MySource Matrix Resources

Thursday 13 September 2007

8:00am Registrations from 8:00am Coffee & tea

8:50am Welcoming address from Squiz Managing Director: John-Paul Syriatowicz

9:30am Designing the User Experience

User Experience is more than just a usable website; it’s how an organisation is perceived. User Experience starts the first moment someone encounters a brand, and ends the last time they interact with the organisation. It determines the most critical factor for success in a competitive market; what people will say about your organisation. The presentation will cover:

• The foundations of User Experience
• Uncovering real requirements
• Creating the right experience on the web
• Designing the whole User Experience

Speaker: Ash Donaldson, Principle - Produxi Pty Ltd

Presentation: Download a copy of the User Experience PowerPoint presentation. (PDF 5.1MB)

10:15am Case Study Presentation – Tourism Tropical North Queensland (TTNQ)

In late 2005 Angus Sprott’s services were engaged to analyse the IT system needs for TTNQ and Townsville Enterprise Ltd (TEL). He was asked to deliver a 3-5 year plan and implementation for a new web portal, incorporating a CMS and CRM across both platforms, as well as online booking technology. There were many challenges along the way including the high profile launch of the ‘Change Your Latitude’ campaign in March 2007 requiring a complete website re-design in 3 months. Key points to be covered include:

• Timeline management and software flexibility – Achieving a 3 month turnaround for consumer site
• System integration and membership management – With open source product Sugar CRM
• Custom development for platform integration with the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse and V3 booking systems
• Project outcomes and learnings

Speaker: Angus Sprott, Online Tourism Consultant – Tourism Tropical North Queensland

Presentation: Not available.

10:30am Morning refreshments & networking break

11:15am Understanding and Using Website Standards – Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO)

Standards help you to build better websites and manage them successfully. They also help you to identify, understand and comply with your legal obligations e.g. accessibility, privacy and copyright. Find out more about your legal obligations, and hear about emerging standards and web best practices. Areas covered include:

• Website Standards
• Privacy
• Accessibility
• Security
• New Government Web Publishing Guide

Speaker: Tim Dale, Assistant Director Online Services – AGIMO

Presentation: Download a copy of the AGIMO PowerPoint presentation. (PowerPoint 2.0MB)

12:00pm Going Interactive

Captivaction Pty Ltd started out making websites in the mid ‘90s, but soon found their niche in creating and producing specialised interactive solutions for web and multimedia. These days they spend more time working with web developers - like Squiz.net - allowing them to expand the services they offer. Paul Carter is the founder of Captivaction, and will present a range of case studies, some of which were produced for integration with MySource Matrix based websites. Topics covered will include:

Amplifying a website’s ability to connect intellectually and emotionally with the visitor.

• HarrierMap Hybrid Mapping
• CaptivEYE Interactive Webcam
• 3D Flythrough Interactive Tours
• Photographic Flythrough Interactive Tours
• Object Spins
• Integrated Productions
• MySource Matrix Integration

Speaker: Paul Carter, CEO – Captivaction

Presentation: Download a copy of the CaptiveAction PowerPoint presentation. (PowerPoint 2.1MB) or visit a list of the example sites used during the CaptiveAction presentation.

12:45pm Lunch

2:15pm Case Study Presentation – homesite.com.au Responding to rapid growth

In March 2007 homesite.com.au, an ongoing client of Squiz. net was acquired by realestate.com.au. With close to 4 million unique browsers per month, realestate.com.au is one of the most popular websites in Australia. homesite.com.au had already experienced dramatic growth with the aid of solutions from Squiz to become the most popular home and garden website in Australia. The potential integration into realestate.com.au, and the accompanying traffic, was a huge opportunity but also a big challenge for the current solution. Matthew Travers from homesite.com. au provides the business background and Jerome Bonnet from Squiz explains the technical solutions that have given homesite.com.au the capability to integrate with every real-estate network globally. Solutions covered will include:

• Abstracting presentation from information - one Matrix website forms the core of a multitude of integration solutions “Plug & Play” or similar hardware solution with failover and resource planning to meet over 600 searches per minute and over 20M hits per day
• New proven database replication techniques to meet high volume content editing across many public application servers

Speaker: Matthew Travers, Senior Product Manager - homesite.com.au & Jerome Bonnet, Account Manager – Squiz

Presentation: Download a copy of the Homesite.com.au presentation. (PowerPoint 5.7MB)

3:00pm Case Study Presentation – Griffith University

For a better web presence content needs to be clear, concise, relevant and implemented within an enhanced information architecture. For better web publishing roles need to be content based and technical free. Griffith University have implemented a MySource Matrix CMS for decentralised publishing with centralised control. This tool has facilitated the implementation of content templates and a web style guide to create a user centred corporate web presence and creation of an organisational intranet. So how do you engage your organisation to embrace this ambitious change?

• Information architecture
• Training
• Change management and support
• Infrastructure, our truth serum
• Future expectations

Speaker: Mark Henley, Web Infrastructure Developer - Griffith University & Aleks Bochniak, Portal Administrator, Enterprise Information Services - Griffith University

Presentation: Download a copy of the Griffith University presentation. (PowerPoint 1.4MB)

3:45pm Afternoon tea

4:15pm First Public Preview of MySource 4

Be one of the first to see MySource 4, the next version of the MySource CMS. While not feature complete, this preview release will showcase the improvements made to content editing interfaces and tools, setting them apart from other products on the market. In addition, you’ll see:

• A radically overhauled architecture designed for speed and flexibility
• A new Ajax interface
• An improved WYSIWYG editor with true inline content editing and preview
• Wizard-based content creation and much more!

Speaker: Greg Sherwood, Product Development Manager

Presentation: The MySource 4 demonstration was a live system demonstration and did not have PowerPoint slides.

5:00pm Closing Remarks

6:45pm Squiz Innovation Awards Dinner

• MC Corinne Grant
• Squiz site showcase by Avi Miller