19.05.2009 | London 4th European RedDot Usergroup conference
4th conference in the UK was held at National Archives once again
It was a must not miss event for any current or planned client of RedDot or Open Text Websolutions. The event offered the unique ability to discuss with other business users the latest advances or issues with Reddot CMS and Live Server. Representatives from both from the UK and German user community were presenting on how they have delivered RedDot in their environments, what were the successes and what were the issues they overcame. The day also offered a networking opportunity with the other user group members as well as planned representatives from Open Text.
The agenda
What's going on in the Open Text Web Solutions Usergroup?
Executive committee of the Open Text Web Solutions Usergroup association & Intentive GmbH"reddotcmsblog.com" - Introduction of the reddotcmsblog
The "Unofficial RedDot CMS Blog", experienced RedDot developers from all over the world shared their knowledge. It is useful to techies (as well as other interested people), offering tips and solutions for the everyday work.
Adrian Mateljan, DeveloperEnhancing Web Publishing with Digital Asset Management - Using Open Text Artesia DAM to enhance your Open Text WCMS (Red Dot) web sites
Open Text has recently announced the Artesia DAM bridge which enables the WCMS (Red Dot) product to use Artesia Digital Asset Management as a source for rich media for publishing. This presentation introduced Artesia Digital Asset Management to Open Text WCMS users and included a simple demonstration of the power of this integration. Some customer examples and product roadmap were also discussed.
Mark Finch, Open Text Digital Media GroupOpen Text Web Solutions Roadmap and Version 10 Preview
In this session, the participants learned more about the upcoming releases with Open Text Web Solutions. They were among the first to see the new Smart Edit mode and other enhancements with the next version of Web Solutions.
Matthias Tausendpfund, Open Text Web SolutionsSmartEdit made easy - Improvements of CMS 7 SmartEdit User Interface
The presentation will show modifications of the SmartEdit user interface that will simplify an editors´ daily work. Next to terminology and workflows it gave examples of tools to do gentle actions in SmartEdit mode.
Ulrich Weiß, OWUG Vorstand und Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)Realise an efficient and effective e-mail marketing using the RedDot Newsletter Module - Experience the RedDot Newsletter Module in a live demonstration
Enhance your email marketing by cutting cost through creating and sending multilingual newsletters directly in your RedDot CMS. Learn to setup individualised campaigns, using detailed controlling reports per newsletter and recipient.
Andreas Gromadecki, Pinuts media+science Multimedia-Agentur GmbHSuccess with Internationalisation
Twenty hints and tips on how to successfully complete the rollout of an internationalized website.
Paul Smith, ecomplexx CooperationExamination of the Delivery-Server Search-Engine "Verity" - Classification, operational area, how to increase the performance and optimize the configuration
One task in most webprojects is the configuration of the searchengine "Verity" on the RedDot Delivery-Server. Within the lecture the assignment to different searchengines and their operational areas were shown. The increase of performance and the optimization of the configuration was demonstrated on different examples.
Philip Knott, Medial - Gesellschaft für digitale Medien mbH