Drupal sites
Dutch government using Drupal
The Dutch government is using Drupal for the website of the State Service for Cultural Heritage. The site was built by Cinnamon.
French government portal using Drupal
After the French Ministry for Health, Youth and Sport using Drupal started using, the French government switched its official government portal to Drupal! Check it out at http://www.gouvernement.fr. Impressionnant!
The site was built by the French Government Multimedia Team and Adyax Experts (an Acquia partner). About 10 persons worked on it for several months. Most of the work was spent on building custom migration tools to switch from SPIP Agora to Drupal.
Sony Ericsson Using Drupal
Sony Ericsson's first Drupal web site was officially launched yesterday at the JavaOne conference. The site, called Sony Ericsson Labs, is a community website to shares application concepts with everyone who is interested in mobile applications and where new ideas can begin to take shape.
The site was designed and implemented by NodeOne in 462 hours with a team of five persons. Impressive!
Jacksonville using Drupal
Jacksonville, the largest city in Florida, is using Drupal (and Mollom) at http://jacksonville.com. The Florida Times-Union is the major daily newspaper in Jacksonville and Jacksonville.com is its official website. Cool!
Zappos using Drupal
Long term Drupal developer Jeff Eaton continues to inspire and as a result, Zappos started using Drupal on http://about.zappos.com. Zappos.com is an e-commerce website with more than $1 billion in revenue, and well known for their legendary customer service and culture.
To learn more about what Jeff did, and how Zappos is using Drupal, you can read the detailed write-up on drupal.org. An excerpt:
At the end of 2007 we implemented blogs.zappos.com using Jive's Clearspace software. We considered using Clearspace to be our CMS of choice but by early 2008 the absence of certain features and other issues made us consider other options. We had a front-end developer working on adding more blogs to blogs.zappos.com and a new hire, Geoff, who we assigned to about.zappos.com. The idea was to let each work on their projects and occasionally switch places and work on the other CMS so they could compare and contrast the features and development time. Drupal ended up being superior in terms of templating and development as well as adding new features and ease of use for the end user.
Harvard using Drupal
I recently learned about the fact that the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is using Drupal. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School whose fellows included internet gurus like David Weinberger, John Perry Barlow, Dave Winer, Jimmy Wales, Doc Searls and many more.
Other notable Drupal sites at Harvard are the website of the Science and Engineering department, the website of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (they aim to solve major problems that affect society and the well-being of human populations), the website of Initiative in Innovative Computing (a center of expertise in solving very difficult computing problems), and last but not least Harvard Magazine (a magazine that keeps 240,000 alumni connected to the university). Harvard Magazine is also using Mollom.
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