Andrew Wilcox to Present at Gilbane San Francisco 2009

I will be speaking at the Gilbane conference in San Francisco on June 5th, 2009. The session, entitled "Integrating Your CMS with Social Media" can be found here (http://gilbanesf.com/conference_program.html#w6.

With Social Networking becoming more prevalent, many companies want to introduce these tools on their existing websites. CMS tools like Joomla and Drupal offer easy plug and play social networking capabilities, but this is not the case for most CMS products. Adding features like blogs, forums, document libraries, photo galleries, workgroups, and profiling into an existing CMS system (or static web site) can be a very difficult. There are a number of technical obstacles to maintain consistent branding, navigation, and site wide search.

This session will examine these topics and the variety of options and products on the market. We will also provide step by step instructions for non technical users on how to integrate a variety of social networking tools in your existing site, for free and under 20 minutes.