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You know how to use Drupal. You know how to write code, build a theme, and SEO a site. But do you know how to teach others to use Drupal? For every site we create there are clients who must use it, many don't know a node from a block. After this session, you will be able to introduce clients to Drupal without freaking them out.

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This session has 2 goals: 1) Demonstrate how the Open Media modules extend Drupal to allow users to do everything from reserving cameras and studios, submitting broadcast quality video, and rating those videos to determine what airs on TV in several US cities. 2) Describe the some of the steps taken to develop the culture of collaboration that continues to drive the project beyond the initial $380,000 Knight NewsChallenge grant.

See how to setup a complete e-commerce solution using Drupal as CMS and Magento as e-commerce back-office.

We'll present Drupal / Magento (http://www.drupal.org/project/magento) API.

• Products, users, orders synchronisation : see how data goes from Magento to Drupal.
• Scalability and performance : we'll show how you can setup the fastest e-commerce solution ever : AuthCache / Memcache / Boost and NginX to get the best from your hardware
• Live examples : we'll present 2 live sites using Magento / Drupal integration

Drupal has a comprehensive collection of modules for optimizing sites, including the SEO Checklist. After you’ve checked the last item on the checklist you are going to want to know if everything worked and if there is anything else you can do. To help with this there is a free tool created by Microsoft that you can run to see what a search engine sees when it looks at your sites.

Developers who want to integrate video into their websites or for a client's website face a wide variety of services and a confusing array of options and terminology. What do you do when YouTube isn't good enough? How do you choose the best solution?

This session will familiarize attendees with hosted video solutions across three price tiers, from entry-level to enterprise, and how to integrate these solutions into Drupal. We will discuss terminology, best practices and hosting providers such as:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• CDN2
• Kaltura
• Limelight
• Brightcove

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Drupal has the technical infrastructure for running multilingual sites. Knowing the ins and outs of the system and configuration, however, is not a trivial task.

Building scalable translation workflows that fit your organization's needs is even harder. How can you run a truly multilingual site with Drupal without going insane or broke?

The new Translation Management module is how. Built as a wrapper on top of Drupal's core translation tools and the i18n module, the Translation Management module is a new effort to automate or streamline the entire process.

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We've all seen the pattern.

Designer cleverly fills in the boxes, design looks great, client approves design, developers implement the design, site is ready to launch once we get those boxes filled in with the real conte..... What do you mean you don't have anything to go there?

As much as we love the code, great sites live and die by their content. Unfortunately, many sites are still designed and built assuming "something" will fill in the boxes. That's no way to treat your users!

Learn how to incorporate content-centric thinking into your process and: