Tag: Sitecore User Group

Manchester Sitecore User Group – September 2021

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Back in September I organised the first In-Person Sitecore user group in Manchester in over a year with help from Dom Hurst and Jeremy Davis.

It was kindly hosted by Dept with the Talks on the Big Screen and was great to get everyone together again.

We had 2 great talks and a debate session in the middle which I lead. It was a challenge to organise and promote given concerns around In-Person events. However we got around 25 attendees on the day, so all in all I think it was a success.

I recorded the event but it’s taken me a while to pull the videos off my SLR as needed to find my adapter for my Mac and edit the videos together.

I have finally done this though and you can now view the video of the SUG on YouTube.

Apologies for the sound and video as they are not great quality, we also lost a bit of the end of Jim and My Talks unfortunately. So I will go back to using my iPhone to record future events I think. It’s still worth sharing though I feel.

The Talks

Below is a summary of the Talks as the SUG:

Talk 1 – Shared components with JSS
– James Simm, Head Of Engineering @ Dept

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James presented on how Dept used JSS to create a number of shared components to use for the London Marathon website.

Debate Session – Sitecore Acquisitions
– Adam Seabridge, Freelance Sitecore Developer & Consultant @Flux Digital

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Adam talked briefly about the recent Sitecore acquisitions (Moosend, Boxever, Four51 etc) and what they are. We then debated how Sitecore might utilise them within their product offering in the near future.

Talk 2 – Exposing assets to any channel with Sitecore Content Hub Experience Edge
– Daniel Ionita, Sales Engineer @ Sitecore UK

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Daniel gave an overview of Sitecore Content Hub Experience Edge and a detailed demonstration of combining Content Hub DAM with Microsoft Teams which allowed users to insert DAM pre-approved images into Teams messages.

 

I’m looking forward to organising the next one of these and for the upcoming SUG in London in December.

Feel free to get in touch on Twitter of Slack if you would like to speak at a future SUG.

New UK Sitecore User Group Website

TLDR

If you are looking for Manchester Sitecore User Group or London Sitecore User Group events please visit: https://scug.co.uk/

Why we are no longer using Meetup.com

Meetup recently announced a change to their pricing policy for organising meetups and now want to charge each attendee $2 to RSVP for an event.

Given that it’s unlikely that everyone will want to pay this to RSVP to SUGs a New UK Sitecore User Group Website has been created by Steve McGill and Johannes Zijlstra. We are no longer using Meetup.com anymore to advertising UK SUGs.

The Manchester, London, Bristol and Cardiff Sitecore User Groups will all be using https://scug.co.uk/ to advertise SUGs going forwards.

Sitecore User Group UK

 

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You can register for an event by clicking the Login link at the top of the page and login with either: Google, Facebook, GitHub, Microsoft, Twitter or LinkedIn.

You can do so safely, we will not share your email address with anyone, including sponsors.

As the Site is fairly new I thought I’d write this post to try and raise awareness of it and encourage people to Signup for the upcoming London and Manchester Sitecore User Group events.

Upcoming Sitecore User Groups

The following is a list of up-coming UK Sitecore User Groups:

> London Sitecore User Group

26th February 2020 @Avanade, 30 Cannon Street

https://scug.co.uk/events/2020/02/london-avanade-sitecore-usergroup/

> Manchester Sitecore User Group

11th of March 2020 @Valtech’s Offices, Basil Chambers, 65 High Street, M4 1FS

https://scug.co.uk/events/2020/03/manchester-sitecore-usergroup/

Hopefully this is useful for those not aware of this change and we’l see you at one of the UK SUGs soon.

Thanks to Steve and Johannes for their time to building and updating the Site too!. I’m trying to help with some new features and if you fancy helping out too then. I’m sure they would be happy for your to input.