April 2010 - Blog Watch

In this Information Management article, Telligent founder and CTO Rob Howard discusses the value of social analytics - knowing who is in your community and what they are talking about, to help you to seek out influencers and react accordingly. Some of Howard's key points include: listening inside and outside your community, leveraging user generated content and understanding user types Read the full article here . Read More...

In our last episode we walked through the process of creating Namespaces in ScrewTurn Wiki, selected a theme and as a bonus, demonstrated how to fine-tune page elements to duplicate the page styles across all ScrewTurn namespaces. Today we're going to replace the fine-tuning edit process of ScrewTurn /wiki/public/*.cs content files with the Content Editing feature already built-in to ScrewTurn Wiki. This post is yet another demonstration of why blogging is important to get things right. As has...

One of the great features in ScrewTurn Wiki is namespaces, distinct wiki areas supporting namespace-specific permissions and administration, theming, page layouts and more.  ScrewTurn Wiki namespaces are fully supported with Sueetie, but the Sueetie Activity Log wasn't correctly recording non-root wiki page permalinks. A small bug to be sure, but the fix gave me the chance to work with ScrewTurn Wiki Namespaces. Creating a ScrewTurn Namespace is a snap.  I was into my new namespace...

A recent Fast Company article, Five Steps to Social Currency , provides tips on profiting in a world in which every brand is attempting to gather Facebook fans, Twitter followers and a YouTube audience. Your brand doesn't need buzz; it needs true value. Telligent can help. Advocates trump followers. Quantity is less important than quality. By providing an online community in which you can engage your audience in conversations with other like-minded people, you strengthen their bond with your...

Because trust is a key factor to nonprofit organizations, online community software can be extremely valuable. Facilitating collaboration among members through blogs and forums can raise awareness, encourage donations and garner support. Just like with any other type online community, there are steps you must take to ensure your success: Develop a clear strategy. First and foremost, that strategy should articulate a plan for what goals will be accomplished. Find a platform that fits your strategy...

I’ve recently started a 14-week volunteering commitment at a local school and wanted to share lessons learned here.  I am working with a couple of developers to create and to teach ‘Introduction to Computer Programming (using SmallBasic )’ as an after-school program. It would be fantastic if more of us in the developer community would try this type of volunteering.  Here’s a ‘How To:’ 1) Identify the school .  You’ll be surprised at how receptive schools are to the idea of this type...

It’s probably no surprise that most of the Telligenti are iPhone, MacBook and now iPad junkies. But we Telligenti are open-minded for the most part and we’re committed to using and abusing “best of breed” solutions – we now use Solr (on Java) for our Read More......( read more ) Read More...

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Telligent is excited to announce the general availability of version 5.5.1 of the Telligent Evolution Platform Software Development Kit (SDK). This release includes additional custom development capabilities to extend Telligent Community 5.5 and Telligent Enterprise 2.5: Read or write blog posts and comments Start or contribute to conversations Pull number of verified and suggested answer count and ratings for forum threads Moderate forums Approve and deny friend requests We've also made improvements...

Here’s the deck I’ll be presenting this Saturday in Huntington Beach at SQL Saturday – c’mon over! SQL Azure April 2010 View more presentations from lynnlangit . Read More...

Earlier this month Llewellyn and I taught six 6th grade girls to program.  We were invited to be guest instructors at the Girls’ Middle School Intersession.  While there we taught 3 hours per day for 5 days.  This was a great opportunity for us to try out our recipe library with new programmers. Here’s what we did: 1) We taught 2-3 recipes plus more* (detail below) per day 2) We taught in both SmallBasic and in Java 3) We used Agile techniques, such as pair programming, 5-minute sprints...

Bill Knew Better. I’m sure you found all of the press about Steve Jobs killing off non-Apple development platforms like Flash and MonoTouch on Apple OS4 devices as interesting as I have. Two of the most educational articles (along with their many good comments) were Econsultancy’s Steve Jobs will kill the goose that laid the golden egg and Gawker’s Dark Side of Steve Jobs. Too many good excerpts to share in a single link, and since Everyman is a Librarian and not a Professor I’ll keep my opinions...