Thanks to the Channel 9 folks for hosting me in this great video that shows Kentico and Windows Azure!

Nobody should argue that the market continues to add what seems like a limitless stream of mobile devices to the market. How you make your site engage with these devices is the question we should be asking. This infographic by Uberflip provides some great basic data and information about Responsive design. While I don’t always think Responsive Design is the answer, it is an essential part of the technology landscape today.  I thought this was very well done introductory infographic about Responsive Design that presents the information in an easy to follow format and very straight forward.

Join us for an exciting webinar hosted by the Customer Engagement Technology World

Date: June 6, 2013
Time: 02:00 PM- 03:00 PM EDT

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How do you know if cloud computing is right for your organization? Even though cloud computing is everywhere, is being offered by all major technology players, and all agree you need it, never forget definitions continue to vary. It’s important for anyone looking at the cloud to find the right balance of cost to benefit, availability, scalability, and capacity to drive the best decision. Understanding these in addition to your organizations risk profile is essential to determine if cloud computing and associated services are right you.

join us for an exciting Microsoft sponsored webinar featuring Kentico!

Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 8:00 AM PST/4:00 PM BST
Duration: 1 hour(s)
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Kentico Connections 2013 is coming! Regardless of whether you are a Kentico rock star or just have something to say, we’d love to hear from you!

Join us for our third Ask the Experts – A Kentico CMS Virtual Panel
Date: June 25, 2013
Time: 8 AM PST/11 AM EST/4 PM BST
Location: Everywhere! Google hangouts and Twitter

In the post Cloud computing 101: Service models we started looking the basics of the cloud service models. It’s important to think of them as a logical model. Infrastructure sits at the bottom, platform in the middle and software at the top of the stack. Let’s take a look at these in more depth.

Join us for an exciting Webinar!

Date: June 5
Time: 8-9 AM PST/11-12 PM EST/4-5 PM BST
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We hope you feel that the worldwide Kentico community is a fantastic place for support and education on any technical topic.  Kentico is incredibly excited about the shift to the cloud and Windows Azure and couldn’t think of any better way to show that excitement than to spread the word virtually and provide some great content. This is your chance to either participate or become part of our first ever Azure Kentico Virtual Conference. Yes, you heard that right! You can sit in the comfort of your home, office or favorite coffee shop and be part of the audience and learn about Windows Azure and Kentico CMS.  If you have something to say you can step up to present your session and be part of the learning experience!

Thanks to everyone that attended!
By 2015, 90% of web traffic will be video (Cisco). That’s cool... but what do you know about who is watching YOUR videos? How are you customizing your prospects' website experience based on their engagement with your videos?

Watch this webinar to learn how Questionmine and Kentico have teamed up to help Savvy marketers who demand to know more than just "who clicked on my video?"

At the most basic level, Questionmine provides video hosting and a killer set of video analytics integrated into your Kentico EMS installation. When these two are combined they create instantly ACTIONABLE marketing data. For example, easily allowing customization of website content and marketing efforts based on an EMS activity like the length of time a video was viewed.

For marketers that want to take their videos to the next level, the Questionmine Kentico EMS integration allows you to:

1. Generate leads by adding lead capture forms at any point in a video.
2. Qualify leads by adding questions that appear during the video.
3. Customize website content and marketing efforts based on how prospects and leads answer questions during videos.
4. Drive Ecommerce by including call to action buttons during video such as "Buy Now" or "Add to Cart".

Personally, I believe that cloud computing is the next stage in the Internet’s evolution.  The cloud will eventually provide the way that everything from computing power to computing infrastructure, application business process to personal collaboration is delivered as a service wherever and whenever you need it.

Cloud computing is a significant step in the evolution of the Internet. Cloud computing is an evolutionary step that combines the power of the Internet, outsourcing, increased bandwidth, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), mobility to just name a few.

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Social Media Customer Service, commonly called Social care, is becoming the next generation for customer engagement. With more than 1 billion people globally using Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, the volumes of customer complaints and inquiries posted online are growing rapidly. This webinar organized by Kentico, in cooperation with Brand Embassy a global Social care platform provider introduced how businesses can easily identify, engage and analyze dissatisfied customers on the social web. In just one hour you will be prepared to start with social care for your business.

About Brand Embassy:
Brand Embassy is a next level customer service platform. It helps companies to identify and easily engage dissatisfied customers across social media. The platform is currently used by large customers including Vodafone, Telefonica O2, TMobile, General Motors, ING and others. Brand Embassy, with operations in Europe, North America USA, Australia and Latin America was recently nominated to the TOP 100 most innovative companies by Red Herring. More at www.brandembassy.com.

Ok, so I had a lot of fun and hope everyone that joined did as well! As always the experts were fantastic and it looks like they enjoyed themselves. Thanks to everyone on Twitter that asked some great questions. Stay tuned for our next ask the experts!

A very interesting infographic from Devry University that helps to explain the basics of cloud computing, and clear up some of the common misunderstandings I know I have heard.

Cloud computing is having a tremendous impact on the IT industry. I suspect many people reading this post are already cloud based technologies  in their personal and professional lives. This infpographic by Multy Shades is using the term fifth generation of the computing industry. Cloud computing is clearly establishing itself as the next biggest leap in the transformation of the usage of computers at the work place.

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s answer to the cloud and Kentico CMS has been a close partner in leveraging this cloud platform. For developers Windows Azure provides a fantastic opportunity for building and deploying applications like Kentico CMS. In this video we take a look at how you can download and install Kentico CMS on Windows Azure using publishing and leveraging the Kentico Installation Manager.

Version 7 introduced some amazing new features. In my personal opinion one of the most powerful is Marketing Automation. Marketing automation is used to manage automatic targeting, timing and content of your outbound marketing messages in response to the behavior and actions of site visitors. For marketers this drastically simplifies the planning and delivering of marketing messages to specific segments.

It’s just about a week away and I hope I’ll see you there!

Date: April 10, 2013 
Time: 8 AM PST/11 AM EST/4 PM BST
Location: Everywhere! Google hangouts and Twitter

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