Mediacurrent

Your website plays a critical role in your online presence, but between product owners, content creators and admins, and IT teams, it can be difficult to prioritize workflows and features. Rain CMS allows developers to accelerate the development and launch process while providing flexibility to marketers. Join us this Thursday at 1:00 pm ET for our Rain webinar to learn more! https://mediacurrent.zoom.us//re/WN_AuDic2BgRHyt-IF1kHW-Ww

Wondering how to prep for a Drupal 7 8 or 9 move? Make the transition easier by using object-oriented programming, or OOP, to organize most of your code into classes! It will make the structural transition that much easier. Learn how here: https://www.mediacurrent.com//adding-oop-your-drupal-7-re/

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! While accessibility should always be top of mind when building sites and creating content, today's a great reminder to catch up on best practices. Check out our accessibility ebook to learn what makes a website accessible and make this GAAD count. https://bit.ly/3u2OsOv

Good news: if you’re setting the groundwork for a Drupal project, you don’t have to start with a blank slate. Join us for our webinar on Thursday, May 27 at 1:00 pm ET to learn how Rain CMS can be used as a starter for your next Drupal project. Register here https://mediacurrent.zoom.us//re/WN_AuDic2BgRHyt-IF1kHW-Ww

Stephen Pennell loves the open source community, learning with his colleagues, and has a particular knack for back-end PHP. We're incredibly glad to have him join the Mediacurrent team, so please help us give him a warm welcome!

We are incredibly excited to welcome Mike Barkas to the team! He loves learning, has over 10 years of Drupal experience, and a degree in Surgical Technology. One more detail: he's perfect for the Mediacurrent culture! Welcome, Mike!

On a recent higher education project, we created a bento-style search for a university library system! The Drupal platform we created integrates the university library’s research tools and student information system. The result: a clean and focused search interface integrating 20+ libraries with a myriad of user personas and 3rd-party content sources. Check it out on Drupal.org.

There are many needs and nuances to consider when selecting a CMS for a university. While you shouldn’t necessarily just follow the crowd, it’s important to understand why Ivy League universities like MIT, Georgia Tech, Butler, Stanford, and Harvard are choosing Drupal. Read our blog on it now: https://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/drupal-right-universities/

If you are a marketer, designer, or tech lead in the higher education space, the latest Open Waters Podcast episode is for you. Come listen to Design at Scale: The Playbook for Higher Education Brands with our Creative Team. They'll take you through building design systems, addressing pain points of scale and velocity, and bringing brand stories to life in higher education. Check it out: https://www.mediacurrent.com//design-scale-playbook-highe/

Previously an overnight warehouse manager, Kell McNaughton took a leap to teach himself development. His curious spirit has guided his career to Mediacurrent where he works on innovative back-end solutions. Learn more about him in this month's employee spotlight. https://www.mediacurrent.com//employee-spotlight-kell-mcn/

Our mission: bring together a diverse group of talented, passionate individuals to provide open source-based solutions for the web. Come take a look at our open positions: Technical Drupal Project Manager Front-End Drupal Developer Senior Drupal Developer... (Bonus: these are all remote!)

10 Things We Loved About DrupalCon North America 2021: 1. Discover Drupal 2. Drupal 10 3. Low code... 4. Core strategic initiatives 5. Community contributions 6. Multisite 7. Open Source Security 8. a higher ed summit 9. the impact of Drupal 10. DrupalFest Get the details in our recap. -> bit.ly/3xjqS32 #DrupalConNA #DrupalFest #CelebrateDrupal