User's Conference
The Cascade Server User's Conference featured sessions from a variety of perspectives to provide valuable knowledge for Cascade Server users of all levels.
- Welcome
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Welcome to the 2008 Cascade Server User's Conference. - Advanced XSL
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Learn how to use advanced XSLT techniques, EXSLT, and Xalan extensions to solve complicated problems. - Automatic Page Copies
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Learn how to utilize a custom publish trigger to automatically create copies of content that appear in multiple locations on your website. - Cascade Server and SEO Structures, Menus and File Naming Protocols
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See how Cascade can be used to enhance the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of your website. - Cascade Server Roadmap
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Curious about where Cascade Server is headed in the future? Bradley Wagner, Director of Engineering at Hannon Hill illustrates future plans for Cascade Server, and give a glimpse of what great things are in store for our Award-winning content management solution! - Company News from the CEO
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Get the latest news and updates from Hannon Hill founder and CEO David Cummings. - Dynamic Navigation with Cascade Server
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In this session, Hannon Hill Systems Analyst Brett Goodwin, will guide you through some of the important considerations and techniques for configuring the navigation of your site in Cascade Server. - Exploring Cascade Server 5 Upgrades
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Since the release of Cascade Server 5.0, there have been many important upgrades with improvements designed to make your life easier. Join Kevin Works, Services Director at Hannon Hill, as he demonstrates the new features and functionality of these product upgrades including Content Types, the "save as draft" feature, drag and drop folder reordering, publish queue reordering, and many more! - Getting the Most out of the New Cascade Server Knowledge Base
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Just this past April, Hannon Hill released the new Cascade Server Knowledge Base, packed with valuable information, an easier to navigate site, and multiple versions of content tailored to all types of users. Join Morgan Griffith, Marketing Director at Hannon Hill, as she shows you how to use the new Knowledge Base, find answers to your plaguing questions about Cascade, or simply to explore the capabilities of our software and increase your general knowledge. - Getting the Most out of Cascade Server Support
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In our Cascade Server support session, Support Manager Tim Reilly and Product Coordinator Chris Armistead will discuss how to get the most out of our support system, covering everything from the basics of entering a trouble ticket to suggesting product improvements and new features. Attend this session to learn how to quickly get your Cascade issues resolved from our acclaimed technical support staff. - Lowering Your Web Ecosystem Costs with Cascade Server
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Learn how Hannon Hill's flagship CMS product offers cost savings to your organization long after its initial investment. - Open Q&A
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Here’s your chance to ask the questions that didn’t get answered throughout the conference, or to offer suggestions on how we can better serve your needs. As a Cascade Server client, you are an integral part of our product development, so speak up! We’re looking forward to this time as an opportunity for us to learn from you. - Site Architecture & Development Model - Cascade Server vs. Standard Approaches
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Learn how Cascade Server compares with standard approaches in site architecture and development. - Spearheading End-User Documentation: How To Prepare Yourself for End-Users
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With the Trident of Truthiness, you can prepare to land the mother fish that is end-user documentation. This tri-pronged approach will give your users something to truly sink their teeth into. Also, it just may push your usability rating up the scales. - Streamlining Online and Print College Catalog Publishing
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In this presentation, Eric Palmer, Director of Web Services at the University of Richmond, covers a high level view of the technical approach and delve deeply into the limitations, trials, tribulations and successes of UR's catalog publishing experiment. He will also review the pitfalls of CMS catalog publishing as well as suggested best practices. He will conclude with UR's enhancement wish list, and a discussion of what they are going to do differently as they begin the migration of their other university catalogs into the CMS. - Tips & Tricks for End Users
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Justin Klingman, Sr. Web Designer/Lead CMS Specialist at Beacon Technologies, illustrates how to use Cascade solutions to satisfy your organization's Web needs. - Turn End Users Into Content Experts
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This workshop with Terri Vaughan, Web Customer Support Specialist at Clemson University, will provide you with tips and tricks that your end users can utilize to manage fresh, interesting content on your web site with the skills they already have. Let Cascade Server turn your end users into confident, proficient website updaters – and make yourself look like a genius! - User Shortcuts in Cascade
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See time-saving tips and tricks in Cascade Server, including the Cascade Server Firefox Extension and some quick ways to get around in Cascade, from Hannon Hill Software Developer Syl Turner. - Ways to use Cascade with Flash, JavaScript, and PHP
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Jon Whitener walks through some of the ways he used Cascade Server in conjunction with Flash, JavaScript, and PHP during a "Meet Our Faculty" Web Project at the University of Detroit Mercy. - Workflows for End Users
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Have you ever thought, "Wow, I'd love to be able to send this page over to my coworkers, let them make comments and changes, and have Cascade track all of that activity?" And how great would it be if the page could be automatically saved or even published to the web at the end of that process? In this session, Ross Williams, Services Trainer at Hannon Hill, will be going over the many benefits of workflows to everyday users of Cascade Server and how users can envision workflows that fit business processes already being used at their workplace.