Project Manager

Are you using Rules yet? You should! The Rules module can take care of a whole lot of things that previously would require you to write a custom module, and can help you automate processes on your website.

This session will give you:

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Brightcove is the leading online video platform and enables large
enterprises, media companies, and small businesses to quickly publish
their video content to the the web.

We run our public sites on Drupal multisite instances: our corporate
website, support site, developer site, and our blog. We translate
everything from English into 4 languages: German, French, Spanish, and
Japanese.

This talk will cover

• an overview of our system based on Drupal
• our specialized localization process
• development of custom modules, such as Google CSE Advanced module and

It’s not the big that eat the small; it’s the fast that eat the slow. Partnering with a small shop or freelancer can give your organization the flexibility and speed it needs to succeed, however it can be difficult to find skilled, dependable contractors. In this session, Steve Kessler of Denver DataMan gives away all their best secrets about how to cultivate and nourish fruitful relationships with small shops and freelancers from both a client and vendor perspective.

In this session we will explore what goes into creating end-user documentation that will increase ROI and lower total cost of ownership. In this session we will:

• Look at what goes into high quality end-user training
• Effective strategies for training
• Writing manuals that work
• Integrating training into projects
• Making money with training

We will bring examples of our manuals and will share what we do that works for us and our clients.

There's no purpose to site traffic if you cannot convert it into your end goal. Whether it be a purchase, phone call, or an ad click, HEO, also known as CRO, is the art of structuring, designing, and optimizing your site to convert your users. Take your SEO to the next level by adding HEO.

This session will cover the other side of the SEO coin, HEO and Conversions.
How to optimize your site for people, not robots.
Why we should spend more time focusing on conversion than traffic.

1) Defining HEO
2) SEO vs HEO
3) Where does HEO Go?
-HEO during Structure/design

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Despite such a wise dictum and lots of personal experience to teach us otherwise, we find continued pressure to dive into projects with little to no planning in efforts to “go faster”.

However the goal we set ourselves was to reduce Drupal development time by 80% and this session is to share the invaluable lessons we have learned in the quest to go much, much faster.

Developers love Drupal for a hundred reasons, not least because it makes you look like a rockstar coder whose answer to any functional request is always 'Yes I can'.

However answer me this honestly, how did the training and handover to the client go ? Did you find yourself apologising or explaining away certain areas or buttons that don't actually do anything - or worse "ah this is actually a developer's feature".

Like me, you may have looked at the admin themes out there as an aftermarket bolt on to improve this - or perhaps you're happy for your clients to use the little black bar?