Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, August 9th, 2012

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Posted by pwolanin on July 26, 2012 at 3:18pm
Start: 
2012-08-09 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 
pwolanin
humansky
davidhernandez
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.

Note that room is TBD - trying to get one of the smaller bowls on the basement level (004 or 008).

    DRAFT AGENDA

    PRESENTATION  ~30 minutes

- Search engine optimization and Drupal by John Cashman


    LIGHTNING TALKS

    - 10 to 15 minutes:

    - How to use better_exposed_filters module for View by Ray Saltini

    - TBD

LIGHTNING TALKS - You don't have to be a Drupal ninja to do a lightening talk! Share what you've learned and help spread the Drupal goodness. Use the comments section below to suggest your topic. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning talk" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.

PRESENTATIONS - Have a topic that needs more time? Trying to practice for a Drupal Camp presentation? Volunteer for a presentation. Make sure to tell us your intended audience.

WHERE

Join us in Room (TBD), of the Friend Center on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.

After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.

visitor wifi details:

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf

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Comments

Can I give a talk?

Posted by MKorostoff on August 3, 2012 at 6:07pm
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I'd like to give a talk called "You can do that with Views??" demonstrating some strategies for pushing Views up to (and maybe a little past) its anticipated usage. Mostly aimed at site builders with a few nuggests thrown out for developers. Possible topics to include:

  • Social media buttons with pure views
  • Using aggregation setting to generate rich, dynamic menus and tag clouds
  • User-specific drop down menus
  • How to give your users the power the build arbitrary lists of content
  • Why ever node_load() again when you can get_view_results_with_arguments(), a tiny module I wrote that has changed the way I code

I can tailor to the time/interest allotted making this a lightning talk or a full-on presentation.

Thanks!

Posted by wheatpenny on August 10, 2012 at 2:48pm
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Thanks for your presentation on the Facebook integration with Views. That helps me out a lot. At a future meetup, I'd love to see the strategies that you mentioned above.

You're most certainly

Posted by MKorostoff on August 10, 2012 at 2:55pm
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You're most certainly welcome! I'll look forward to presenting them

john Cashman is going to talk

Posted by pwolanin on August 8, 2012 at 1:04pm
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john Cashman is going to talk about SEO which was postponed from last month, and Ray about better exposed filters.

Thanks! - Here is the presenation and video

Posted by jcashrowing on August 10, 2012 at 4:44am
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Thanks everyone for listening to me talk about search engine optimization and strategies using Google.

I am have posted a recorded video of the SEO Drupal presentation and slides on our site

You can also get SEO Presentation from slideshare and the SEO presentation video from YouTube as well.

And yes...the above is meant to drive more keywords...it's SEO after all!

Sorry I could not attend

Posted by cilefen on August 10, 2012 at 12:36pm
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Thank you for posting. I am sorry I could not attend—something came up.

The presentation was great.

Posted by davidhernandez on August 10, 2012 at 1:58pm
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The presentation was great. It is good that we're getting more formal, expert presentations.

Thanks David

Posted by jcashrowing on August 10, 2012 at 3:01pm
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Thanks David! Much appreciated - JC

@MKorostoff - didn't see

Posted by pwolanin on August 8, 2012 at 6:17pm
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@MKorostoff - didn't see your comment until just now. If you want to give a 10-15 min talk that might be a good compliment to what Ray is presenting.

We are in room 109 in Friend

Posted by pwolanin on August 9, 2012 at 10:27pm
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We are in room 109 in Friend center