We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 2 Cyprien Mvuanda & Jonathan Davis Empire 2.0 Services October 1, 2010 Albany, NY Design, Development,Workflow and Implementation Empire 2.0 Center of Excellence
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 3 Empire 2.0 Center of Excellence Website
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 4 Built on the Drupal 6 open source content management platform Externally hosted Interactive website Maintained & Moderated by Empire 2.0 Web Services
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 5 Empire 2.0 Center of Excellence Website Empire 2-Box
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 6 Interactive Forum Section Participate In Informal Conversations
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 7 Blog Section Maintained By CIO/OFT Cutting-edge Information On Social Media Technology Activities And Happenings
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 8 Video Section Feature Social Media Experts
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 9 Calendar of Events Announces Upcoming Social Media Events
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 10 Twitter Feed Real Time Updates Related to #Gov20, #OpenGov, #Empire 2.0
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 11 New York State Social Media Use
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 12 Empire 2.0 Questions about the Center of Excellence or if you are interested in getting involved with the Empire 2.0 workgroup Jessica Harrison
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 13 Using Drupal Background Installation Basic Administration and Content Creation Module Download, Installation and Configuration Questions?
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 14Background An open source Content Management System (CMS), Free + open source Mostly run on Apache server (preferred, more resources and tutorials available) Can be downloaded and used for free Provides open Source API for developers Releases: Drupal 5, Drupal 6 (Drupal 7 only alpha release)
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 15Installation Setup on local machine (localhost) (No different from if it were a server, just more powerful and is connected to the internet for others to access) Download WAMP (plus php 5.2 addon) comes with Apache server, MySql DB, PHP, PHPMyadmin Download Drupal 6 Install WAMP, install addon
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 16Installation Move Drupal to www folder and rename to just drupal (optional) Download WAMP Create Database PHPMyadmin Modify settings.php (every drupal installation requires this file) Enable apache rewrite_module Choose php 5.2 addon Install Drupal
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 17 Basic Administraton and Content Creation Enable Admin module Create a “page”, then create a “block” and place it on a home page “region” Create a role “end user” (with restricted block permissions); create a user and assign user the “end user” role. Verify that user cannot access the block
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 18 Module Download, Installation, Configuration What’s a module? (An addition by developers to Drupal’s core functionality, eg. Admin module) Download, install and configure Admin module Download, install and configure Views module Go through creating a view page and block, then assign block to a region on the home page.
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 19 Module Download, Installation, Configuration Questions?
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 20 Module Download, Installation, Configuration Questions and/or Comments,
We Know IT … IT’s What We Do! ® 21 Thank You For the Support and Valuable Feedback Any Questions?