PBS
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PBS Engage is a social media website designed to foster innovative interaction between PBS’s viewers and programs. The site allows PBS a place to explore new ways to reach viewers including an interactive, live chat where users submit and rate questions for PBS guests. Chapter Three was brought into the fold to transition the site from a previously designed prototype. Using Drupal, PBS Engage was able to dramatically simplify the site’s administration and easily build out new features and create an elegant, back-end admin interface that could be used and permissioned to meet PBS’s organizational needs.
Features
- Drupalizing: The original website was written as a custom “homegrown” solution and Chapter Three was tasked with efficiently mapping and migrating the prototyped site’s functionality to its Drupal equivalents.
- Elegant Content Management System: To support the needs of PBS’s many editors and site administrators, a customized administrative interface was implemented on top of Drupal’s CMS functionality to allow easy management of the site’s content.
- XML Feed Integration: PBS uses XML feeds to internally distribute much of their organizational content and PBS Engage had to process and store content from dozens of external XML feeds.
- Flash Application Integration: As part of its experimental nature, PBS Engage contains a number of customized Flash applications whose source data integrates with and is manageable by Drupal.