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    1. Is Drupal Right for My Website? DrupalCamp Dallas 2009 Lee Raney “ obiwan” on Drupal.org [email_address] Twitter.com/leeraney
    2. Take-Aways
      • List of things to look for in a CMS
      • Understand one business owner’s reasons for selecting Drupal
      • Start your own criteria list for what you need for your site
      • Overview of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Wordpress vs. proprietary
      • Understand Drupal’s strengths and reasons to select
      • Drupal resources to get you started
      • Case Studies - See how Drupal used on several large sites
      • The Drupal Community – getting involved!
      • Top Web 2.0 Drupal Modules
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    3. What to Look for in a CMS
      • Depends on your needs
      • CMS or Development Framework?
      • Start your Criteria List…suggestions
        • Easy for users to contribute (user-generated content)
        • Less expensive to add new features
        • Latest web trends- Web 2.0
        • Large community behind it
        • Open source
        • Not a hosted service
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    4. My Criteria – Christian.com
      • Open source and on own site
      • Social networking and publishing user content
      • Leverage as much existing as possible
      • More cost effective to build and maintain
      • Extensible
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    5. What about other CMS’s?
      • Wordpress
      • Joomla
      • Other open source
      • Other proprietary
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    6. Why Drupal?
      • Site Building Blocks – Rapid Development
      • Leverage 1,800 ad-on modules
      • Designed for social publishing
      • Open source – lower costs for development and lower cost of ownership
      • Secure and stable
      • Community
      • Supported by top companies
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    7. Why Drupal? - Community Is Drupal Right for My Website?
      • 2 Million Downloads
      • 240,000 Community Members
      • Over 700 Contributors to Drupal 6 core release
      • Drupal Association
      • DrupalCon
      • Local Drupal Groups
    8. Drupal Case Studies Is Drupal Right for My Website? View Slideshow at: KoineMedia.com/whydrupal
    9. Drupal Resources
      • Local Group – meetings and DallasDrupal.org
      • Lullabot – podcast and Using Drupal
      • Groups.Drupal.org
      • GotDrupal Videos
      • PlanetDrupal.TV
      • Acquia.com
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    10. Web 2.0 and Social Media Modules
      • Add This
      • Facebook Connect (fbconnect)
      • Drupal for Facebook (fb)
      • Tweet Meme
      • Twitter – Dustin
      • Feed API
      • Add This
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?
    11. Why are You Here?
      • Discussion – what do you want to get out of this DrupalCamp?
      Is Drupal Right for My Website?

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