Shaun Walker

DotNetNuke Voted Best .NET Open Source CMS

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:51:46 GMT

So the results are in for the PackT Press 2011 Open Source Awards… and DotNetNuke has been recognized as the best .NET Open Source CMS! We want to thank PackT Press for running this annual contest, and supporting open source communities through the publication of high quality books and reference materials. We also want to recognize all of the other open source CMS products that participated in the awards this year, and congratulate the various winners in each category. And last, but not least, we need to thank the DotNetNuke community for its passion and enthusiasm - we greatly appreciate your support!

Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards 2011

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:59:31 GMT

Visual Studio Magazine recently posted the results of its annual Readers Choice Awards for 2011 and I am proud to announce that DotNetNuke has been recognized as a Merit Award Winner again this year in the Web Design and Development Tools category.

For the second year in a row, Adobe Dreamweaver took top spot in the category. Second place featured a three-way tie between Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection, DotNetNuke Professional Edition, and Telerik Sitefinity.

It is great to be included in such esteemed company. We appreciate your support.

DotNetNuke on the Gartner Magic Quadrant!

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:47:42 GMT

Gartner's Magic Quadrants provide a graphical competitive positioning of technology solution providers in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct. Professional organizations use Magic Quadrants as a first step to understanding the technology providers they might consider for a specific investment opportunity, as the graphical representation and research material provides them with a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the various competitors in that space.

I am proud to announce that DotNetNuke has achieved representation on a Gartner Magic Quadrant for the first time in 2011!

2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Survey

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:16:29 GMT

Water & Stone ( a full service digital agency located in Bali, Indonesia ) is once again in the process of conducting their annual Open Source CMS Market Survey ( formerly referred to as the CMS Wire Open Source CMS Market Survey ). The survey is intended to measure the rate of adoption and brand strength of the most popular open source web content management systems and provide consumers with important information relevant to selecting a CMS for their organizations.

Last year at around this time, I posted a blog which was focused on increasing awareness of the survey and encouraging community members to participate in hopes that we would get better representation amongst the other CMS systems and improve on our results from the 2009 survey so that they were in closer alignment with our actual standing in the CMS market.

I am happy to report that our efforts paid off, as DotNetNuke received a very favorable review in the 2010 survey. The Rate of Adoption was analyzed using a variety of different techniques including downloads, surveys, third party analysis services, developer support, and books in print, and DotNetNuke was consistently ranked in the top 5 of all open source CMS systems included in the survey. And from a Brand Strength perspective, we also made the top 5 in terms of project site popularity, brand familiarity, conversion rate, and product preference – but most important of all we significantly improved our brand sentiment score, moving from position #20 in 2009 all the way up to #7 in 2010! The full report can be reviewed here.

Anyways, as I mentioned earlier, Water & Stone recently announced that they are running the Open Source CMS Market Survey for 2011. Based on our strong showing in 2010 and the fact that surveys like these can have tremendous influence on consumers and customers in the market, I highly encourage everyone in the DotNetNuke community to take a few minutes and complete the questions located at the link below:

2011-OSCMS-Survey

Your ongoing commitment to the DotNetNuke product is appreciated and helps demonstrate a high level of confidence in our ecosystem. The release of DotNetNuke 6 this summer has pushed our Rate of Adoption to new heights, and if we can complement that with a solid demonstration of Brand Strength I think it will definitely cement our position amongst the top 4 open source CMS systems in the world today.

DotNetNuke Site of the Month Winner – September 2011

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:00:10 GMT

I would like to congratulate DNN Outsourcing, this month’s DotNetNuke Site of the Month winner! Thank you, Ivan Strigo for submitting the Club Seat Web Site (www.clubseat.nl).

Club Seat will now be our final entry into the DotNetNuke Site of the Year Contest. The winner of the Site of the Year Contest will be announced at the DNN After Dark Party at DotNetNuke World on November 10, 2011. The Site of the Year Contest is now open on the conference web site where you may vote once per day until October 31, 2011. So vote now and vote often!

According to Ivan, Club Seat is used by (European manufactured) Seat car owners in the Netherlands. It is an interactive portal for retaining clients loyal to the Seat car brand. Can owners can register, add preferences and get special offers from dealers and partners about upcoming events.

DNN Version Used
Community edition
Key features of the site
CRM, events, news, special offers and promotions by partners and dealers, driver profile/personalization, segmentation.
Business value offered by the site
Ability to efficiently manage and organize campaigns using data from various interactions with users via custom built-in CRM tool, online and offline, all enabled in one solution with this retention, loyalty and prospecting web portal.
Modules used
All modules are custom. It took us with in-house team of five people full time for seven months to complete the project on tight schedule. DotNetNuke was great help as stable framework to speed up development of complete solution and bring it to daily use by many (what would otherwise won't be possible in this amount of time with custom developed ASP.NET/MSSQL web app).

Congratulations to Ivan and the development team at DNN Outsourcing

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Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in B.C. for 2010

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:10:03 GMT

Last year at around this time, I posted a blog announcing the fact that DotNetNuke Corporation had achieved the distinction of being recognized by Business in Vancouver (BIV) as one of the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in B.C. for 2009. At that time I also made a bold prediction that we would make the list again this year… I even went as far to say that we would would crack the Top 10!

Well, I am very pleased to reveal that we have been recognized as one of the Top 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in B.C. for 2010 ( announced this week in BIV Issue 1142, September 12-20, 2011 ). This year we improved our ranking by 7 positions to come in at #17 overall, with a 5 year revenue growth rate exceeding 1800%! This distinction places us in the Top 5 fastest growing Technology firms in B.C., a substantial accomplishment given Vancouver’s booming high-tech industry. So in this respect, my prediction did come true ;)

DotNetNuke quoted in USA Today

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:35:05 GMT

The Microsoft BUILD conference ( formerly PDC ) is going on this week in Anaheim, California. Promoted as “a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of Windows”, BUILD included a detailed preview of the next major release of Windows, code-named “Windows 8”. As previously reported, Windows 8 offers support for ARM-based chipsets which means that it is intended to work across a spectrum of devices, including mobile phones and tablets. Microsoft also detailed new tools for developers to help write applications for the more than 1 billion people around the world who use Microsoft Windows every day. These items were the focus of a USA Today article published earlier today where I was provided with the unique opportunity to share my opinions on Windows 8 with respected journalist, Byron Acohido.

DotNetNuke Site of the Month Winner - August

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:59:09 GMT

Congratulations to the August DotNetNuke Site of the Month Winner, Piedmont Community College (http://www.piedmontcc.edu/). Thank you Kevin Tyburski for submitting the Piedmont Site. Piedmont Community College will also be entered into our Site of the Year contest. The winner of that contest will be announced at DotNetNuke World in Orlando on November 10th

Kevin tells us that "We're very excited here at Piedmont Community College to win this award! Hopefully we have done DNN proud with what we're trying to present."

We're using 5.6.2 Professional Edition (transition from Community)

We wanted to meet four different objectives when going through our first complete web overhaul in almost 10 years here at Piedmont Community College. Consistency, collaboration, community and cost. Since we are a community college our areas of marketing and information are much broader than most businesses. We offer over 40 programs of study at multiple locations, covering two counties in North Carolina and helping groups ranging from high school students, current students, retraining businesses to local involvement with our Foundation and community events. The first initial focus was the need to have the information shared and consistent between multiple areas on our web site ensuring it to be correct. From our research gathered we also wanted to display the information in multiple ways based on generational marketing. DotNetNuke has the all the options and tools to achieve this in an easy and functional way.

Making it easy was also a major portion of collaboration. With having multiple locations and many programs of study we needed faculty and staff to be trained on an easy to use system and to be in complete control of the information, while mirroring the approval processes we currently have in place. The Professional Edition allowed us to do all of this seamlessly. It offered the granular permissions, document management and the ability to set up the approval processes based on content. It couldn't have worked out better for us.

Lastly, both community and cost were probably the most important part of the decision. Having a knowledgeable and large community of users. DotNetNuke is head and shoulders above others with users, support and forums as a CMS provider. DotNetNuke was also hands-down the best when comparing cost with features offered with opportunity for expansion. We started with the Community edition and seamlessly transition to Professional. We're continuing to implement new and exciting parts to our web site on a regular basis. We're excited about what the future has in store at Piedmont Community College using DotNetNuke as our CMS."

The September contest is now open, so please submit your DotNetNuke sites and tell your friends to support you by voting on Facebook. And don’t forget, in order to be eligible for our year end “Site of the Year” Award which will be announced in November at DotNetNuke World you must win one Site of the Month Contest.

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Presenting DotNetNuke 6 to .NET BC and VANDUG User Groups

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:11:28 GMT

On Tuesday, September 20 at 6:00 PM I will be doing a presentation of DotNetNuke 6 at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). This event is a joint partnership between the .NET BC User Group ( special thanks to Medhat Elmasry for arranging the venue and logistics ) and the Vancouver DotNetNuke User Group (VANDUG). DotNetNuke Corporation will be providing pizza and refreshments, and I am sure a variety of DotNetNuke Corporation employees will be on-hand to provide commentary and answer your specific questions. Mark your calendars so that you do not miss the opportunity to learn about the sexy new UI improvements in DotNetNuke 6 or to hear about how a company originally founded in Abbotsford, BC ( DotNetNuke Corporation ) has leveraged an open source business model to become one of the Fastest Growing Companies in BC and was recently recognized at position #288 on this year’s Inc. 500 list. Please RSVP at the .NET BC User Group site… I look forward to seeing you there…

2011 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards

shaun.walker@dnncorp.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:58:57 GMT

Every year the readers of the DevProConnections magazine vote for their favorite products and services from across the software industry. This year DotNetNuke has been nominated in the Content Management System category – a category which is highly competitive based on the wide variety of CMS products on the market today. To show your support of the fact that DotNetNuke is the most widely deployed CMS that is native to the Microsoft platform, we would be extremely grateful if you took a moment to vote for DotNetNuke in this years contest. And if you are scratching your head for a killer quote please use the very catchy tagline created by our very own Gilles Chalon: “DotNetNuke 6 is Sexy!” ( it sounds much better with his French accent ). Thank you for your support.