Business and Strategy

Generate more online donations by optimizing your Drupal site for fundraising. Give your organisation the very best opportunity to generate online donations by following fundraising best practices with your Drupal site. We'll cover:
* The Donation process
* The User experience
* Personalize the ask
* Social Media
* Thermometers and the like
* A/B Testing
* SEO
* Track and Report

What is the Drupal Association and why should you care?

Once you care, what should you do?

The Drupal Association does much more than presenting DrupalCons. Find out what is on our agenda (other than total world domination, of course).

If you make some or all of your living using Drupal (or want to) or you own/run/work at a Drupal shop, you should take a look at what we do.

The enterprise and education sectors are challenging spaces for internal web strategy. Often web teams report to the Communications and Information Technology departments of large organizations and are rarely effective at serving both masters - so how do we collaborate with decentralized resources, ensure quality, promote accountability and involvement from senior administration?

Join me for a one hour look into the web governance formalization of a Canadian university. The challenges, pitfalls and opportunities will be documented along the way - as well as an open discussion on thought leadership with Web Governance for enterprise, education and government-run organizations. Formal web governance can be pitched to the business when we take off our technical hats and start speaking the language that engages c-suite executives:

1. Strategy
2. Governance
3. Execution
4. Measurement

I look forward to sharing our experiences with you and engaging the Drupal Camp LA community for new ideas in the process!

I'll be talking about my experience creating a product with Drupal as a solo developer for 59DaysofCode, a Hacker competition where competitors have 59 days to build a viable web or mobile app. I competed in the Zero Code category which means I had nothing but the idea when the competition started.

Who is this for?
* Anyone who is thinking about creating a product with Drupal.
* Anyone interested in developing an install profile or distribution.

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More and more clients are seeking out Drupal by name. This has presented great opportunities for Drupal service providers and has helped our industry grow. However, as the market for Drupal development matures, the true winners will be those companies that champion not just what Drupal is, but what can be done with it.

For Drupal to thrive, it needs solid leaders that can handle the business aspects. Running a Drupal shop is far more than just the technology; you'll need solid sales pipeline, a defined delivery methodology, and a solid understanding of the financials.

We'll be taking questions from the audience. Some topics will include:

• Productivity Tools (Bug Tracking, Source Control, Document Management)
• Development Methodologies
• Change Control
• Org Charts
• Business Development
• Hiring and Training Employees

Panel Members:
Chris Stauffer - CEO @ Stauffer New Media Development.
Tom Friedof - Principal @ ActiveLamp
Joel Farris - Co-Founder @ Transparatech
Christefano Reyes - Founder @ www.larks.la

Burt Lo started coding at the age of fourteen. Over the course of the past thirty years, he has moved into management and coaching. He's learned that the root of all soft skills is emotional maturity. This presentation will include a quick overview for developing emotional intelligence and proficiency.

More importantly, we'll learn about the benefits of a well-developed emotional life, and for those intellectuals among us, I'll show how to leverage the strength of our minds toward emotional fitness.

The business applications of this information are limitless. Emotions are just another skill to be developed, and this presentation will break it down to the basics. Everyone will walk away with a powerful, easy-to-use method for clearer communication and more personal authenticity.

This will be along the lines of my SandCamp presentation seen here: https://www.sandcamp.org/emotional-fitness-techies-algorithms-healthy-life. I promise to stutter less, though.

This session will be to review Stauffer New Media Development's flavor of the Agile methodology. This will be a PRACTICAL, non-academic agile approach to project management.

We'll cover:

• An overview of how we approach project managment
• How to convince a client why Agile is best
• How to price the project, and how to dispell client fears about not having a fixed price and fixed scope
• Holes we've stepped in, and how to avoid them
• More to come...