Community Newsletter - March 2011

DotNetNuke :: Community Content Collaboration
    Founders Message
 
Something’s Cooking at DotNetNuke!
Scott Willhite (Co-Founder/Director Community Relations)

Don’t take your eye off the stove! DotNetNuke is preparing an impressive array of tasty morsels for users of all interests and skills. Employees and Community members alike are doing everything they can to prepare for a summer feast! Are you hungry?

Just consider a few of this month’s headlines for a moment: Conversion of the open core to C#, our very first Community Technology Preview, the 2011 Design Challenge, announcement of Active Social integration, release of DotNetNuke 5.06.02, Day of DotNetNuke in Orlando, and updates to Forum, Documents, Blog, Store and FAQ!

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    News Briefs
 
DotNetNuke Design Challenge

We invite you to show off your creative skills and mastery of DotNetNuke Design! Enter your submissions in the DotNetNuke Design Challenge and win some great prizes including a digital SLR, iPad 2, worldwide recognition, and much more. Details...
  

 
DotNetNuke 6.0.0 CTP

For the first time, DotNetNuke is offering a Community Technology Preview that will allow users to begin testing the latest version before completion of all features. Get the details in Joe Brinkman's blog -- and the latest release from the Beta Download page.
   

  Video Library Growing

There are now over 150 videos available for viewing in the DotNetNuke Video Library, with new additions being added each week. Visit the library today to learn about topics such as installation and upgrades, administration, modules, skinning, and more. Visit now...

 

  Upcoming Training Schedule

Two Advanced DotNetNuke Webinars are being offered this April.  DotNetNuke Portal Administration and Configuration runs April 12-13, followed by DotNetNuke Content Administration on April 14-15. Check the Training page for full details.  More...

 

 
  Webinar: 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 Morgenweck, Founder of Active Modules and now Director of Social Products for DotNetNuke Corp. He will discuss some of the available social tools for the DotNetNuke platform and discuss examples of successful social collaboration web sites implementations. 

Register now... 
 

 
  DotNetNuke Professional Edition
 
 
    Recent Releases
 
DotNetNuke 05.06.02   

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Core Release (Mar 23/11)
Release Blog
 
40FINGERS Style Helper Skin Object 01.08.03

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Forge: 40Fingers.net/T. Breumelhof (Mar 15/11)
 
 
DotNetNuke Blog 04.01.00

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Project Release: Antonio Chagoury (Feb 27/11)

  
 
DotNetNuke Store 03.00.00

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Project Release: Gilles Le Pigocher (Feb 23/11)
 
    Project Spotlight
 

 


Showcasing DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Site of the Month Winner for February

Secretaria Regional de Educação e Cultura
www.madeira-edu.pt

Madeira-edu.pt is the web site for Secretaria Regional de Educação e Cultura, the regional government of Madeira Island in Portugal. Their mission is to provide information on education, sports and culture for Madeira Island. Congratulations to the winner!

Win a Kindle 3 by Promoting the Site of the Month Contest

Promote the March DotNetNuke Site of the Month contest and you might win a Kindle 3 with a custom DotNetNuke Site of the Month Skin! See full contest details here...

 
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Focus: Widgets

An updated version of the Widget Suite for DotNetNuke has been released by the project team.  New features in Version 01.03.01 include  a Facebook widget and Store Widget. The team also launched a new information site at DNNWidgets.com.

Learn more about widgets for DotNetNuke.


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    Community Focus
 
DotNetNuke Events and Meet-Ups

- Day of DotNetNuke 2011 Orlando kicks off March 26! Hear about the latest developments in the DotNetNuke ecosystem. Attend Navin Nagiah's keynote and visit us at our booth.

- Upcoming DotNetNuke User Group meetings:  Deutschsprachige DNN User-Group (3/26); Seattle DotNetNuke User Group (3/29); Minnesota DNN (3/31); DotNetNuke Boston User Group (4/12); Triangle DotNetNuke Users Group (4/20).  Check the Calendar of Events for full details and listings.

- This spring, be sure to visit us at the following industry events: MIX 11, April 12-14, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas; CMS Expo, May 2-4, Hilton Orrington Hotel, Chicago; and TechEd North America 2011, May 16-19, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta.

 

  Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials

Integrating Facebook Comments into your DotNetNuke Pages - Chris Hammond
How to Find a Good DotNetNuke Module - Patrick Santry
DotNetNuke Tips and Tricks #24: Local Virtual Hosts - Joe Brinkman
What’s In a Name? (DotNetNuke Versions) - Joe Brinkman
Repository: Modifying the display of Custom Attributes - Steve Fabian
Shibboleth Authentication Provider for DotNetNuke - Will Strohl
Simple IIS Performance Improvement -
Mitch Sellers


Careers


Be sure to check the Careers page on dotnetnuke.com for a listing of current opportunities.

 
 

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DotNetNuke (DNN) provides a suite of solutions that make designing, building and managing feature-rich sites and communities fast, easy and cost-effective. The DotNetNuke Platform CMS is the foundation for more than one million websites worldwide. DNN Social, our newest solution, enables businesses to create immersive, interactive communities. Thousands of organizations like True Value Hardware, Bose, Cornell University, Glacier Water, Dannon, Delphi, USAA, NASCAR, Northern Health and the City of Denver have leveraged DNN to deploy highly engaging business- critical websites. Our rapid growth in product sales and deployments resulted in DotNetNuke Corp. being named one of the fastest growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine in 2011 and 2012.