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OpenForce & Active Social - The countdown begins.

by Will M on 26 Oct 2008 10:32 PM

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 chance at seeing Active Social along with access to a preview release.

Active Social includes the following features:

Customizable Profile layouts
Customizable Member directory w/ search
Activity Feeds for Portals, Profiles and Groups with updates from Ventrian News Articles, DNN Blog, Active Forums and BizModules.
Groups with easy to configure template driven layouts.
Friends with notifications to email, Active Messaging or Ventrian Private Messages
Integrated messaging between users and/or groups
Discussions with Profiles and Groups powered by Active Forums.

We have been talking about it for months and our customers have been very patient. The first complete social networking solution for DotNetNuke is almost here!

17 Comments for OpenForce & Active Social - The countdown begins.

MHuijbregts
27 Oct 2008 12:56 AM
www.biservices.eu

Will,

This is exciting stuff and looking back at all the comments that were given in the last few months it seems that you have been listening very carefully. Again, an excellent job!!!

palaceguard
27 Oct 2008 11:41 AM
http://mymagiczone.com

Is Actve Social a new name for Active Profiles? Or is it the name of a new product or suite of products centered around Active Profiles/Forums?

Duane
27 Oct 2008 01:11 PM

This is great news Will, how far out is it for public release after showing the preview at OpenForce?

jbrunken
28 Oct 2008 09:35 AM

This sounds very exciting for sure and exactly what we are looking to use for our social site. I am a bit concerned to how the licensing is going to work. We've already bought Enterprise Forums and Profile... Am I going to have to ask our group for more money for an additional license?

-JB

Will Morgenweck
28 Oct 2008 10:51 PM
www.activemodules.com

Thanks for the feedback. We are pretty excited too!

@PalaceGuard
Active Social is a new product that with include Active Forums and other social networking modules.

@Duane
We will have a preview release immediately following OpenForce for a few select customers. The official release will be the first week of December.

@jbrunken
Very good question. Customers that currently have Active Profile and Active Forums Enterprise will be able to "trade-in" those licenses for an Active Social license.

jbrunken
29 Oct 2008 08:19 AM

Will,

Thanks for the info, that is awesome. I can't wait to see OpenSocial in action.

-JB

Steven Webster
29 Oct 2008 10:04 AM
www.overlooktechnologies.com

I can't wait to see this.

David Wagner
29 Oct 2008 12:50 PM

Great news
I have active forum enterprise and am now waiting to get this new OpenForce. Will i loose the work done on my forums?
When can i evaluate it? We are launching in two weeks replacing our current website which has 14K plus regestered users.
Thanks
david

MHuijbregts
29 Oct 2008 01:40 PM
www.biservices.eu

Will,

Could you please elaborate a bit more where the CRM (Social CRM) fits in?

Will Morgenweck
02 Nov 2008 06:41 PM
www.activemodules.com

@David
Active Social will run side-by-side with Active Forums Enterprise. The earliest we will make an evaluation copy available will be Nov. 18th.

@Marc
I will blog more about this later in the week. You will actually start to see this in action with the release of Active Forums 4.2.

Thanks,
Will

jbrunken
04 Nov 2008 01:57 PM

Will,

Can you give any more info about how groups will work? Will there be an optional way to display group membership in the PostInfo template in ActiveForum?

Do you expect an release version of A.S. before the end of the year? Obviously I'm very anxious to get my hands on this!

-Jason

Will Morgenweck
05 Nov 2008 10:08 AM
www.activemodules.com

Will there be an optional way to display group membership in the PostInfo template in ActiveForum?

This would be available when viewing the users profile, but I don't see why we couldn't include it for the PostInfo template as well.

Yes, I expect a public release before the end of the year.

jbrunken
05 Nov 2008 02:23 PM

Wow, this is sounding better and better. Can group membership be bound to roles in any way?

Will Morgenweck
05 Nov 2008 07:14 PM
www.activemodules.com

Do you mean automatically add users of a certain role to a group? Perhaps only letting users in a certain role have access to a group? Maybe you mean just importing users by group into a role to get things started.

If thats what you are asking then yes.

jbrunken
05 Nov 2008 07:39 PM

We have a "Members" role that users get assigned to when they pay to join our organization (using Ventrian Subscriptions). What I would like to see is the ability to have membership in a group bound to roles so that anyone who is added to our member role automatically joins the "Members" group and anyone removed from the role automatically leaves the group.

-Jason

Will Morgenweck
05 Nov 2008 07:45 PM
www.activemodules.com

Not a problem. We have that taken care of by allowing you to link a group to roles. At first we were trying to keep groups and roles completely separate, but we found a few ways to allow you to leverage your existing role structure and still keep it flexible and simple.

jbrunken
05 Nov 2008 08:11 PM

SIMPLY AWESOME!

I can not wait to give Active Social a try on our website.

-Jason

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