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Posts Tagged ‘community-server’
10/26/2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. The more notable items include these enhancements: New users have display [...]
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” [...]
Scott likes to say we could spend an entire release cycle of Community Server simply improving the visibility of “hidden features” in CS. This is one of those hidden gems for users that want to publish podcasts to iTunes. To configure iTunes options for your RSS: Open your blogs control panel Click the configure tab [...]
You can create a forum that tracks answered thread status in CS 2008. This is perfect for discussion areas designed for customers getting answers to their questions. To create this experience for your users you’ll need to follow the steps below to first enable thread status tracking for the site & then creating a forum [...]
04/15/2008
Early this morning Telligent launched Community Server 2008 and a new home on http://communityserver.com/. Some of the details are located here, but my pet favorite things about CS 2008 include… Enterprise reporting and analytics to help dissect, analyze, and trend user and community behavior. For developers, Community Server 2008 includes a complete Web Services (REST) [...]
The control panel post lists in Graffiti and Community server don’t offer a search functionality (yet) that would make it easy to find and edit existing posts. The easy work around for this problem is to make sure you are signed into your account and use the site search to find your post. [...]
What I’m Reading and Writing – Testing a WLW Plugin
I have a shared items feed from google reader, but I've been struggling with how to share that content more broadly through my main blog feed. I didn't like mirroring my shared items since it felt like content stealing and I share more than I write, but at the other extreme I don't generally [...]