New York Metro Sitecore User Group - August Meeting

mindSHIFT Technologies is sponsoring a meeting of the New York Metro Sitecore User Group on Wednesday, August 20, at 144 East 44th Street, New York, NY, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM.

Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: 144 East 44th Street, New York, NY
Cost: There is no charge for this user group meeting

Meeting Agenda:

• NY Metro Sitecore User Group Catch Up
Sponsor and Sitecore MVP Peter Iuvara, mindSHIFT, will provide a brief refresh and update on the most recent happenings within the User Group.

• Making Magic with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
Sitecore MVP Mike Reynolds, MedTouch, will present the features and benefits of the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) module. In addition, Mike will define and demonstrate common, yet powerful , tasks you can accomplish with the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) module, including (but not limited to):

-- Utilizing and leveraging prepackaged reports
-- Harnessing PowerShell scripts to make batch updates to Sitecore Items
-- Invoking PowerShell scripts from the Item context menu

• Review: Sitecore 7.5
Sean Holmesby, Hedgehog Development, LLC., will be showing a quick preview of a website running on the upcoming version of Sitecore, Sitecore 7.5. This demo will review some of the code changes needed when upgrading, features and benefits of Experience Analytics, and how data will be stored in the new xDB. We’ll also have a quick look into the Experience Profile, Sitecore’s new dashboard for an individual customer.