Selling Drupal to a large organization

Track: 
Coder
Experience: 
Beginner

A case study on how US Chamber of commerce - the world's largest business federation - migrated 10 years worth of content to Drupal. The US Chamber of commerce web team also supports hundreds of advocacy sites and smaller association sites. Come hear how we managed a six month migration, continued adding content and set up an infrastructure to support hundreds of sites. Along the way we'll discuss some 'interesting' challenges we've encountered:

Moving the site in waves rather than all at once.
Auto-generating redirects to maintain search engine rankings.
Remapping the assets (files, images, etc) and providing controlled user access
Using TAC + taxonomy to manage URL paths and access simultaneously
Author experience and training

How we made a good case for Drupal specifically, after doing a lot of studying and going through an implementation test case. We did choose against a huge, centralized, integrated CMS, because they were all either too expensive or too inflexible (or both) for the Chamber’s culture.

Intended audience: 

Business people who might wonder how to sell the bosses on converting to Drupal.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How to shift the organizational paradigm from using proprietary software to doing it the open source way?
Question 2: 
How to migrate 10 years of data in a cascade style and avoid the big-bang migration risk?
Question 3: 
How to manage SEO during a large content migration?
Question 4: 
How to migrate in waves instead of all at once?
Question 5: 
How to migrate and re-map assets (files, images, etc) while providing controlled user access from legacy CMS to Drupal
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