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 Collaborati

ve

Create a Web

Centric Culture

Creating a Web Centric Culture: Key Success Factors

Obtain executive buy in and leadership support1

Transform to an organization focused on using technology to communicate to constituents2

Transfer content ownership from web team to SMEs3

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

FrequentlyPage

Ownership

Robust Training for

Drupal

Support new Drupal end users

Develop a Training & Communications

PlanEarly On

Implement a Drupal Ambassador Program

Benefits to Web Team of Distributed Authorship Model

New Features

New Technolo

gy

508 Complian

ce

Site Architectu

re

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