A presentation of a gender identity and artistic expression workshop that I lead for Young Women United in 2007. Based on women of color feminist and queer theory (e.g. bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa).
A presentation of a gender identity and artistic expression workshop that I lead for Young Women United in 2007. Based on women of color feminist and queer theory (e.g. bell hooks, Gloria Anzaldúa).
Introducing Acquia Content Hub: Take Control of Your Content ChaosAcquia
It’s no secret: organizations are struggling to keep up with demands to provide personal, engaging experiences across the explosion of new devices, channels, and markets. Because of this, content creators are tasked with furiously creating content for each team, device and endpoint.
On average, enterprises manage 268 customer facing websites and mobile apps*, making the ability to share content across company silos and systems more necessary than ever before. But there has been no easy way to share content between platforms—until now.
Acquia Content Hub breaks down content silos and solves this problem by helping content creators discover, reuse, and distribute content across a complex network of technologies and teams.
In our upcoming webinar, we’ll introduce you to Content Hub and explain how it reduces content chaos in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, by enabling organizations to:
- Eliminate the costs and time associated with content duplication
- Discover content throughout your organization, regardless of creation point
- Mitigate the risk of outdated content
- Decrease time-to-market with new, content-rich sites
Headless Drupal allows using modern front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks with Drupal by decoupling the front-end from the back-end, making Drupal function as a content repository and REST server. This improves performance and scalability while giving front-end developers more freedom. It works by setting up Drupal with services like Views Datasource and CORS to enable REST APIs and building the front-end separately with a JavaScript framework. Developers should consider accessibility, authentication, and SEO when using this approach.
Introducing Acquia Content Hub: Take Control of Your Content ChaosAcquia
It’s no secret: organizations are struggling to keep up with demands to provide personal, engaging experiences across the explosion of new devices, channels, and markets. Because of this, content creators are tasked with furiously creating content for each team, device and endpoint.
On average, enterprises manage 268 customer facing websites and mobile apps*, making the ability to share content across company silos and systems more necessary than ever before. But there has been no easy way to share content between platforms—until now.
Acquia Content Hub breaks down content silos and solves this problem by helping content creators discover, reuse, and distribute content across a complex network of technologies and teams.
In our upcoming webinar, we’ll introduce you to Content Hub and explain how it reduces content chaos in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, by enabling organizations to:
- Eliminate the costs and time associated with content duplication
- Discover content throughout your organization, regardless of creation point
- Mitigate the risk of outdated content
- Decrease time-to-market with new, content-rich sites
Headless Drupal allows using modern front-end technologies like JavaScript frameworks with Drupal by decoupling the front-end from the back-end, making Drupal function as a content repository and REST server. This improves performance and scalability while giving front-end developers more freedom. It works by setting up Drupal with services like Views Datasource and CORS to enable REST APIs and building the front-end separately with a JavaScript framework. Developers should consider accessibility, authentication, and SEO when using this approach.
Use Content to Enhance Your Commerce ExperienceAcquia
Rich media and omni-channel shopping are blurring the lines within the traditional customer journey of awareness-consideration-purchase. Today’s modern consumer experiences many different distractions and choices along their journey from beginning to end, and as a result consumers are now expecting a cohesive, integrated digital shopping experience.
Telling your story in an engaging and unique way by integrating content and commerce has proven to be the most effective way to drive more relevant engagement and ultimately, conversion. Forty eight percent of consumers and 60% of millennials will leave a retailer’s site and seek information elsewhere when interactive visual content is not readily available. In this webinar, learn about the importance of integrated commerce experiences, and how techniques such as shoppable video, spin photography, and other rich media can drive engagement and conversion in your business.
Topics include:
- The trends of integrating content and commerce and why major brands are adopting this strategy
- Rich media’s impact on shopper expectations and behavior and how to best address these changes
- A success story from Roots, Canada on how to integrate content and commerce from a brand's perspective
Drupal 8 Deep Dive: What It Means for Developers Now that REST Is in Core Acquia
Web Services in today's applications and websites have become critical to interacting with third parties. A lot of Drupal developers have the need to expose content and features on their site via an API. Luckily for us, Drupal 8 now has this capability in Core. And some contrib modules are attempting to make it even better.
In this webinar, we will discuss what you can do with Drupal 8, what is included in core, and what is not. Topics covered will include what is new with REST in Drupal 8 and what it aims to solve. Attendees will learn:
- What CRUD is and how to use it
- What you can do with REST in Core
- How to use and build on Services in Drupal 8
- How Drupal 8, Acquia, and Palantir can help you succeed
Responsive & Ready: Why Drupal 8 is Ideal for Building Mobile-first Experienc...Acquia
- Drupal 8 is designed with a mobile-first approach to make content editing and site administration easy on mobile devices through a responsive interface.
- It includes responsive core themes, breakpoints for detecting screen sizes, and responsive image handling to serve optimized images for different devices.
- Developers benefit from modernized front-end features, native mobile app integration via web services, and tools for building decoupled responsive applications.
Entities 101: Understanding Data Structures in DrupalAcquia
Nodes, content entities, config entities, bundles, display modes... what? For people new to Drupal, and even those that have been around awhile, the naming of these things can be confusing. Understanding the philosophy behind the Entity system is important in order to make better decisions on how to build sites that work well, and do what you need to do.
In this webinar, learn about the different data structures in Drupal, how they work, and when to use them. Topics covered will include config vs. content entities, when to use a custom entity, and more including:
The differences between core entities like taxonomy, nodes, and users
-Advantages and disadvantages to using each
-Tips for fields and display settings
-How to optimize your configuration
While we will be touching on some very deep, and specific details, this webinar will be friendly for beginners as well. No coding or programming knowledge is required. However, even some intermediate developers and long time site builders will learn a thing or two.
Applied progressive decoupling weather.com, angular, and drupalAcquia
Do you have a JavaScript development team itching to pursue new ideas at a faster rate than the rest of your developers or even Drupal itself can accommodate? How can you best avoid the pitfalls of fully decoupling Drupal and reinventing the many wheels you lose, such as layout management and a seamless administrative experience?
Join Preston So, John Kennedy, and Matt Davis as they discuss the practice behind the theory of progressively decoupled Drupal, an approach that infuses graceful application-like interactivity into your site, without jettisoning the features that make Drupal great on the front end. In this webinar, we’ll also delve into the key motivations for harnessing Drupal’s power as a CMS alongside another powerful framework on the front end via progressive decoupling. Topics covered will include:
-“Headless” Drupal: The promise and perils of fully decoupling Drupal
-The top five reasons to progressively decouple Drupal
-Concrete architectures to implement progressive decoupling
-A case study on weather.com and progressively decoupled Panels
-And much, much more
Build Mobile Applications with Headless Drupal 8 - DrupalConAsia 2016Prateek Jain
This presentation talks about what is headless CMS and why Headless Drupal and then explains how one can go headless and build Front-end / Mobile Applications on Headless Drupal 8.
Going Global 101: How to Manage Your Websites Worldwide Using DrupalAcquia
Internet usage has exploded worldwide over the last decade. More than one third of today’s world population has internet access. In fact, as of 2014, the number of internet users worldwide was 2.92 billion, up from 2.71 billion in the previous year. This shows that the ability to provide fully translated content to users is more important than ever. Translated content can help you to better market your brand in new regions, and establish your website as an international authority on its subject matter.
Without proper preparation, various challenges can arise when translating websites into Português, Русский, Français, Italiano, Español, Deutsch, 中文, 日本語, 한국어, and other languages. In this webinar you will hear from Lingotek on how to be internationally savvy, and discover:
-Simple tips and lessons for developing localization-ready websites using Drupal
-Why translation and localization really matters to your digital strategy
-The 7 Elements of Localizability
-How Qualcomm, a leader in next-generation mobile technologies, is successfully developing international-ready websites using Drupal
We’ve been using CMS to manage website content for 20+ years. But the world has changed. Today, we live in a multi-channel world. People spend more time using mobile than desktop. Traditional CMS products weren’t built for these scenarios, in most cases, they were built as a coupled CMS for websites.
We need a new breed of CMS that will better support multi-channel digital experiences. Headless approach separates content management and its presentation.
Cloud-first headless CMS provides huge benefits for modern marketers and developers. It’s not just a temporary trend for some niche market, it will change the CMS world over the next five years.
Go to www.kenticocloud.com and see what a cloud-first headless CMS can do for you.
The Future of a Content-Driven World: How To Prepare Your TeamAcquia
Content strategy today is more than just words and pretty pictures. Today's content strategist must understand that each member of their audience is different and has different content needs.
Join us for a webinar, hosted by Advertising Age, as we envision a new future for content marketing, and learn:
- What we expect content to look like in the future
- How teams can keep up with so many different types of content, audience segments, and publishing channels
- How brands can gain an edge over the competition through innovative content
Introducing Workspace Preview System: Solve Your Content Preview ProblemsAcquia
The problem of accurately previewing changes to site content, especially in the context of other content (whether new or existing) has been a daunting challenge for years.
First addressed by the Site Preview System (SPS) as part of the Large Scale Drupal initiative, and more recently as the Content Preview System (CPS), the problem still exists. Using a new suite of both new and existing contributed modules, and leveraging the work being done as part of the core Workflow Initiative, the Workspace Preview System (WPS) is the third - and we hope definitive - solution to this space.
In this webinar, learn about how the Workspace Preview System can solve your content preview problems, with topics including:
-The history of Preview in Drupal
-Implementation details, including what contrib modules are used and what Lightning adds
-Different scenarios in which you’d use Workspace Preview System
-Current Workspace Preview System status and roadmap
From Stone Age-worthy Sites to Cohesive Content: How Trinity University is Us...Acquia
Blogs, course content, research updates, and Spiders on Drugs. Wait ... what?! Faculty, staff, and student organizations at Trinity University had spent about a decade developing creative content and individual web sites on the trinity.edu domain. Unfortunately, their creativity was published online without any oversight or review process, and without a content management system to store or organize data.
Trinity needed a solution that would enable their faculty to easily create and update brand-consistent sites, and students to search for a multitude of research, teaching, and student org content all within the .edu domain. As a result, Trinity, in partnership with ImageX Media, turned to open-source Drupal as a cost-effective, customizable, and easy-to-train solution.
In this webinar, you will hear from Trinity and ImageX about how Drupal has enabled the university to:
-Focus on content creation without having to navigate through back-end web code
-Create customizable, responsive themes on a flexible template
-Increase site governance with user and contributor permissions
-Allow Trinity to “own,” through presence on the trinity.edu domain, content and keywords that showcase Trinity community members as thought leaders in their fields
Acquia Content Hub: Connect Technologies & Extend Systems to Source ContentAcquia
Today’s technology landscape is riddled with constantly evolving web platforms, exciting new technologies, and stubborn legacy systems. It’s easy for your business counterparts, who are rapidly creating content for these many sites and channels, to lose sight of what content is created and where it lives.
As a result, data and content are locked in back-end systems across your organization. And because it’s difficult and expensive to connect technologies, you and your team end up wasting time and resources in efforts to publish that content on the web.</p>
In our upcoming webinar, we’ll show you how Acquia Content Hub:
-Integrates with different technologies and legacy systems with our Rest API
-Normalizes content across systems through our CDF format
-Empowers Drupal developers to extend our Drupal modules for additional Drupal functionality
-Increases efficiencies, so your team can spend more time innovating, rather than searching and re-creating content
-Speeds your time to market with content rich sites
How Wilson Sporting Goods Is Changing the Game with Experiential CommerceAcquia
In today’s competitive online retail space, it is no longer just about shopping, it's about telling a great story to your target audience and connecting them to the brand in a way that matches customer expectations. Wilson® Sporting Goods was committed to providing a highly engaging experience known as “Experiential Commerce”, which replicates the shopping experience consumers expect from a brick-and-mortar store, where they leave with an emotional allegiance to the brand and product in their hands.
To bring this to life, Wilson married the abilities of Drupal as a CMS and Magento as an eCommerce engine to deliver a robust shopping and brand experience in partnership with HS2 Solutions. This architecture supports Wilson.com and other brands (Louisville Slugger, ATEC, Demarini) globally today.
Join Wilson and HS2 as they discuss:
-The strategy that led to a content-driven eCommerce solution, and how it came to life
-How the unique fusion of Drupal and Magento created this first-of-its-kind shopping experience
-How to approach content and commerce in an “experiential” way
-How to create an online catalog purchase experience without needing support from development teams
How to Successfully Implement Headless DrupalAcquia
1. EPAM presented on their successful implementation of a headless Drupal architecture for a mobile app and website project for the USCCB within a 6 month deadline.
2. They initially tried using the Services and Views Datasource modules but found these added too much overhead. They ultimately used the RESTful module to build out the API due to its flexibility and extensibility.
3. The project involved building iOS and Android mobile apps, a responsive website, and integrating with Salesforce data. Search was implemented using Solr and facets. Caching was handled by Varnish.
4. The project was a success with high traffic during the visit of the Pope without any crashes. Lessons involved opportunities to
Updating the Salesforce Suite to Drupal 8: Major Changes for a Big ModuleAcquia
Learn about the long-awaited effort underway to port the Salesforce Suite, a complex Drupal 7 module, to Drupal 8.
In November of 2016, we passed the one-year anniversary of the Drupal 8.0.0 release. The community is finally catching up on porting more advanced modules to this latest version, and the Salesforce Suite is no exception. Aaron Bauman, the original architect of this suite of modules that integrate Drupal and Salesforce, has been working on the port of the Suite from D7 to D8 for quite some time. Dozens of meta-comments, half a dozen refactors, and hundreds of hours later, Salesforce-8.x-3.x is picking up steam.
In this session, we'll explore aspects of navigating the dozens of new Drupal 8 APIs, architectural decisions when planning your projects, issues management, and team coordination. We'll look at the current state of Salesforce Suite's update to Drupal 8, including:
Major components already ported from Drupal 7, including Salesforce Mapping UI, Drupal to Salesforce Push, and Salesforce to Drupal Pull
New features for Drupal 8, including new Plugin APIs, event scheme, Queue APIs, examples module, unit tests, and new class hierarchy
Roadmap to Drupal 8 stable release, including migration paths from Drupal 7, a baked-in SOAP client, more unit tests, kernel tests, more examples, and additional documentation.
Decoupled Drupal Showcase: Using Drupal to Power Digital SignageAcquia
Digital signage can be a great way to extend your organization’s reach, moving your content and your brand beyond the typical website experience. Leveraging the strength of its full-featured CMS against the front-end possibilities of a client-side framework like Ember or AngularJS, Drupal's role in the evolving content ecosystem of the web is becoming more and more prominent. For organizations with an existing Drupal platform, the choice to build Drupal into new content-driven digital experiences is even more compelling.
In this tech talk, Brian Reese, Senior Developer at Acquia, will present a case study along with a few lightweight technical examples of decoupled Drupal and digital signage. We will cover:
-Some of the UI/UX challenges around adapting an existing body of content to a brand new medium
-A simple Drupal web service example
-How JSON API and other strategies can help standardize data from multiple sources
-How decoupled implementations are bringing new possibilities to Drupal applications
The YMCA faces the same challenges as most organizations with decentralized and fragmented digital ecosystems. To streamline resources and deliver on its philanthropic goals, the YMCA Twin Cities partnered with FFW - a digital agency and Acquia Preferred Partner - to build Open Y.
Open Y is an open source initiative to bring digital transformation and unity to the YMCA. Based on the philosophy that collaboration drives innovation and impact, Open Y brings together a community of YMCAs and digital partners to provide a common digital vision for the 160-year-old YMCA brand.
Join the project’s innovators - from both YMCA Twin Cities and FFW - to learn about:
-How Open Y aligns talents, saves money and delivers better experiences for YMCAs across the US and internationally
-Why YMCA Twin Cities chose Drupal 8 to be the foundation for Open Y
-The future vision for and what it means for other organizations that want to implement similar platforms
A Future-Focused Digital Platform with Drupal 8Acquia
This just in: Al Jazeera Media Network, a leading provider in news and media broadcasting, is investing in its future by building a global, multi-lingual, unified CMS platform to streamline the creation and personalized delivery of news with Drupal 8.
Al Jazeera’s digital partner, Phase2, leveraged Lighting to accelerate development on the Drupal 8 enterprise platform.
Register for this webinar to learn from Phase2 Software Architect Mai Irie, who led the project, as well as Lighting expert John Kennedy, about how this global media organization leveraged Lighting to expedite platform development. You’ll learn:
-The basics of Lightning
-Al Jazeera’s technical challenges and requirements
-Why use Lightning?
-How to use Deploy, Multi-version, and Replication modules to support an enterprise content repository
-How Al Jazeera Media Network transformed its editorial workflow with Drupal 8 tools