Headstand Media

The short story is that Day Software, a global leader in Web Content Management (WCM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM), is being acquired by Adobe (that’s right… the makers of Photoshop and Illustrator) for around $240 million. Adobe’s acquisition of the Swiss-headquartered Day is an obvious step towards solidifying their “whole package” product offering to include WCM, DAM, and Social Collaboration.

Since Headstand Media was born, we have had the privilege of working with some excellent companies and organizations. One of the benefits of working in the space that we do is that we get to see and experience exciting new technologies. In 2008 we began working with Day software products and in 2009, Headstand Media became a Day Software Professional Partner. We continue to enjoy serving Day Communique (CQ) customers through this partnership.

We’re excited about this new merge because both Adobe and Day are industry leaders and innovators who produce increasingly stronger software and technology solutions.

Click here to read Adobe’s immediate press release.

Headstand Media is pleased to announce that we will be a Gold Sponsor at: Ignite 2010 – The Innovative Summit. This conference s sponsored by Day Software AG of Basel, Switzerland for their North American customers and partners. Headstand Media is a Day Professional Partner.

Agility Matters

• Learn how your peers are enhancing Marketing and IT Agility with CQ5. Customer keynote speakers, Hyatt, Adobe and Newsweek share their online, multi-channel success stories.

It’s About the Experience

• We are going mobile to Ignite our summit experience. Day Ignite 2010 is about building community, making new relationships, and getting everyone engaging in a conversation on the New Web and Day CQ5. The Innovative Summit goes mobile, minimizing paper and enhancing your Ignite experience.

It’s Time to Engage

• Learn about ground-breaking new enhancements for multi-channel marketing and campaign optimization with our upcoming CQ 5.4 Sneak Peek, presented by CTO David Nuescheler.

The event will be held at:
The Westin Chicago River North
320 North Dearborn Street
Chicago IL 60654
October 13-14

More details to follow.

(More about CQ5 Design and Development)

Headstand Media is extremely proud to announce a new partnership with the Hyatt Corporation. We’ve begun an exciting initial project with our Chicago neighbor (that’s right… Hyatt and Headstand Media are located a few blocks apart here in the Loop!) designing and building websites for 2 new Hyatt Premier Restaurants in the Day Software Communique (CQ5) environment.

We’re happy to be working with the fine people of the Hyatt Corporation and are looking forward to building an excellent partnership in the coming months.

Headstand Media has just completed a 2-day conference held in Chicago called: Ignite 2009 – The Innovative CMS Summit. This conference was sponsored by Day Software AG of Basel, Switzerland for their North American customers and partners. Headstand Media was honored to be a co-sponsor of the event as a Day Professional Partner.

Some highlights of the conference for us were:

• David Nuescheler, CTO, Day Software, on: Igniting CQ5.3: What’s New and the Roadmap – He gave us his “Top 10″ new features in CQ 5.3 that turned out to actually be 13!
• Greg Klebus, Product Manager, Day Software, on: Incorporating Microsoft Sharepoint into your Web 2.0 Initiatives – Greg gave us a sneak preview of a new Day product called Sharepoint Connector which allows the Day CQ5 CMS to tap into Sharepoint resources.
• Toby Bell, VP, Research, Gartner on: Web channel issues, solutions and success measures. Toby gave a great overview of where web 2.0 is and where he believes it is headed based upon his research.
• Erin Yarbrough & Melanee Hamilton: University of Oklahoma Case Study - a real world focus on the powerful new calendar features in CQ5

Headstand Media created a mini-site for the Ignite 2009 Conference that highlights our expertise with Day CQ5 software since we began using it in 2008 for the About McDonald’s corporate website project. In the few weeks that this site has been online it has climbed to the #1 Google search result for: “CQ5 Development” and “CQ5 Design” - illustrating one of the core competencies we talk about on the site itself: search engine optimization.

We also gave away 3 iPod Shuffles to attendees who stopped by our table and dropped a business card in a glass bowl. The winners were:

• Graham MacDougall of Dalhousie University
• Steve Garippo of Newedge Group
• Jay Campbell of Genworth Financial.

Congratulations to the winners!

Day Professional Partners

Headstand Media has become an official Day Professional Partner, focused on serving Day Communique customers with their CQ5 web strategy, creative design, installation and technology integration needs. You can view our listing on the Day Software Professional Service Partners page. Learn more about our expertise in CQ5 Design, Development and Online Strategy.

Headstand Media is also pleased top announce that we will be a co-sponsor at the Day Ignite 2009 customer summit to be held in Chicago from October 27-29, 2009. The event is designed to bring together the growing community of Day customers and partners, to showcase the latest Day technologies and solutions. The 2 days will provide many opportunities for interaction during workshops, dinners, receptions and other key presentations.

Headstand Media is excited to be able to partner with Day to craft online strategies that fit our customer’s unique organization needs and launch them toward their goals. Through the explosive combination of creativity+technology, Headstand Media leverages Day’s user-oriented technology with extreme creativity to deliver online solutions that exceed our customer’s expectations.

Contact Headstand Media for more information on Day Software solutions.

What is this screen doing on the Headstand Media website?

Day CQ5 Web Content Management (WCM) - Login Screen

This is the login screen to Day Software’s Web Content Management (WCM) system called Communiqué or CQ5 for short. It is on the Headstand Media site because we have become a Day Software Partner, and will support and extend this product for our clients and Day Software customers.

Day Software Customers

A partial list of Day Customers include:

• DaimlerChrysler AG
• InterContinental Hotels Group
• Johnson Controls
• McDonald’s Corporation
• Oklahoma University
• The SwissLife Group
• Volkswagen Group

Initially, Headstand Media was introduced to version 4 of this product while working on a large corporate customer web project in 2008-2009. We heard that CQ5 was coming and decided to investigate it further. It turns out that Day has been rebuilding the software from the ground up and CQ5 represents the fruit of that labor.

Headstand Media has set up our own Day CQ5 development environment and is now working on new ideas and web implementations for our customers who use CQ5. We are very excited about the leading edge open source Java technology used on this enterprise content management system, and the flexibility, scalability and performance it offers. Of particular interest to Headstand Media is the addition of a Social Collaboration module which allows CQ5 customers to tap into blogs, wiki’s, discussion and other social networking tools available in the marketplace today. Learn more about our expertise in CQ5 Design, Development and Online Strategy.

Contact Headstand Media for more information on how your business or organization could benefit from this advanced web content management tool.