We recommend this for the Drupal Front page because it describes a method of using Drupal to efficiently build a system of "brand ambassadors" who help to market products. Many industries and product lines have a need for these types of resources. To our knowledge this is one of the first time Drupal has been used to build one of these programs, and publicizing this might spark similar ideas in others who wish to see Drupal utilized in this way. The Case Study also details how the UberCart Coupon module was adapted for this purpose.

http://drupal.org/node/1031796

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gdemet’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review

This has been sitting for over six weeks now without any webmaster review; I just wanted to give it a bump in case anyone wants to weigh in before closing it out. Personally, I think this is an interesting case study from a purely business perspective, but it seems a little light on the details of how Drupal was utilized for this project.

Omar Khan’s picture

Thanks for the feedback. We understand the light on Drupal-specific stuff, and have added a good deal more detail on how specific Drupal hooks and functionality helped accomplish the site's business goals.

gdemet’s picture

Thanks for these revisions! This now gets a +1 for promotion from me; now we just need another webmaster/site maintainer to give their +1 as well to get this on the front page schedule.

Amazon’s picture

Hi, I've reviewed this case study an in general I think the content is excellent. It's a great narrative tied into explaining Drupal's features. There are few things that are missing which I believe are an important part of educating our audience about using Drupal to build websites and web applications.

  1. There is no discussion about the decision to use Drupal. This is likely the default go to platform for ISL, but that needs to be stated, or the case study needs to validate that there was an evaluation of the features mapping to the Drupal CMS. The rest of the case study does a great job explaining why Drupal, and which features but I believe it's worth stating these basics.
  2. The case study doesn't address the infrastructure required to run a site. This is an important part of any successful site deployment and some insight into the production environment is important for any Drupal evaluator.
  3. The case study indicates that the site development was a combination of ISL co and ClearMetrics. However, Drupal evaluators want to have more insight into the resources and roles that go into a project like this. Ideally, they would indicate the various individual members and the roles they played. At the very least a list of roles to implement the site. e.g. 1 business analyst, 1 designer, 2 developers, 1 project manager, 1 system administrator.

Again, I think this is a great case study, keep up the great work.

gdemet’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

Marking this as needs work until Amazon's concerns are addressed.

Omar Khan’s picture

Amazon's concerns have been addressed.

gdemet’s picture

Amazon, can you confirm in thread?

rjivan’s picture

Couple of questions/comments.
1. I don't see how "This project was another collaboration between design and development shop ISL Consulting in San Francisco, and ClearMetrics digital agency in New York." fits under the Problem section.
2. Most case studies list out a couple of contributed modules that were used. Can you list out a few apart from ubercart and webform and hyperlink them to the module's home page.
3. Were any custom modules written? If you can you talk about them.

Omar Khan’s picture

Thank-you. We have moved the sentence in 1., mentioned and linked the primary contributed modules used (2.), and for 3. added a section on the custom module created to meet the site's requirements. Hopefully this suffices.

rjivan’s picture

This is good go to from my end.

Arnold Leung’s picture

Status: Needs work » Reviewed & tested by the community

I think this is good too, but please enable commenting. +1

Omar Khan’s picture

Thanks, commenting enabled.

Amazon’s picture

Hi, I've reviewed the revisions: http://drupal.org/node/1031796/revisions/view/1416880/1432176

They address my concerns. Ready to go.

gdemet’s picture

Awesome, I've added it to the schedule for tomorrow, 4/6.

gdemet’s picture

Looks like this didn't get posted last week, and an announcement about some d.o downtime went up in the meantime. Given that, I'd like to move the promotion time for this to 4/12 after the downtime is over.

gdemet’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

This has now been promoted.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.