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Recommitment to Engage Modules

bdukes@engagesoftware.com — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:33:00 GMT

With the advent of 2010, we at Engage took some time to reevaluate our products business (Engage Modules and Engage Skins). The last six months or so of 2009, we were swamped with client work and were unable to make any substantial enhancements or fixes to our DotNetNuke modules. We recognized that this was unacceptable, and have been working to restructure our business and commitments so that we can maintain a consistent support, maintenance, and enhancements for all of our products. As a result, we've made some internal changes to make sure that work on our product lines cannot be ignored because of client work, however pressing it may seem.

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Engage: Zeen - a free skin to spice up your DotNetNuke site

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:46:00 GMT

We decided to help spread the love to the DNN community by offering Engage: Zeen; a free skin package based on a Wordpress theme design created by WeFunction Design Agency especially for Smashing Magazine and their readers (Check it out). The theme was released free under a GPL, and open to modification and use for all types of projects without any restrictions. All they asked for in return was a link to the article to spread the word. The design simply rocks, and grew to be a popular favorite among Wordpress themes.

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Engage University: Now New and Improved

rcampbell@engagesoftware.net — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:03:00 GMT

Engage launched Engage University last year as an e-Learning resource for DotNetNuke. The site is built on DNN of course, and powered by our Engage: Campus LMS. Our first course Introduction to DotNetNuke was a free, short course to provide an overview of what DNN is and how it can be applied. The course also serves as an example for how Engage: Campus works, and more importantly, what students will get in an e-Learning experience for DotNetNuke. During the past 10 months, over 350 students have taken the free Introductory course.

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New release of Engage: F3 (free)

chammond@engagesoftware.net — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:39:00 GMT

Today we announce the release of the latest version v03.00.00 of our free ($$) Engage: F3 module. This version works with DotNetNuke 5.1.1+

Engage: F3 allows you to quickly and easily search and replace strings in the HTML modules on your DotNetNuke Portal. The initial goal for the module was to make it easier for content administrators to find URLs that need replaced when moving a site from your Test environment to a Production environment, but the number of uses for Engage: F3 are limitless.

Engage: F3 is free for registered users of http://www.engagesoftware.com

Once logged in you can download the module from our Downloads Page.

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Engage: Publish 5.5.2 Released

chammond@engagesoftware.net — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:17:00 GMT

Engage: Publish 5.5.2 was silently released yesterday. This release has a few bug fixes, as well as a couple of new enhancements. The primary issue corrected was a problem with DateTime conversion for locales outside of the United States. You can check out change log for the 5.5.2 release here.

Enhancements include the ability to now use the Theme support in Windows Live Writer if you are publishing content via that desktop application. We also added in some logic and a task to provide some basic stats for the Custom List display, showing the number of views and comments for an item if you choose to enable that feature.

As with all our modules, customers are eligible for a year of free upgrades from the date of purchase, upgrades are available viaModule Downloads page. If your upgrade access has expired you can renew your access (for less than the original price) here.

"Engage: Publish is the premier content management system for DotNetNuke. Engage: Publish allows you to organize and display your content within DotNetNuke with a fully functional versioning and workflow process. Configurations options are limited only by your imagination. All content entered and managed through Publish uses our custom versioning and workflow process so you can rest assured that administrators have the ability to approve content before it shows up live on your production website. You also get the ability to rollback to any previous version of content through our expansive versioning system." More information about Publish can be found here.

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More DotNetNuke in Europe?

chammond@engagesoftware.net — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:20:06 GMT

Well the SDN event here in The Netherlands was a blast, I must say I had another great time visiting the Dutch DotNetNuke users once again. I am excited for the Day of DotNetNuke (possibly named something else) that is being planned for Paris in May of 2010. I’m going to start booking my travel for that very soon, I just need to check out Bing Travel to see what the prices are, and if they are expected to go up or down!

I hope to see more of the European DotNetNuke users at this event, I’ll post a link when there is one available, but so you can start planning for it, I hear it will be on 5/28/2010 in Paris.

Thanks again to Stefan, Erik, Joop and Remi for everything at SDN this weekend, I’m headed back to the United States now, regretting leaving, but also ready to get home to my lovely wife (she’ll be going to Paris as well)

Engage Software, now serving Europe!

chammond@engagesoftware.net — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Actually we've always served Europe, and customers around the world. I am fortunate enough to get to travel to The Netherlands this weekend, and it even gets to be work related! I'm heading to the One Day SDN event on 12/14/2009 in Houten, The Netherlands. I will be delivering three presentations on Monday, (read the full blog post for all the info)

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Another Great OpenForce Conference in Las Vegas (v2009)

cdang@engagesoftware.net — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:23:00 GMT

This was my second time in a row to have the honor of presenting my knowledge about the most widely adopted .NET framework called DotNetNuke. One of the most appealing reasons for me to devote my time to help build a better open-source framework like DotNetNuke is the wonderful community. I had to admit, I have never involved in using too many frameworks out there closely so I can't tell how great their communities are. But one thing I can assure you that DotNetNuke has a very intimate community that pretty much everyone knows each other and have used each other products.

Paul Scarlett is one of the regulars in the community I ran into this year and he commented "I came to this conference because of the people". Paul is not the only one who has this kind of feeling. I am one of them as well. I came to the conference not just to share my knowledge to the community, but to meet and greet people I've worked with through the phone, e-mail, messenger... and any other mean of communication you can think of but I've never gotten to meet them in person. And this conference is just a perfect opportunity to finally interact in person.

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OpenForce 09 Day 1 Update

chammond@engagesoftware.net — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:11:00 GMT

So things are running smoothly so far at OpenForce here in Las Vegas. The Engage guys are all enjoying their time. Ian and Dang had one of the first sessions of the event this morning, and finished that up like champs. We handed out T-Shirts after the session, though people are requesting our hunter orange shirts from last year. We’ve got some red/maroon shirts this year, sorry to disappoint.

I’ve been live blogging from some of the sessions this morning over on DotNetNuke.com, you can find them with Shaun’s Keynote at OpenForce 09, and Snowcovered session from Brice Snow.

A quick overview of each. Shaun talked about some project stats, what’s happened in the past year, and what’s coming in the next year or two with DNN. Things are looking good!

Brice talked about the history of Snowcovered, and then had some basic stats about that website as well. I think he got attacked afterwards from a few people with questions, being the first time he’s been out in public speaking about SC I think people had a lot pent up! He held up well and presented very well. I look forward to seeing more of him in the future.

We had some lunch after the morning sessions and sat around talking to Brice and Bruce Chapman from Ifinity it was nice to finally meet Bruce after being a big fan of his modules/extensions for a number of years.

The rest of the afternoon is just getting started. I may not live blog from each session, but I’ll try to post an overview later today. At 4:30pm the expo hall opens up for the vendors to show off all their wares.

To follow us and our tweets check out this URL which will show the tweets from Engage guys.

Easily Create Simple Modules or Module Prototypes with DotNetNuke 5.2

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:38:24 GMT

DotNetNuke 5.2 (now in beta) introduces a new feature which allows a developer to quickly and easily create a simple DotNetNuke module. This blog post will give you a first look at this new feature and explain its usage.

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