This morning, at 9AM, I am excited to co-present with 5 Drupalers from the Departments of Commerce, Education, and Veteran Affairs.
Introduction to Government Social Publishing
Americans are interacting online with Government increasing numbers. Unfortunately, most of that online interaction is a one-way conversation. Americans are getting information, or submitting transactions through government sites. Instead, Americans are turning to online policy groups, social networks, and micro blogs to talk about government, away from government web sites. Read full article »
On Tuesday, May 25th, 2009 from 9AM to 10:30AM I will presenting a session on Introduction to Government Social Publishing with Drupal. I'll be covering the basics of the rise of social publishing from commenting through micro-blogging. This session is targeted at both new Drupal users and experienced Drupal users who want to learn how Drupal is being used across several US government agencies. I will also address the adoption of Drupal for national government websites as demonstrated in this slide show. Read full article »
I am a permanent member of the Drupal association, and the director of business development for the association. I do not speak officially for the association, nor do I speak on behalf of the Drupalcon organizing committees. But I do have a blog and I want to have a discussion with the community about smart growth at Drupalcon. (*I've also helped raise approximately a million dollars for the association so they at least listen to me) Read full article »
For Drupalcon San Francisco I lead the "Leveraging Drupal for your Business" track. Within the track there was a "Social Publishing in the Enterprise" sub-track designed to tell the story of how enterprises are succeeding with Drupal. Read full article »
In my previous post on Drupalcon innovations I addressed how we, the Drupalcon organizers, added a sprint before Drupalcon when contributors are passionate and well rested. This was one important part of growing the Drupal community. In this blog post I'll explain a larger strategy of how the community is training new community members to use quality assurance tools to improve Drupal sites. Read full article »
On the last night of Drupalcon DC last year, I was at a bar with some of my friends from San Francisco. We were talking about what a great conference DCDC was. The drinks were flowing and we started throwing around ideas for Drupalcon San Francisco. Even though I was the organizer of Drupalcon Boston, I live and continue to work in San Francisco and I wanted a conference in my city. Read full article »
Posted on January 24, 2010 - 10:08am by Kieran Lal.
Yesterday we held the second Design4Drupal event at the Stanford Law School. This was an all day event focused on Design and Drupal. I gave a talk which was a combination of two other presentations. I used: Read full article »
Posted on January 20, 2010 - 11:39am by Kieran Lal.
Last night Scott Brown, the republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, was elected in a special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat in the Senate.
Drupal has strong roots in the progressive left, through the Howard Dean campaign, and CivicSpace. This certainly isn't in the first republican Drupal site, but it was a high profile site for an important election that could change the direction of the country. Read full article »
Posted on January 17, 2010 - 2:58pm by Kieran Lal.
If you aren't a professional Drupal developer, or Drupal system admin you might be challenged to get an early preview of Drupal 7. Content professionals, designers, project managers, Drupal business people may be challenged get a working web infrastructure set-up just to check out Drupal 7.
