Blogs - February 2010
Below are the blog entries for February 2010.
Highlighting Cascade Server Client Resources
By Morgan Griffith
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 10:30am
We've noticed a growing trend over the last couple of years-- our client communication and transparency regarding web content management project status, timelines, and training is growing. Because we ourselves have trouble keeping up with all the developments in campus WCM communication, we thought we'd create a special place to spotlight these growing resources.
Our new Cascade Server client resources page highlights some of our current Cascade Server clients and their efforts to keep stakeholders vested and up-to-date with training opportunities, end-user and developer resources, and project status changes. We will continue to add to this area of our site and spotlight those organizations that demonstrate phenomenal web content management transparency. If you'd like to suggest a training or resource site from an organization using Cascade Server, please let us know by sending us a brief email to info@hannonhill.com.
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Save the Date!
By Uran Piedra
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 10:30am
Mark your calendars for the 2010 Cascade Server User's Conference taking place on Monday September 13, and Tuesday, September 14. We will be hosting our 5th annual conference at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center, within walking distance of the Hannon Hill offices.
For those of you who have attended past conferences, we hope you'll come back to join us at this brand-new venue for two days of learning and sharing all things Cascade Server. For those who have never attended a Cascade Server User's Conference, take a look at our previous year's session offerings, and consider coming out to join in on our fifth year of web content management collaboration and fun!
As we begin diving into the planning of this year's conference, we'll be posting periodic updates here on our blog regarding any new developments. Subscribe to our blog RSS to stay up to date on the most current information!
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- Events
Hannon Hill's Global Area to Sites Webinar Now Available
By Chris Armistead
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 1:30pm
Hannon Hill's recent webinar demonstrating a live migration of the company's website from the Global Area to Sites in Cascade Server was a huge success, with nearly a hundred sign-ups and over eighty unique log-ins to the webinar. We have learned since the Cascade Server 6.4 Webinar that not only are individuals signing up to view our webinars, in many cases entire offices are logging in to view and discuss the webinars together. In addition, over 80 users have since viewed the Cascade Server 6.4 Webinar at their leisure.
In keeping with this demand, we're happy to announce that the Global Area to Sites Webinar is now available on our company website. Many customers expressed a renewed interest in migrating from the Global Area to Sites after watching Services Trainer Ross Williams perform the migration on Hannon Hill's own website. Several of these same customers have told us that they'll be viewing the webinar again once the date of their own website migration has been solidified. So for those who requested it, the webinar is now available as a resource for our users indefinitely.
We encourage you to download the webinar today to use as a guide if you have not yet migrated from the Global Area to Sites. In addition, please subscribe to our blog and keep an eye on our customer success community for news on other upcoming web content management webinars in the near future.
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Two New Sites Launched with Cascade Server this Week
By Morgan Griffith
Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 4:00pm
If you frequent our blog, you may have seen our recent multi-part series documenting best practices when taking on a new site implementation with the Cascade Server web content management system and the Hannon Hill Professional Services team. Kat Liendgens, Professional Services Manager outlined these practices to aid organizations working with our Services team to implement a new site.
From this blog series, you may be familiar with the scope of the work our Professional Services team produces; you may not, however, have seen it live. This week, new sites were launched for Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the University of Hartford with the help of our Professional Services team. It's one thing to hear about how website implementations are conducted, it's another entirely to see the end result. Below we've highlighted these two recent Professional Services implementations.
Auburn University, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
The Hannon Hill Professional Services team implemented a completely new website for Auburn's College of Engineering. The new site features a sophisticated news implementation, which allows various members of different divisions to submit articles to go through an approval process. Each news item can be associated with one or more categories and is displayed on the appropriate news sub-pages or the homepage, based on this categorical selection. A news item can also be tagged as "sticky news." If content is flagged as such, even if there are more current news items to display on a homepage or sub-page, the sticky item will always stay on the page (until the flag is removed). The Auburn implementation also features the development of seven new Content Types and a substantial amount of content reuse functionality.
University of Hartford
The University of Hartford worked with the Professional Services team to integrate a new aesthetic design into Cascade Server. One of the key goals of this project was to allow end-users to update web content while maintaining a consistent look and feel across the site. As part of the implementation, the Services team implemented six new Content Types, including those for news articles and events postings. Event postings are implemented so the users has the option to display events on the homepage when they become acute. The team also implemented index pages and archives for both the news and events portions of the site. This Professional Services integration also included a content approval workflow.
We look forward to continuing to spotlight the tremendous work our Services crew is producing with our web content management system, Cascade Server. If your organization is interested in consulting opportunities or working with our Services team to implement a new site, please contact our Professional Services team.
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- News
Centralizing Collaboratively with U of S and Cascade Server
By Morgan Griffith
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 1:30pm
Our client case studies are a good way for existing and potential users to truly get a glimpse of the powerful ways Cascade Server can be used to manage web content. Being as flexible as it is, Cascade Server has proven to be a good fit for organizations in a variety of different industries with a variety of different goals. The most successful Cascade Server implementations we've seen, however, come from those organizations that employ a collaborative process.
From planning and researching web content management systems to developing a vendor short-list, involving representative stakeholders from across organizational departments ensures that the system chosen will be the best fit for the largest number of users.
In our most recent client case study, we explore the collaborative measures taken by the University of Saskatchewan to ensure that Cascade Server was well-adopted and received upon being unanimously chosen as the school's institutional web content management system.
As a result of their efforts, 90% of Cascade Server users across the U of S said they would recommend the system to others on campus. We encourage users new to Cascade Server to read up on stories like those from U of S and where it makes sense, to employ some of the best practices shared in our client case studies during your own implementation(s).
If you wish to be considered for a case study to share your own Cascade Server story, sign up to participate in a case study with Hannon Hill.
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- Commentary