Welcome back to another episode of HappyPorchRadio. This is episode 11 of season 2 - which is all about Umbraco!

In this episode we hear from two different people in different roles in one agency.

First you will hear from Nick Durrant, who is MD of Bluegrass Digital. Nick very generously shares the story of an established, successful agency and the role Umbraco plays for them.

Later on in the episode, you will hear from Jacques Nel - a developer with Bluegrass - as he shares his story of being a developer and gives us an insight into Umbraco development in the agency.

It is really cool to hear from two people within the same agency - and I’m really grateful to both Nick and Jacques for sharing their stories.

Welcome back to season 2 of Happy Porch Radio.

As you know season 2 is all about Umbraco and one of the most common requests we have had is for interesting case studies or stories from Umbraco “in the wild”. And we have a great example coming up for you.

On this episode, I am absolutely delighted to introduce Dann Sheridan. Dan is responsible for e-commerce in a global division of a large multi-national - in fact the 3rd largest information services company in the world.

Dann shares the story of their multi-year project to pull a complex and disparate collection of technologies across the globe into a common digital marketing and sales solution - a solution that depends upon Umbraco - and specifically Umbraco cloud.

Welcome back, once more, to HappyPorchRadio. This is episode 9 of Season 2 which is all about Umbraco.

In the last few episodes we have had some really insightful conversations with agencies and in this episode we shift gears slightly to talk about the Umbraco community.

In this episode I speak to the inspiring team behind skrift.io : the monthly magazine for sharing knowledge in the Umbraco community.

We talk about how and why they put so much passion into Skrift and the role of the Umbraco community in their professional lives.

One of the most important parts of this conversation, I feel, is how valuable it is, as an agency leader, to allow and encourage your team to take part in the wider community. Local meet ups, conferences and relevant festivals are an important part of the continuous improvement of you, your team and therefore your agency.

Hello and welcome to another episode of HappyPorchRadio.

This is episode 8 of season 2 and, as you know, season 2 is all about Umbraco - the friendly CMS.

In this show I speak to Aaron & Dane from BKA Digital Outfitters an Umbraco Gold Partner agency in Auckland, New Zealand.

There are two really interesting aspects of our conversation that I hope you find especially valuable. The first is the story about how the agency grew a product from the experiences and the challenges they faced with client work. The product is called “The Mirror”, its purpose is to assist in scaling Umbraco web sites to the very large. The second aspect is how BKA “sell” their expertise and not the platform.

Welcome back to HappyPorchRadio, season 2.

In this episode I speak to Nicholas Westby, an experienced Umbraco developer who works with a company called Rhythm Agency, in California.

Nicholas shares his story and that of Rhythm Agency.

Amongst many other topics we talk about the Umbraco form builder package he created - Formulate - and how the agency supported him in the development of this open source project.

It is really fascinating to learn about both his interaction with the wider Umbraco/open source community and the interaction of the Agency as a whole.

Welcome back to Season 2 of Happy Porch Radio.

One of the most fun things about doing this show is speaking to really amazing Agency professionals and hearing the fascinating stories of different agencies & - crucially - learning so much from the insights they share.

So, in this episode, I am very pleased to be able to introduce Elizabeth Gibbons to you.

Elizabeth is Business Development Manager at (zero)seven, a digital development house in the heart of Brisbane, Australia.

I really enjoyed hearing the story of (zero)seven (another agency that had a custom CMS back in the day!) and how they where solely focused on Umbraco for many years and have now expanded to use other platforms as well.

Welcome back to another episode of HappyPorchRadio, season 2!

In this episode of HappyPorchRadio we get to hear from two people at two different agencies from very different parts of the world, as they share two stories with a great many parallels: Steve Mathew from Fireworkx agency in South Africa and Steve Rooke from Rade Digital in England.

I hear similar stories a lot from agencies who have been around long enough. Back in those heady wild west days of the late 90’s and early 2000’s many agencies where building custom CMS-like functionality as the great platforms (like Umbraco) didn’t exist or where just not a viable option.

Many of us built solid businesses alongside creating our own CMS products. But times change, and for most agencies that just isn’t a sensible route today. Both of these agencies have been around for, in internet terms, a really long time and both have transitioned from their own CMS platform to using Umbraco. They kindly agreed to share their stories with us.

Welcome back to another episode of Happy Porch Radio, season 2!

One of the items that came up quite a lot in the Umbraco CMS in Business Survey we did before the start of this season was e-commerce.

In future episodes we will speak to agency leaders who have built successful eCommerce projects on Umbraco, but in this episode we have the pleasure of hearing from Søren Spelling Lund, who is the founder of one of the main commerce platforms in the Umbraco ecosystem - uCommerce.

On this episode, Søren shares his wealth of ecommerce experience and how his drive & passion helped him though the tough process of building a product business to the international success that is uCommerce today.

Jessica Rowe is a veteran lead generation and digital marketing professional. She has extensive experience serving as a marketing technologist and running high velocity lead generation efforts from both the agency and client sides. As the Director of Marketing for a mortgage company, she is responsible for the development, execution and measurement of all digital marketing strategies and tactics for the mortgage division. Jessica has 2 years of experience working with Umbraco and has implemented Umbraco as the CMS to support her digital strategy at two separate banks. [/su_box]

Welcome back to Happy Porch Radio, season 2. In this episode I’m delighted to be able to share the story of choosing Umbraco from the other side of an agency relationship - the client.

Jessica Rowe is an experienced Director of Digital Marketing and has twice selected Umbraco for large digital projects. We talk a little about her background and the skill set she has built up over the years - and then she shares the story of how and why she selected Umbraco.

She very candidly talks about how a previous negative agency experience completely changed the way she approaches these projects, and then we really dig deep into the exact process she used to identify first Umbraco and then an agency.