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E-Yellow from #Confab 2012 in Minneapolis
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 4:00pm
I am currently spending time in Minneapolis, MN attending
Confab 2012: The Content Strategy Conference. As you know, we have been advocating this as the Year of Content and
promoting Content Strategy through a variety of blogs, whitepapers and
webinars. So it only made sense that we
would join other like-minded people in celebration of this topic. I came to
learn and contribute to the content strategy community.
In its simplest form, according to Confab founder Kristina Halvorson, "Content strategy plans for the creation, publication, and governance of useful, usable content " In other words, if you’re a team of people creating
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The Need-to-know Admin Guide for Upgrading to Cascade Server 7.0
Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 10:30am
This blog post is part of our Exploring 7.0 series. The first post was an Introduction to Cascade Server 7.0, and the posts that will follow this one will focus on individual features and improvements in version 7.0. Stay tuned!
Now that Cascade Server 7.0 has been released, we wanted to provide you with some additional details for admins who are getting ready to upgrade. As many of you have probably noticed, the Upgrade Guide contains steps for upgrading that require a full installation of the application to a new location This is done so that Cascade Server can take advantage of some new technologies that we’ve included in
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Emory University Wins Two Outstanding Achievement Awards in Interaction Media Awards
Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 10:30am
Emory University has been awarded two Outstanding Achievement awards in the Interaction Media Awards competition for its News Center, which was built using Cascade Server and launched earlier this year. This is one of the most creative uses of Cascade Server that we have seen yet, and we are proud to recognize our client for earning this honor!
The Interaction Media Awards ("IMA") recognize the most outstanding websites in the world in 100 categories every year Each quarter, the IMA accepts nominations in 25 of the categories every quarter, and three IMA judges evaluate the nominations based on a prioprietary judging matrix with a
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Why and How To Do a Content Audit
Thursday, May 10th, 2012 at 11:00am
This is the final installment of our five-part series on editorial calendars and content strategy. If you missed the first ones, you can access them here:
- What is an Editorial Calendar and Why Do I Need One?
- How to Set Up Your Editorial Calendar + Free Template
- How to Combine Analytics with Your Editorial Calendar
- Using Your Editorial Calendar to Re-use and Re-purpose Content
Since we've been discussing content strategy in our editorial calendar blog post series, there is no way to avoid a topic that admittedly makes a lot of web teams cringe: Content Auditing A content audit is the process of taking a complete inventory of your site and
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Cascade Server 7.0 is Here
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 10:00am
We're thrilled to announce the release of Cascade 7.0.
After lots of great client feedback and 2 public beta releases, it's here! We've added lots of new features and improvements including 3 of the top 5 ideas on our public idea exchange while satisfying over 400 votes in all. This release has something for everyone -- end-users, developers and administrators alike. Our goals were pretty simple: make it easier and faster for users to produce new sites, add new features to existing sites, and update existing content. So, let’s jump right in...
Portability and Re-use
We focused on content portability and re-use with features like Site Import and Export tool
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Using Your Editorial Calendar to Re-use and Re-purpose Content
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 10:30am
This is this fourth installment in a five-part blog series about using editorial calendars. If you haven’t read the first three parts, please read them first before continuing with this post.
- What is an Editorial Calendar and Why Do I Need One?
- How to Set Up Your Editorial Calendar + Free Template
- How to Combine Analytics with Your Editorial Calendar
If you’ve been following along with this blog series, then so far, you’ve started using an editorial calendar, customized it to your needs, and begun analyzing the content you publish with Google Analytics and other information In this post, we’re going to discuss how
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Introducing Cascade Server 7.0 Modules
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 at 10:00am
Cascade Server 7.0 introduces Modules, or general purpose components that make it easier for end-users to generate complex content that would normally require more technical expertise. So, say you’d like to drop an events calendar on the side bar of your home page. Achieving this would normally require numerous hours of planning and development. But it doesn’t have to be that way! And we would prefer that it not be that way! We're always looking for new ways to help empower end users!
If you would, for a moment, imagine a Cascade world in which you don’t have to build calendars, breadcrumbs, and navigation menus; they
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How to Combine Analytics with Your Editorial Calendar
Thursday, April 26th, 2012 at 10:45am
This is this third installment in a five-part blog series about using editorial calendars. If you haven’t read the first two parts, please read What is an Editorial Calendar & Why Do I Need One? and How to Set Up Your Editorial Calendar + Free Template first before continuing with this post.
At this point, you should be comfortable with the idea of using an editorial calendar to keep your content fresh, and hopefully you’ve started using the editorial calendar that we provided or one of your own creation.
This post will discuss combining analytics with your editorial calendar to become a better content
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User Conference Call for Speakers
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 at 10:45am
Whether you're a six-time User Conference veteran or this is your first conference ever, we'd like to invite you to submit a speaker proposal for the Cascade Server User Conference. The deadline is one week from yesterday (May 1st), so if you've been considering submitting a proposal, now's the time to flesh out your idea and send it in!
Client speaker sessions are some of the best ones we have each year! Here are some of the popular topics on which clients have spoken at previous conferences:
- Blogging and Photo Galleries - Matt Carter, University of New Mexico
- Building Basic Structured Data Forms - Christie Allen, University of
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How to Set Up Your Editorial Calendar + Free Template
Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 11:00am
This is this second installment in a five-part blog series about using editorial calendars. If you haven’t read the first part, please read What is an Editorial Calendar and Why Do I Need One? before continuing with this post. The third installment has now been published and you can read it here: How to Combine Analytics with Your Editorial Calendar.
By now, you should realize how important it is to have a plan to ensure that you always have fresh, quality content on your organization’s website We have researched editorial calendars a lot here at Hannon Hill, and we have established a reliable system for using an
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