It’s been a busy couple of weeks! Scott beat me to it, but after months of cajoling we convinced Alex Lowe to join Telligent. Alex was previously a developer evangelist working for Microsoft and before that was one of the key community people in the ASP.NET … Continue reading “Alex Lowe, New office, and still hiring”
I’m thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Community Server version 1.0: Download Now! We will release the source code within the coming days, we have also begun work on version 1.1. The theme for version 1.1 is: Performance – we intend to run both … Continue reading “Community Server 1.0”
Should be a great event with some great presenters!
One of our big goals at Telligent was to have our Community Server product be disruptive and change the way people work within communitites. I’m happy to announce one of our newest projects (at end of the post). For a long time one of my … Continue reading “Web Forums or NNTP …doesn’t really matter”
Tonight I’m presenting on Community Server 1.0 at the Plano .NET User’s Group. I’ll be showing off two new features that Ken has been working on — his site is running Community Server 1.0 btw and shows how easy it is to customize the platform: … Continue reading “Community Server add-ons”
Scott posted some details on our web based installer for Community Server. If you’re like me you pass judgement on an application in the first few minutes. If setup goes bad, well it’s all pretty much downhill from there. It was key for us to … Continue reading “Web Based Installer for Community Server”
This Thursday I’m giving a presentation at the Plano .NET User’s Group (PDNUG) the topic is: Building Community Server 1.0. Below is the topic description: In this talk we’ll take a tour of Community Server 1.0 from how the project team is setup to a … Continue reading “Plano .NET User’s Group”
Today someone asked me how you measure the success of an online blog/forum community. Below are some of the ideas I replied with: 1. The simple measurements: Total Subscribers – how many people are syndicating your content or active in your forums Blog Feedback – how many comments … Continue reading “Measuring the success of a community”
Today we released our final beta of Community Server. Beta 3 is looking really, really good. Several large organizations have deployed on Beta 3 already – we hope to have a release candidate in the next couple of weeks. You can download Beta 3 here: … Continue reading “Community Server, Beta 3”
So here I am. Day 3 of ComCast (national Internet and Cable provider here in the U.S.) being down again. I’ve been able to manage it by taking my laptop to one of 10 million Starbucks and use the wireless t-mobile access, but it’s still … Continue reading “Dependence on Technology”
