The August BADNUG meeting will be from 6–8pm on Aug 31 at Communifax HQ in Cranberry Township, PA. Our presentation will be an overview of Community Server, from installation to administration to some free stuff to pimp out your site a little. The presentation will be based in large part on the links below.
Whether you’re building an online community for marketing purposes or a corporate knowledge portal, one tool to consider is Community Server. Community Server is essentially the spawn of a menage-a-trois of DotNetForums (I think that’s what they were called), nGallery and .Text. Since its inception, more features have been added, but not to the detriment of its core functionality.
Sample Sites
Offline Blogging Tools (one of many)
Photo Galleries
Skinning
Create a New CS Skin in 5 minutes
Change the title image of your blog without access to the CSS file
Spam Control
angrypets reverse dos (not Community Server specific)
Alabaster – Akismet Spam Rule Utility (what is Akismet?)
Developing Modules
Community Server Developer Wiki (ICSModule entry)
Spreading the Word