Sitecore.20231124.133003.log

by Balaji Kandasamy

It's been an outstanding year marked by significant contributions to the community. Throughout the year, there has been extensive learning, particularly in adopting a new technology stack that includes headless architecture, Ordercloud, and Sitecore Search. Meeting the community and virtual friends in person at Sitecore DX was a valuable experience.

I'm thrilled about the success of organizing SUGCON NA 2023 and take this moment to reflect on my contributions to the Sitecore Community this year. Self-evaluation is crucial for achieving greater success.

I express my gratitude to my family for their support during the evenings when I organized user groups after work. Additionally, a heartfelt thank you to the amazing community and everyone who has provided support along the way.

SUGCON NA 2023

Awards

Happy that we were able to secure the award for the third time.

Experience Awards 2023 (Honorable Mention)

Speaking Events

Sitecore Webinar

SUG Talks

Blog Posts

Share quality content to the Sitecore community through my blog that had 18K Views this year.

Blog Content Performance

LinkedIn Content Performance

Certification

  • Sitecore Content Hub Administration Certification
  • Sitecore Content Hub Developer Certification
  • Sitecore XM Cloud Certification
  • Coveo for Sitecore

Contribution

  • Sitecore Bugs
  • Sitecore Search Platform review and feedback
  • Sitecore learning review and feedback
  • Mentor

    * Aspiring new and existing MVP's

    * Offline Mentoring developers on Sitecore

    * Provide guidance for certification

Participation

  • Hackathon 2023
  • Sitecore Lunches
  • Sitecore MVP lunches
  • Slack and Stack overflow
  • Hosted all the Pittsburgh SUG meetups
  • Meetups in the following SUG's

    * Boston, Budapest, Queen City, Columbus, Portland, New England, Toronto, Atlantic Canada, SUG Jaipur, SUG Bangalore, SUG India, SUGMEA, SUG Jordan

Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group (PGHSUG)

11 Meetup's Hosted

45 Members growth (346)

18 Average Participation

Meetup

  • Dec 08, 2022 -  Moving to Headless without losing your head | CDP - A comparative study
  • Jan 25, 2023 -  Sitecore Headless Project Experiences with Next.js
  • Feb 08, 2023 - The Road to Composable: Migrating your XP solutions to Headless
  • Mar 08, 2023 - Role of CX in Composable DXP world
  • Apr 05, 2023 - Introduction of JavaScript SDK for Sitecore Discover
  • May 31, 2023 - Sitecore Search 101
  • Jun 22, 2023 - When AI met Sitecore CDP
  • Jul 10, 2023 - The capabilities of Sitecore’s DXP products against Adobe, Acquia and Optimizely
  • Aug 9, 2023 - Getting Started with Sitecore Experience Edge
  • Sep 21 , 2023 - One click Sitecore deployment to Kubernetes
  • Oct 25, 2023 - Sitecore XM Cloud - Experiences and Learnings
  • Nov 09, 2023 - Building an Intelligent Chat Experience powered by Real-time Business Content/Data with OpenAI

YouTube

Pittsburgh Sitecore User Group Channel

40 Video Published (13)

168 Subscribers

2024 Goals

Explore and contribute

  • Explore the new technologies and share the knowledge
    • Composable DXP
    • Headless (NextJS)
    • Experience Edge
  • Explore, learn and share knowledge on Sitecore SaaS offerings
  • Present in Symposium and Sitecore user groups
  • Sitecore XM Cloud Implementation
  • .NET developers help them cross train

Organize

  • Keeping the group active with interesting topics every month
  • Facilitate Sitecore thought leaders to showcase their expertise
  • Provide open stage for new presenters

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