Why I feel creating a Stack Exchange for DotNetNuke is a bad idea.
This past weekend I attended the Chicago Day of DotNetNuke. One of the last sessions was an open panel where people could suggest topics followed by a 10 minute discussion. Unfortunately time was...
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Custom Journal Types and Access Control
Starting with Active Social 1.8, you will be able to create and allow other applications to add content to the journal. In my previous blog post I covered Journal Types and the purpose they serve for...
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Customizing the Active Social Journal
I know I said my next blog post would be about the Journal API, but we need to cover a few more items first. While this blog post isn't going to dive right into Journal API code samples, the...
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Using Active Forums as a Knowledge Base
Over the past couple weeks we have been working on layout options for the Knowledge Base sections of our forums. If you haven't had a chance to take a look at the Active Social Knowledge Base recently...
View ArticleActive Social Comments Module
We have been trying to make many of the core components within Active Social as reusable as possible. This makes adding new features easier and keeps the overall package small. Evidently I have been...
View ArticleActive Forums 4.3 Ready for Release
This afternoon we released the Release Candidate for Active Forums 4.3 Enterprise. We have also upgraded activemodules.com and activesocial.com to the latest release. Over the past 60 days we have...
View ArticleBuilding a Social CRM Help Desk with Active Social
By Friday we will change our current help desk system to a new system based upon Active Social. The new system will leverage the Messaging API and serve as an example of how you can build custom...
View ArticleA DotNetNuke Experiment - DNN Exposed
Several weeks ago I decided to conduct a small experiment with DotNetNuke and Active Forums 4.3. My goals for this experiment started off pretty simple: Setup a fictitious site using shared hosting,...
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Active Social 1.9 - Updates for Messaging
We were planning to release Active Social 1.9 this morning until we found a bug with messaging that prevented messages from being sent. As I was trying to debug the problem I found a few other issues...
View ArticleHow we build our products and how you can help
Recently a customer accused me of building Active Forums, Active Social and Active Purchase to meet our own needs and not the needs of our customers. I say accused because I took great offense to that...
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Using Custom Fields in Active Forums 4.3
One of the problems I have always had about with using a forum to handle customer support is not being able to structure or frame the initial request. A help desk allows you to capture certain fields...
View ArticleSome Details About How We Moderate Our Forums and Why
My previous blog post generated some comments about moderation. This is a topic I have been meaning to write about since I was asked about it at Day of DotNetNuke Chicago. This is probably going to...
View ArticleDotNetNuke Corporation Acquires Active Modules Inc.
I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke Corporation has acquired Active Modules, including the intellectual property for our flagship products Active Forums, Active Social and Active Purchase. In...
View ArticleWebinar: Learn How Social Collaboration on Your Site Can Drive User Interactions
Integrating social collaboration into your site can improve communications with your customers and foster communication between your site visitors. Join us March 30th at 10 am PDT to learn from Will...
View ArticleIntegrating Active Social with DotNetNuke
Active Social isn’t your typical module. When you take a closer look at the primary functional areas you will see 12 different modules. Some of those modules overlap with core modules that already...
View ArticleActive Forums Lite (FREE) & Express Coming October29th
Next week we will be releasing two additional package options for Active Forums. The current state of the economy is taking it's toll on everyone. We hope that some people will find our new package...
View ArticleBlogging over at dotnetnuke.com
I've started blogging over at DotNetNuke.com. I'll still use this blog for any kind of product release announcements, but all other topics will be on my blog at DotNetNuke.com. Here in case you...
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Introducing Frowser - My DotNetNuke Hackathon Entry
When I first heard about the DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon, I immediately wanted to write an app for Active Social. Well, I actually did do that first but then decided I should write something that...
View ArticleUsing Active Forums for a Question and Answer site
In reply to my latest blog post, Mitch Labrador of TribalHut asked, "How would I setup Active Forums for a Question and Answer site?" Quite frankly, Active Forums is still missing a few key...
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