Posts Tagged ‘forums’

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. 1. Create [...]

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. 1. Create a new poll in the forum [...]

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 [...]

What a wild weather pattern we’re in out here.  Seriously, I pitched in the snow today at our baseball game.  It looked something like the picture to the left… except replace real fans with homeless people that wandered by on Capitol Hill in Seattle.  Today’s post is another grab bag of my recently shared items.  [...]

I’ve been updating some online personas of late and wanted to fill all two of my readers into where I’ll be posting moving forward. Professional Josh EvolvingWe.com – The professional me has a new hub on the web at www.evolvingwe.com  the feed is www.evolvingwe.com/feed. Twitter – I’ve decided to dive into twitter at http://twitter.com/evolvingwe. Facebook [...]

I wish them all the luck with this.  Personally I’d love to see a really rich Silverlight experience for browsing, reading, and posting when online. You can also tell that he opened one of my favorite old can of worms from the comments in his post.  Who new RSS feeds were aggregated into NNTP anyway?  [...]

  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 [...]

In the next release Community Server will support "Groups".  I love the feature, but it could create a new problem for community site managers.  How do you manage the creation and population of these sub-communities on your site?  I tend to agree with Sean and believe that Facebook does a terrible job of this.  And [...]

I left Microsoft to join Telligent on June 25th, and it's been an exciting three weeks.  I'm learning a lot, having tons of fun, and I think my team is worried about me since I haven't run away screaming yet.  Don't worry, I won't.  These are all fun challenges.    What's most exciting to me has been [...]