Tomorrow Acquia will be hosting an introduction to Open Source Drupal and Social Publishing for the U.S. Government with guest speaker Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate.
Dec 10th – Open Government Directive and Open Source Publishing
Time: 1:00 PM ET
You can join the complimentary overview of Drupal to learn how and why it is being quickly adopted across U.S. federal, state and local governments for social publishing.
It never hurts to learn more about how governments will be — or should be — using Internet tools to make government meetings and documents more accessable to the public.
Key takeaways will include:
* An introduction to the Drupal Social Publishing platform and application.
* Use case scenarios describing the use of Drupal for 3 government Web sites
* How Drupal addresses the open government mandates for transparency, collaboration, and citizen participation
The explicit purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the Directive will require significant web site innovation for many departments and agencies. Many public sector sites today are based on legacy, web technologies such as Cold Fusion, Vignette, Interwoven, and others. The result – available content is often out of date, and citizens have limited, if any, ability to interact.
This Webinar will not be a technical "deep dive"of Drupal but rather an introduction of how government organizations are using Drupal to add social interaction and citizen participation to their sites.
(FYI, the DC SPJ chapter uses Drupal to run this web page and blog site.)