Squiz International User Conference

• Where: The Sebel Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
• When: October 20 to 22

The Squiz International User Conference has grown to three days, and an exciting new format.

Day 1 – Squiz Conference. Learn how to deliver the optimum Squiz driven website and intranet solutions: sessions on virtualization, analytics, accessibility, scalability, distributed authoring and social networking.

Day 2 – Squiz CMS and Funnelback Search Training. Learn how to get the most out of the world’s most flexible CMS with modules on Squiz Analytics, Squiz Easy Edit Suite (EES), Squiz Search, W3C Mobile Design, Flexibility, Mashups and Web 2.0 personalisation.

Day 3 – Funnelback Search Conference. Learn how to help your users find the right information faster.

The Conference includes international case studies, including four NZ case studies confirmed so far.

If you'd like to join the group of Kiwi MySource Matrix users and Squiz NZ staff going to this year’s Conference, drop a line to Kathy Olsen.

Early Bird Discount (20% Discount) available until 31st July.

http://squiz.com.au/news_and_events/user-conference

Squiz NZ User Conference 2010

• When: Friday November 19
• Where: Wellington Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Level 28, Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street, Wellington.

If you want to catch up with the latest in Web Content Management and search, mark your diary now. You’ll enjoy a great day, and leave with inspiration and new ideas, as well as practical tools and tips you can apply right away.

We’re building the Conference programme now, so if you are really interested in a particular topic, contact the conference convenor Matt Lane.

Call for case study and tutorial presentations

If you'd like to present the nifty feature you've built, project you're working on, or MySource Matrix tutorial you've developed, in a 15 or 30 minute presentation at the conference, then please let us know.

Topics we’d especially like to hear about include (but are not limited to):

• Mobile web
• Web analytics
• Intranets
• Online marketing
• Search
• Distributed authoring
• Social networking
• Disaster recovery and emergency management.

Squiz NZ now certified to Gold Enviro-Mark level

Squiz NZ has successfully passed the Silver and Gold Levels of Enviro-Mark certification, and is now Enviro-Mark NZ Gold certified.

The Enviro-Mark certification programme helps organisations develop and implement an environmental management system (EMS). Squiz NZ participated through Greater Wellington’s eMission programme

We are next setting our sights on Platinum and Diamond levels, as a prequel to ISO14001.

Keep up with the latest Matrix features

The MySource Matrix Newsletter has been revamped and is now available each Friday as a blog post on the Squiz Labs website

The blog will still keep you up with the latest features, adding more in-depth information. Without sacrificing the technical detail, the blog also contains more examples and images to provide business level information.

Squiz Labs Blog Links:

• MySource Matrix
• MySource Mini
• Subscribe to Squiz Labs RSS feeds

South Island Users Group

Last month saw the first meeting of the South Island MySource Matrix Users Group hosted at Selwyn District Council.

Users from a variety of industries shared functionality they’d developed recently, several morphing into tutorials on the MySource Matrix community site.

We’re happy to support Squiz product user groups, so if you’re interested in starting a user group for your industry or location please feel free to contact Kathy Olsen to discuss in more detail.

New Training Course for October: MySource Mini Fundamentals (MINI 101)

MySource Mini is the revolutionary next generation WCMS from Squiz and we are delighted to announce a new training course to accompany the latest version release.

MINI 101 – MySource Mini Fundamentals will teach users the basics of how to use the Administration Interface of MySource Mini WCMS.

This one-day course will focus on how to perform fundamental, day-to-day tasks such as creating pages and basic content, it also introduces more complex features of MySource Mini such as workflow, track changes and versioning.

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Create pages and files
• Add basic content to a page
• Insert links and images
• Insert images, movies and image galleries into pages
• Enable track changes and approve and reject changes
• Add metadata
• Use the Preview, Edit, Settings and Versioning modes
• Understand the normal publishing process
• Understand the workflow approval process
• Use the help desk

Please contact Kathy Olsen if you would like to enquire about booking a place for yourself or your team.

Webmaster and web editor training

Squiz is running the following training courses in July 2010 at our training lab in Wellington.

Code	Coursename	Date
MATR 101	MySource Matrix Fundamentals	July 05
MATR 210	MySource Matrix Packages - CMS	July 06
MATR 210	MySource Matrix Packages - CMS	July 07
MATR 102	MySource Matrix Advanced WYSIWYG	July 08
STATS 103	Website Statistics	July 09
MATR 201	MySource Matrix Content Administration	July 12
MATR 202	MySource Matrix CMS Administrator	July 13
MATR 330	MySource Matrix Designs	July 14

Our next flight of training runs September 27 to October 7.

View Training Courses / Training Schedule / Training Registration Form

"How to" tutorials and tips

For some great ideas and "how to" tutorials and tips, visit the MySource Matrix community site. Tutorials include:

• Display semantically related content.
• Using Snippets to Automate Rotating Text Bites

Thanks to Julian Taverner and Deb Webb for contributing these.

New Faces @ Squiz

The team at Squiz NZ keeps on growing and this month we welcome two new faces.

New MySource Matrix Sites

ECCC

The Employers Chamber of Commerce Central (ECCC) and its Wellington branch WECC are an exciting initiative to combine the activities of the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce and EMA Central.

Victoria University of Wellington - Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research (CACR)

A centre of excellence in research into cross-cultural issues, CACR’s members are leading New Zealand diversity researchers who collaborate online and maintain close ties to international researchers.

Asialink

Asialink is Australia’s leading centre for the promotion of public understanding of the countries of Asia and of Australia’s role in the region.

m2telecom

M2 Telecom offers fixed line voice, mobile and internet services in Australia and New Zealand.

Yancoal Australia

Yancoal Australia Pty Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited, China.