DotNetNuke Interviews

This is a 28 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com. In this Podcast we begin to discuss how DotNetNuke can enhance businesses, we talk about DotNetNuke’s vast array of features and how to use them to your advantage.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• Ways that you have encountered using DotNetNuke to run or enhance the running of a business
• Key elements of DotNetNuke for a business website
• Login and registration
• Management of users and setting up subscription access
• Advantages of digital content and setup costs of an online business
• Time to create is very quick
• Landing pages
• Form modules
• DotNetNuke custom profile properties
• Sharing profile data between modules
• Bulk email messages
• Schedule process and automatic occurrence of events
• Automation of daily tasks
• DotNetNuke subscription tools
• MLM companies and 3000 DotNetNuke child portals with auto templates
• Custom module development
• Document management and sharing for business
• Airline industries with 38,000 employees using a portal website
• DotNetNuke community and module developers

This is a 24 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 30th of October 2010. In this Podcast we talk through the importance of comprehensive and reliable website backups. There are several different backup options available to a DotNetNuke webmaster and we have a detailed look into each method and talk about the advantages and reliability of each.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• Backups
• The importance of a backup
• Lees horror story
• Check that the backup works
• How to backup your DotNetNuke files and folders
• How to backup your DotNetNuke SQL database
• How to automate your backups with DotNetNuke hosting
• Plesk and hosting control panels
• Microsoft backup service
• Semantic backup services
• Backing up to the cloud, Amazon S3
• Evotiva DNNBackup module
• Papayas Auto Upgrade module

Total time: 23min 33secs

This is a 37 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 18th of October 2010. In this Podcast we discuss the complicated subject of email and SMTP inside and outside of DotNetNuke, we then talk about implementing mapping into your DNN website.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• Email Setup
• Typical email problems in DotNetNuke
• What is SMTP?
• SMTP mail servers
• How you would typically experience SMTP servers outside of DNN
• What is POP3 / Exchange / Webmail?
• What traps are there with SMTP servers?
  • Relay
  • IP lockdown
  • Send Limits
  • No relay
  • Domain lockdown
  • SSL
  • Ports and restrictions
• How does Google and Hotmail play with this?
• What do you need to know to configure SMTP in DNN?
• How to configure SMTP in DNN
• Traps with SMTP in DNN
• Admin email address
• Locked domain
• External domain limits or blocks
• Administrator email settings configuration
• Maps in DotNetNuke
• Introduction to Google Maps
• How maps can be useful for data research
• How maps can be useful for business and sales teams
• Map modules in DotNetNuke
• GeoSprawl DotNetNuke Locator module
• ZLDNN Advanced Biz Map module
• Google Earth
• Business data analysis
• Data mapped to suburbs
• Tally of all people in suburbs and 3D chart developed
• Immediately could see where largest registered number of users were on the map
• Telco provider able to plot footprint of tower and users
• Enables tracking of where next towers need to be built
• Locations of handsets at various times of days

Total time: 36min 55secs

This is a 34 minute podcast discussion between Lee Sykes (DNNCreative) and David Finley from InteractiveWebs.com recorded on the 24th of September 2010. In this Podcast we discuss what has been happening with DNNCreative, David talks about the potential of the new Microsoft Pivot technology and we discuss the latest news from the DotNetNuke Community including the recent ASP.NET vulnerability.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• It has been a while
• David interviewing Lee, background and what has been happening
• DNN Creative background
• DotNetNuke businesses and opportunities
• Low cost entry into the market
• Our 5th birthday
• Microsoft Pivot background and explanation
• Resources and free videos to view on Pivot
• Exploration and manipulation of data
• Navigating data as a web rather than page to page, deep diving, finding trends
• Interactivewebs.com DotNetNuke Pivot module
• Displaying data from a DotNetNuke website
• Security roles, portals, logins, countries of registered users
• Building a Pivot card and displaying with images
• Potential for building Pivot views such as sales
• Useful information for advertising with Google Adwords
• Important ASP.NET security vulnerability

Total time: 34min 12secs

This is a 35min podcast interview with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke core team. In this podcast we discuss OpenForce Europe and USA, the latest DotNetNuke Corporation news, as well as a tip on relative URLS with SSL.

The podcast covers the following:

• What is OpenForce?
• OpenForce Europe and USA, speakers, sessions and useful information
• DotNetNuke Corporation News
• Snowcovered acquired, Marketplace closed
• Upcoming DotNetNuke 5.2 release and the platform changes, minimum requirements
• CodePlex Foundation announcement, benefits to the community
• DotNetNuke tips
• Using relative URLs to auto switch between HTTP and HTTPS
• DNN Creative News
• Getting Married
• Volume 5 and our 4th Birthday!

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 18th of June 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• DataSprings Release v3 of Dynamic Forms
• DotNetNuke 5.1 Professional Edition
• OpenForce Dates
• Google Wave
• Amazon Bookstore on DNN Creative
• DotNetNuke Backups are great!
• Snapsis PageBlaster Community Edition Testing
• YSlow Firebug plugin for Firefox
• Combining CSS and Javascript files together
• How to reduce the CSS files sizes in DotNetNuke
• Undercover Lee
• Good support from Snapsis
• DNN Creative Testimonial

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 28th of May 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• It’s been a while - What have we been doing?
• DotNetNuke 5.1 and 4.9.4
• DotNetNuke Corporation sells 50 subscriptions
• OpenForce 09 Vegas, the speakers and topics
• OnyakTech DotNetNuke web stats Vista gadget free module
• Video downloads improved for DNN Creative
• Amazon S3 hosting
• Firefox S3Fox plugin
• Experimenting with Hosted Desktop
• Backup, Backup, Backup!
• How to automate website backups via FTP to a server

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 8th of April 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• DotNetNuke 4.9.3 released
• 400 video Tutorials from DNN Creative
• Free Site Map Module by Derek Trauger
• Free Ecommerce Module from Nevoweb
• Microsoft Web Installer
• The World Wide Web's 20th Birthday
• Issue 43
• Lee Fixes the Banner Module with SQL Queries
• How to Spot Problems with Modules Before They Happen
• OyakTech's Host Commander Module
• DotNetNuke Site Logs, Event Logs and Scheduler

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 10th of March 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• DotNetNuke Announce Tom Kress - Vice President of Sales
• Sobot.biz - Free Modules
• PowerDNN - Security Notification Service
• How to check which version of DNN you have and any updates available
• Social networking overtaking Email
• Twitter becoming more popular
• Microsoft IE8, Windows 7
• Lee's Power Tip - Google AdWords
• How to pronounce 'Niche'
• Dafont.com - Free fonts
• Issue 42
• Issue 43
• Richard sets another Video target

This is a discussion between Lee Sykes and Richard Wootton recorded on the 27th of March 2009.

This podcast covers the following subjects:

• 400 video target, did we do it? Yes we did!
• Special Guest: Paul Deschenes
• Outline of the 6 part OWS Tutorial Series
• Google Maps
• DNNHelp for sale on Ebay
• New release of OWS 2.1.7
• DNN Creative Forum
• Lee's Power Tip - Quantcast.com
• 'Intresting for Testing'
• Lee Builds a Website in Record Time
• Richard Doesn't Set a Goal for 500 Videos
• Lee is Going to China!