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Mihai Moscovici

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The Ultimate Drupal Showcase

Drupal is a great open-source CMS suitable for virtually any kind of websites. This Ultimate Drupal Showcase contains over 150 Drupal based websites grouped in six major categories: business, media, government, non-profit, university & research and entertainment. Enjoy.

Business
Ubuntu

ConsumerSearch

Nesto

Favorite Things

Sanyo Australia product catalog


Adobe Flex | Ads of the World | AHOLD | AOL Corporate | AOL Developer Network | Approva | Brico Depot | Eclipse Live | FedEx News | Ferguson Photography | Fiberline Composites | Jones of Washington | List Pilot | MIC | MyFineJob | Novell Communities | Previa Sunhed | Propeople | Randstad | SourceForge | Sun Learning Exchange | Wexer | Zappos

Media
MTV UK


Virgin Radio


Indymedia Belgium


Florida Times Union


TV Festival


24 heures | 43 Folders | ABC Family | BusinessLiv | Business Spotlight | Die Zeit Community | Fast Company | Femina | Forbes Office Pranks | France24 | IFRA | InfoWorld | Ketnet | LA2DAY | Lifetime TV | Lime | Mac Geekery | Mother Jones | NowPublic | OStatic | Playboy Germany | P-Magazine | Popular Science | Radio Donna | Radio Netherlands Worldwide | RadioDays 2009 | Red Room | RTBF | Slate France | Studio Brussel | The Brussels Journal | The Industry Standard | The New York Observer | The World | Welt Debatte

Government
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act


French Government


Dutch State Service for Cultural Heritage


Belgium


Mike Bloomberg


Belgian Prime Minister | Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Joëlle Milquet | Christian Democratic and Flemish Party | Federal IT Dashboard | Fredericia C min ide | French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport | Global Forum on Migration and Development | Green Party of Canada | New York State Senate | New Zealand Government | Only in Belgium

Non-profit
Amnesty International


UN End Poverty Campaign


The Seed Company


Returning Heroes


Linux Foundation


Echoing Green | Electronic Frontier Foundation | English Online | Faith Connections | Fresh Brain | Greenpeace UK | Human Rights Watch | ICANN | Kom op tegen kanker | Open Source Initiative | Oxfam International | Sejourn | Spread Thunderbird | UN Anti-Poverty event | UN World Food Programme | VDAY | Whole Grains Council | Writing Matters

University & Research
Harvard's Science and Engineering Department


University of Calgary


Antwerpen Student Organization


Agenzia Spaziale Italiana


Yahoo! Research


Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University | Google M-Lab | MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | MIT Media Lab | Nokia Research Center | University of Prince Edward Island

Entertainment
Universal Music


Pink


Miami


Battlefield Heroes


Teen SecondLife


AOK | Avril Lavigne | Beyounce | Bob Dylan | Boekenbeurs | Britney Spears | Flip Kowlier | Francesca Battistelli | FRI | GameZebo | Jennifer Lopez | Led Zeppelin | Metallica | Michael Buble | Michael Jackson | Moby | MotoGP | MyPlay | NHL | Ozzy Osbourne | Pearl Jam | R.E.M Tour | Rock Band | Royal Flemish Philharmonic | Team Sugar | Tipsbladet | Warner Bros Records | XGames Energy

Feel free to add your Drupal based website to this Ultimate Drupal Sites Showcase.

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The right approach to new web challenges

It’s no secret we now live in the Web 2.0 era. The web switched from being a monologue, to a direct and participative dialogue. In fact, today the web is merely a platform for social interaction. People communicate, interact, socialize, and share more than ever before. Web 2.0 changed the way people behave online. People are no longer speechless users; they have an opinionated, outspoken, loud, honest and straight talking voice.

Back in 2007 Dan Scheinman at Cisco Media Solutions Group, envisioned that corporations will tend to behave as media companies and the time proved he was right. Corporations reacted to the Web 2.0 explosion and became content producers, in order to directly communicate with customers: respond, answer and converse. A press release published online or a press conference in front of a bunch of journalists is no longer enough to persuade the public, now customers require information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration. Are you ready to challenge these requirements?

A corporation must play by the rules of its customers, otherwise it can be costly. It should stick to the concepts of the Web 2.0 and extensively use the evolved solutions such as social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, etc. It’s no longer difficult to have a virtual news room integrated in a web site. Having the right tools, a company can share information (text, podcast, and video), syndicate relevant content in real time. Employees can create and publish high quality content, and easily ask customers to provide feedback about their needs and wants.

At Propeople we found Drupal is a very powerful solution when it comes to integrate Web 2.0 concepts into a corporate web site, being one of the best Content Management platform on the market. Drupal allows one or multiple users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is perfect for corporate web sites, community web portals, discussion sites, intranet applications, news publishing, personal or multiuser blogs, e-commerce applications, directories and social networking sites. Even more, Drupal allows you to mix all of these elements all together and it’s extremely flexible when it comes to adopt it in a way to fit any specific strategy.

Extra features are available when combined with dozens of free add-on modules: forums, newsletters, podcasting, picture galleries, file uploads and downloads, peer-to-peer networking and many other. Needless to say many corporations such as Google, Nokia, Symantec, Sanyo, Sun Microsystems, Adobe, FedEx and so many others already switched to Drupal.

Propeople has a huge variety of large Drupal projects in our portfolio and several new large web projects is about to be launched soon. Each of them is built on Drupal and incorporates most of the Web 2.0 concepts.

Drupal is a perfect platform for Web 2.0 interaction and communication. First, mastering your website through Drupal is easier than ever before. Drupal has an intuitive administration panel and a vast and freely available documentation that describes each step of the workflow. Second, Drupal’s integrated features allow customers to fully interact and communicate through the web site. Customers are able to express their thoughts and impressions by commenting, reviewing and rating different products and services. Third, Drupal is an open source technology. This means it’s free and can be customized according to the requirements on any specific web project. There are virtually no limitations for Drupal.

The web and the consumers are continuously evolving. A corporation cannot afford not to interact and communicate online with its customers. Nevertheless, each corporation must have a platform for interaction and communication with consumers. Yet, the question is what software to choose for managing the website and whether the chosen software can accommodate the current and future web trends.

If you have any questions regarding community solutions or Drupal, feel free to contact me or our CEO Michael K. S. Drejer.

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