March 2008 - Blog Watch

I was working on a Community Server site-in-progress recently, so the out-of-box theme files encountered some initial experimentation before I applied my gentle carress. Not a problem-o, but Community Server Modal Windows took a hit. I was doing an application mod and my Modal Window header and footers were gone! Transparent. Non-existent. I had these funky popup windows that were DOP (Dead On Popup.) So a few bits on Community Server modal (popup) windows are in order. First, the style settings...

You can play as much as you want to drag and drop the contents of tree controls exactly how you want them in the Control Panel. It doesn't work, nor has ever worked. Forum lists, too. These are actually sweet controls, but sorting isn't in their interactive UI lexicon. To sort a File Gallery or other tree-based Community Server control use the Chameleon SortBy property on the web page. Here's an example: <li class="DBVTTreeListItem"> <CSFile:GroupData ID="GroupData1"...

I saw this question in the Graffiti Support forums and figured I'd turn it into a tip. By default most Graffiti themes only publish the post excerpt on the home or other index pages (like tags) because, for SEO reasons, most search engines don't Read More......( read more ) Read More...

The Films for Learning Web site highlights Community Server’s ability to integrate education and film making into schools across the globe. COMMUNITY SERVER in ACTION FilmsforLearning.org is an online resource that provides teachers and students a place to share their own custom video resources online. With initial funding by NESTA (the National Endowment for Science Technology and Arts), the goal of the Films for Learning initiative is to inspire students, teachers and schools to learn through the...

I probably just noticed something that's been going on for a while. I thought I'd check out the Seattle group on FB. It's a 200k audience being fed daily spam like this: Facebook needs to find a way to deal with this problem because it's Read More......( read more ) Read More...

The control panel post lists in Graffiti and Community server don't offer a search functionality (yet) that would make it easy to find and edit existing posts. The easy work around for this problem is to make sure you are signed into your account Read More......( read more ) Read More...

We just officially announced that Community Server 2008 will also have an awesome integration story for Microsoft SharePoint . You can read more details in the post, but we're obviously very excited to announce this -- it's been in the works for quite a few months now and we'll have a beta ready a few days after we launch Community Server 2008. Read More...

Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server and Telligent® Community Server™ work together to connect people, processes, and information to form a robust social networking solution . Providing a scalable and integrated application your organization can depend upon, these two .NET platforms enhance collaboration and workflow. By positioning Community Server next to your existing SharePoint application, you unlock several key integration points: Fully Integrated Experience Community Server is fully integrated...

Community Server 2008, beta 2 is now available! Web Installer Windows Installer Upgrade from CS 2007.1 to Beta 2 Let us know what you think - share your feedback . Some highlights for this beta 2 release: The beta includes the new Community Server 2008 theme "Hawaii" which introduces and showcases many of the great new Community Server 2008 capabilities including the new user home page that provides a summary of what is happening in the community. Now when you are signed in to Community...

Community Server 2008, beta 2 is now available! Web Installer Windows Installer Upgrade from Beta 1 to Beta 2 Let us know what you think - share your feedback . Some highlights for this beta 2 release: The beta includes the new Community Server 2008 theme "Hawaii" which introduces and showcases many of the great new Community Server 2008 capabilities including the new user home page that provides a summary of what is happening in the community. Now when you are signed in to Community Server...

How much value is your online social network adding to your brand? We can tell you. In this short video clip, Rob Howard takes you on a quick tour of our new Web-based internet reporting tool and shows you how Telligent® Harvest™ Reporting Server can easily mine your online community for rich user data. If you’ve ever wanted to know: • What are my customers talking about? • What problems do my customers have? • What are the demographics of my users? • Is my community expanding or contracting? • Who...

Hawaii is the new theme that we created for Community Server 2008. Hawaii is a very social-centric theme that brings together many of the new features of CS 2008, such as groups, social streams , and more! Below is a screen shot of Community Server running the Hawaii theme: While the work isn't 100% complete yet, we wanted to give people a preview of what is coming. First off you may notice is that the "Home" tab is selected and the page that is shown is a user-centric dashboard. A...

Today is the last day for our introductory pricing of Harvest 1.0 at $999 . After today Harvest will be $5,000/server. Note, Harvest is included as part of the Enterprise Edition of Community Server 2008. Read More...