May 2008 - Blog Watch

Great graphics and another good example of utilizing a pseudo-footer area for useful information. Link to site Read More...

This page is well balanced with lots of white space. Excellent flash work in selecting an automobile on the top selection bar. The site plays music on load though. Damned annoying. Link to site Read More...

The Banner High, Border Low look I so enjoy, with a cool Illustrator figure to ice the cake. Yeah! Link to site Read More...

Great Illustrator work here. Interesting selection of colors. I like the consistent background patterns in the banner and menubar. Link to site Read More...

A crisp look. Effective display of portfolio as a slideshow. I also like the train water tower unmasked at top right. Link to site Read More...

My happy Web 2.0 look. Needs bigger fonts though. :-) Link to site Read More...

Program Manager – Managed Experience Team Big impact. Fast-paced, energetic environment. Smart and talented people. Yes, you can have it all. At Telligent, you will help create social software and communities for some of the world's most well-known Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Telligent and Community Server were sponsors of the Sports Marketing 2.0 VIP Summit in San Francisco this last week. 100 attendees engaged in conversation through four panels hosted by a number of industry experts from Telligent, Microsoft, Intel, General Motors, IBM, Omniture, the NFL, the NBA and others. There were some great topics. We spent time talking about measuring the impact of social marketing. We discussed that, often, social marketing is "top of funnel" marketing that can't...

I sling a lot of data in and out of my Jobs Management Application and this afternoon's slinging consisted of Job Estimate data from Microsoft Access. The process occurs through a Community Server background task and consists of three steps. 1) Request the List<Business Object>, 2) Retrieve the data to populate it in the AccessDataProvider, and 3) Pass it off to the SqlDataProvider. I had written CodeSmith templates to perform various aspects of the Access Data Import process, but not what...

Another Jobs Management Application lesson for us tonight to demonstrate new and exciting ways to use the Community Server HelpToolTip Popup Control. In this session we will be using the HelpToolTip Popup Control to provide information to users when input errors occur. Below is a Jobs Management function that records Reimburseable Expenses made by foremen on the job. Those expenses are transferred at the end of the week to the payroll system for reimbursement. There are two data input requirements...

Do you live and breath software development and the Social Web? We are a fast-growing software company headquartered in North Dallas who builds products (and solutions) which enable our customers build their own web based communities. Job Purpose: This Read More......( read more ) Read More...

In my Jobs Management app built on Community Server I needed to display job documents. Another in-house Document Management application already had a page that displayed documents based on jobs, so instead of designing original Chameleon controls as usual, why not iframe in an existing document management application page with some slight editing and styling. There were security rules that could be easily handled by going with an iframe as well. The result was that we could add job document support...