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Mar 20 2017
Mar 20

Once again, the whole Electric Citizen team is going on a trip to DrupalCon North America.

The annual pilgrimage for Drupal users, designers, project managers, developers and open-source enthusiasts lands in Baltimore this year – April 24th-28th. We’ll be taking in loads of sessions, keynote talks, trainings, and summits. And of course, lots of team-building fun.

Expect to see an uptick on Twitter and Facebook, as well as some new photos and blog posts when we get back. We usually come back from DrupalCon with lots of new ideas and energy to put them into action, especially around Drupal 8.

If you’re planning to be in Baltimore, let us know at @elecitizen on Twitter. We’d love to connect with new friends, or reconnect with old ones.

Jun 03 2016
Jun 03

DrupalCamp is coming to the Twin Cities again this summer!

For those who don’t know, DrupalCamp is the name for a regional conference– a smaller version of the national DrupalCons. TwinCities DrupalCamp (aka TCDC) is a great opportunity for anyone who works with Drupal to learn, network and grow professionally. We encourage all our regional clients to attend!

Sponsoring

As we have every year since the initial 2011 TwinCities DrupaCamp, we are proud sponsors of the conference. Electric Citizen has been a Platinum sponsor for the past 5 years, and always happy to help this great local conference through sponsorships, design and volunteering.

Dan and Tim at the Electric Citizen table 2015

Organizing and Volunteering

Our wonderful project manager Keri is once again cat-herding the conference organizers, helping keep us on track, on time, and on-budget. While many great people help out every year to make TCDC a success, we couldn’t do it without Keri’s guiding hand. Big shout-out to all the volunteers and organizers!

Speaking

3 of us will be giving sessions at this year’s conference, so another good reason to attend. I will be giving a session on “How Long Do Websites Last”, examining the lifespan of a website, how sites can die, and ways to keep your site alive.

Our technical director Tim will be speaking on “Drupal vs Wordpress,” an age-old debate if you were to Google it, but from the perspective of how similar they’ve become, where the differ, and how to choose. No hate, just love for 2 well-known open source projects.

Finally, Keri will be teaming up with a colleague from another firm to discuss "Putting content at the center of your project." We’d like to help clients have a better plan at the beginning of a project for content planning, content strategy, content creation. Let’s not make content a secondary concern!

Are you coming?

Make sure you visit http://2016.tcdrupal.org today to register. There’s another day of FREE training sessions, 2 days of sessions, and fantastic social events. It’s a great time, you should be there. Save the date, June 23rd-26th. Coming up soon!

May 27 2016
May 27

In what has become an annual tradition, the Electric Citizen team traveled cross country for a Drupal-related conference.

DrupalCon North America is an yearly conference of the Drupal community, where over 3,000 designers, developers, project managers, marketers, and more gather to network, give presentations, learn, and have fun.

For myself and Tim, it was our 6th consecutive DrupalCon and Keri wasn’t far behind (Adam was the newbie). We each went to the conference to learn, learn, learn. Also to improve what we offer at Electric Citizen and grow as a business, for ourselves and for our clients. We all had our own highlights from the conference which we’d like to share:

Dan’s Highlights

Accessibility: We’re on a mission to continually improve our understand of accessibility and the web, and several talks at DrupalCon helped us out.

Content Strategy: as we as an agency increase our work in strategic planning, learning all we can about how others are carrying out content strategy, content audits and other best practices.

Managing Support: continually improving the support services we offer our clients is another high priority this year, and I got several tips on how to keep getting better (including ramping up our support team!)

Dan in front of DrupalCon entrance to exhibit hall

Tim’ Highlights

Progressive decoupling: learning new techniques for bringing the latest in front-end development scripting over to Drupal, such as Angular.js.

Next Level Git: picking up tips and reminders of how much more we could do as a team with version control

Drupal 8: getting up to speed with everything that's new and improved with Drupal 8. The latest version of Drupal is slowly becoming part of our new builds.

Scene from the Drupal 6 "funeral"

Adam’s Highlights

Component-based design: how to better utilize “atomic design” and PatternLab in our design and theming process, so we are designing around reusable components and systems instead of simply “web pages”

Keri’s Highlights

Wireframes to Widgets: we would like to continue improving our design and theming process and making it easier for a clients and developers to visualize and interact with websites as they are being designed. She picked up some ideas and techniques for better prototyping alongside Drupal. 

Drupacon trivia night at World War II museum

Garden District New Orleans

Tim enjoying some crawfish

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