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Epic List of Content Strategy Resources

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:18:29 -0400

Epic List of Content Strategy Resources:

Over 200+ hand-curated content strategy resources: books, blogs, journals, articles, conferences, and meetups - all in one place!

…I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Content Strategy. What is it? What books and blogs should people read to learn about it? What conferences should folks attend and who are the experts in the field?

I thought I would assemble my favorite Content Strategy resources into a list that has everything all in one place for folks who, like me, are new to this field. This makes it easier to find for those who are interested, not to mention easier for me to share when I get questions.

DrupalCon Sydney sessions video archive on YouTube:

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:06:55 -0500

DrupalCon Sydney sessions video archive on YouTube:

The 1 Thing Every Business Executive Must Understand About Social Media

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:45:09 -0500

The 1 Thing Every Business Executive Must Understand About Social Media

9 marketing strategies you must stop using -- now

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:36:31 -0500

9 marketing strategies you must stop using -- now

10 cool Drupal modules that integrate with Views

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:45:20 -0500

10 cool Drupal modules that integrate with Views:

Nice summary of some modules that integrate with Views (Drupal) to cool effect.

Using Drupal's Meta tag module for Facebook Open Graph, Google rel=author, and Page titles

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:30:11 -0500

Using Drupal's Meta tag module for Facebook Open Graph, Google rel=author, and Page titles

Responsive Tables In Drupal 7 With FooTable

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:45:16 -0500

Responsive Tables In Drupal 7 With FooTable:

FooTable plugin makes it really easy to create responsive HTML tables that look great on small devices. Using a concept called “breakpoints”, you can define which column should be displayed or hidden when the table is being viewed using a mobile or monitor.

Create Site Tours on Your Drupal Site with JoyRide Jquery Plugin

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:15:23 -0500

Create Site Tours on Your Drupal Site with JoyRide Jquery Plugin:

Click through to see a sample “joyride” (a.k.a. a walk-through tour or visual tutorial of the kind you see on a site that has just added new features or changed something around, to bring it to the users’ attention).

Basic Ingredients for Good Web Writing

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:30:23 -0500

Basic Ingredients for Good Web Writing:

So your boss just made ‘copywriter’ a de facto addition to your job description, and the only writing you’ve done since graduation is with To: fields or with two thumbs.

Take heart. With some basic guidelines (grouped by level of difficulty), you can make your writing easier to read and easier to engage than much of what’s out there on the wild wild web…

The Government of Canada's Drupal 7 Distribution (WET/WxT Variant)

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:40:35 -0500

The Government of Canada's Drupal 7 Distribution (WET/WxT Variant):

Open Concept:

We’ve been strategizing, evaluating & deploying the Government of Canada’s (GoC) Drupal 7 Web eXperience Toolkit (WxT) since it was first released over a year ago. We’ve implemented this for government agencies inside & outside the GoC because it is clear that so many agencies need to meet the dual challenge of a site which is both bilingual & accessible.

The Drupal Variant of the Web eXperience Toolkit is an open platform for web publishing which has a critical mass of public sector agencies collaborating with it publicly in GitHub. It is also exciting to see institutions like the University of Ottawa adopting it because of their need to ensure that their website is fully bilingual and meets WCAG 2.0 AA.

In the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington, residents...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:37:25 -0500

In the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington, residents are taking a hands-on approach to addressing hunger and malnutrition in their community. They’ve grown gardens on rooftops, turned vacant lots into mini-parks and recently had a ribbon-cutting ceremony on a state-of-the-art aquaponic greenhouse that will provide fruits, vegetables and fresh fish to area residents. Many of the efforts are organized through a non-profit Christian organization called The Simple Way — self-described “ordinary radicals” who have lived in the area for some 15 years. Shane Claiborne, a co-founder of The Simple Way, joined some of his neighbors to share their story of a community in transformation.

Drupal SEO Checklist for 2013

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:21:58 -0500

Drupal SEO Checklist for 2013:

A plain Drupal installation does not provide everything that is required so, here are the basic steps to optimize it to the last detail.

Building Maps with OpenLayers in Drupal 7 You would think by...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:30:32 -0500

Building Maps with OpenLayers in Drupal 7

You would think by now that maps would be all sorted out in Drupal 7, you would be wrong. Maps in Drupal, or anywhere, have never really been sorted out. Maps are a complicated tangle of moving parts. Starting a new project that needs maps can be a challenge. Fortunately, there is a solution with OpenLayers…

Features: Empowering developers one feature at a time

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:45:24 -0500

Features: Empowering developers one feature at a time:

Features is a popular module that’s been circulating around in the Drupalsphere for over three years. For those unfamiliar, it creates a module out of a set of configurations and entities from a Drupal site, capturing it in code, therefore allowing you to easily recreate the same configurations and entities on another site (or the same site for that matter).

Drupal development like a Boss using Drush and Features

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:15:19 -0500

Drupal development like a Boss using Drush and Features:

So you already know all about Drush and Features, good for you!

Using Features is a critical tool to create maintainable websites and makes pushing configuration changes between server environments really easy and Drush is a Drupal developer’s best friend.

Drupal / Salesforce Integration with REST, OAUTH, and Entities

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:30:17 -0500

Drupal / Salesforce Integration with REST, OAUTH, and Entities

Configuring Layouts with Display Suite in Drupal 7

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:01:44 -0500

Configuring Layouts with Display Suite in Drupal 7:

Display Suite allows site builders to customise how content is displayed. When I say content, I mean nodes, users and taxonomy pages as a basic example. At a lower level, you are modifying the display of an entity. All major pieces of content like nodes, users and taxonomy terms are simply entities.

Learn how the Drupal 7 SEO Checklist module can provide you a...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:45:22 -0500

Learn how the Drupal 7 SEO Checklist module can provide you a to do list on how to best optimize your Drupal 7 website for SEO.

In this episode you will learn:

How to download and install the SEO checklist module

Additional tips for increasing traffic to your Drupal website

Creating Touch friendly books in Drupal

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:51:52 -0500

Creating Touch friendly books in Drupal:

I was using my wife’s Kindle the other day and thought: “Wow, wouldn’t it be cool to make our online course texts function this way?” A few hours of Google searching for a viable solution and some code later and I present to you my results…

Capturing e-mails on a Drupal development site

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:30:32 -0500

Capturing e-mails on a Drupal development site:

We often set up staging sites for clients, and deploy all enhancements to that staging site first so that the client has an opportunity to test and validate new features before they go live. These staging sites occasionally contain production data to make testing easier and more realistic, which also means that even real user e-mail addresses can make their way to it. This potentially implies the risk of sending out unwanted e-mails to those addresses.