Rob Howard

Webinar with Ben McConnell

Rob Howard's Blog — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:40:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Graffiti 1.1 now available

Rob Howard's Blog — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

CodeSmith 5.0 Beta now available

Rob Howard's Blog — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

in.telligent 2008 - social computing conference

Rob Howard's Blog — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:44:31 GMT

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...(read more)

Taming the email monster - Microsoft Outlook best practices

Rob Howard's Blog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:23:21 GMT

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...(read more)

SEO & ASP.NET: Put keywords in the URL

Rob Howard's Blog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:08:56 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Rob Howard's Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:55:12 GMT

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...(read more)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for ASP.NET Developers

Rob Howard's Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:54:25 GMT

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...(read more)

Enough with the Segways already

Rob Howard's Blog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:49:28 GMT

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...(read more)

DevConnections Slides and Demos

Rob Howard's Blog — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:10:46 GMT

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!

Rob Howard's Blog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:21:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Community Server 2008 Launch WebCast

Rob Howard's Blog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:47:19 GMT

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

Rob Howard's Blog — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:40:39 GMT

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...(read more)

Graffiti CMS Blog Extensions now in Google Code

Rob Howard's Blog — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:14:30 GMT

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...(read more)

Community Server and SharePoint Integration

Rob Howard's Blog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:51:16 GMT

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...(read more)