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