Moriyama

A day of donuts and dog-loving! A great day spent with the team at our London office for the Quarterly Business Review, followed by a leaders’ dinner to cap it all off. 🍩 🐶 Mark Greenway | Jenny Bradshaw | Steven Smith | Julian Tedstone | Daniel Berry | Thuy Tran | Richard Bundock | Sydney Fensom | Nigel Aaron | Emily Charlotte Baines |

Back at my desk after a smashing week in Chicago which exceeded all expectations 🇺🇸 Thursday's Umbraco US Partner Summit was a great opportunity to reconnect with contacts, make new friends and get the Exec team's take on the US market and the future for Umbraco (spoiler: it's looking brighter than ever!). There's a post from Moriyama in the works this week to share more of our experience, but I wanted to give a quick shout out to a few people who made it such a special event... a non-exhaustive list follows, and if I've omitted you from the list, blame the jet lag! So great to spend time with Karen Koehler Bryan O'Fiesh Jake Compton & Javier A. Miranda from the US team and Emma Burstow 🇩🇰 Filip Bech-Larsen from HQ, and to meet new CEO Mats Persson - I really enjoyed the fireside chat with the Exec team, it was good to hear Umbraco's unique DNA of commercially-backed open source + community engagement + partner network remains fundamental. Moriyama sponsored Thursday evening's drinks at District Brew Yards - so good to chat with so many Umbracians. Apologies to anyone still fighting to get their Moriyama VIP wristband off! 😉 Friday's Umbraco US Foundation, Inc. US Festival was a packed schedule of inspirational and enlightening talks: Kyle Brigham and Karla Santi got things started with a fabulous welcome 🎉 Heather Burns took us on a tour of Umbraco's past, present and future, with some excellent Scottish slang thrown in for good measure. Adam Prendergast's session on Astro x Umbraco showcased the capabilities of the platform to deliver highly performant sites. Janae Cram lead us on a whirlwind tour of fantastic editor features from TinyMCE - great job on fitting all that high value content into just 30 minutes! Marc Love & Paul Daly showcased the features and benefits of uSkinned Site Builder. Jen Wolke's talk on empowering content editors showcased some great examples from BlueModus on how they are putting this into practise. In the afternoon I had the great pleasure of joining Karla Santi Colleen Campbell and Brad Rockwood for a panel exploring Umbraco's position in the CMS landscape. Joe Kepley's session on making a package helped my non-technie brain gain some insight into how things get built (& how much love you have for the V8 Hemi!). Heather Floyd's cautionary tale about Frankensites helped us all think about how we can use upgrades to streamline sites and optimise projects. And Moriyama's own Matt Bliss championed putting the editor first when scoping projects, to ensure the people who use the site most regularly get the best possible experience. Huge thanks to all in the Umbraco US Foundation, Inc. team for organising such a brilliant event - Heather, Erica, Allen, Kyle, Karla, Adam, Blake & Alex. And thanks to Pawel, Cherie, Marc, Paul, Kyle, Ravi and many more for the great chats/laughs along the way! See you next time!

🚨Umbraco London meet-up klaxon 🚨 In a few weeks it the next jam packed addition of the in person umbraco london meetup We have a Q and A panel discussing all the recent news and acquisitions in the umbraco world We have Jenny Bradshaw (MD of Moriyama) and Jenny Kitchen (MD of YoYo design) and one other guest to be announced soon So find out what businesses are thinking and ask your questions and get the answers from those at the coal face We also have Aaron Green (precision Resource Group) who is doings talk on “How to win the Hiring Process” Join us at September Umbraco Talks/ Q&A September 19th from 630pm https://lnkd.in/ekNZaXG5

One month away!!! The Umbraco US Festival is right around the corner, and I’m only slightly panicking because I’m one of the Umbraco US Foundation, Inc. committee members helping to plan the whole thing. (How I ended up planning an event is a whole separate post). 😬 The EASY part will be hosting a talk titled “Umbraco in Context—Carving Its Niche in the CMS Landscape.” The HARD part will be sticking to moderation and not answering my own questions. 😅 The FUN part is watching ticket sales come in! The attendee list is looking so, so good. It will be fun to see old friends and make some new ones too! We have an amazing lineup of speakers and two days of programming, so please consider joining us in Chicago on October 3-4th! Hope to see you there! https://lnkd.in/gGp2Uurd #Umbraco #H5YR