Posted by greggles on August 25, 2008 at 5:01pm
I'd am currently gathering information to help identify the state of the art for publishing websites (those built on Drupal and those built with other technologies). My motivation to create the survey is an upcoming book about using Drupal to build enterprise publishing websites.
Why should you take the time to fill out the survey?
As the About page says:
- There's a chance you'll get a free, signed copy of the book
- There's a chance you'll get credit in the book
- You'll be adding to the knowledge of publishing sites in Drupal (the results will be made public, if the submitter gives permission)
So, take the survey.
Comments
interesting - but survey submission errors
On submit:
Access denied
Survey Survey has been created.
You are not authorized to access this page.
Dan Knauss
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danknauss
New Local Media :: www.newlocalmedia.com
good point...
Thanks for your survey response.
The surveys are set to be "unpublished" and as an anonymous user you can't see it so you got that access denied message. I've updated it to redirect to a thank you page so it should be fixed now.
Thanks again.
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My comments ...
What are the "cutting edge" features that you have implemented recently:
We're using the Content Recommendation Engine module to implement personalized news recommendations (in conjunction with the Fivestar ranking/rating tool) in the newspaper site management system we're constructing. We're also using Panels2 to allow editors broad flexibility in creating custom page layouts to accommodate major news events. We've created a Daypart module that will schedule automatic changes in the homepage, working in conjunction with Panels pages. This module will be contributed to the Drupal community.
Which parts of managing your website are the most difficult currently:
We're rolling out Drupal as a core site management tool to address a number of issues that we have with our legacy publishing applications. The major improvements we're getting from Drupal are:
* Page layout flexibility.
* Instant publishing of breaking news, without having to wait for legacy systems to play their "bucket brigade" game.
* Direct integration of community interaction tools (commenting, ranking/ratings, social networking) into the news environment.
* Easy creation of new presentational features without coding, thanks to Views.
* RSS everywhere.
What do you see as the future of "publishing" websites:
"Publishing" has become community facilitation, returning to its roots. Drupal's focus on "community plumbing" -- along with its code quality -- attracted us to this platform over three years ago.
What are the features which are cutting edge now but will be common in the future:
Personalization (including the collaborative-filtering recommendation engine)
Semantic markup
Web service APIs
Location-based, mobile-optimised views of common data sets
What do you feel makes your site better than other similar sites?:
When we launch our new systems in October, I think we'll find that the tools encourage a level of participation and community engagement that generally is missing in newsrooms that until recently were "print" organizations. The ability for every journalist to immediately interact, update, post video and audio, and tailor the presentation to the needs of a news event -- without any need to understand coding, even HTML -- will break down barriers that we've all had to deal with for years.
thanks
We've created a Daypart module that will schedule automatic
changes in the homepage, working in conjunction with Panels pages. This
module will be contributed to the Drupal community.
Very, very cool. Thank you, thank you, thank you...
Will all the survey answers be available?
K. Paul Mallasch - Publisher
http://www.kpaulmedia.com
shared at submitter's option
@kpaul - all of the survey's will help provide information for the book. If the person submitting the survey allows us to then yes, we will share the survey results with the community more directly outside of the book.
@yelvington - thanks for your detailed responses both here and inside of the site. I guess you're too impatient to wait for us to publish the results and wanted to share yours here immediately ;)
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