WAN-IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
WAN-IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
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The Drupal consultants Berger Schmidt - Praktische Informatik located in Darmstadt and Karlsruhe are coaching the staff of the international organisation WAN-IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers in the use of the content management system Drupal.
The focus of the the training is the information architecture and the content management for the different Drupal sites of the the WAN-IFRA. Real-life examples for the administration, the editorial and SEO measures add to the course.
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The website of the World Newspaper Week is online!
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers - WAN-IFRA developed the site for the mega event of the News Publishing Industry in 2011 in collaboration with service agency Berger Schmidt and, like on the corporate website too, makes use of the open source content management system Drupal.
The World Newspaper Week brings together on one location the 3 top events 63th World Newspaper Congress (WNC), 18th World Editors Forum and IFRA Expo 2011.
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Soft launch: The website of WAN-IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers went online in January 2011!
The Drupal service provider Berger Schmidt - Praktische Informatik, with offices in Darmstadt and Karlsruhe, supports the international organization with Drupal consulting and web programming, and during planning and development works closely together with the departments of WAN-IFRA.
Background
The merger of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the Research and Service Organization for the Newspaper Industry IFRA in July 2009, created the global organization WAN-IFRA - World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
As a professional association, the organization deals with all aspects of newspaper and news production (press freedom, quality journalism, business and technology etc.) and offers a wide range of initiatives, conferences, training and research.
The WAN-IFRA represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online media and about 3,000 companies in over 120 countries.
The Project
Since 2008, Berger Schmidt has been working on the web projects of WAN-IFRA (initially IFRA). 2009 the site ifra.net was launched, based upon the content management system Drupal. Alongside articles, blogs and microsites this site also contains the Suppliers Guides, an index of suppliers.
Following the launch of the site IFRA Expo with integrated Expo Catalogue and based on the current system (LAMP, Drupal 6) in September 2010, the corporate website WAN-IFRA went online in January 2011. It includes events, micro sites and topics and connects to the Back Office Lotus Notes via Lotus-Notes-Agents and Drupal modules.
The Concept
In Drupal we use 1. "nodes for content" and 2. "nodes for content management". The editors can for instance create ads, articles, events, press releases and relate them to microsites and topics.
While topics follow a strict structure for publishing on specific issues (think ressorts), microsites are very flexible for example when mapping events and trainings, publications, initiatives, or awards.
The rendering of "pages" is accomplished with the Drupal modules Context, Views and Panels. More features are built with an assortment of about 30 modules from the Drupal community (Ad, CCK, Contemplate, CTools WYSIWYG ... etc.), 10 custom modules (connection to Lotus Notes, Search, GUI, etc.) and various external libraries (ImageMagick , PHPExcel, Zend Gdata etc.).
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With some 10.000 visitors the IFRA Expo 2010 was a thorough success — the newly developed website will provide information on the fair and the Expo Catalogue until end of november!
Berger Schmidt supported WAN-IFRA's project with Drupal consulting as well as web programming and worked closely together with the department in charge ever since the planing of this project. – The website of the Expo is the first in a series of sites that will appear in the new corporate design of the WAN-IFRA. A particular highlight is the Expo Catalogue along with its Organizer .
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The new search function of the WAN-IFRA is online!
Berger Schmidt assisted the international organization, with offices in Darmstadt and Paris, with interface design and front-end programming.
The vision of WAN-IFRA – World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers – is,
to be the indispensable partner of newspapers and the entire news publishing industry worldwide, particularly our members, in the defense and promotion of press freedom, quality journalism and editorial integrity and the development of prosperous businesses and technology.
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The websites of IFRA will be migrated during the year from Lotus Notes to Drupal.
As a Drupal service provider Berger Schmidt supports the international organization with Drupal consulting and web programming.
IFRA, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing, has about 3,000 members of the newspaper industry in 80 countries. The company not only organizes the worlds largest newspaper trade IFRA Expo, but also more than 100 regional exhibitions, conferences, seminars, trainings, and workshops during the year.
The Drupal Lead and Acquia-Co-Founder Dries Buytaert has reported on his blog about the project: IFRA using Drupal. — Which makes us very happy :-)
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