Rob Howard

Webinar with Ben McConnell

2008-06-20T20:40:00Z

Ben McConnell, author of several books including Citizen Marketers , and I are putting together a webinar about online communities. Below are the details: Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 Topic: Learn How Online Communities Create Customer Evangelists and Citizen Marketer Who: Ben McConnell, Author of Creating Customer Evangelists and Citizen Marketers and Rob Howard, CEO Telligent CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for this free webinar....(read more)

Graffiti 1.1 now available

2008-06-20T20:01:00Z

Graffiti 1.1 is now available For version 1.1 we've added: Bulk comment management Permissions functionality Packages for easily sharing Graffiti plug-ins Tools for easily importing from other blogging platforms, such as dasBlog Fixed 30+ bugs And more... We also introduced a new 3-person license for $99. We heard from a number of small shops that they wanted to use Graffiti commercial-edition, but a 10 person license just didn't make sense for them. Questions, comments, or suggestions about...(read more)

CodeSmith 5.0 Beta now available

2008-06-20T13:05:00Z

This release adds support for .NET 3.5; has some significant performance updates; along with a number of improvements to CodeSmith Projects. You view the entire list of additions/updates here . We've also moved all the core CodeSmith templates into a project on Google Code: CodeSmith Samples Below are some of the template updates that are in CodeSmith 5.0: .netTiers 2.3 Beta included Updated NHibernate templates PLINQO template improvements NuSoft Framework templates included More VB templates...(read more)

in.telligent 2008 - social computing conference

2008-05-30T12:44:31Z

I'm happy to announce the 2008 in.telligent conference ! Our first conference, in 2007, was a bigger than expected success with attendees coming from all around the world to talk, network, and learn. This year we're planning bigger. Much bigger. The conference will October 20th - 22nd ( more details here ). The biggest change is that this year Instead of a single technical track we're creating 2 tracks along with a set of post-conference work-shops. The technical track will focus on Community...(read more)

Taming the email monster - Microsoft Outlook best practices

2008-04-28T17:23:21Z

I receive upwards of 100-150 emails per-day and a lot of people have asked how I manage my inbox. Someone asked me again on my last conference trip and I promised to write this up in a blog post - something I've meant to do for some time now! For email I use Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Exchange. As much as I complain about Outlook it's very much a love/hate relationship. Outlook is always the first application in my tray (followed by a web browser). The latest Office update was very...(read more)

SEO & ASP.NET: Put keywords in the URL

2008-04-24T23:08:56Z

See the first post in this series | Previous Post Tip #3 - Put keywords in the URL, the sooner the better. There are 3 documented areas that Google looks for keywords: URL, Title, and finally the body of your content. So if you are not embedding keywords into your URL then you are missing an opportunity to help increase the odds of your content getting pushed higher in natural search results. How does Google find keywords in the URL? Take the following 4 URLs (I'm also assuming you read the previous...(read more)

SEO & ASP.NET: How content is linked really does matter

2008-04-23T14:55:12Z

See the first post in this series Tip #2 - How people link to you really does matter Have you ever taken the time to look at all the different ways you link to your content? For ASP.NET developers there are typically 3 ways to link to the default page (usually default.aspx). For example, let's say there is a landing page in your site for "Products" under the directory /products with a default.aspx page. Therefor you could link to it as: example.com/products example.com/products/ example...(read more)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for ASP.NET Developers

2008-04-23T13:54:25Z

I recently put together a presentation for a developer conference about SEO for ASP.NET Developers. I was a little surprised at how little content there was when I researched this topic. There was a lot of great content about SEO, but only a handful of articles for developers. I've decided to take my talk and convert it into a series of blog posts about SEO for ASP.NET. As it turns out about 50% of it actually requires technical understanding of ASP.NET - a lot of SEO goodness can be achieved...(read more)

Enough with the Segways already

2008-04-23T12:49:28Z

Sure I want a Segway, it's a novelty and would be something fun for our office. But that's it: fun. Traveling around the country I'm starting to see security in airports, such as DFW, use Segways as a way to move around quickly. They used to ride bikes, but for some reason a motorized transportation system that is 5-7x as expensive than a bike is now better. I'm also now seeing them at hotels. At 2 conferences in the last several weeks that I've been to (Westin Palm Springs and...(read more)

DevConnections Slides and Demos

2008-04-22T20:10:46Z

Below are links to the slides and demos I presented April 2008 at DevConnections: ASP.NET Internals ASP.NET Search Engine Optimization ASP.NET Performance Tips & Tricks...(read more)

Community Server 2008 Now Available!

2008-04-15T15:21:11Z

Early this morning (at about 3:45 AM Central Time) we launched the new communityserver.com web site along with officially releasing Community Server 2008! Visit CommunityServer.com Download Community Server 2008 The Community Server 2008 release includes: Enterprise reporting and analytics to help dissect, analyze, and trend user and community behavior. Deep integration with Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. For developers, Community Server 2008 includes...(read more)

Community Server 2008 Launch WebCast

2008-04-14T18:47:19Z

Join me for a 60 minute web cast on Tuesday April 15th from 11-12 CDT as we launch Community Server 2008....(read more)

OpenID 2.0 for .NET now available

2008-04-12T20:40:39Z

The OpenID open source project for ASP.NET (DotNetOpenID) now supports the OpenID 2.0 specification and is available for download on Google Code: http://dotnetopenid.googlecode.com/ For businesses or developers that use the library it would be great if you could donate to this Open Source Project. Telligent is contributing to this project both financially and with our developers and we'd love to see more people support it! We've added OpenID support to Community Server 2008 (natively). You...(read more)

Graffiti CMS Blog Extensions now in Google Code

2008-04-12T01:14:30Z

Earlier this week we published the Graffiti CMS Blogging Extensions . Graffiti is a publishing platform that makes it really easy to create great looking, interactive web sites. Graffiti can also be used as a blogging platform , as Jeff ( of Channel9 fame ) and other's have done. We heard from some bloggers using Graffiti that they wanted more blog-specific functionality. The new Graffiti CMS Blog Extensions is just that - it adds additional blog specific features into Graffiti! For more specifics...(read more)

Community Server and SharePoint Integration

2008-03-28T00:51:16Z

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)