We will release Active Forums 4.2.5 later today. We take a little more time to go through some additional testing. The release notes are already published in the Active Forums Knowledge Base. The majority of the items that were fixed have been iss (read more)

The type of requests that we get through the help desk tell us a lot about how our software is being used and challenges our customers are facing.  We can also find areas to improve usability and documentation based upon subject frequency and co (read more)

I'm one of those developers that likes the idea of having perfect, clean, well documented code.  Notice I said I like the idea.  I also believe that sometimes you just need to get the job done and make it work well.  There are a few th (read more)

Beta versions of Active Forums 4.2 and Active Social 1.5 are now available to Active Forums Enterprise and Active Social Customers.  Active Forums Enterprise customers that do not have Active Social will also have access to Active Social 1.5.&nb (read more)

This is the first major release for Active Forums in over a year.  I know there has been some confusion between Active Forums 4.2 and 5.0.  I want to clear a few things up and make sure we set some expectations prior to the release.&n (read more)

We are just a couple days away from releasing Active Social 1.5 and Active Forums 4.2.  One of the main goals for this release was to make the setup process for Active Social even easier.  We want you to have your site up and running quickl (read more)

We are now running Active Forums 4.2.  This release contains a major update to performance in relation to security along with a handful of bug fixes.  This release also has several improvements for Active Social integration; including the r (read more)

I'm looking for one, possibly two sites, that have a need to sell subscription based services in conjunction with Active Social.  We will install and configure Active Purchase for you.  We will provide any custom templates and build any Act (read more)

By Friday we will change our current help desk system to a new system based upon Active Social.  The new system will leverage the Messaging API and serve as an example of how you can build custom applications within Active Social.  Here are (read more)

Still trying to check out all the benefits of google buzz.  Since it is integrated so well with GMail, I think it has potential to attract a much larger audience than google wave.  I can already see a few ways to integrate Buzz with D (read more)

Building Social Networks and Online Communities with DotNetNuke How can you make your site more "social?" Do you want to improve communication with your customers? Would you like to add more capabilities to your existing community? Are social tool (read more)

Getting Started with Active SocialLearn how quick and easy it is to add Active Social to your site.   We will walkthrough the setup and configuration of activesocial.com and show how to setup a site from scratch. (read more)

Active Social 1.3 introduced a new feature for you to categorize groups.  While this is a great feature for helping you organize your social groups within your DotNetNuke site, there is still much more you can do with a group. A group has some (read more)

We have been trying to make many of the core components within Active Social as reusable as possible.  This makes adding new features easier and keeps the overall package small.  Evidently I have been doing a better job of this than I reali (read more)

My next few blog posts are going to cover some of the changes coming in the next release of Active Forums.  While some of these changes will sound fairly substantial, I assure you that every development decision for this release has taken upgrad (read more)

I don't even think Active Social 1.2 had been released for a full hour before we received the first request for an update on Active Forums.  We really do have some amazing and passionate customers that depend upon our products.  While we do (read more)

DotNetNuke 5.x changed the way users are deleted from a portal.  Instead of actually deleting the user, the user is marked as deleted.  Depending on your situation, this can be a feature or a flaw.  One thing is for certain, the way it (read more)

If you are in Connecticut, come to the DNN CT User Group tonight.  I will be speaking tonight about building social communities with DotNetNuke.   Hopefully if you are from that area you are already aware of the DotNetNuke user group f (read more)

Today was going to be a nice quiet day all by myself in the office.  I was here by 5:30 a.m. and the plan was to spend all day making sure everything was ready for the big release of Active Social.  A couple hours later, I take a few minute (read more)

We receive a lot of questions and comments about the speed and performance of our site.  One customer last week even asked if we were using DotNetNuke.   We haven't altered DotNetNuke at all.  The biggest differences come from skin str (read more)

I just spent the past hour writing the status update for today.  It starts off with the release information for Active Social 1.2.  Followed by a very lengthy summary of the past week.  After reading it a few times I decided the intend (read more)

Just wanted to provide a quick update on where we stand with Active Social 1.2.   The updates to the gallery and Amazon S3 integration are complete.  We have two issues remaining with Events which should be resolved by the morning.&nbs (read more)

I believe I mentioned last week that we have been going through all aspects of Active Social to clean-up and make sure everything works as it should.  My little project last week was the Gallery.  No other way to put it, the gallery could r (read more)

Today we finished moving our office. It took a little longer than expected, but everything has gone very well. Tomorrow morning we will be completely back in action. We will be testing what is currently labeled Active Social 1.2 RC. I will post a (read more)

I knew as soon as I set a date for release something would come up.  The good news is that the past week has been very busy with new customers and existing customers preparing sites for release.  This of course increases our support demands (read more)

This week went by much faster than I had hoped.  This is just another brief update to let you know where we stand on the upcoming releases for Active Social 1.2 and Active Forums 5.0.  Development is still progressing very well and I'm stil (read more)

This is a just brief post to let everyone know where we stand with the next release of Active Forums and Active Social.  Those that follow me on twitter know that I haven't been feeling 100% for the past two weeks.  That is now behind me an (read more)

The new theme structure for Active Forums was developed based upon several years of feedback and what we have learned from the theme and template structure with Active Social.  The new structure and template engine was built based upon the follo (read more)

We are about 3 days behind schedule since my previous update.  Late next week is still looking pretty good for a beta release of Active Forums 4.2 and Active Social 1.2.  Obviously that is not a firm date, but development and testing are mo (read more)

We have been very quiet about the future of Active Cases.  Active Cases was the second product released by Active Modules.  Unfortunately, Active Cases never really had the sales volume to keep up with Active Forums.  This meant that i (read more)