Here is a very rough of screen shot of the Advanced Layout Option that will be available with Active Forums 4.2.  We are going to be upgrading activemodules.com once we finish cleaning up the Advanced Layout later this week.  (read more)

We having been optimizing all aspects of Active Forums for the upcoming 4.2 release. One area where you will see a big difference is with the images associated with themes.  Active Forums 4.2 will use CSS Sprites for nearly all aspects of UI im (read more)

I've mentioned previously that Active Forums 4.2 will get some of the dynamic template features that we built for Active Social.  Active Forums has always given you great flexibility in regard to design and layout.  However, you were always (read more)

August 7th is the tentative release date for Active Forums 4.2.  That really means that I'm confident that we we will have an official release the week of August 10th.  Just as we have done with other releases in the past, customers will ha (read more)

Active Forums 4.2 is going to address several items, but also introduce some changes that will greatly improve performance and scalability.  Active Forums 4.0 was a completely new module and data structure when compared to previous versions.&nbs (read more)

Active Social 1.1.2 includes several bug fixes, some performance improvements and a couple new features.  The biggest performance improvement is in the Messaging area.  Previously, users with large quantities of messages in their inbox woul (read more)

Rumor has it that DotNetNuke 5.1 will be released in the very near future.  Full compatibility testing will be finished before the end of this week.  Active Forums 4.1.x is fully compatible with DotNetNuke 5.1.  Active Social 1.1.2 wil (read more)

We will announce three new major releases at DevConnections/OpenForce Las Vegas this coming November:  Active Forums 5.0, Active Social 3.0 and Active Purchase 3.0.  Unlike the previous years, you will not see blog posts with screen capture (read more)

Have you voted for the asp.netPRO Reader's Choice Awards yet?  If you haven't, go vote today!  If you have already voted, it may not hurt to try and vote again.  Active Forums received 3rd place last year.  It would be great to fi (read more)

We have been using a slightly different release process for Active Social and it has proven to be successful.  We have learned quite a bit over the past couple months.  We know our strengths and identified our weaknesses.  Now we ar (read more)

As I've alluded to in other posts, we are working on some new content organization options for Active Forums. Personally, I think the concept of collaboration and the purpose of a forum has evolved significantly over the past 4 years. You have your (read more)

Active Social 1.0.18 and Active Forums 4.1.14 were released today.  We have more customers launching new or upgraded sites with Active Social with each release.  We still have more features in store and development is literally taking place (read more)

Last month, Jan. 14th to be exact, we tried a completely different approach to our product release process.  At that time, Active Social still was not production ready, but yet we had some very anxious customers that were eager to get started.&n (read more)

Active Social will be released in stages over the next couple of days.  Late yesterday we gave all customers that qualified for the free upgrade access to the Active Social Customer Forums.   This group will be able to download the fir (read more)

Here is a brief video I just put together that takes you through the sign up process using the Active Social Registration wizard.  Keep in mind that all of the fields you see are defined using the DotNetNuke Profile Properties.  You can cre (read more)

Below is a list of some of the features that you can expect to see when Active Social is released on January 15th.  General Benefits & Features Single module w/ multiple views - easy to install and configureComplete integration with D (read more)

I was reading some of the topics on the DotNetNuke forums earlier this week regarding issues with DotNetNuke 5.0.  With a community as large as DotNetNuke, you will always hear of a few failed upgrades or installs with every new release.  I was actua (read more)

There appears to be a change in DotNetNuke 5 that affects all versions of Active Forums.  This change will prevent Active Forums from loading on DotNetNuke 5.We have released a BETA patch to our Enterprise 4.x  customers and plan to have a patch avai (read more)

We released a new update for Active Forums today.  Only Enterprise customers have received updates since the 4.1.3 release.  As of today, all versions of Active Forums have been updated to 4.1.6.  I have included the release notes below.04.01.06 - De (read more)

Thanks for all the feedback on my post, "How can we improve our community forums".  We have already implemented a couple changes.  Forums are still going to remain moderated, but we have granted Professional and Enterprise customers more privileges t (read more)

We have been getting a lot of "opinions" lately over how we moderate our forums.  Personally, when I need to get support from a vendor I would rather contact them directly than post in public forums.  I can tell by looking at tickets and forum partic (read more)

The press release says it best DotNetNuke Corporation Raises Series A Capital. (read more)

I know there is a bit of confusion regarding Active Social and Active Profile.  Hopefully this article will clear up the confusion.  ------------------------------------------Active Profile only addresses the user profile aspect of DotNetNuke Social (read more)

You just installed a brand new module.  As far as you know, you only installed one module.  You create a new page, go to add the new module...What?  You don't have one module, you have 2, 3, 4 or 20 modules from just installing that one new module.  (read more)

It was great getting to talk with so many people at OpenForce last week.  Below are some of the common questions we received along with answers.Q: How much will Active Social cost?A: Active Social will be available in 3 versions:     Active Social ($ (read more)

One of the common requests we received with Active Profile was, "How could every user have a default profile?".  Active Social uses the built-in profile information from DotNetNuke.  This has several advantages: 1) Every user will now have a profile (read more)

The first day of OpenForce has been fantastic.  The day started off with the keynote from Shaun Walker where he announced DotNetNuke Professional.  We spent the rest of the day getting our booth and demo ready for the first night on the expo floor.  (read more)

I have never been able to keep a secret.   I just spent the past hour writing a blog post describing how you could use Active Social for your CRM.  Screen captures showing custom profiles, integration with Active CRM, Active Purchase and an external (read more)

I'm pleased to announce that Active Modules will be sponsoring the "Social" event at OpenForce this year.  I look forward to seeing everyone on Wednesday night.Follow the link below for more details and the official announcement."OpenForce Social" - (read more)

Just about 2 weeks left until DotNetNuke OpenForce '08 and the first release of Active Social.  We haven't said much about Active Social because we wanted to make sure the product was ready.  Those of you attending OpenForce will have the first chanc (read more)