Community engagement, Pushing the contribution funnel.

Speaker
Floris van Geel
Floris
van Geel
Company:
040Lab BV

I am Floris van Geel, Drupal Entrepeneur since 2010.
Specialized in breaking down business models and optimizing them in the internet. 
Besides Drupal my unprofessional hobbies are Scuba diving, (Wind)Surfing and Snowboarding.

Active in the community also since 2010 helping out many camps and conferences, co organiser lead of Drupal Europe 2018.

Presentation Description
Level
Basic
Language
en

Drupal is historically a successful CMS in the web where it comes down to complex content models, proper revisions and multi-language with a fine tuned access control.

This lead to a lot of prominent solutions, in the corporate world that can compete with adobe and sitecore, as well as smb Swiss army-knife solutions for hobbyists and SME.

Now with decoupled and hipster frontend frameworks we seriously have a popularity problem.

In Drupal Europe at the local associations round table we’ve seen the importance to use the knowledge of local association to make the drupal marketing initiative work, with other initiatives and sharing knowledge. A lot of quick wins as well as long term visions where explored and initiated. This session won’t deep dive into all of those but highlight a few and some pointers to get you engaged.

We already have Rocket.chat livechat integration for drupal projects to engage visitors to become contributors or clients.

So the next logical step would be use marketing automation, something that could raise some eyebrows within certain parts of our community, although drupal.org uses third party proprietary solutions in order to engage “clicking individuals” to become happy contributors.

So our next challenge is to embrace Open Source marketing automation, where Mautic comes into play, it already has a Drupal module and is the only fully integrated alternative available and really good :)