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good evening everyone welcome to the february 17 |
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edition of the southern fried dnn user group we are coming to you here at the very end of february always the third |
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thursday of every month uh but we have just finished off last week |
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bnn summit the premier user group conference an event that we helped put |
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on every year and enjoy seeing many of the dna community come together both to |
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present content and concepts and exciting ideas but also connect with a bunch of new |
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people who we haven't run across before and talk about how we love cnn and those types of things and that's one thing |
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we're going to do tonight is we're going to do a little recap of things that we saw and learned and |
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some of the things that came out of dnn summit and we'll be doing that first off uh tonight |
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and then we'll be going over to talk a little bit uh about community projects and highlights david poindexter will be |
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running through that and i believe that you and daniel have things to run through right |
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yes sir and then we're going to open it up for some other highlights the other people might have as well |
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that sounds good that sounds good um well then uh just to uh you know jump |
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into it uh we do what a couple of other things uh sponsor recognition and community buzz i |
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kind of feel like there's not a lot of additional community buzz out there right now other than |
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what we just finished doing which was dnn summit that kind of sucks a lot of the time and the events |
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uh energy out of the community uh focusing into that for a week um |
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is there anything that we should mention for community buzz that isn't from dna summit [Music] |
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giving you some community buzz there to talk about man come on absolutely there's a lot of people here with the |
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buzz um there are things around uh you know we will talk about a couple of different |
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things but you know one of the items that will stroll posted towards the end of the conference was another uh bounty |
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suggestion from dnacommunity.org about posting blog posts and posting |
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information out on the site that's something that was done around christmas time and had a couple of uh blog posts |
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and things come out it's a very nice suggestion that's being sponsored by |
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both will stroll and upendo ventures and david poindexter and envisionated to |
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kind of help get some new blog posts out there if you're |
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interested in doing it or thought about doing it before this could be a thing that helps spread on for you |
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all right then uh daniel uh vladis is wearing the shirt uh from the dnn summit from |
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last year or the year before two years ago yeah |
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we were all there just recently let's uh let's go ahead and dive into it for a recap of dnn summit 2022 |
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um i'll start off by mentioning that uh you know this year the system uh was the |
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same we were in the hop in platform and uh it was very nice to see that the hop-in platform had a few improvements |
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uh compared to the platform that we used last year which was just out of beta it was just fresh |
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maybe the first year being used there was some polish there's some additional items and elements that were there uh |
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one very nice feature is that all of the sessions were automatically recorded |
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uh so if you did uh pay for a ticket then we're part of cnn summit uh both later in the evening |
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you could go back and watch those videos um you know we had four sessions going on |
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at every point in time that there were sessions blocks um and you can only be in one at a time so |
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it's very nice that you could finish off your day by going back and catching uh you know one or two of the ones that you |
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missed and though there was a little snafu towards the end of the summit uh with |
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releasing those or getting access to those from hop in um in an easy method that was worked out |
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and now those videos are posted so if you attended the conference you do have a link uh so that you can get back |
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to those videos and watch them um to both you know just go through the things |
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you went through before but also go through anything else that you missed and uh pick up that good uh session |
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content uh information um i thought uh to kind of uh you know |
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kick off the recap i would walk through a couple of screenshots and talk just a little bit |
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about some things there to begin with i will mention that we had our primary |
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six gold sponsors that were present throughout the conference |
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both in promotion through the conference but if they wanted they could also have a special booth or a session that went |
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along with their sponsorship so several other sponsors had booths where you could stop in and talk and hang out |
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with them and ask questions um previous years it was almost used as a |
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hey i've got you for 10 minutes what's a question you know can i help you answer a question and people were |
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going through with questions uh this year was a bit more informal uh i only got to hang out in in one or two booths |
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for a few minutes uh david or daniel cheryl did you hang out in booths they |
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seem to be much more of a hangout this year and it was conversation and jokes and actually literally jokes one session or |
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one booth we were all telling and trading jokes back and forth um uh you guys have some um you know |
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highlights or thoughts from the booth that you hung out with with sponsors |
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yeah i just dropped by a couple of the booths and talked to uh i think |
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cassidy um [Music] i talked to will stroll in his booth a |
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little bit just dropped in and talked for a few minutes it was really fun i went to hang out in |
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some of the other sponsors booths uh for a little bit and hang out with cassidy in the 10 pound gorilla booth i hung out |
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with will in the pindo ventures booth and she got to talk with chris hammond i |
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think uh it was in will's booth that was that was cool hanging out with him for a bit |
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we had a few people drop in our booth and hang out and ask them questions i met some new people that i had never met |
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before in the community and really interesting roles that they're in in the |
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way that they use dnn and so forth so that was really fun i don't know if you're going to talk |
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about the sessions but uh i do have something to say about those sponsor sessions |
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oh go ahead for the sponsor sessions yeah i i really enjoyed that that was actually a slot this year um i was |
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impressed with actually every now one i didn't get to see yet because it was at the same time as ours but |
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the other one i kind of bounced back and forth between their two sessions and it was really cool because it wasn't you |
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know like a hey look what we do or what we can offer yeah it wasn't a sales kind of thing it was |
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more of hey here's we've had years of experience doing this or that and here's |
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a way that it can help you and you know you can apply these things to yours i really enjoyed doing ours because it |
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gave us a chance to share some things that people may not know about you know us and kind of how we |
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think about with things it was really nice because i think that could be helpful to to a lot of people you know |
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regardless of whether or not they want to leverage our services for anything so i was really glad that was not an |
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intentional thing this year yeah yeah yeah i agree and i think it's something that we haven't exactly had |
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like that before um maybe a little concerned that it's going to be sales pitchy and it it just wasn't but you |
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know these sponsors are all here to help and be involved they are business people they need support uh they need new |
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clients and projects but at the end of the day they're we're all in the same dna community and they want to help |
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people and they want to learn and participate so i feel like the sessions were the sponsor sessions were uh a good |
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representation of that um to your point i enjoyed the i'm |
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moderating was in the one for uh 10 pound gorilla and you'll notice through the sessions that |
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were happening through both days there were multiple different 10 pound gorilla people giving different sessions um |
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advertising and marketing versus skin versus seo and ada compliance type |
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things so they pulled from all their different sessions two tips or maybe three tips from each |
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one and they made the top 10 tips from denmark and it was really like a little window of the different sessions that uh |
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that they had and i thought that was pretty cool that was very creative |
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um so you know i'm just gonna kind of go through and talk about some of the different sessions that i remember and |
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uh you know thought something about um and what i'd like to kind of open it up to uh all of us here online is just to |
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share some of the things that we might have learned or remembered or got presented from from the different uh |
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speakers that were uh there for two days we had multiple uh |
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session blocks throughout the days and there were like i said four sessions per block uh so we ended up having a large |
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volume of content um a lot of the people who were putting that content together |
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and presenting it are the people that we've heard from here at southern pride they're the people that we know |
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um and enjoy getting to connect with but sometimes they're presenting new content or they're presenting new things that we |
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um you know don't have the time to or we're focusing on one thing this was an hour where we could really get into there for |
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for a deep dive one of the things that i'll mention is that |
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you know from a security standpoint and a dnn performance or optimization standpoint |
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i'm always interested whenever i can sit in on a session with mitch sellers and um |
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i know a lot of the things that he's going to say because i've listened to past sessions he's had so i'm paying close attention taking notes with a |
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notepad but one of the takeaways uh that i grabbed as new |
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information that i maybe suspected but hadn't ever confirmed or haven't had never tested but um |
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did see that he um said that for a for a security footprint |
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uh of your dnn instances uh that he recommends now uh that we remove or |
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rename and get rid of two folders in our running |
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dnn instances and that is the documents folder and the license folder those are |
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necessary when you're doing the install they're part of the package that gets delivered and installed but just to help |
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in reducing the identification of your site as dnn he recommended removing the |
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documents folder and the licenses folder uh from the dnn route and i thought you know i didn't come here looking for new |
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tips or new items that i've never heard before but there we go two new items i'm gonna put that down into my list now |
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um how about everyone else you have some memories of things that you uh ran |
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across or heard knew or uh you know appreciated uh having a speaker present |
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to you and welcome to helene and jeremy i just came on and john i didn't say hi earlier |
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but good to see you |
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yeah so i haven't watched all the recorded sessions yet and i was presenting two so uh there were some of |
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them that had conflict with mine but i really appreciated the uh mitch's presentation about uh |
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performance and security was very interesting i liked the ux |
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presentations also as a developer it's fun to see a perspective from more |
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of a from a user perspective to refund prompt session that i saw was |
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interesting also i have to play with this more was uh very interesting |
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i enjoyed uh there was of course we use structure content a lot you know for too sexy stuff aaron lopez had a session on |
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doing mega menu with um 206c and it was really nice to |
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kind of see that creative use of doing it and it provided a way for |
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administrators to manage the content inside of their mega menu it's really cool creative way to to handle that |
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what session of his was that in i want to go watch that yeah that was the uh it |
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has mega menu in the in the title um but it's aaron lopez yeah i'm just looking |
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for his his photo and his uh his gray hair yeah |
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uh aaron joined me on uh dean in jeopardy i put the call out early in uh |
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summit to ask who wanted to sit in and participate with uh dnn summit uh helene |
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was a good sport and came and joined us there too um we had we had several |
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people come on and had a lot of fun with that that's uh you know something that we may |
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put out in some other way uh if we have a open spot in uh so fry we might play |
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that game again but i always enjoy putting those together had a couple of people ask me how i keep coming up with |
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questions and it is hard so if if you think about questions sometimes you think hey that'd be a good question pass |
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it to me i'm sure i'll use it again in the future that was actually um really great to |
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participate in um i've because i don't know too much about the logo for nate and the question came up |
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from where which folder to least uh do you know so from that and obviously my disastrous |
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answer on it but um learn you know learn a little bit more about it so we can research oh what is that what is you |
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know how does it all work so yeah it's got a bit of a takeaway from that yeah it was good |
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fun that's a fantastic outcome i love that yeah yeah |
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now that's a true growth mentality right there i love it [Laughter] |
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oh yes no but yeah i can even going back to look at some of |
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the questions it is um you know i think they were quite really well put together and i've obviously never played jeopardy |
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before so you know it was quite fun [Laughter] but um also um just existed you were |
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talking about the mega menu um presentation that um aaron did yes i did i do find um has |
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been this is just been really really great to watch um especially around tailwind as well and that's something |
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that i'd like to learn a little bit more more about um also you know how to actually use that within at the end you |
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know get it developed into a dnn theme how to package it up and then use it in |
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our sites so that's something i'd like to learn more |
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i mean we're working on it on an envy quick theme for tailwind oh i hear that's exciting |
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the quick wind be quick wind |
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tailwind is one thing but watching aaron do tailwind is especially rewarding |
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i like it when he's fumbling you know through it uh that's really fun i'm just kidding he's so fast at it and he like |
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design thinks on the fly it's really impressive |
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it sounds like he's our mvp for presenter at uh at summit because uh i think everybody enjoyed them i |
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uh moderated one of his first ones uh or sat in on one of his first ones and enjoyed that too i know i really enjoyed |
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it daniel valada's sessions too actually both of his sessions were really good |
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one on web components and uh the other one on the on the template |
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system is really really nice it was great but um you know i showed up |
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thinking it was web components and halfway through they changed the title and it was included in slowly the slides |
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but it was all right i was interested in web api too so it was awesome yeah in the recording template it was web api |
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sorry actually |
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well uh any other thoughts or things that you learned or appreciated about this year's dnn summits maybe things |
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were different or unique from last year's comparison i was a little disappointed in the |
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networking feature it didn't seem to work um i don't know maybe i was doing it wrong |
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but i went in several times and it would just spin say it was waiting do nothing |
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personally yeah yeah on screen i have the hop-in interface and i think jeremy |
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that's one of the big things is that last year the first year we used hop-in i think everyone was testing or trying |
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different things a little more or maybe we weren't exhausted from yet |
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another year of covid so i feel like although everyone enjoyed |
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the sessions and everyone participated in communications and chats some of the networking get to know other people you |
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don't know features like networking um i think those fell by the wayside they either weren't used very much or perhaps |
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in the interface they weren't working correctly because like david i went in several times and |
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just left it open while i was doing something no one came in um that's how it does it is it waits for |
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people to come into the waiting room and then it does like i don't know um |
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you know and taking your point if they're open to suggestions um next time if there's a significant virtual |
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component to it and especially hop in i think they should plan to have |
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sessions that are nothing but show up in chat and here's the one or two topics of choice because i would |
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definitely do that but i i'm not as likely to click on that networking thing and go face to face with just one person |
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you know right and maybe that oh my gosh |
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you know along that line uh a i both suggested something like that to hop in but yeah um jeremy just in the uh you |
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know the summit board that's part of what we were talking about is maybe allocating some specific blocked off time to do |
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networking and yeah to have people get together think about last year remember how much fun it was a |
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whole bunch of people stayed at the end i missed the end this year so maybe it happened again but my god that there was |
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like 50 or so people in the room and it was a great time uh when it ended last year |
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it was really a high note for me anyhow |
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yeah it happened this time but it wasn't as many people and maybe not as lively because you weren't there jeremy |
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all right it was because i wasn't there i know i know i hear you yeah so sorry so in the interface i have on |
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screen we kind of have some of the things that are there and i'll point out that you know there's that networking part like we were talking about the |
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expos the boots area where you can go see uh the different sponsor boots there
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