Meet Magento New York Highlights
One of the biggest Meet Magento events this year. We've gathered some of the most important bits of information about it, including links to some of the presentations.
Meet Magento New York Highlights
The Hackaton that preceded the first day of the conference had some great results and some very useful ideas for Magento 2.
Look at all the great ideas at the #MM15NY Hackathon! pic.twitter.com/UuB1viJyOo
— Ben Marks (@benmarks) September 20, 2015
The opening keynote by Bob Schwartz was very inspiring and informative.
Love that @BobSchwartz is sharing how they built the soul of the #Magento brand. #MM15NY pic.twitter.com/4xwNmaazWO
— Sherrie Rohde (@sherrierohde) September 21, 2015
Bob shared some insightful ideas and thoughts about the current state of commerce.
Stop calling what we do eCommerce - it’s commerce. Technology enabled retail. @BobSchwartz #MM15NY pic.twitter.com/uKkz07gTmt
— Joshua Warren (@JoshuaSWarren) September 21, 2015
'Magento' as a search term is more googled than 'commerce'. Fascinating.
Magento of more Googled than commerce #mm15ny
— Brent W. Peterson (@brentwpeterson) September 21, 2015
Karen Baker – CEO of ShipperHQ, had a great talk with some great stats.
59% of customers look at shipping costs when making a purchase online. Yet 22% of retailers make no mention on homepage @ShipperHQ #MM15NY
— ShipperHQ (@ShipperHQ) September 22, 2015
Paul Rogers had some great tips about a sound UGC strategy.
Ask open questions for reviews helps get descriptive answers & helps with duplicate content #mm15ny @paulnrogers pic.twitter.com/VPKtH6sRsz
— Shero (@SheroDesigns) September 22, 2015
Fabricio's presentation is great for anyone interested in Magento integration and deployment. Definitely check it out.
[Slides] "Continuous Integration and Deployment Patterns for Magento" (incl. some bonus slides) http://t.co/7BJ9GLxfee #mm15ny
— Fabrizio Branca (@fbrnc) September 22, 2015
Some more great tips from Paul Rogers.
Don't block your CSS & JS in your robots.txt #mm15ny @paulnrogers #seo
— Shero (@SheroDesigns) September 22, 2015
Resolve your duplicate content issues in Magento with these simple tactics.
Having issues with duplicate content in #magento? #mm15ny @paulnrogers #SEO pic.twitter.com/LhHfn8PkTw
— Shero (@SheroDesigns) September 22, 2015
Benno's presentation about product information management included some great stats and ideas about PIM systems and their proper implementation.
94% of companies use spreadsheets to organize product data. But collaboration is difficult #MM15NY @bennolippert #productmanagement
— Shero (@SheroDesigns) September 22, 2015
Great presentation by Mark Shust about Magento 2 development with Docker. You can check it out online (follow the link in the tweet).
Our @Docker & #Magento2 presentation by @markshust is up on Google Slides at https://t.co/op1Y7LANpO #mm15ny pic.twitter.com/mraw3ZJd9T
— Mage Inferno (@MageInferno) September 23, 2015
Michael Türk had a lot to say about personalization.
The rules for internationalization. 1) potential for products, Close to domestic market 2) Focus on pitfalls 3) test ! #mm15ny @drlrdsen
— Brent W. Peterson (@brentwpeterson) September 22, 2015
Some of the info in his presentation was extremely useful:)
We are learning different ways to show the middle finger from @drlrdsen #mm15ny
— Brent W. Peterson (@brentwpeterson) September 22, 2015
More about the current state of Magento and where it’s going.
"There are days when we see more commits on the #Magento2 Dev docs than the actual code" -@JoshuaSWarren #mm15ny #howThingsHaveChanged
— Talesh Seeparsan (@_Talesh) September 22, 2015
Joshua’s presentation on Magento 2 was inspiring. Definitely check it out, if you’re trying to prepare yourself for the upcoming iteration of the biggest commerce platform out there.
Looking for my slides from my Magento 2 Workshop at #MM15NY? They’re going online now at https://t.co/HhzaJYw4kz #realmagento
— Joshua Warren (@JoshuaSWarren) September 22, 2015
Some stats to keep in mind, if you’re thinking about optimizing your website.
40% of customers will abandon your site if it's slower then 3s #mm15ny
— Shero (@SheroDesigns) September 22, 2015
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Bonus – Meet Magento Belarus
This event took place on the 21st of September and was a bit overshadowed by Meet Magento New York. However, it had some great presentations and speakers.
Kristina’s presentation is in Russian, but contains some great insights. Check it out here.
Some trigger email insights for e-commerce from Kristina Pototskaya (@TriggMine ) #mm15by
— Amasty Team (@AmastyTeam) September 21, 2015
Amasty shares some insights on client management in Magento and the most common problems that developers face with new clients: server access, navigating new client’s servers, finding files, fixing Cron, etc.
Вот и время @AmastyTeam на конференции #mm15by #magento pic.twitter.com/zYYiOkkfwU
— Alexey (@alex_motorny) September 21, 2015
Some impressive stats about Magento 2 checkout.
New #Magento2 Checkout procedure is much faster than native #Magento #mm15by #meetmagento pic.twitter.com/q4iqD7HE5y
— Advanced Logic (@AdvancedLogicEu) September 21, 2015
Some of the top help desk solutions and their ratings, according to Vitaly Kolukshev – head of customer care at Amasty.
Helpdesk rating #mm15by #amasty #magento pic.twitter.com/tkt4QvQLCs
— Vitaly Kolukshev (@VitalyKolukshev) September 21, 2015
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