Leveraging Drupal to Move to a Distributed Authorship Model

Web Strategy Is Key Obtain Executive Support

The White House’s Digital Government Strategy “Information-Centric” “Shared Platform” “Customer-Centric” “Security and Privacy”

Implementing Web Strategic Goals Web Strategy Forward Learning Public Focused Cost Effective and Efficient Collaborative Create a Web Centric Culture

Creating a Web Centric Culture: Key Success Factors Obtain executive buy in and leadership support 1 1 Transform to an organization focused on using technology to communicate to constituents 2 2 Transfer content ownership from web team to SMEs 3 3

Moving to Distributed Authorship: Challenges Working with 25 program offices, 10 regions, and over 350 Drupal end users Training Drupal end users with various technical competence Determining ownership of over 4,000 pages of content Preparing and supporting Drupal end users to succeed

Success Factors for Distributed Authorship Program User friendly System Communicate Frequently Page Ownership Robust Training for Drupal Support new Drupal end users

Develop a Training & Communications Plan Early On

Implement a Drupal Ambassador Program

Benefits to Web Team of Distributed Authorship Model New Features New Technology 508 Compliance Site Architecture Navigation