Well, Day 2 came, and the MySource Matrix Conference is sadly over. But, we had an awesome day, so I will try to give a nice recap here.
We started out Day 2 with John Paul giving us a welcome, and went right into Kate Needham giving us a Case Study about thier NSW Department of Primary Industries Intranet. It was very interesting, and I was very impressed by their process of getting users involved with the process of building their Intranet. Following Kate was Rory Mackay from Discover Tasmania, giving us some great tips on SEO and getting our sites optimized for showing up in Google search.
After a break, we heard from Danny Peters, Senior Implementation Specialist at Squiz, he talked about Implementation Tips and Tricks. He gave us all some great ideas, and I think all of us learned something new!
Finally, it was time to see the MySource Mini (MySource 4 as an appliance). This is basically an early version of MySource 4 which Squiz is releasing as an installed solution on hardware that you purchase. I will leave the extra details up to Squiz, but I have to say, what we saw was absolutly amazing. Greg Sherwood gave us a 30 minute demo going through quite a few aspects of MySource Mini. Every interface was beautiful, and very well thought out. The Caching and Versioning interfaces were some of the coolest parts visually, but the simple new WYSIWYG editor takes the win with my favorite feature. Every item on the page can be edited inline, even if there are different design areas on the page, all can be easily edited inline from the edit screen. Even things like menus and asset listings can be easily edited on the same page! After Greg gave us the demo, we were able to test out the system on 3 machines that they had in the foyer. It was great to be able to play around with MySource Mini, and finally get to see what has been a really secretive product. I got the ok to post these pics on the blog, as Squiz will be getting a new MySource Mini site up soon. So, until then, here are a few shots of what we got to see and test.
Before closing the conference, we got to spend $1500 Squiz Dollars at the MySource Matrix Feature Bazaar. There were a ton of features that were bought, but I was pretty excited to have almost all the feature bought that I had been interested in. I nominated the feature of setting the default presentation style, so that when new assets are created, you don't have to set the presentation style to RAW HTML, which will be super nice. A few others that I wanted were Binoculars Icon for Nested Content, Quick Link Plugin for WYSIWYG, and Locking Remaps in the Remaps Manager. Overall, we all bought some really great features, and it was a nice ending to an amazing conference!
