Breakfast
Breakfast was solid. I ate a whole lot.
One Community: Endless Possibilities
This was a pretty basic kickoff conference session. They did have some humorous videos, that got some laughs.
Innovate, Create and Inspire Using OU Campus
This was a pretty solid presentation. They went over all the new features. Some of note were:
- OU Campus for Mobile
Modules:
- Tag Management
- use tags to display specifics types of content based on tag
- almost anything can be tagged
- search by tags
- account wide, multiple sites
- OUInsights
- monitors content and alerts to problems
- regularly checks site content
- helps make improvements
- helps adhere to regulations
- helps optimize for SEO
- integrated with OUCampus
- separate module (purchase)
- OUAlerts
- mobile app
- can post updates to an alert
- SM posts and to website, multiple channels
- for non technical users
- separate module (purchase)
Gadgets:
- Quick Publish
- 1 step publishing
- control access by group
- Bookmarks
- instant access to page, functions, and reports
- dashboard and sidebar
- Notes
New Gadget APIs
- Metadata API
- wysiwyg API
- source editor API
Lunch
Lunch was good, southwest cuisine.
Content Migration 101
The presenter did a solid job, but I was really hoping that this was more about how we can migrate to OUCampus. It was really about the migration services that they offer. He did recommend the use of 301 redirects over meta redirects.
The Latest and Greatest Gadgets
This was a cool overview of some of the newer gadgets. Gadgets covered were:
- Dependency Tag Info
- Quick Publish
- Bookmarks
- multi-site
- Notes
- Request Help
Responsive Images FTW!
This was a really interesting presentation. With techniques I will look to integrate. The tough thing seems to be on how to get the responsive images to work easily for an end user in OUCampus. I really need to find the slides to this presentation!
The following blog post was highly recommended to read:Â Â https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/
Tag All the Things!
Easier way to tag content in OUCampus. I like the potential of what we could do to display content based on how content in tagged. Can edit and merge tags. Can apply Tags in Page Parameters. Auto hint of existing tags when entered.
Binary files can be tagged as well. Tags show up in RSS feeds.
XSL API has calls to work with Tags. Will have to find the documentation for this API, looks to be very useful.
Roaring 20’s Hollywood Dinner Party
We went to a dinner party at The Cicada Club. I was be thoroughly underdressed. But it didn’t matter, as it was a great time anyhow. Everyone was dressed up in 20’s attire, there was a glamorous girl in a champagne glass to great us when we entered (think her name was Bubbles), and an entertaining skit was performed during the entire night. A very unique experience.
Food was good, there was an open bar and everyone seemed to have a great time. Glad I attended, and it was interesting to see these folks in a different environment.