Status Updates

Members can post status updates (like the Facebook wall) on profiles and pages for groups and friends. Status updates fully support comments and email notifications and flow through to the site summary activity stream, giving users a customized view of all their activity

Discussions

In depth discussions require a full featured forum. Active Social includes a copy of Active Forums, the leading DNN Forum Module. Active Forums is completely integrated into Active Social allowing members to enjoy full featured forum functionality within groups or stand alone as a forum.

Links

Posting links on profiles or groups captures information from the link like title, description and even the option to choose a thumbnail image from the linked page. Like all journal features, other members can easily comment on links.

Notes

Sometimes you want to post something more than a short status update. Notes allow users to quickly post titled, longer posts on their profile or on a group journal. Notes provide members a quick way to post something longer than a status update.

Documents

Uploading documents is quick and easy for members. Document can be uploaded through the journals and made available for download to friends and other group members.

Events

Users and group admins can easily create and display events. Invites to friends and entire groups combined with RSVP functionality keep members connected and let event organizers know who's in and who's out.

Messaging & Notifications

Keeps members up to date on new postings, photos, links, forums posts, events & the comments that follow. Private messaging between members includes user settings for who can PM and now supports attachments to Private Messages.

Photos

User and group photo uploads are easy through the activity journal or through profile and group photo galleries. Create folders, upload photos, comments and more. All uploads can be summarized and displayed on the activity journals through the site.

Feeds

Users can easily import feeds from internal and external sources such as blogs, news feeds, properties, videos, etc. to profiles and even groups. Imports can be scheduled and managed easily by administrators through the control panel.

Twitter Connected

Profiles and Groups can be connected to Twitter so status messages posted in Active Social can also appear on Twitter automatically.  This is a great way for users to use your social network to manage their other networks.

Sign Up Wizard

Active Social includes a complete new user registration wizard that is completely integrated into the core DNN User Profile Fields. New members can quickly register using the wizard, choose an avatar (or have one randomly assigned) and begin using your site right away without ever going through the core DNN registration process.

Auto Groups & Friends

Get new members started off on the right foot by using auto groups and auto friends. New members can be automatically added to a group or friend. As soon as they join your site they will already have connections.

User Preferences

User privacy is important.  Our user preference settings give end users complete control over who can interact with them on an incredibly granular level. Users can easily over-ride administrator set defaults and control who can see what and who can post what on their profiles.

Vanity URLs

Give your users and groups their own easy to remember vanity URL on your website.

Group Properties

Categories and Group Types help keep things organized.

Advanced Search

Allows you to extend the core fields and find members and groups quickly.

Member Lists

Create a searchable listing of members within your portal.

Group Lists

Members can easily find groups they want to join using the built in group lists

Group Types

Groups can be created for public (anyone can join), approval required,  or completely private; based on the needs of the group admin.

Avatar Pool

New members can be automatically assigned an avatar from our pre-packaged images or from your own.

Profiles

Member profile pages are highly configurable and customizable. Users can display an avatar, status updates, friends & group lists, links, photos and posts from the forums. You can even integrate other user based modules and display them within a user's profile.

Groups

Organizing a community around groups is easy using Active Social. Public, Private and Invite Only groups allow you or your members to create groups, invite friends and begin building their networks.

Friends

Create connections between users through friend relationships. You can configure Active Social so friends see each other's posts, can post on each other's journals and send each other messages. Friend lists can also be displayed on the site.

Forums

Active Social includes our award-winning discussion forum module, Active Forums. Forums can be setup stand alone or used within groups. Group forums are integrated into the journals and everything is customizable.

Journals

Some of the most powerful features of Active Social are the profile, group and summary journals. Users can post quick status updates, links, photos and more on their profile or in a group, and others can easily add comments. Integrated email notifications keep everyone informed, and the Site Summary Journal displays all a user's activity in one place.

Setup Wizard

Our Quick Start Wizard makes installation even simpler; site administrators can now have Active Social installed and configured in less than five minutes and with only four mouse-clicks.

Control Panel

Our comprehensive Administrative Control Panel gives you complete control over who, what and where members can go and what they can do. Administrators can easily manage a large network from one place that is quickly accessible from any Active Social module.

Security

Administrators can setup Active Social to work within existing roles, create new roles automatically and also control who can see or create content.

Supports Amazon S3

Active Social can leverage Amazon S3 for storage of large media and content. Photo galleries, files and more can be stored on S3 with a simple configuration setting.

Template Based Layout

Every view in Active Social is based on a completely customizable template. You can use the pre-built templates, modify them or create your own from scratch. With some basic HTML skill you can make your Active Social network look like anything you want.

Custom Views

Need more than what ships with Active Social? Np problem. Custom views allow you to copy, modify or write you own displays of content from within Active Social and display them around your site as modules.

Add your Own Controls

Want to do something that's not in Active Social? Our advanced architecture supports the development of your own controls for use within or along-side Active Social functionality.

Customization Control

Managing customizations can be daunting. Active Social makes it easy with a built in template manager. You can quickly make layout changes from within the Control Panel and our "copy down" feature allows you to save your changes in your own theme so upgrades aren't painful.

DotNetNuke Connected

Want to show some information form a user's DNN profile within Active Social? It's no problem with our tokens and controls that easily allow you to display DNN profile information within our templates. We've stayed connected to the DNN core so your investments in other modules don't need to change.

Third Party Module Display

Want to show a user's videos or classifieds or other userid based content from other modules within a user's profile? With Active Social you can display userid based view of information from other content right from within their profile.

Journal API

Want to show activity streams from third party modules or write data to the journal on your own? Our Journal API allows third party module developers to easily push information into the Active Social Activity Journals while respecting the control and features you expect such as notifications and filters.

Journal Application Support

Want to write your own application right within our Journal? No problem. Our Journal Application supports the creation of your own functionality that you can create right within our module. This is seamless to users and offers rapid application deployment for developers.