Web Strategy: Using Drupal to Transform Your Business

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Intermediate

Drupal is an amazingly flexible framework, with literally thousands of contributed modules to extend and transform its functionality. This session will explore that nexus between your business, design and technology, and cover some of the strategies you can use to go beyond the basics. Don't just use Drupal to make a website - build a web solution that innovates and transforms your business. Instead of a basic marketing site - build better relationships with your customers, streamline business processes with automated communication and enable multiple uses of content such as online and print PDF's created straight from your site. Drupal gives you the freedom to do all this and more - and starting with a solid web strategy will help you focus your efforts and get the most from your site.

Intended audience: 

Web site owners and site designer/developers who want to get beyond basic site-building and think about how to really leverage the Drupal platform to transform their or their clients' businesses.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What is web strategy and what does it have to do with Drupal?
Question 2: 
Why should I take time to look at what other departments do? I was hired by the marketing department.
Question 3: 
I had no idea Drupal could do that. Why didn't I think of that?
Question 4: 
How do I get past what my boss/my client is asking for and understand what it is they really need?
Question 5: 
What is a good example of web strategy that I can use to convince my boss/my client that it's worth it to include the extra feature and how do I quantify it's value?
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See more info on Web Strategy

Forgot to post a link to slides from my Web Strategy talk at Future of Web Design in NYC (November, 2010) in case you want to know more about some of the topics to be covered:

http://bit.ly/azc7oQ

Thanks!

Jason

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