Hannon Hill's Resolutions for 2012

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 at 1:18pm -- Kat LiendgensBookmark and Share


2011 treated us well here at Hannon Hill. We released two major upgrades to Cascade Server, which contained some of the most requested features from our Idea Exchange. We rolled out our new company website, hosted our best user conference to date, welcomed many new clients, and added some great new people to our team. We are thankful for an amazing year, and even more excited about 2012. Some of our resolutions include, but are not limited to:

  • Get more people trained on Cascade Server. As Penny Harding, our Services Manager, announced, we are determined to expand your training options even further. That’s why we are now offering free monthly Cascade Server Bootcamps. During these two-day trainings, technical users will get a comprehensive overview of the system. Please read Penny’s post for further details.
  • Cascade Server 7 and beyond. Now that Cascade Server 7 has been out in beta for a couple of weeks, we can’t wait until its official launch. Cascade Server 7 is arguably the most powerful release to date. In addition to the Twitter feed module, deep site copy (my personal favorite), inline regions, and a new and improved asset chooser, brace yourself for a surprise or two! We have big plans for Cascade Server 7 and beyond and cannot wait to reveal them to you. As always, our Idea Exchange is a significant component of our product road map, so let me just say “Thank You” to everybody who continues to submit suggestions and ideas, and to everybody who participates in the discussions and voting. Cascade Server is built for you, which is why your feedback is invaluable to us.
  • Even better user conference. As smoothly as this year’s Cascade Server user conference went, we always want to go bigger and better next time. It’s going to be hard to top the quality of presentations of the 2011 conference, but I have all the confidence in the world that both our amazing customers and our team will be able to wow participants with examples of how they push the envelop with Cascade. Furthermore, after our first annual Cassie award ceremony, I expect that the competition to win one of these highly prestigious trophies will be even more fierce in 2012.
  • Help web contributors get more out of their content. You’ve probably heard the phrase “Content is king” many times by now. It’s simple. There is nothing better that you can do for website’s SEO and for your inbound marketing than to provide fresh, quality content. After all, your content is the main reason why people come to your site in the first place. We’ve been advocates of content marketing for a long time, and we strive to find ways to help you not only manage your content, but also empower you to optimally leverage your content. Stay tuned as we reveal more information over the next few months!
  • Grow the community. Most of you already know that we are all about fostering community, as evidenced by the fact that we are so open and transparent that everybody has access to our knowledge base, our help forum, our user conference videos, and even our GITHUB code repository. It is our intention to provide even more resources next year. We have already identified two major projects from which our customers would be able to benefit immensely.
  • Continue to provide a wide spectrum of valuable content. As I mentioned above, we are firm believers in the “content is king” philosophy, which is why we provide what we hope to be valuable content to you on a regular basis. For instance, you may have noticed that team members from all of our departments contribute to our regular blog posts to ensure that you receive a wide spectrum of content, ranging from highly technical concepts to strategic best practices, from unique insights into the Hannon Hill culture to tips for administrative users. It’s important to us to deliver quality and diverse content to you, and we are determined to take it up another notch in 2012. Watch out for new white papers, frequent webinars (both hosted by the HH team and, as always, by our customers), and presentations and talks at various conferences (at this point, I’d like to take a moment for shameless self promotion and invite those of you who will be at the Sungard Summit in March to come see my discussion on agile strategies on March 27, 2012).

Thank you to all of our customers, competitors, and team members for helping us push Hannon Hill and Cascade Server to the next level. I wish you all a happy, healthy, and successful 2012.


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