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Managing media industry websites the Drupal way

The needs of the media industry in regards to web presence are fairly standard. They want great look and feel along with excellent functionality. Digital content creation and management, along with monetization are some important and focused activities of a media company online.

Media industry CMS needs range from using event calendars to integrating with social media, as well as leveraging polls, surveys, video and contest promotions, video shows, live telecasts, photo galleries, online payment integration, and other consumer interaction features. All of this is handled extremely well by Drupal, although it’s not the only CMS available. However, Drupal seems to be the top choice of web development teams all around the world when it comes to working with the media industry.

Drupal 7 ideal for the social media age

We are becoming an ‘always-connected’ society through increasing use of Internet and mobile. People look for most information online, which makes every organization take its web presence seriously. Now with the advent of social media, interaction between users and companies online has become even more significant.

Social media allows your company to attract new customers and maintain relationships with existing customers through various channels. How do you go about ensuring this customer interaction? It is through usage of content management systems and content management frameworks like Drupal. To give a brief overview of Drupal:

Drupal core – Drupal has built-in modules that has most basic features to build a site with social media components.

Drupal community – Several third party modules are offered by the community with advanced features and sophisticated social media components.