3. Hi, my name is Chris...
• I took computer programming classes at
Miami-Dade Community College when I
was 13 (on a TRS-80)
• My first game system was an Atari 2600
(still have it)
• My first computer was a Mac SE
I used to play with HyperCards
• I had my first experience as a Super User in
1995 and it was oh so sweet...
5. The Internet became my career
• Guru Communications, 1994
I learned to build sites in BBEdit (still have the t-shirt)
• Virtual Community Network,1995
• Miami Ad School, 1996-1998
• Chief, eBusiness, U.S. Mint, 1999
I was a numismatist as a kid... and as an adult
• InfoApps, 2000
• Conversal, 2000
7. Being social became my way of life
• Insytes, 2004
• 1st BarCamp, 2005
• BrainJams, 2005
• Social Media Club, 2006
If you get it, share it
• The Conversation Group, 2007
• AdHocnium, 2008
8. essentially
I am a geek.
and apparently, I have
always thought geeks
were cool :)
20. Social Media, A Brief History
• Cave Paintings
• Hieroglyphs
• Written Word
• Guttenberg
• Radio
• Television
• Mimeograph
• Web
• Weblogging
• Social Networking
30. Success using this framework is values based
• The Social Media Principles
• Be Human
• Be Aware
• Be Honest
• Be Respectful
• Be a Participant
• Be Open
• Be courageous
38. we are finally realizing that
all organizations are made of people
and all organizations are social
http://www.chrisheuer.com/2008/06/10/towards-a-more-social-organization/
39. “what makes these times
interesting
is that all companies
are media companies”
- Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/08/we_live_in_a_ma.php
62. What is Drupal?
• gilliatt@chrisheuer I suspect that the "general
public" response to that question would be a blank
stare.
63. What is Drupal?
• gilliatt@chrisheuer I suspect that the "general
public" response to that question would be a blank
stare.
• lisapadilla@chrisheuer drupal is the content
management system we've been promised since web
1.0 and earlier
64. What is Drupal?
• gilliatt@chrisheuer I suspect that the "general
public" response to that question would be a blank
stare.
• lisapadilla@chrisheuer drupal is the content
management system we've been promised since web
1.0 and earlier
• ScottGentzen@chrisheuer I'd always assumed that
Drupal was a linux distribution.
65. What is Drupal?
• gilliatt@chrisheuer I suspect that the "general
public" response to that question would be a blank
stare.
• lisapadilla@chrisheuer drupal is the content
management system we've been promised since web
1.0 and earlier
• ScottGentzen@chrisheuer I'd always assumed that
Drupal was a linux distribution.
• obilon@chrisheuer It's a city in Southeast Asia. A
capital of some country. Am I right? ;)
67. What is Drupal?
• sherisaid@chrisheuer drupal is sort of like Joomla and
then again totally not.
68. What is Drupal?
• sherisaid@chrisheuer drupal is sort of like Joomla and
then again totally not.
• socialmediabham@chrisheuer Drupal is that thing
"that" guy talks about when we start to talk about
WordPress as a CMS...
69. What is Drupal?
• sherisaid@chrisheuer drupal is sort of like Joomla and
then again totally not.
• socialmediabham@chrisheuer Drupal is that thing
"that" guy talks about when we start to talk about
WordPress as a CMS...
• michaelpearsun@chrisheuer It is a CMS. Like WP
only more robust. This can also mean complicated. Has
a loyal user group. Terrible internal search. Blue.
70. What is Drupal?
• sherisaid@chrisheuer drupal is sort of like Joomla and
then again totally not.
• socialmediabham@chrisheuer Drupal is that thing
"that" guy talks about when we start to talk about
WordPress as a CMS...
• michaelpearsun@chrisheuer It is a CMS. Like WP
only more robust. This can also mean complicated. Has
a loyal user group. Terrible internal search. Blue.
• jeremywright@chrisheuer It's a platform where it's
harder to build simple things, but easier to build
complex things. IF you know what you're doing.
72. What is Drupal?
• TWalk@chrisheuer Drupal = an innovative framework
for building Web sites.
73. What is Drupal?
• TWalk@chrisheuer Drupal = an innovative framework
for building Web sites.
• sborsch@chrisheuer Drupal today is a "content
management platform for geeks" striving to become a
"social publishing platform for power users"
74. What is Drupal?
• TWalk@chrisheuer Drupal = an innovative framework
for building Web sites.
• sborsch@chrisheuer Drupal today is a "content
management platform for geeks" striving to become a
"social publishing platform for power users"
• bryanhouse@chrisheuer #drupal is a social publishing
platform to build websites that unite content and
community
75. What is Drupal?
• TWalk@chrisheuer Drupal = an innovative framework
for building Web sites.
• sborsch@chrisheuer Drupal today is a "content
management platform for geeks" striving to become a
"social publishing platform for power users"
• bryanhouse@chrisheuer #drupal is a social publishing
platform to build websites that unite content and
community
• nikan@chrisheuer an application framework packaged as
a CMS
76. What is Drupal?
• TWalk@chrisheuer Drupal = an innovative framework
for building Web sites.
• sborsch@chrisheuer Drupal today is a "content
management platform for geeks" striving to become a
"social publishing platform for power users"
• bryanhouse@chrisheuer #drupal is a social publishing
platform to build websites that unite content and
community
• nikan@chrisheuer an application framework packaged as
a CMS
• fucktwtr@chrisheuer Drupal is like Lego for building
Web 2.0 sites -just plug together modules and, viola! And
because it's open source, it's free!
77. Dries talked of moving beyond a
framework and becoming a product.
I don’t think that goes far enough.
78. Drupal needs to be an
easy to use
easy to scale
easy to love
SOLUTION
86. With success, we deal with...
• With newfound popularity, comes pains of
change
• New, clueless, and self proclaimed “experts”
are hurting us, causing harm
• There is a more diverse group of ‘users’
making it harder to be ‘user-centric’ in
thinking about the industry