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What to expect for Active Forums 4.2
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
Active Social 1.5 Quick Start Wizard
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
Testing Active Forums 4.2
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
Webinar, New Guides, and More
It has been a few weeks since our last Active Update; I hope everyone has been doing well!We have a few exciting things to report this week.  First, Will hosted his second webinar, Building Social Networks and Online Communities with DotNetNuke,... Read More
Do you want to sell subscriptions? Do you need help getting started?
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
Building a Social CRM Help Desk with Active Social
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
Active Social 1.4, Webinars, and More Documentation
I hope everyone had a good week!  If you are rumored to get snow like we are here in Charleston, please stay safe and warm, and enjoy a snowball fight or some hot chocolate. As many of you know, we released Active Social 1.4 this week.  Thi... Read More
What do you think about Google Buzz?
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
New Documentation, Customer Feedback, and Webinars
It’s that time again … this week I have a few reminders from last week and a few new things to tell you about!  First, as I’ve mentioned before, with the release of Active Social 1.3, we have added to the available documentation and have consoli... Read More
Webinar: Building Social Networks and Online Communities with DotNetNuke
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
Webinar: Getting Started with Active Social
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
Documentation, Installation Service, and Featured Sites
I hope everyone has had a good week!  It’s been another busy one here at Active Modules.  As our Active Social customers continue to install 1.3 on new sites or upgrade to 1.3 on existing ones, I want to remind everyone to be sure to read o... Read More
Create Your Own Social Community with Active Social and DotNetNuke
Active Modules announces Active Social 1.3, the latest version of the company’s social networking solution Active Social delivers the most complete, ... Read More
Active Purchase and Active Social
I had several specific goals in mind when we first created Active Purchase.  Shortly after the first release It became very apparent that there was a growing need for an e-commerce module for DotNetNuke. I found it very odd that people were ... Read More
Social CRM - The Power of Groups
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 fa... Read More
Styling the tabs in Active Social 1.3
Styling the tabs in Active Social 1.3 is a very easy process. All Screen shots were taken in Firefox 3.5.7, click to enlarge images. The tabs’ structure is not very complicated, it is simply a div that contains a list. Each list item contains a li... Read More
Active Social 1.3
As I am sure you are all aware by now, Active Social 1.3 was released to customers last week.  I hope that you all are as excited about this release as we are.  Some cool new features include the Social Summary, auto-friend, and categories ... Read More
Happy Holidays from Active Modules!
The staff here at Active Modules would like to wish all our customers as well as the DNN community a happy holiday season!  As I am sure most of you are aware, we are planning on releasing Active Social 1.3 to customers later today.  There ... Read More
Active Social 1.02.07 and Active Forums 4.01.18
We are happy to report that new versions of both Active Social and Active Forums have been released this week.Active Social 1.02.07 was released today, November 5th.  This is the latest of several updates to the module since Active Social 1.02’s... Read More
Active Social Comments Module
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
Quick Update
Hello, I hope everyone has been having a good week!  It's been a few weeks since my last post, and although we don't quite have any releases to tell you about yet, everyone here at Active Modules has been working very hard on updates to both Act... Read More
Support Policy and Potential Help Desk Solution
This week we have some new things to make sure you are updated on.  First, DotNetNuke has released a new version, 5.1.4.  Secondly, Active Modules will begin implementing a new support policy on November 2nd.  Will wrote about the chan... Read More
Introducing Forum Categories and Features by Entity
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
Snowcovered #4, New Feature, and More
This week we would like to thank all our customers that continue to make our modules so successful.  Active Social is now among the “Most Popular in DNN 5” on Snowcovered, making it into the top 10 in less than a week.  As I write this, Act... Read More
Active Forums Update
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