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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
Friday, August 10, 12
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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