Drive Drupal LA: Power the Digital Revolution with Drupal

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DRUPAL AS DIGITAL HUBKevin Colligan

Sr. Director, Technology & Digital Media The Recording Academy

kevinc@grammy.com

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THE RECORDING ACADEMY

Huge, global brand: The GRAMMY Awards

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THE RECORDING ACADEMY

Huge, global brand: The GRAMMY Awards

+ Many digital platforms (websites, mobile apps, social apps)

Friday, August 10, 12

THE RECORDING ACADEMY

Huge, global brand: The GRAMMY Awards

+ Many digital platforms (websites, mobile apps, social apps)

+ Small team of web editors

Friday, August 10, 12

THE RECORDING ACADEMY

Huge, global brand: The GRAMMY Awards

+ Many digital platforms (websites, mobile apps, social apps)

+ Small team of web editors

= Need for one content workflow to serve many platforms

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DRUPAL COVERS CMS BASES

• Accepts a wide variety of editorial, multimedia and interactive content (hosted and third-party)

• Separates content from presentation

• Provides granular admin permissions and content workflows (which allows diverse teams to contribute to your website)

• Provides end-user management and customization

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GRAMMY.com content

• News articles

• Blog posts

• Video (Ooyala video platform)

• Photos (galleries)

• Content rotator slides

• Nominees & winners

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GRAMMY.COM CONTENT CONTRIBUTORS

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REPORTERSFile news articles, tagged with metadata

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BLOGGERSFile posts, tagged with metadata

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PHOTO EDITORSPosts photos, tagged with metadata

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VIDEO PRODUCERSPost videos, tagged with metadata

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EDITORS

• Approve (or kick back) pending content

• Highlight best content in homepage rotator

• Select certain pieces of content for special attention (manual related links, embedded video, revised metadata, etc.)

• And generally shape our content offering

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CONTENT FIELDSWe break content into distinct elements ...

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CONTENT FIELDS... so we can reassemble it in multiple formats

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DRUPAL CONTENT DELIVERY• Photos automatically cropped and resized

• Video served up in Flash player for desktop users, in HTML5 player for mobile users

• Sections populated based on content types

• Packages automatically created based on tags

• Content can appear in full (on news article page, for instance), or as a plain headline or a headline, blurb and thumbnail photo, etc.

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RESPONSIVE GRAMMY.com

• Experience customized for end-user’s screen size (not device-specific)

• Layout shifts and functionality appears or vanishes based to provide optimum experience

• Photos, headlines and video scales

• Load only what we need

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BEYOND THE WEB...

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iPAD APP

• Native iOS app, built in partnership with CBS

• All editorial and multimedia content fed from Drupal via JSON feeds

• Custom photo sizes

• Jumbo video sizes

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APP CONTROL

• Content entry form has one “Screening” field where content contributor can specify “Not For Apps”

• Profanity

• Clearances

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iPHONE APP

• Same feed as iPad app, different presentation

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ANDROID APP

• Everything but the live video feed (sorry, Droids)

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FACEBOOK APPS

• Each of the 12 Recording Academy Chapters have Facebook pages

• They all pull news, events and video from Drupal via JSON feeds into fan pages run by Social-Candy.com

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PRESS ROOM APPAs winners are announced, editors update Drupal which

updates GRAMMY.com, mobile apps and a pressroom ticker

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FUTUREWith content stored in Drupal and properly tagged, we can

slice-and-dice output to build any number of apps

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SOCIAL CHOICESHomegrown or Existing Platforms

OR

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THANKS, I’M FINISHEDDrive Drupal LA, Aug. 8, 2012

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