Ryan Hoffman is the first official intern of Telligent ! You can follow Ryan's blog here: http://extended64.com/blogs/rhoffman/default.aspx For those of you that don't know Ryan is heavily involved in several well known Community Sites, such as bink.nu and extended64.com . While we can't say exactly...

A few weeks ago, I talked about the trend from Microsoft to create distinct sites (e.g. URL’s) that are outside of the standard Microsoft.com brand. Since then, I have found some more sites (not including the Event Websites). .NET Framework 3.0: http://www.netfx3.com/default.aspx Robot Invaders (MSN...

We’re please to announce the immediate availability of Community Server version 2.1! If you are running ASP.NET version 1.1: Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Windows Install (MSI) for ASP.NET 1.1 Download Now - Community Server 2.1, Web Install for ASP.NET 1.1 If you are running ASP.NET version...

The Community Server team has already started working on version 3.0 of Community Server (we just shipped version 2.1 in August ). We chose to use the name "Calypso" as our codename for the 3.0 release. If you've never heard of Calypso before it was the codename for the framework used to...

We've been spending a bunch of time updating our documentation for Community Server lately. The content is great, but the UI is a little iffy still --- we're planning on doing an update to the UI in the coming weeks. In addition to our own documentation we've been working closely with Wrox...

As just seen when trying to access Patrick's blog post about Forums. Looks like the CS URL rewrite engine looks for forward slash followed by "Forums" and zero or more characters, ending at ".aspx", which obviously messes up any blog posts starting with Forums in the title...oops...

The first of several books is about to be released for Community Server . We worked with Anand on the book and it should provide a great introduction for people new to Community Server. Our own Wyatt Preul is working on a book too – more details on that soon !

Knowledge Base Server (KBS) is an add-in product for Community Server that lets you store and manage factual data. Community Server has many components; but the two that are most commonly used are blogs and forums. Blogs are the voice of a single person or a team. Forums are the conversation of the community...

We’ve released an update to the Community Server 2.1 MetaBlog API. Download it here . Installation is simple. Just drop the updated MetaBlog.ashx file into the /blogs/ directory of your site, and you are done! All the code is inline. You can also set some AppSettings parameters in your web.config...

We're thrilled to announce the immediate availability of Community Server 2007 Beta 1. Community Server 2007, Demo.exe ( NEW ) - Just double-click to run! It does require SQL Express (see readme notes). Community Server 2007, Windows Installer - Windows Install Wizard. Community Server 2007, Web...