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Jaina Baumgartner

United States

MVP 2025

Strategy

United States
MVP 2024

Strategy

United States
MVP 2023

Strategy

United States
MVP 2022

Strategy

United States
MVP 2021

Strategy

United States
MVP 2020

Strategy

United States
MVP 2019

Strategy

United States

Timeline

2025

31/Jan

Strategy 2025

Strategy 2025

2024

26/Nov

A Hitchiker's Guide to Governance in Sitecore CDP/Personalize

Unlock the secrets to mastering Sitecore product governance and elevate your digital experience strategy with Sitecore CDP/Personalize. Well-known as the cadillac of Digital Experience Platforms, Sitecore customers regularly miss the mark on adopting the entire product they purchase. Our exclusive whitepaper dives deep into how to govern Sitecore CDP/Personalize:

Setting up the right team (roles and responsibilities)

The appropriate skillset, training, and resources for your team

The pr...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2024

18/Oct

Sitecore Symposium Panel: Building and maximizing the potential of your Sitecore community

Where can I learn more about Sitecore, and what if I get stuck or have a question? How do I get better at my job and learn from others’ experiences? What are the best ways to participate in the Sitecore community? In this panel discussion, three MVPs will share their Sitecore community journey and provide numerous ways to build and maximize the potential of your Sitecore community. This session is for developers, strategists, and marketers. Join us, whether you’re a client, partner, or prospect.

2024

10/Sep

Sitecore Community Resources

A list of all the resources within the Sitecore community to help you learn Sitecore, get introduced to other Sitecore products, find out about events happening in the community, aid you in the next step in your career, or help you get and maintain your MVP. Anyone who signs up for updates also gets a regularly updated personalized list of community resources and events.

2024

7/Aug

Consortium of Personalization Professionals - August Meeting

The Consortium meets once a quarter and brings together smart digital professionals to elevate the practice of effective personalization. I represent Sitecore based Personalization and the work I am doing with my clients to help others use Sitecore effectively.

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2024

10/Jul

Taking the plunge: From Sitecore XP to Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In 2009 Sitecore had a breakthrough vision of going beyond a "typewriter" for the web to create and deliver personalized experiences. While many clients struggled putting that vision into action, there were the brave ones who did conquer engagement analytics and personalization. However, as omni-channel experiences became a reality, XP has fallen behind in the capability to deliver that experience, paving the way for Sitecore CDP/Personalize. In this whitepaper, we will focus on those customers ...

Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2024

27/Jun

Baltimore/DC Sitecore User Group Presentation: Taking the plunge: From Sitecore XP to Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In 2009 Sitecore had a breakthrough vision of going beyond a "typewriter" for the web to create and deliver personalized experiences. While many clients struggled putting that vision into action, there were the brave ones who did conquer engagement analytics and personalization. However, as omni-channel experiences became a reality, XP has fallen behind in the capability to deliver that experience, paving the way for Sitecore CDP/Personalize. In this presentation, we will focus on those customer...

Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2024

7/Feb

Personalization in a Cookie-less Future

My passion and interest in this article stems from the question I get asked most of all in any personalization workshop or presentation. What about cookies? This article will answer are cookies disappearing, what can you do about it, and how to truly create hyper-personalized experiences while realizing and dealing with both users concerns and following the rules and laws with cookies.

Sitecore Personalize

2024

31/Jan

Strategy 2024

Strategy 2024

2024

23/Jan

Consortium of Personalization Professionals - January Meeting

The Consortium meets once a quarter and brings together smart digital professionals to elevate the practice of effective personalization. I represent Sitecore based Personalization and the work I am doing with my clients to help others use Sitecore effectively.

2024

5/Jan

Personalization with Coveo and Sitecore CDP/Personalize

Blog post on using these two tools at each stage of digital maturity to ultimately achieve the goal of getting hyper-personalized interactions with both of these technologies

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2023

29/Nov

Linkedin: Short form posts

Super active on LinkedIn with a variety of Short form posts with actual content not just reposts. I find this to be one of the best ways to engage users with tit-bits of content over time. Some of these have 1000s of views and 100s of engagement.

Examples: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jainasangtani_sitecore-accelerate-sitecore-activity-7120132142486978560--SIj https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jainasangtani_sitecoremvpsummit-dxsummit-sugconna-activity-7116147644602687488-VQAu https://www.li...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

1/Nov

Personalization with Coveo and Sitecore CDP/Personalize

With the composable world, there are many clients today that have Intelligent Search and Customer Data Platforms (eg: Coveo and Sitecore CDP/Personalize, respectively). There are overlaps in these platforms when it comes to serving personalized relevant content and products to your customers at the right time. And customers generally have a difficult time getting the ROI of either tool, let alone leveraging the combined power. In this article, we will specifically discuss the overlaps, the diffe...

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize

2023

5/Oct

SUGCON: A University's Journey to the Creation of their Composable Roadmap

In this session, we reviewed our step by step process for Michigan State University, a Sitecore XP client. We created a holistic MarTech roadmap that includes each piece of their composable puzzle, and also a guide for converting their Sitecore XP sites to XM Cloud, with elements powered by Content Hub and Sitecore Search.

Sitecore XP Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

3/Oct

Downloadable agenda: Visioning workshop

This goes along with my SUGCON session on creating a composable roadmap for MSU. This is how I helped get stakeholders in the room towards a composable roadmap. This is a guide for others to run similar visioning workshops.

Sitecore XP Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

30/Sep

Downloadable: Stakeholder Interview Guide

Goes with the SUGCON session on MSU's journey to a composable roadmap with Sitecore. This guide helps with interviewing stakeholders across the organization and understanding their pain points and vision which can help focus them on the right technologies within Sitecore's martech suite.

Sitecore XP Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Content Hub Sitecore Search Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

23/May

How to turn the Marketing Funnel into a Loyalty Loop

While most agree that a customer’s journey, creating an emotional connection, and tracking loyalty is more important than the Marketing Funnel, the truth is that most Martech tools (CRM, Marketing Automation, Analytics) are still made to support the Funnel. My focus for this article is how to take your marketing funnel and tools and use them to support your loyalty loop.

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore Send

2023

16/Feb

Sitecore Strategy Lunch

Hosted the Sitecore Strategy Lunch for the beginning of the year.

Sitecore CDP Sitecore Personalize Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

15/Feb

The Agile Brand: Maximizing Your Digital Experience Platform

Spnsored by RDA and Sitecore, this episode talks about three aspects that any brand should keep in mind when implementing a digital experience platform: Personalization & Relevance, Scale & Flexibility, and Speed & Performance. Specifically, we discuss Sitecore XM Cloud's role in taking DXPs to the next level

Sitecore XM Cloud

2023

31/Jan

Strategy 2023

Strategy 2023

2023

23/Jan

The Agile Brand: CDPs and 1st party data strategy

Sponsored by Sitecore and RDA, this episode discusses how to use CDPs to tie customer information from a multitude of sources and types of behavior into a single profile that can power personalization, enhanced data governance, and enable better tracking and reporting across the customer journey.

Sitecore CDP

2022

6/Dec

Baltimore & DC user group: Our Future with Sitecore

I've included this as we had to submit 2022 applications in November, so this one should count for this year. In this interactive discussion, we discussed Sitecore's roadmap, and how organizations have and are moving and adopting the roadmap, biggest concerns and risk points, dependencies, and lessons learned from different journeys.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2022

31/Jan

Strategy 2022

Strategy 2022

2021

31/Jan

Strategy 2021

Strategy 2021

2020

31/Jan

Strategy 2020

Strategy 2020

2019

31/Jan

Strategy 2019

Strategy 2019