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How Tag Management Will Supercharge Your Testing Program – Digital Velocity Conference 2014 #dv14

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Naoshi Yamauchi - Movemver - Internet Summit (Photo credit: Thos003)

 

Here is my summary of the tag management presentation by Naoshi Yamauchi at the Digital Velocity Tealium User Conference 2014, San Diego, CA
Presenter: Naoshi Yamauchi, Chief Performance Officer, Brooks Bell
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If you’re managing a testing program on your website—and every site should be testing—implementing a tag management system can take it to the next level. Through the use of these techniques, you will be able to reduce costs, increase velocity, and drive more effective testing.

Lots of work goes into testing.

Time is Money

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  • Every day that we aren’t testing we lose a day on learning

Speed

  • Reduce IT involvement
  • Quickly implement fixes & new test code
  • Adjust analytics code on the fly

Agility

  • Deploy the tools that add value to your tests… …only when you test.
    • Reduce third party costs. Makes getting approval easier.

HTML5 TX 2013

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HTML5 TX Opening CircleToday is the 2nd annual HTML5 Texas conference at St. Edwards University in Austin. Looking forward to learning some great HTML5 goodness today.

Important things for today:

  • Parking is available in any lot except the red lots (resident parking)
  • Great sponsors
  • Hackython with free copies of Kendo UI
  • Closing Party tonight

Open Spaces – Alan Stevens

HTML5TX Open Spaces by Alan Stevens

Open spaces technology allows for the important stuff that goes on at conferences in the hallways. An open space is a place where you can run an impromptu session on any topic. The first step is to propose a topic that you’re passionate about. It doesn’t have to be related to other topics or the conference at all. Announce your topic and your name and put it on the board in one of the areas available. The only other responsibility is to show up. Then you can do whatever you want. Give a lecture or a presentation or a conversation. If no one shows up, that’s okay, too. Just stay there and see what happens. It is an amazing experience.

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What Makes a Company’s Culture Great?

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Lunch with Zappos executives

Lately, at work, within our department we’ve been discussing company culture. A while back, we read Delivering Happiness, the book by Tony Hsieh about the history of the company and culture of Zappos. A few months ago, a Googler accidentally posted an internal memo on Google+ that showed the world a lot about Google culture, especially with the fact that it was allowed to be left public and did not receive any negative repercussions (as far as we know). We’ve also been mulling over the Netflix culture presentation over the last few weeks. I love what I do and where I work, especially the team I work with and the department I work in. I’m always encouraged with a discussion about how we can improve workplace culture, so I was very interested to dive into a study of workplace culture and how the corporate presentation of culture and actual practice line up.

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Removing the /blog Slug in WordPress MultiSite

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Wordpress LogoI ran into an interesting issue at work today. We’re setting up a company blog using WordPress and we’re using the multisite functionality to manage how different sections of the blog work. This may not be the most efficient way to do it, but in the corporate world, you want to make sure that the right people have the right access to the right sections so everyone can work in their own happy little space.

Everything was working fine until we started setting up permalinks according to the instructions provided by our SEO expert. The issue we ran into was that WordPress automatically adds a /blog slug in front of the permalinks. My understanding is that this slug is to avoid conflicts between permalinked categories on the main site and sub-sites that may have the same name. That makes sense. At the same time, though, there should be a clearly explained way to change this in the network admin section of the site.

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