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Microsoft Cognitive Services provides a wide range of cool tools. They are all available via API. Sitecore continues to evolve. It’s no longer just a content management system. It’s evolving into a content learning system. The Sitecore Symposium 2017 presenter took an image and uploaded it and had it analyzed. It understood that it was […]

Mayo Clinic stood up two separate websites on Sitecore Commerce. Ravi Nadimpally, a solutions architect at Mayo Clinic, participated in the presentation. Commerce and a hospital you say? It has to do with health newsletters and other books and services. It’s a relatively small site but it plays into Mayo Clinic’s superb brand and the ongoing […]

Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai strives to deliver its guest an endless array of bucket-list experiences with a huge amount of rooms, more than 20 restaurants, and other resort options. Of course, they need a platform to match and to provide a personalized omnichannel experience. Hershna Langworth, Director, Online Marketing, Christopher Pascoe, Manager, Online Marketing, and Ravini […]

The first full day of Sitecore Symposium 2017 has wrapped. A whirlwind of a day with the opening keynotes, sessions, booth time, social hours and this is just getting going. My feet hurt, but whatever, this is fun and there has been a lot to talk about. Here’s my… Top 5 #SitecoreSYM Video Log – […]

Kirsten Newbold-Knipp, Research Director, Gartner, started out her session at Sitecore Symposium 2017 highlighting both good and bad customer experiences. The following are my notes: Key question: Who did you tell the last time you had a bad customer experience? The answer is probably, a lot. Statistic: 81% of marketing leaders expect to compete almost completely […]

Meena Verma, Global Digital Marketing Manager at Alpha Assembly Solutions, gave a presentation on localization with Digital Marketing. She takes an approach of meeting your customers’ needs. The following are my notes from the session: Your translation strategy should include: Internationalization: ensure source content is ready for multiple languages Localization: cultural adaptation of a target language […]

A Sitecore Symposium 2017 speaker today addressed the journey to customer experience success. The following are my notes: The presentation started by imagining a day in 2027: Wake up early Coffee is ready and at the right temperature Looks at his family status His daughter has an increased temperature. Made changes to calendar Food algorithm […]

Today’s Guest Keynote at the 2017 Sitecore Symposium featured Kenneth Cukier, author of Big Data. The following are my notes from the session: Question: Is AI overhyped, underhyped, or don’t know? Over: about 6% Under: about 7% Don’t know: Not enough to add up to 100% Story: Nascar racing has a couple key questions. One […]

The 2017 Sitecore Symposium kicked off with a video highlighting multiple customers wanting to be free: To get the things they want To be understood Mark Frost, new CEO of Sitecore, kicked it off. He spoke about significant tech improvements that help brands connect with their customers. Stats: 2,900 attendees from 57 countries 600 companies […]

In the Episode 54 of the renamed Teams on Air broadcast (https://aka.ms/TeamsOnAirReplay), Sr. Product Marketing Manager and host Delanda Coleman along with General Manager of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams Lori Wright recapped the news from Ignite 2017 along with a Q&A. If you’ve read my previous recap of the keynote from Ignite 2017, […]

It’s here! Sitecore Symposium 2017 week in Las Vegas. As a long-time content author/editor-turned Sitecore Digital Strategist MVP, this is a big event of for me each year. This year, not only am I here for the pre-conference, and multi-day conference, but also for the post-conference MVP summit. This amounts to 8 days (including travel […]

Slack is quiet.  “The calm before the Sym” says Mike Reynolds.  I board my flight on Sunday and I am in packing mode.  Cab ordered already.  Safe flight in to everyone. I will be logging my journey to Symposium here. I have been to many Symposiums and Dreamcores over the year but this will be […]