This session will provide an overview of Phase II's OpenPublic Distribution tailored to the needs of local, state, and federal government agencies.

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.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your website to increase visibility through 'organic' search engine results. Properly done, it can dramatically increase your site's traffic, which can lead to increased sales.

Drupal is one of the most SEO friendly platforms available. Through various core and contrib modules, Drupal gives the site-builder world class tools to perform heavy-duty SEO optimization.

During this presentation, I'll walk the attendee through powerful SEO concepts and Drupal-specific tools including:

Slides: 

seo-drupal.pdf

Understanding the various field type modules that come with core and contrib. You will be surprised by all of the different use cases you can handle with the fields that are available in Drupal 7

We will cover the default field types that come with Drupal 7 core - and review the "article" content type.

Adding field types with modules - fields like email / phone / date / address / geofield

Fun with files / pictures and video - including a field slideshow.

Slides: 

HavingFunwithFields.pdf

VirtualBox is a great way to quickly create and manage development environments. I'll be showing how to do everything you need in VirtualBox remotely using just a browser and phpVirtualBox, including quickly installing drush and setting up Drupal systems that are isolated and very close to what you get in a VPS environment such as Linode.

Slides: 

Presentation.pdf

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Many features of powerful data-driven sites used to be implemented as Nodes in Drupal: Media, Social Networking, Groups, eCommerce, to name a few. These days, the Node is being unseated as the most powerful structure in Drupal site building.

Drupal 7 introduced a new layer of abstraction - Entities.

Slides: 

entity_rp_20111231.pdf

The Display Suite module is a wonderful way of customizing node (and any entity for that matter) templates through a drag-and-drop UI. You'll be amazed at how Display Suite elegantly extends what Drupal core provides site administrators when it comes to displaying entity content.

Slides: 

Display_Suite.pdf

DaaS (Drupal as a service) allows developers to create Drupal websites quickly and efficiently while offering tools to ease the Drupal learning curve significantly. Create sites with all the Drupal goodness in less time, with no downloads or maintenance.

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