🥝 This week: Indefinite AI learning, new Sitecore features, new SEO strategies, and more!

📣  Sitecore News

• Judging is in process and Sitecore announced the 2024 Leadership Award nominees. See the leaders who are breaking new ground and driving change in their organizations. 
• Discover how the traditional DAM has evolved beyond storage, management, and distribution of assets. Check out Sitecore's paper on the future of DAM.
• Join Sitecore's Roger Connolly for an informative webinar on mastering omnichannel content.

🐟  Tips From the Tank

Check out the latest Sitecore insight from the Fishtank team: 

• With the release of much awaited Sitecore 10.4 check out our guide to upgrade Sitecore 10.1.X - 10.3.X to 10.4 on your local Docker environment.
• Need to know how to troubleshoot errors in Sitecore Connect? Learn the common errors you may run into, why they happen, and how to solve them.
• Looking to regenerate the sitemap on a local XM Cloud Docker development environment? Learn how to use the Sitecore XM Cloud developer utilities to do so.
• One of the standout features of Sitecore XM Cloud is its analytics capabilities. Read our blog on understanding Sitecore XM Cloud Form analytics.
• Ensuring the security of your codebase is important. To safeguard your solution use Snyk to find vulnerabilities and improve code quality in a Sitecore XM Cloud Next.js solution.
• Looking for an easy way to architect complex Sitecore Forms? Learn our method for architecting complex Sitecore Forms with Next.js in XM Cloud.

💻  Developer Quick Hits

• Sitecore XP 10.3.2 was released. Read the release notes to discover fixes and improvements made over the last update.
• Content Hub now has automatic deactivation of failing webhooks in Edge. If a webhook fails 10 consecutive times, it will now be disabled.
• Need to integrate an app to Sitecore Connect that doesn't have a pre-built connection? Check out this introduction to Sitecore Connect third-party app integration for XM Cloud.
• Hydration errors are a common challenge in Next.js applications. Learn how to understand and overcome common Next.js hydration errors.
• Sitecore integrates seamlessly with Solr to enhance its search capabilities. Check out how to customize and populate the Solr schema.
• Micro-frontends have emerged as a powerful architectural approach to build scalable, maintainable, and flexible web applications. Learn how to apply micro-frontends in an e-commerce context.
• Cloudflare announced that wildcard support is now available across our Ruleset Engine-based products.
• Integrating Algolia with Sitecore can enhance your site's search functionality. Learn to use Sitecore webhooks to publish items to an Algolia index.

📣  Marketing Quick Hits

• With the rise of AI comes a new digital content technique, Generative Engine Optimization. Learn what's known so far and how to prepare.
• Looking for more precise customer targeting? Meta's new ad tools promise better tooling for targeting.
• Personalize now has a new region condition. Combine a country and region in XM Cloud and Personalize for more targeted personalization.
• Discover new smart automation for post-test actions in Personalize. Configure what happens after an experiment concludes, removing the need for manually choosing.
• Check out this guide on Sitecore XM Cloud Components for faster content administration and optimized distribution. 
• Learn what a competitive analysis is and how to conduct one.
• SEO can be overwhelming, learn how to use Google Search Console to unlock easy SEO wins.
• You can now add images from your XM Cloud Media Library in a form with the newly implemented Media Library tab in the image picker.
• Discover the State of SEO in 2025 and learn top insights for success. 
• Dive into the impact of AI-powered search and learn how search query length is shifting in the LLM era.

🌐  Tech Quick Hits

• Targeting low-value SEO content and promoting quality websites check out Google's August 2024 core update.
• Google adds contextual targeting options, supply chain diagnostics tools, and updated reporting dimensions in the new Ad Manager API.
• Legislators are set to vote on a bill that would broadly regulate how artificial intelligence is developed and deployed in California.
• A team of AI researchers and computer scientists at the University of Alberta finds a new method that allows AI to learn indefinitely.