Blogging over at dotnetnuke.com (read more)

Webinar: Learn How Social Collaboration on Your Site Can Drive User Interactions (read more)

Active Social isn’t your typical module. When you take a closer look at the primary functional areas you will see 12 different modules. Some of those modules overlap with core modules that already exist. (read more)

I am pleased to announce that DotNetNuke Corporation has acquired Active Modules, including the intellectual property for our flagship products Active Forums, Active Social and Active Purchase. (read more)

Some Details About How We Moderate Our Forums and Why (read more)

How we build our products and how you can help (read more)

Several updates have been made to the messaging system for Active Social 1.9 (read more)

Several weeks ago I decided to conduct a small experiment with DotNetNuke and Active Forums 4.3.  My goals for this experiment started off pretty simple: Setup a fictitious site using shared hosting, DotNetNuke 5.6 and Active Forums 4.3 Ent (read more)

After several months of development and two months of beta test, Active Forums 4.3 is ready for release. (read more)

A brief video that explains some of the new features for Active Forums 4.3 (read more)

How could we use Active Forums to implement something similar to StackOverflow within a DotNetNuke site. (read more)

Active Forums 4.3 includes several new controls that will allow you to display and structure content in a variety of different ways. (read more)

This past weekend I attended the Chicago Day of DotNetNuke.  One of the last sessions was an open panel where people could suggest topics followed by a 10 minute discussion.   Unfortunately time was very limited and this topic was only (read more)

Active Forums 4.3 will allow you to define custom fields per forum that can be used to capture information when creating topics in addition to the standard subject and body. (read more)

Active Forums integration with the Active Social Journal has been limited to activity that takes place within the context of a social group.  Since we implemented journal item security in Active Social 1.8,  we can now secure journal items (read more)

This past weekend I decided to have my own Active Forums hackathon. Friday afternoon I made a list of everything I wanted to accomplish for Active Forums 4.3. (read more)

A lot of great stuff happening lately with Active Modules and DotNetNuke. Here is a quick recap in case you have been on vacation or been out of touch for the past month. (read more)

Today is the last day to vote for your favorite DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon Entry (Frowser).  DotNetNuke Corp has given you even more incentive to vote for your favorite entry (Frowser) by giving away two $50 Amazon gift certificates.  Just (read more)

When I first heard about the DotNetNuke Mobile Hackathon, I immediately wanted to write an app for Active Social.  Well, I actually did do that first but then decided I should write something that would be more useful to more members of the DotN (read more)

Anyone running a DotNetNuke site should attend the DotNetNuke Mobile Event tonight.  Even if you don't plan to participate in the Hackathon you should still plan to watch the event on-line.  Events like this can help you start thinking abou (read more)

Active Social 1.7, 1.8 and Active Forums 4.2 have been fully tested with DotNetNuke 5.5.  We are not aware of any issues at this time.  DotNetNuke 5.5 has been in beta for over a month and it is obvious that the DNN Team is going to m (read more)

Hopefully you have heard about the Mobile DotNetNuke Hackathon that will be taking place tomorrow in St. Louis Missouri.  Don't worry if you can't make it to St. Louis.  They will also be streaming the event live.  This is going to be (read more)

Just a quick update on Active Social 1.8.  I've just installed the first beta for Active Social 1.8 on activesocial.com.  We still have a few more things to clean-up, but I wanted to start testing performance and security testing.  I h (read more)

Starting with Active Social 1.8, you will be able to create and allow other applications to add content to the journal.  In my previous blog post I covered Journal Types and the purpose they serve for managing the journal content.  In this (read more)

I know I said my next blog post would be about the Journal API, but we need to cover a few more items first.  While this blog post isn't going to dive right into Journal API code samples, the information I will cover should be considered a prere (read more)

Active Social 1.8 includes many new enhancements to the Journal.  The Journal is probably the most complicated, but extremely powerful,  feature of Active Social.  This is one reason why we have tried to keep the configuration options (read more)

Scott McCulloch released a new version of his News Articles module today which includes an option for Active Social journal integration.  Ventrian News Articles is the first third-party module to add Active Social Journal support using the new J (read more)

DotNetNuke 5.4.1 was released this morning.  Active Forums is working great with this release and now fully supported for DotNetNuke 5.4.1.  We only have one issue with Active Social and the Quick Configuration wizard under this release.&nb (read more)

I really hate to post something like this again, but we really don't have a choice.  A few minutes ago I noticed a message on twitter from Peter Donker, founder of Bring2Mind and creator of the Document Exchange Module (DMX), about a problem wit (read more)

We don't usually introduce new features in patch releases.  In this particular situation, I wanted to make sure all Active Forums 4.2 customers received the patch and didn't want to hold these new features for another release.   Most o (read more)