Drupalcon Boston 2008 - video

iMedStudios.com

dldege — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:13:09 +0000

There is an old saying that cobblers children have no shoes. After two years of developing Drupal sites for various pharma companies as well as some internal sites for our own development needs, we finally decided it was time that our company website be a Drupal powered, content rich site, instead of our old, out dated HTML only site that was running on IIS.

This site leverages all of the things we have learned over the last 2 years with respect to module configuration, development, and custom theme creation. It also is a place to showcase all our web, 3D, and other projects for our various clients. To that end we have developed a Flash based showcase RIA that is very similar to the FLEX.org showcase. It uses Flash, Services module, and custom services to offer up all our projects based on a very robust taxonomy.

The theme is completely custom built and starts with a generic theme that we developed in house and use as a starting point for all of our custom themed sites.

Note that this site is currently in Beta testing and will go live soon at http://www.imedstudios.com.

The Witness Video HUB

zoeyk — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:03:16 +0000

The WITNESS Video Hub is a participatory website where anyone, anywhere can upload human rights related media that can be used to create change. The site features web-based video upload via cell phone and other mobile devices, content distribution, tools for online community building and advocacy, and Google maps integration with a custom-designed full-screen mode and switcher.

From a technical perspective, the WITNESS project required covering new ground in both Drupal and in third-party integration. Working with the team at WITNESS, CivicActions built a robust and full featured video upload, conversion (transcoding), and playback suite for the Drupal content management system, called Media Mover. With Media Mover at its core, the site enables users to upload and categorize video with a comprehensive vocabulary including both geography and issues. This system of organization allows users to find, watch and share relevant videos, and then join groups and campaigns around the world using the Organic Groups module.

Comprised of an information architect, a designer, a project manager, engineers, and themers, the CivicActions team has worked in close collaboration with Witness–from an initial strategy phase to beta launch and ongoing iterative releases. With its rich toolset, the WITNESS Video Hub feeds the populist shift toward user-generated content and increases the reach and impact of organizations doing human rights advocacy.

The Rake Magazine

dgorton — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:19:54 +0000

The Rake is an arts and culture magazine based in Minneapolis/St. Paul and is known for its storytelling, humor, style, and personality. Their new Drupal site has brought them great flexibility and ease-of-management, as well as improved traffic and host of other benefits.
You can read more about the website at drupal.org’s Rake Magazine case study.