'Net Features : dotnetnuke

Make Your Website More Communal with DNN Social

Michael Garrity — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:45:00 GMT

Today, the Web content management system (CMS) DotNetNuke (DNN) announced the release of a new social software solution to help website owners optimize customer engagement and loyalty through the use of online communities, thus combining both content and community management in a single, easy-to-use solution.

The conspicuously named DNN Social product provides businesses with the ability to create and then manage social communities on their websites with the greatest of ease. In turn, the end users get a one-stop destination for consuming content, exchanging ideas and interacting with other members of the community.

Businesses that implement DNN Social can benefit from the ability to more effectively control the customer conversation than they would on a third-party social network like Facebook or Twitter, because now it will take place on a corporate website. Plus, introducing a thriving user community into a website can reduce support costs, drive product innovation and increase sales and brand awareness.

“Online communities represent a golden opportunity for you to deepen engagement with your prospects and customers in a leveraged, cost-effective way,” said Kim Celestre, the senior analyst serving technology marketing professionals at Forrester Research.

DNN Social comes with a number of features that will help enhance digital marketing, customer support, product development and e-commerce, including gamification, data analytics (along with a user-friendly dashboard), crowd-sourcing ideation and a “Q&A” customer service environment that allows users to submit, search for and answer questions.

Social CMS in the Cloud: DotNetNuke Delivered in Azure

Administrator — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:15:00 GMT

DotNetNuke, a Web content management system for Microsoft .NET, recently announced an alliance with Microsoft to offer its Social CMS software through Microsoft's Windows Azure Cloud. DotNetNuke will also receive an investment from Microsoft to support engineering, sales and marketing.

By running DotNetNuke in the Azure cloud, users will be able to install and manage the software and hardware required to run the platform and will have access to the full feature set including site and document management, social collaboration, security, workflows, page and module caching, analytics and even mobile site management.

"Social experiences are ideal for cloud computing; they are consumed across many devices and browsers and they also need to scale based on fluctuations in usage," said Kim Akers, General Manager of Microsoft. "With Windows Azure developers can build social experiences that take advantage of a reliable cloud backend and a scalable way to manage and continually refine their sites. DotNetNuke's Windows Azure-based offering is designed to make it easy for organizations to build and deploy websites."

DotNetNuke began offering Windows Azure-based trials of its professional edition software worldwide, localized into five languages, earlier this year. The company today opened up registration for a beta version of its cloud offering that will be available in Q4 2012. DotNetNuke is scheduled to make the service generally available in early 2013, with service plans for mid-sized businesses and enterprises.

DotNetNuke began offering Windows Azure-based trials of its professional edition software worldwide earlier in 2012 but the company has now officially opened up registration for a beta version of the cloud offering that will be available in Q4 2012.

Toward a More Social CMS with DNN 6.2

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 30 May 2012 16:30:00 GMT

How social is your CMS? If you’re like most digital Web workers, the out-of-the-box CMS you use each and every day is likely not very social at all.

Web content management system DotNetNuke hopes to change all that with the release of DNN 6.2, a more social CMS designed for enterprises to configure and deploy social collaboration solutions and communities for their key audiences.

"Building an effective online community is a proven strategy to improve productivity and get closer to your customers,” says Shaun Walker, CTO and co-founder of DotNetNuke Corp. “Businesses now have the capabilities to deploy online social solutions much faster, that are fully integrated with their external and internal websites, without the high cost of customization associated with current enterprise offerings in the market."

The product capabilities, particularly for a content management system, are impressive. DNN 6.2 features activity feeds that power user interactions, social groups and forums to increase collaboration, social logins (Facebook, Twitter, & Google+) to drive participation, friend and follow controls to encourage social relationships, and much more including private messaging, interactive user profiles, a member directory, a social API, Sharepoint integration and several localization offerings.

"While major social media sites like Facebook are great, many businesses and organizations need their very own community and social collaboration tools directly on their own websites," says Tom McAllister, sales manager of LRS Web Solutions, a DotNetNuke partner. "We are impressed with DotNetNuke 6.2 and the enhanced integration of so many social tools. This will not only benefit us as DNN developers but also will help our customers get social sites to market quickly and affordably."

DotNetNuke 6.2 is available now and is offered in three versions: Community (free), Professional, and Enterprise Editions. Pricing starts at $2,499 for an annual Professional Edition subscription.

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InnestoNuke Module Brings E-Commerce to DotNetNuke

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:30:00 GMT

The future of software will be integrated. And if you’re not a believer, read this and you will likely be one soon.

Web content management system DotNetNuke has announced the availability of a new module from Brilliance Business Solutions that integrates the platform with e-commerce shopping cart AspDotNetStorefront.

The new module, called InnestoNuke, enables users to pass between a DotNetNuke website and an AspDotNotStorefront shopping cart under a single login. The module provides access to features including tiered customer pricing, mobile commerce support, multi-channel integration, a product feed engine, SEO-friendly architecture and, to top it all off, provides PCI compliance. The module sells within the DotNetNuke store for US $545.

"InnestoNuke opens the door to a wide range of new capabilities for companies that need commercial grade e-commerce integrated with extensible Web content management," explains Lori McDonald, president of Brilliance Business Solutions. "Organizations will have the assurance that as the platform evolves to support the latest in mobile, social, document management and content trends, their online storefront will keep pace."

10,000 Apps in DotNetNuke’s The Store (SnowCovered)

Administrator — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:40:00 GMT

The hallmark of any software platform these days is often in the depth and availability of extensions made available to their community. The better the extensions, the better the Web presence.

Open-source content management system DotNetNuke just released the second generation of its commercial marketplace for applications and designs. Previously known as SnowCovered, the marketplace is now known as “The Store” and currently offers more than 10,000 supported extensions, modules and apps from independent vendors.

“The new Store is a giant step forward for both buyers and vendors,” says Chad Nash, founder and chief developer at Data Springs Inc., a top Store vendor. “The customer experience has been improved dramatically, making it faster and easier than ever to find the extensions you need and start using them quickly.”

The Store seems to have a wide variety of products already, including modules for everything from creating forms, managing even registration, shopping carts and of course design templates/skins. Most valuable in my opinon however is the ability of the DNN Store to be accessible directly from all editions (starting with version 6.0). Known as the DNN Extensions catalog, direct access makes it possible for users to shop, purchase and install apps from the backend.

“Oftentimes an organization’s website is its single most important business asset,” says Mitch Bishop, CMO of DotNetNuke Corp. “Being able to speed the process of developing and delivering a world-class online presence is critical to these companies. The DotNetNuke Store now makes it even faster and easier for these organizations to extend their sites, empowering them to serve their customers, employees and partners quickly and affordably.”

DotNetNuke WCMS Gets Serious with v5.6

Software Everywhere : feature — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:10:00 GMT

Popular .Net web content management platform DotNetNuke released version 5.6 of its professional edition and enterprise edition. The new version includes a new Site Search feature (which includes for Boolean searches, phrase searches, relevance searches...(read more)

On the Wire at Website Magazine (Submit Your News!)

Pete Prestipino — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:06:00 GMT

Several months into 2008, Website Magazine dropped its popular On The Morning Wire blog post series, which highlighted important news releases for the current day related to Web professionals - SEOs, SEMs, designers, developers - you get the picture. Those posts were exceedingly popular with our readers, as they covered a lot of content in brief, but it was also a pain to manage. Fortunately, that process has been greatly simplified thanks to a little bit of coding and, of course, a healthy dose of creativity.

Starting today, if you publish a press release on PRWeb or directly at the Website Magazine News Release section, your content (relevant content, of course) will appear at WebsiteMagazine.com. News releases are published on the home page (bottom right) which means added exposure in our community and any links you manage to include are dofollow so participating means an added boost to your site on the SERPs.

If you're a company providing Web-related products or services and you've got some news to share, submit it at WebsiteMagazine.com/newsreleases today (and everyday).

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Open Source Drupal CMS Gets a Nod

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:31:00 GMT

If you're in the market for a content management system (and an open-source one to boot), you might be interested to know that the Packt's Open Source Content Management System (CMS) Award (very prestigious in CMS circle) was given to Drupal in the overall category, collecting a first prize of $5,000.

Drupal finished ahead of Joomla! and DotNetNuke. The open-source platform has grown substantially by all accounts of late, downloaded almost 1.5 million times in the last 12 months. It is currently being applied by companies such as Warner Brothers Music, MTV UK, and the New York Observer amongst others.

Finishing in second place and receiving $3,000 was Joomla!, the youngest of the three finalists and a previous winner of the Overall Award. Judges were impressed with Joomla's ease of installation and ability to get a website up-and-running in a short space of time. Particular praise was reserved for its sizeable and enthusiastic community, which has allowed the project to grow so quickly in such a short space of time. In third place and receiving $2,000 was DotNetNuke, the only CMS in the final that is written in VB.NET for the ASP.NET framework. DotNetNuke received positive feedback from judges who were impressed with its ease of development and security implementation features.

The most promising CMS system was SilverStripe. SilverStripe is today exclusively revealed as the winner of the 2008 Most Promising Open Source Content Management System. The SilverStripe project received $2,000, holding off strong competition from CMS Made Simple in the first runner up position with ImpressCMS and MiaCMS finishing joint second runner up.