Best Practices for AEM Communities

Let's get together to discuss best practices around AEM Communities and how it can be leveraged to engage customers. We will also host a couple additional non-communities talks so let us know if you are interested in sharing with the SF AEM Meetup.

The goal of SF-AEM is to give the community a forum to exchange ideas and interact in an informal atmosphere. The group is open to all AEM users regardless of level or background and we are hoping to touch on a variety of topics relevant to authors, developers and businesses.

Schedule

6:45 - Mediterranean food and drinks

7:00 - Intro

7:15 - Talks

1. Best Practices for AEM Communities - We will discuss the details involved in a successful AEM Communities implementation, from both the user experience and development perspective. AEM Communities enables the development of a relationship with site visitors and includes blogs, Q&A, and event calendars. It gains insights through forums, comments, and other community content, often referred to as user generated content (UGC). You’ll walk away from our discussion armed with how best to strategically and tactically implement an AEM Communities project.

Speakers:
Drew Glass, Director, Engineering and AEM Practice Lead at Hero Digital
Gianna Giancarlo, Design Director at Hero Digital
Aldo Gomez, Software Engineer at Hero Digital

2. AEM Communities and Salesforce – The patterns and best practices for extending AEM Communities functionality is different than you may expect when compared to typical AEM Site implementations. In this short presentation, we'll demo what an integration between Salesforce and AEM Communities can look like by extending the out of the box QnA Social Component.

Speaker: Joel Epps, Senior Software Engineer at Hero Digital

3. Adobe Commerce Cloud - Using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a marketing frontend for headless Magento is getting a big boost with the new Adobe I/O ecosystem. The Adobe Commerce Cloud provides an extensible set of microservices and APIs built on Adobe.io runtime that make it straightforward to map commerce capabilities into the Adobe Marketing Cloud. In this short presentation, We'll go over the architecture of the new Adobe Commerce Cloud and demonstrate a basic interaction between AEM and Magento as a commerce engine.

Speaker: Gaetan Marmasse, Director of Engineering at Infield Digital

8:30 - Open discussion and hang out.

8:45 - Closing - Discuss next meeting topics & date.

Presentations will be 10-30 minutes including time for questions. Again if you have a project or a topic you would like to share, let us know and we will get it going. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us, or bring them and ask at the meeting.

Want to share a site with the group? - Everyone is interested in what organizations are doing with AEM. Up for talking about what you are working on and sharing some real world examples? We would love to hear about it. Give a little, get a lot! Don't be shy. :)