Our websites are maturing into a feature-rich publishing platforms, allowing collaboration across organizations and delivering content across multiple channels. But the out of the box publishing experience is fairly flat -- with content either published or not.

This session will explore popular contrib modules and custom code to elevate your editorial workflow experience. We will discuss the lifecycle of content from concept to published copy and look at ways to manage content as it moves through the roles of your institution. Topics include:

• Moderation: Defining states and transitions for multipath workflows.
• Dynamic Permissions: Changing access rules based on content state, history, and ownership.
• Revisioning: Reviewing, purging, and diffing sets of content changes.
• Notifications: Sending messages to stakeholders on content transition.
• Dashboards: Developing interfaces and reports based on content states and the roles of your team.

We will look at real life workflows inspired by client work, including a publications workflow, a job application website, and a tech-support ticketing system. Finally we will discuss the benefits of centralizing your content management processes, leveraging features of Drupal over getting lost in a mess of spreadsheets and emails.

This session is for technical decision makers on web projects with large or complex content needs. Programming knowledge is not required but example code will be included in the presentation.