Date:
8 March 2016
Author:
Alfred Deeb

GovCMS launches

In September 2014, John Sheridan, Australian Government CTO, announced GovCMSExternal Link as the Australian Government’s website management platform designed to enable government agencies (federal, state and local) to quickly and cost-effectively build and manage compliant websites.

GovCMS lunch — Victoria

Join Salsa Digital and Acquia for an exclusive ‘GovCMS’ lunch and learn event. Whether you’re a CIO, Strategic Communications Director, Digital Engagement Manager or key influencer in digital across government, this GovCMS education event will provide you with:

  1. An overview of GovCMS, including its key features and benefits.

  2. Its compliance with policies such as eGovernment and the digital economy, open source software, cloud computing and the DTO’s Digital Service Standard.

  3. Several pathways to get you on board quickly and easily.

  4. Trials, triumphs and tribulations on two recent GovCMS case studies from CASA and AFSA.

  5. A sneak peak at the soon-to-be-launched GovCMS express - a web utility for on-boarding onto GovCMS quickly - and the new modern look and feel GovCMS theme.

Date 20 April 2016
Time 12pm - 2.30pm
Venue The Windsor Hotel, Bourke Room
Address 111 Spring Street, Melbourne

Lunch and drinks provided.

Program

Time Topic
12:00 pm Guests arrive
12:15 pm Salsa welcome and introduction of special guests
12:30 pm GovCMS Keynote from the Department of Finance
12:45 pm DoF to represent on "the what" and "the why" of GovCMS
1:00 pm Acquia to present on “the how” of GovCMS
1:15 pm Case study 1: Renewing CASA - GovCMS Migration and re-design
1:30 pm Case study 2: Redeveloping PPSR for AFSA, new IA and content refresh on GovCMS
1:45 pm Question time & closing
2:00 pm Optional Segment: Sneak peak at GovCMS Express and the new GovCMS UX responsive theme
2:30 pm Finish

Register

You can register quickly and easily at the Acquia website https://www.acquia.com/resources/events/GovCMS-victorian-agencies-eventExternal Link .

Questions?

Feel free to contact Alfred Deeb for more information.

Background info on GovCMS

GovCMS is the government-branded Drupal content management system (CMS). Developed by Acquia, Drupal/GovCMS is easy to use, stable, highly secure and open source. One of Salsa Digital’s recent blogs, GovCMS moving mountains, will give you the full lowdown.

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