This is a post in our series of what is going to happen
at Codegarden 2010, the
umbraco conference.
The Topic
Why make the content yourself, if you can get your users to do
it? The famous Danish band Kashmir are animating their fans to
generate content on their website. This is done using Facebook
Connect and Umbraco. Come and learn how Kashmir takes advantage of
their social media and aspects of crowdsourcing on www.kashmir.nu.
The Speaker
René Pjengaard works for Skybrud, a danish web-development agency,
located in Vejle. As an agency they've been lifting some pretty
heavy clients in the past, including major danish municipals, the
danish national postal service, Danfoss, Danish Crown, and many
others, and been nominated for a creative circle award as well.
However, kashmir.nu is actually their first website on Umbraco, now
that's a great debut!
René and the rest of the team at Skybrud collaborated with the
lead singer from Kashmir, on how to build a new site for their many
fans, and how they could actually make the fans participate and add
content directly to the band's website through services like
facebook, youtube and twitter.
We think the solution they've put together is an excellent
showcase of how to use modern webservices and communties with
Umbraco, and very much look forward to hearing more about their
experiences building www.kashmir.nu.
Meet René at Codegarden
If his session doesn't answer all your questions on integrating
services with Umbraco. Why not setup an open space topic about it? René might
even drop by and share some additional wisdom, or maybe even have
some code-snippets for you, who knows?