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I presented some thoughts on choosing a white label social networking platform recently at Adtech Chicago and thought I'd elaborate on some of the pitch points. You can tell the focus drove deeper than product comparisons and suggested a more thorough...
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There's certain times when you have that gut feeling about something. That time when you just know there's better ways to do things but you can't seem to decipher the right approach to get there. One shift in today's business landscape that doesn't make it any easier is enterprise...
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We landed last night in spite of some nasty weather, and will be blogging the show today and tomorrow. Stop by booth #406 if you're interested in meeting some of the team -- we'll be happy to discuss how we're helping brands like Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Electronic Arts (EA) engage their...
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We're always working on something cool at Telligent , whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the couple of IM clients that work with Community Server messaging...
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The last couple of weeks have been very busy and very different for me. Two weeks ago today I relinquished my hold on the ASP.NET Sites' Team, where for nearly the last two years I have been working on www.asp.net , forums.asp.net , weblogs.asp.net and wiki.asp.net . I transitioned to the Telligent...
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I'd like to start posting more video-based demonstrations and walk-throughs of theming and customizing Community Server , but I don't really want to store the videos on my shared web host (and pay for storage and bandwidth). What is a good online video service for screencasts? Blip.tv ? Vimeo...
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Community Server 2008 includes a new feature, Groups. Groups are miniature community sites within the larger community site, similar to Google- or Yahoo-groups. Each Group has its own content, membership, and permissions. What's in a Group? A group can contain a single blog, single media gallery...
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Common requests for new users of Community Server are "how do I edit the navigation bar?", "how do I add a second level of navigation items?", and "how do I add drop-down menus to the navigation items?" In all of these cases, changes are required to a few config files, some...
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File viewers are the unsung heroes that make Community Server 2008 media-friendly. They implement the support for viewing and resizing images, viewing uploaded and remote video files, viewing video from online video services, and playing uploaded and remote audio clips. Without file viewers, the media...
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The updates to the official documentation sites are still a little way out, so, in the meantime, I've gotten permission to post the new, improved Chameleon control documentation on this site. Here it is: CS2008 Chameleon Documentation The new Chameleon documentation merges the old CHM download file...
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After adding support for widgets in custom themes , it may be useful to create a few custom widgets. Widgets in Community Server 2008 (internally identified as content fragments) are server-side .net classes implementing the CommunityServer.Components.IContentFragment interface. Community Server will...
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After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes widgets for showing post lists, user lists, group...
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My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to upgrading themes for CS2008. Upgrading a CS2007 Site...
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In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...
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As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone make the jump to CS2008, I plan on publishing technical...