mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, or Android with your Drupal content?

I’ll also talk about different strategies for connecting your iPhone or Android app to Drupal, and what you need to know to get started building mobile apps for your Drupal site.

I’ll show how to use the Drupal Plugin for PhoneGap to create an iPhone app with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for your Drupal site.

You don’t need to know anything about developing for Android or iPhone before coming to this session!

Slides: 

BuildingMobileAppsWithDrupalFLDrupalCamp.pdf

People are using mobile devices to browse the web more than ever. 53% of American consumers use their smartphones to access search engines at least once a day. This trend will continue and mobile device views are on track to overtake desktop device views by 2014. If your website does not have a mobile optimized, you are missing out on conversions.

Slides: 

drupal-jqm.pdf