Introducing the Inside the Cubicle Webinar Series: A New Resource for Career Guidance in Slate

This past Monday saw the launch of a new webinar series designed to provide insightful guidance on career paths, roles, and opportunities within the Slate Community.

You may have heard the rumors that the default UI in Slate is changing - and soon.

It’s true. As of November 26, 2024, all Slate databases will be switched over to the default theme called Modern UI. It has previously been available for users to self-select, but this month will see all users across all databases switch to the new and updated UI as the system default.

So why are we changing it? The answer lies in our commitment to making Slate more intuitive, powerful, and adaptable for our users.

You’ve asked us for years now to offer a Slate certification program, and you’ve given a variety of reasons. Over and over, however, one of the most common involves professional development and wanting a way to indicate to others that we at Technolutions recognize your abilities to work with Slate.

We have always made Slate Summit sessions available to be user-led presentations, which is one way to prove to your institutions that you are a Slate superstar. But that isn’t always enough.

Enter Slate Certified.

Join us from June 25-27, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada for our first three-day Summit and a celebration of 25 years of Slate. Opening Session kicks off on Wednesday morning, and the full schedule of sessions and affinity groups wraps up at 1:00 PM on Friday with our annual Road Ahead closing session and a look at what’s next.

Curious what our Preferred Partners can do for you? We’ve rounded up some highlights from the past month, including podcasts from enrollmentFUEL, working sessions with HCRC and Post-Captain, and more!

You asked, and we answered: Slate Summit is now even bigger and better with three full days of programming. Save the date to join us in Las Vegas, NV from June 25-27, 2025 for more sessions presented by members of the Slate Community, more opportunities to connect with our Preferred Partners, more affinity breakout groups, and new feature and functionality reveals to make you ooh and ahh.

As part of our ongoing work to provide the tools you need in your Slate database, our Slate for Advancement team hosted a group from Slate Platinum Preferred Partner Post-Captain in early September for an all-day Build-a-thon. This follows previous successful builds in collaboration with Platinum Preferred Partners HCRC and BWF.

In this episode of Slate-a-Minute with FGI Consultants, Allen Tang takes you through the use cases for building “nightly processing” rules for Slate Inbox assignments and offers advice to get started in your own database.

When Queens University of Charlotte converted to Slate several years ago, a short implementation period coupled with staff turnover resulted in their new Advancement instance not being fully leveraged. The current team knew there was more they could do to utilize all the tools and features available to them, so they turned to Platinum Preferred Partner BWF…

Level up your Slate game with new RHB Academy Virtual Courses from RHB, a division of Strata Information Group. From mastering configurable joins to learning to develop accurate and meaningful reports, these courses will help you unlock your Slate potential.

Join FGI Solutions’ Tristan Deveney to look at “Group Bys in Subqueries” within Slate.

Technolutions’ own Cody Gray sits down with enrollmentFUEL’s Katie Jordan for episode 33, titled Post-Slate Summit: A Recap With Cody Gray to talk about Slate Summit 2024.

Google “conference tips” and you’ll find a million and one articles, blog posts, and even videos with tips, tricks, and survival guides for professional conferences of all stripes. Some are new and some are old, but they all give the same advice, which we’ve broken down below with helpful suggestions to not only survive Summit, but to thrive during your time at Chicago’s Navy Pier.

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here: The Slate Summit 2024 session schedule is LIVE!

ReWorkflow is halfway through their six-episode series called “Road to Slate Summit”, with the third episode launching today and dedicated to Public Speaking and Presentation Slides for Summit.

You see them every day. Familiar. Comforting. Like old friends whose dependability you trust - or perhaps less familiar, heralding all the possibilities of the unknown, untapped power available to you and your team…

The 10th annual Slate Summit conference happening this year at Chicago’s Navy Pier from June 20-21 is perhaps best described as “Slate’s family reunion.”

Community Ambassadors are active Slate users who share knowledge through forum posts, user group leadership, Slate Summit presentations, participation in calls or working sessions, and peer-to-peer assistance.

Our latest roundup of updates, enhancements, user group information, upcoming events, and more!