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An interesting conversation sprang up in the Telligent Evolution platform developer support forums this week about the development of older style ascx controls/widgets vs newer style nVelocity widgets. Patrick Mason and Adam Seabridge provided lots of...

Many of the Telligent Evolution platform REST endpoints allow for for including a file attachment with your create or update requests. Examples include adding or updating a blog post, adding or updating a forum thread, adding or updating a media gallery...

If you attended the Big Social in 2012, you may have attended the sessions outlining how to build a custom polling application. In those sessions, we walked through each step as we added new functionality and integrated more deeply with the Evolution...

But today I realized that taking it offline means that it will only sync recently updated feeds. I was hoping to use my flight from Dallas to Seattle to read some items that have been sitting in there for a while, but it only seems to like syncing recent...

I noticed a ?new? feature on facebook today when I added two facebook newbs as friends today. Although I've seen research presented that says it doesn't matter if someone is welcomed as to whether or not they will come back I'd like to think...

This one comes from ebay. Hold a regular town hall, ask people to submit and vote on questions, use the town hall to reply live. ...read more

Good products tend to pay attention to the little details. Not all the details, but enough to make you notice. Lately I've noticed that the list of supporters or fans or whatever you want to call them on Facebook pages seems to always show a few people...

I love little things like this. It seems silly, but goals have been proven to motivate people. They don't work alone, but when combined with other compelling expereinces goals can put your user's average time on site through the roof. A recent...

I’ve been thinking about the differences between developing social and traditional applications. What’s the difference, for example, between developing Word and Facebook? The obvious difference is that one is social and one isn’t. But what does that really...

I love this touch of personality... especially considering this tool is made for something that's traditionally boring... ...read more

As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone...

In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server...

My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to...

After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes...

After adding support for widgets in custom themes , it may be useful to create a few custom widgets. Widgets in Community Server 2008 (internally identified as content fragments) are server-side .net classes implementing the CommunityServer.Components...

The updates to the official documentation sites are still a little way out, so, in the meantime, I've gotten permission to post the new, improved Chameleon control documentation on this site. Here it is: CS2008 Chameleon Documentation The new Chameleon...

File viewers are the unsung heroes that make Community Server 2008 media-friendly. They implement the support for viewing and resizing images, viewing uploaded and remote video files, viewing video from online video services, and playing uploaded and...

In Community Server 2007 and earlier versions, the many file-related features (post attachments, site files, blog files, avatars, role icons, etc) all implemented their own file management logic and supported (a) storing files in the database (b) storing...

Common requests for new users of Community Server are "how do I edit the navigation bar?", "how do I add a second level of navigation items?", and "how do I add drop-down menus to the navigation items?" In all of these cases...

Community Server 2008 includes a new feature, Groups. Groups are miniature community sites within the larger community site, similar to Google- or Yahoo-groups. Each Group has its own content, membership, and permissions. What's in a Group? A group...

I'd like to start posting more video-based demonstrations and walk-throughs of theming and customizing Community Server , but I don't really want to store the videos on my shared web host (and pay for storage and bandwidth). What is a good...

One of the fun benefits of working for Telligent is the ability to participate in regular "hack-a-thon" contests. These contests usually involve working with a new feature or product and result in great prizes! Last week, while the Community...

Don't tell my dev team's but today is the first day I've felt like I could catch my breath since taking on the challenge of building up a Program Manager foundation at Telligent. That means that it's a good time to talk about what I've...

Something that's never really discussed in the visual age is the voice of your product or Community. Words are just as important as important as the visual design and layout. The language of your product educates, informs, and sets the tone of the...

I don't know why, but lately I'm a sucker for things like this... Posted to Design and tagged as ui , text Similar Posts Anti-Permission Marketing - Why I stopped using Windows Live Mail They advertise the hell out of scrabble...