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Assume you have a scenario with two different websites for US travel and Canada travel (“US.travel.com” and “CA.travel.com”)  that have different home nodes in a shared Sitecore instance.  Marketing Control Panel content such as goals and campaigns is shared as well. By default in session personalization works for each individual site.  Identifying and merging contacts […]

Oh hello, I didn’t see you there. One second, let me change socks and we can get going. [interlude music] So here’s the thing. Marketers, developers, all people living in the Sitecore world – Personalization…it’s not a new topic. It is the center of our most of our digital worlds, one of our most overused […]

Everybody knows that businesses run on the 3 C’s: Contact Relationship Management, Content Management Systems, and Commerce; however, most would argue that this is a pyramid where CRM represents your customers, they access the website, and they purchase products: Successful businesses see this as a triangle, with CRM representing all your contacts, CMS representing all […]

It has been speculated that some type of change or re-brand of Skype for Business might be happening due to the overlapping feature set of Teams along with the upcoming Ignite session names. Today’s “glitch” only seemed to add speculation to this. In a blog post by Mary Jo Foley over at zdnet.com, she shows […]

Recently I’ve been working a lot with the Sitecore Content Search API and found myself writing a lot of code like this: var allTheThings = context.GetQueryable<Thing>().Where(x => x.TemplateId == Constants.Thing.TemplateId && x.IsSearchable); As we’re always looking for better ways to do things around here and my laziness started to prevail, I thought, “there has got […]

Along with the launch of Microsoft 365, Microsoft recently announced the ability to deploy Office 365 ProPlus applications from the cloud with Intune. As Microsoft puts it, “This development marks the first step towards having simple and enterprise-ready ProPlus deployment capabilities with Intune with more enhancements to come in the near future.” Check out this […]

Identity solutions can be complicated, especially with the rising popularity of consumer-based devices and cloud SaaS applications in the corporate space. Microsoft recognizes this, and to help, they’ve put together the Hybrid Identity Design Considerations Guide. According to Microsoft, “[This guide] will help you to understand how to design a hybrid identity solution that best […]

Hey Sitecore marketers (new and veteran) I am starting a secondary series of training videos. My original series of videos on YouTube are a bit longer-format and cover off on the necessary basics to mature as a Sitecore CXP marketer. This new Quick Tip series is designed to deliver small bites of video training on an […]

Sitecore User Group Cleveland’s (SUGCLE) latest meetup was an exciting combination of Coveo Machine Learning with eCommerce and Accelerating the xMarketing capabilites of Sitecore. Representatives from Coveo and Paragon Consulting presented 2 different topics that complimented each other very well. Vincent Bernard, Coveo Solution Architect and Isabel Tinoco, Coveo Alliance Manager – Sitecore, presented on the topic of Coveo Machine […]

On the Microsoft Dynamics 365 blog, Ed Kennedy from our partner Episerver analyzes the use of Dynamics 365 combined with eCommerce platforms to improve the retail experience. He writes: “Retailers already benefit from how Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrates enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) into a single, cloud-based solution. Dynamics 365 has […]

If you use Visual Studio Team Services for your build and deploy process, you may have noticed a new menu item pop up a few months ago – “Deployment Groups”. I’ve been using this new feature in new projects since it came out in preview in May and it’s a great way to handle deployments […]

Content can be published in a variety of ways in Sitecore (Publishing Wizard, via the ribbon, via workflow, per item, etc.). This affords Content Authors and Editors great flexibility in getting content to the web, but it is important to remember that all publishing (out of the box, anyway) is governed by a few basic […]