Comments on: OSCMS at Yahoo! or how I learned to stop worrying and be the blue drop http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/03/24/oscms-at-yahoo-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-be-the-blue-drop/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry by Ethan Kaplan, VP Product, Live Nation Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Vu http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/03/24/oscms-at-yahoo-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-be-the-blue-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-187054 Michael Vu Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:07:19 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/03/24/oscms-at-yahoo-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-be-the-blue-drop/#comment-187054 Ethan, I was also at OSCMS and recall sitting in a few of the same sessions as you. In particular, the session about Drupal and the Enterprise was quite a hoot wasn't it? I believe it was you who said to the Pentagon guy (the one who works for the largest enterprise blah blah) that you work for the world's largest record label and your CEO wears chains? I don't know your words exactly, but that was hilarious. Ethan, I was also at OSCMS and recall sitting in a few of the same sessions as you. In particular, the session about Drupal and the Enterprise was quite a hoot wasn’t it?

I believe it was you who said to the Pentagon guy (the one who works for the largest enterprise blah blah) that you work for the world’s largest record label and your CEO wears chains? I don’t know your words exactly, but that was hilarious.

]]> By: Rick Vugteveen http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/03/24/oscms-at-yahoo-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-be-the-blue-drop/comment-page-1/#comment-185987 Rick Vugteveen Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:08:24 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/03/24/oscms-at-yahoo-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-be-the-blue-drop/#comment-185987 <blockquote>Drupal is definately poised for ascendency to a major player in the CMS field. It just needs some good marketing! I made reference to this a lot. If Drupal.org listed use-cases, and had profiles that helped “fit” it with a variety of uses (like for say, Artist websites), it’d be fantastic. Also: better information architecture is needed on drupal.org</blockquote> I couldn't agree more. Drupal needs to do much more to attract IA and designer types. I'm happy to be part of <a href="http://www.imagexmedia.com" rel="nofollow">a company</a> that plans to make an impact in this realm by proving that Drupal can be usable and gorgeous. We'll have to write up a nice case study sometime soon. Rick

Drupal is definately poised for ascendency to a major player in the CMS field. It just needs some good marketing! I made reference to this a lot. If Drupal.org listed use-cases, and had profiles that helped “fit” it with a variety of uses (like for say, Artist websites), it’d be fantastic. Also: better information architecture is needed on drupal.org

I couldn’t agree more. Drupal needs to do much more to attract IA and designer types. I’m happy to be part of a company that plans to make an impact in this realm by proving that Drupal can be usable and gorgeous. We’ll have to write up a nice case study sometime soon.

Rick

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