promotion

After an amazing Drupal Camp at Austin, I had the opportunity to meet some of the guys from Houston. I talked to talldavid about this and did not get the chance to pick the other members' brain.

This is oriented to people doing business with Drupal in Houston, but that doesn't mean everyone can't give an opinion. It just means that I think this will be treated better as a business opportunity of some sort.

Checking on Houston web designers, in my very limited google search and few\w companies that i have contacted, it is clear that Houston is a Wordpress town.

Whilst the wonderful Philip from Larchmont Films edits the video I've been busy making a card for the end of the video showing details of our Drupal Discovery Day next week along with sponsor logos.

Anyone can make one of these and put it onto the end of the video once it's released and use it for their own marketing uses, thought I'd post the card here so you can see! (yes, it conforms to the drupal logo 'exclusion zone' detailed here!)

As I sit here working on a top-to-bottom redesign of the Suzhead web site, I find myself thinking about how we small shops try to balance promoting our services and products with doing "real" (aka billable) work.

My company web site is outdated and badly in need of the in-progress redesign. It was put up about four years ago when I began consulting, and has received only a few minor updates since. Why? It's just plain expedient to put off playing with my own site when there is billable work to be had, and in the past four years there has pretty much always been some billable work available.

I cannot found anywhere what is the workflow to promote (or to propose for promoting) a post to the g.d.o. frontpage.

Can anybody help with this?

Thanks!

Recently, I had to create a website, for a Penn State course, to search Tv shows. I was free to select any platform to develop the site on and I've picked Symfony php framework. However, couple weeks into the project I realized that Drupal could've saved me so much time and would've been much more reliable. If only someone mentioned Drupal to me at the right moment...

The Utah group is in need of a more active Manager. He's been inactive for the last year, and even before that he hasn't been very involved. In the year that I've been in the group we haven't even met him at any of the meet-ups we've held. Not to mention the fact that we've all tried contacting him multiple times regarding making changes to our group pages and appearance.

Hi all,

Welcome to this group dedicated to promotion of sites built on Drupal.

Here are some of the Drupal showcase directories (not belonging to*drupal.org sites) I have found on web. Not many, but enough for begining. You are welcome to complement this list.

http://drupalsites.net
http://drupalmuseum.com
http://drupalsn.com/projects
http://cmsdesigns.org
http://drupalwebsites.com
http://drupalbased.com
http://drupaldiy.com/showcase
http://mydrupal.com/drupal_showcase_some_top_drupal_sites
http://devbee.com/drupal_showcase

A discussion worth checking out is this one on a CMS brand survey which amazon posted to the Drupal Group Marketing of Drupal. It references the following survey:
http://www.waterandstone.com/downloads/2008OpenSourceCMSMarketSurvey.pdf

I'm no marketing expert, but it seemed to me that while awards and other trends show Drupal surpassing most, Joomla were kicking our butts when it came to marketing and PR. However Amazon had a pretty good answer to that, though I think there is still much for Drupal to do on the marketing end, and this survey could be some help.

Overall it still looks healthy for Drupal, with Wordpress dominating, Joomla second, and Drupal third and everyone else a looong way off. It's interesting to note that technical proficiency is quite out of tune with marketing, with Drupal (possibly) under-performing, but doing vastly better than, for example, Plone, which has a lot of positives, but is lagging badly in this survey.

Grant

Yesterday was the 2nd Journée portes ouvertes Design Montréal. Thanks to Bluesponge, the friendly creative agency we're sharing an office space with, my partner at Whisky Echo Bravo (our new Drupal shop) and I were there! Like many design, architecture or fashion firms in town, Bluesponge opened their doors to anyone interested.

Hi, everyone. Sorry to double-post, but this is to clarify the previous one.

I'm starting a WikiPage on promoting Drupal Dojo at http://groups.drupal.org/node/6386. The hope is that promoting the Dojo will attract and incubate more Drupal developers, as well as spread the Dojo's tools and philosophy to other projects.