🍉 Snack On: Fishtank's Rising Star Award Win, Sitecore Named Leader, ChatGPT Competitor and More

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🌟 Fishtank Wins Rising Star Award From Sitecore

We are proud to announce that we have received the highly coveted Rising Star award from Sitecore! This award recognizes Sitecore partners who have generated significant customer value by identifying and fulfilling customer needs with Sitecore solutions. 

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🗞️ Sitecore Updates & News

• Sitecore has announced the 2023 Partner Award winners! The Sitecore Partner Awards showcase the top performers who have excelled in helping customers deliver exceptional digital experiences. 
• Want to learn how to build better web experiences with XM Cloud? Check out Sitecore's new tutorial series all about implementing new web projects using XM Cloud. 
• Sitecore (and the XM product line) was named Leader by analyst firm, IDC, in the Marketscape for Hybrid Headless CMS!
• Check out what's new at Sitecore, including recent product updates and improvements across Content Cloud, Engagement Cloud, and Commerce Cloud.  

💻 Developer Quick Hits

• Want to copy Sitecore content quickly between environments? Try using Sitecore CLI. 
• Learn how to create a Docker asset image for your Sitecore module in this detailed tutorial. 
• Stuck with a misbehaving MSBuild script? Try these debugging techniques. 
• Explore how to execute a function directly from the command line as a CLI tool using TypeScript and TypeScript Execute to reuse your code across different contexts. 
• Follow these steps to add static files to the Sitecore file system without the need for deployment. 
• Installing a Sitecore hotfix? Learn more about the Sitecore Nuget Public Feed Limitations. 
• Check out these tips for managing the complexity of GraphQL queries in Sitecore XM Cloud. 

 📣 Marketing Quick Hits

• Sitecore's "How Do Brands Make AI Work" webinar is now on demand! Ann Handley, Wall Street Journal best-selling author and CCO of Marketing Profs, sits down with Sitecore to explore generative AI and how it's changing the world of content. 
• Onsite search is becoming a crucial aspect in providing visitors with a superior experience so they can find relevant content quickly and easily. Learn how to get CX right with Sitecore Search. 
• Check out this interview with Sitecore's Chief Customer Success Officer, Lee Miles, on why customer-centric brands need to rethink their marketing technology strategy to be able to adapt to rapidly evolving trends like AI and social commerce.
• Want to learn the basics of headless? Get an introduction to Sitecore's highly scalable solutions in just five minutes. 
• Explore the features and functionality of Sitecore's CMS, including the content creation life cycle and key workflow elements, in this video with Sitecore Senior Solutions Consultant, Xun Yin. 
• In the first part of this two-part video series, Sitecore Product Manager Petar Mitev demonstrates Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
• Brands join Meta's Threads before it starts to offer advertising options, building organic profiles to understand user behaviour. 

🌐 Industry Quick Hits

• Elon Musk has announced the launch of a new AI organization, xAI, to "understand the true nature of the universe." (Whatever that means.)
• Anthropic's Claude 2, a competitor to ChatGPT, is now available to the public. Founded by former senior members of the OpenAI team, the startup purports to make generative AI safe and "steerable."
• The European Commission adopted a new adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, providing a new legal framework for transatlantic data flows (also making GA4 legal in Europe). 
• In response to a new Canadian law requiring tech firms to pay for news, Canada's federal government will cease advertising on Meta, at an estimated cost to the tech giant of C$10M.
• Google is exploring alternatives or supplemental ways of controlling crawling and indexing beyond the 30-year standard of the robots.txt protocol in the wake of generative AI. 

🐟 Tips From the Tank

Check out the latest Sitecore tips and tricks from the Fishtank team:

• Fishtank Wins Rising Start Award From Sitecore – Robyn James
• How to Create Headless Sitecore SXA Variants in XM Cloud – David Austin
• Implementing a New Website on Sitecore XM Cloud – Derek Bairstow

🎉  Events

Sitecore DX 2023 is coming to Sydney, Australia, on September 12! Stay tuned for more details.

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