Spilling the beans on next week's webinar, now that it's over half full
Category Collaboration UniversityTroy and I are delivering a Collaboration University Webinar next Thursday, March 11th, and now that the samples are developed I'll spill the beans.
The Webinar (free to CU 2009 attendees, cheap for everyone else) starts off with the new Quickr hooks APIs in two ways, then we'll explore innovative ideas and take questions. The two samples are:
1) An audit utility to leave a trail of metadata for every document published - whether via a browser, Quickr connectors, PandaBear, SnappFiles, or courier pigeon. The audit data is stored in a separate database (which you can secure).
2) A methodology by which you can finally do - wait for it - room templates. In this demo Troy's taken a popular template from our shelves, QSurvey, and coded a room creation hook to take all the custom design features for something as complex as QSurvey and make them available to new rooms upon creation. But it gets better. Troy has built a "white list" mechanism so the code will only put survey code into rooms in designated places, and it can be turned on and off. And finally, he abstracted it to simple forms and views so you can control it at a granular level, but in a very easy-to-understand way. So bottom line, you can - with this hook - have a place manager call up and say 'Hey, I'd like a Survey Room," then while on the phone you do 2 seconds of work, tell them "Create a new room," and voila, it's a Survey Room. Then you can turn it off for them so other new rooms in the place are normal. Or, you can have one place that's all about Survey Rooms. The developers among you will understand how use the framework Troy has developed to do your own. Non-developers can just use it as is, or have us develop something awesome using the new APIs.
We'll finish up with a review of the API categories, some of our own ideas on what you could do with them (alone and in combination), and the take Q&A and listen to your own ideas.
The Webinar is designed to illustrate CONCEPTS and POSSIBILITIES not just the canned examples, but attendees (only) do get the code. It's worth thousands. So suit up - I mean sign up - because it's going to be legen - wait for it - dary!
