You all should know by now that yesterday was Festivus. One of my favorite festivus traditions is the "airing of grievances". In that spirit I present this post. I've got a lot of problems with you people...

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Last week, at the In.Telligent conference I gave the keynote on our product roadmap. It’s rare that I have so many customers captive in one room so I used the opportunity to gather some feedback in real time. I distributed a list of features broken out by theme and told everyone they had $100 virtual...

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We're only a couple of weeks away from a beta release of Community server 2008.1. As previously discussed this is the first of a more rapid pace of releases for the Community Server product.  (There is a public roadmap we've  produced that I'm hoping to have published next week some time to www.communityserver.com. ) What this means though is that we're pretty locked on what we are shipping and what we are NOT shipping.  This post will give you a few more details to help get you ready.

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I'm sure a bunch of you just got done installing CS 2008 or upgrading to SP1 for CS 2008, but I want to give you the lowdown on what you can expect this fall with the release of CS 2008.1. 

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What would my blog look like if content boxes were purple?  You can answer that question by simply setting the color and hitting save... but then all of your site visitors will be subjected to your bright pink sidebar before you come to your senses.  You can avoid all that by taking advantage of preview mode and this post tells you how.

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Hey there IndiansFanJoe3456!  Wow, that's a mouthful.  Chances are that you have one of these accounts on a site that doesn't let you be you because someone else is already you!  One of these sites may even be a Community Server site.  Well, there isn't an excuse for this.  As of SP1 for CS 2008 we've enabled "friendly display names" by default.  Well, we've actually supported this for a LONG time and this post will show site admins how they can control this. 

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I've been pinged by more than a few people about this today, but I can officially say that SP1 for Community Server 2008 is now available! On the download page you'll find updated install packages as well as an upgrade package for existing sites.

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Community Server 2008 introduced the concept of Social Networking to our platform.  Users can register for your community, become friends with other members, and get status updates from their friends, but it's lonely when you start out with no friends in a community.  A bunch of sites have the concept that new users are "friended" by default to an existing community member. This tip will show you how to do this with Community Server.

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My last tip showed you how to get some attention on polls in your user community by using the featured post widget.  If you thought that was neat and you like collecting data then this tip is for you.  I'm here to tell you that you can download detailed poll results to Excel.

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So you like polling people huh? But you want some more attention for polls so you can collect more user data?  This tip will teach you how to publish a featured poll to the front page of the forums in CS 2008 using the forum post widget.

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