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One week ago I attended the DMF aka Digital Marketing First expo in the centre of Brussels. The reason for attending this show as an exhibitor, was based on our experience there in 2008 as visitors. Back then my colleague and I were quite baffled at the extremly nice exhibitions. Clearly many top agencies in Belgium regarded this event as "the place to be". So with that in mind we deciced we

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On October 22nd Sitecore will be present at the annual Digital Marketing First (DMF) event in Brussels "Tour & Taxis" expo. As this event is more focused on Online Marketing and not 'just' CMS, Sitecore has teamed up with our partner Pectora for the show. Pectora is the inventor of a very nice Adobe InDesign integration to Sitecore, which allows content owners to build catalogues with ease in

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During next week I will participate in the partner conference for Microsoft Germany in Dresden. Together with me on the set will be Søren Bak Jepsen, the Director of Sitecore International as well as of course our Regional Director DACH  Marc Schneider. The show is a 2 day event (September 8+9) for Microsoft and their partners to network as well as experience the many keynote sessions and learn

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The long awaited Gartner Magic Quadrant report has now been released by Gartner. As Sitecore holds reprint rights, this new report is available through this Sitecore link (requires registration). As mentioned in my previous post I envisioned that this report "would blow your mind". This gut-feeling of mine is actually backed up better than I expected in the report. We are placed furthest out on

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Next week WPC is taking place in New Orleans. Although I myself am not going to be participating this year, my 2 colleagues Morten Ljungberg and Søren Bak Jepsen will be present. Please be gentle with them as it is their first WPC experience. I remember from my trip last year that it is a lot of hard work, followed up by lots of networking and very little sleep. I also remember the Microsoft UK

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It has been some hectic weeks lately in Sitecore, mainly because we closed our fiscal year on June 30th - but also because we at the same time released our new version (Sitecore 6.1 including the OMS). Doing both of these major events at the same time might seem as overkill and downright crazy, but we have actually managed quite well. At this point we cannot reveal any figures of the closed

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In a few hours I will be travelling to Brussels to setup shop for the WebScene Expo 2009 event which starts tomorrow. Hosted by Christian Daems and CMS-Channel, this June 9 event features many CMS vendors and partners and is definately the place to be for any serious player in the Benelux (and beyond) market.   From Sitecore 3 people are attending the show, my colleagues Torben Brams, Lila

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Today Sitecore announced the upcoming release of Sitecore. This new addition of groundbreaking marketing features is aimed at providing accurate analytics and real-time personalization on websites. In short this release will address the growing problem of using 3rd party tools for website analytics. If your website visitors use a modern browser, which by default blocks all interaction with

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Last week I was in Brussels attending an Emakina event. Emakina Group actually owns The Reference which is one of our big partners in Belgium. The event was titled "CMS for International accounts" and evolved around the process of choosing a Content Management System (which is not a trivial task as you need to identify the right tool for the right job).  They had found a really cool location to

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Week 12 of 2009 (March 16 to March 20) was a bit hectic for my department. Monday March 16 my colleague Sri Carlyle and I went to Belgium to attend meetings with new partners. These meetings would take place in 2 different cities near Brussels, so as a result we had rented a car in advance online. The car we booked came with a built-in GPS (BMW 1-series). When we arrived in Brussels airport. we

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I recently completed 2 days of certification training in Stockholm. This was actually my first time instructing a developer course on my own. Remember I got certified as an instructor back in November. To start of with the hard facts, all the attendees passed the certification exam. Well done guys!   The training facilities in Kista (Stockholm's equivalent to Silicon Valley apparently) was

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Mark Van Alst from Evident in The Netherlands have made a very nice site over the Christmas holidays which utilizes Google custom search to index over 30 Sitecore related blogs. Check it out here: http://www.sitecoreblogsearch.com/   Original post by Mark: http://www.markvanaalst.com/2008/12/26/custom-search-for-sitecore-blogs/ Well done!

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2008 is closing soon, and it's time for a small summary of the activities that happened during the year. Not in the google 'zeitgeist' manner, but more in terms of milestones and interesting Sitecore bulletpoints from my point of view. After joining Sitecore (International) in January, it of course took a while to get acquainted with all the internal procedures and such. But I was already at my

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On December 4th, the annual CM Innovation event took place at Brussels Airport in the Sky Hall. This event is hosted by CMS Channel, an association of Content Management professionals and analysts. Sitecore International sponsored the event as Global Sponsors and as a result we had one of the largerst booths, just in front of the area where most of the sessions of the event took place. To top

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This post was supposed to be ready almost 2 weeks ago. Why it hasn't been is quite simply due to all the other things that have been on the agenda. More about this in my upcoming post. But regarding todays topic London, here's the outline. I travelled to London on November 25th in order to be ready for the SCD1 training that started in the morning on the 26th. This Sitecore training session

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Monday last week (Nov. 17th) i travelled to Berlin to help my colleague Marc Schneider man the Sitecore booth at the Xtopia event. My first trip to Berlin ever in fact, but definately not the last. In short, the event was mainly all about keynotes and sessiona about future technology, and not really directly linked to the CMS world. However, since the event was targeting the developer community,

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CM Innovation that is. It shouldn't really come as a surprise to me, since we are a Global Sponsor of the event, but it did anyway just now, so I thought I might as well write a short post to remind myself.3 weeks, thats pretty close. I guess I have been to busy traveling to realize it. But rest assure, Sitecore is coming well prepared. We have our keynote speaker lined up, the booth material is

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After a full weeks absense from catching planes and eating second-serving food, I'm now back in business. I flew to Oslo today to be ready for a full day of training in Kongsberg, Norway tomorrow morning. So there I was, munching on a club-sandwich at the hotel restaurant, when I realised how much and how little the actual travelling had taught me so far. Not what I learned from the business

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Friday night of last week I came home after spending 2 days in Belgium. My colleague and I had attended a marketing event called MarketingFirst in Brussels as visitors. We didn't really know what to expect, except that we would meet a some of our partners who were exhibiting. But since the event had free entrance for pre-registered visitors, we got alot more than we bargained for. With

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It is now official, the anticipated update of our Sitecore Intranet Portal solution passed the last QA cycles and is ready for download on SDN. Read the release blog post from our Product Manager. The SIP 2.2 release adresses a few issues that improves the overall performance and experience of working with the product. I know this for a fact, because I demonstrated it a few weeks ago to a

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Yesterday I was in Oslo with a colleague to attend a few meetings. This trip is the fifth trip in five weeks I have been on. Thats right, I've been in and out of Copenhagen Airport's departure hall every week for five weeks. Unfortunately the security guys haven't seemed to recognize me so I could skip in line. One thing I wonder is, why other people in the security line seem to not understand

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Tomorrow I'm doing a demo for a company located in Basel, Switzerland. This demo has been scheduled since the beginning of August, so you know the audience is expecting a killer demo. So apart from my trustworthy slide-deck that uncovers Sitecore and the API, I felt I had to finetune my stuff a bit. A blog post from a colleague gave me a good idea of what to improve on my Nicam demo-site. Thanks

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As I wrote in my last post, I have spent 3 days doing a  roadshow in Belgium last week. The topic of the trip was basically letting our partners know who their new points of contact would be from now on. Since Sitecore has expanded and grown quite substantially lately, we needed to re-arrange our responsibilities. Marc Schneider was the previous Channel Sales Manager for Germany and all of

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This summer featured this years biggest Microsoft partner event as I have previously mentioned. Sitecore had a nice big stand, which I have to say looked really great and given our red color, was easy to spot from far away in the huge convention centre. In short, we had a really good week in Houston. Many new partners were eager to sign with us, some even after just seeing a 2-minute demo.

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Next Monday (July 7th) the 2008 WPC event kicks off in Houston, Texas. This is not my first trip to the US, but will be my first time participating in this giant Microsoft event. I have been to a couple of IT tradeshows/conferences already this year. However, I don't really know what to expect from WPC at this point, apart from meeting a lot of fellow IT professionals, and that sleep is not

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