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<h3>Communication is the lifeblood of relationships</h3>
Naturally a business that communicates well internally and with customers is going to be more efficient, supportive to clients, and will result in increasing revenue. With that being said, good communication does not always come naturally even in this age of information. A company needs the tools to facilitate easy communication to build connections and the sense of community. The buzz of excitement about DNN 6.2 has had many anticipating the availability of this highly “social” cms. With the promise of deeply integrated social community and collaborative features, the “buzz” and anticipation is justified.
<blockquote>“Organizations of all sizes now have a powerful WCMS combined with robust social tools – all at an affordable price,” stated Shaun Walker, CTO and co-founder of DotNetNuke Corp.  “Building an effective online community is a proven strategy to improve productivity and get closer to your customers.  With DotNetNuke, businesses now have the capabilities to deploy online social solutions much faster, that are fully integrated with their external and internal websites, without the high cost of customization associated with current enterprise offerings in the market.”</blockquote>
What are others saying about these features?
<blockquote>“As one of the most popular independent websites in Canada, we needed a web content solution that seamlessly supported a modern community model,” said Maggie Leithead, CEO of CharityVillage, Canada’s supersite for the non-profit worker.  “We chose DotNetNuke because the social software on the market today wasn’t good enough on its own.  We would have had to bolt on point solutions to get the integrated community experience we now have for our members, combined with an easy-to-use content management system for our staff.  DotNetNuke is making us more efficient and allowing us to adapt faster to the needs of our community.”
“Fostering a strong community is integral to building an engaging online experience today and marketers need easy-to-use social tools that are built into their Web content management system,” said Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content and Digital Media Technologies at IDC. “That way, they're managing users and activity feeds and social content the same way they manage the rest of the site's content. Social tools are also a boon for internal collaboration, helping to create highly engaged, effective teams.”</blockquote>
You can see the common needs: “integrated community experience” and “easy-to-use social tools that are built in…” With version 6.2, DotNetNuke is poised to deliver a solution. With online community features customers can interact with each other building relationships based on common interest in your company's product or service. DNN allows creation of a social intranet allowing the same collaborative experience within the company. This can result in a tight community of employees able respond quickly to business and customer needs with ease.
<h3>Alright show me some features and capabilities!</h3>
<blockquote>DNN 6.2 contains a number of new capabilities that are essential for creating internal and external social communities:
• Activity feed that powers user interactions in a familiar social model
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• Social groups and forums that increase team collaboration
• Facebook, Twitter and Google+ social login that drives community participation
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• ‘Friend’ and ‘Follow’ controls that encourage social relationships
• Private messaging that offers an alternative community communication model
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• Interactive user profile that offers detailed personalization options
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• Member directory that makes it easy to find and  connect with other people
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• Social API enables developers to make their apps social, drive visibility and usage
• SharePoint 2010 integration makes it easy to publish enterprise documents to external sites
• Fully localized platform in Dutch, French, German and Spanish enables customers to work in their preferred language</blockquote>
<h3>Communication, Collaboration, and Community Connectivity</h3>
No that is not just an impressive use of alliteration, it is a way businesses can move forward. Being connected closely to users, knowing the needs of customers, and swiftly responding enables you to provide solutions that work. DotNetNuke has provided this social web cms solution in an effort to make your job easier, not give you another job to do.
For more information visit their website at <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com" target="_blank">dotnetnuke.com</a>.

DotNetNuke 6.2 now available

mike-johnston

DotNetNuke has become one of the most popular and formidable open source .NET contenders in the CMS market today and we recently had an opportunity to discuss a bit more about this company and their products with Navin Nagiah, CEO of the DotNetNuke Corporation.
CC: Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you came to be with DotNetNuke?
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NN: I am an Electrical Engineer by education. I have been an entrepreneurial executive for the last 16 years. I have been involved in three technology startups prior to DotNetNuke Corp.  Of the three, one had a good exit, one not so good, and the third, the jury is still out.  This is my fourth technology startup, and by far the one with the most potential.
Prior to DotNetNuke, I was the CEO of an open-source ECM Systems Integrator, where we did custom implementations of Plone, Alfresco and Liferay.  I was introduced to DotNetNuke by Larry Augustin. I really liked the founders of DotNetNuke, especially their passion and desire to ensure DotNetNuke left a strong imprint in the software industry.  In addition, the market opportunity was huge. I made the move to DotNetNuke, helped raise our Series A funding, and have been delighted with our progress since.
CC: Is this the first CMS project you've been involved in?
NN: This is the first CMS project in which I have been directly involved.  However, in my previous company, as a leading open source ECM system integrator, I watched the Plone, Alfresco and Liferay communities at close quarters.
CC: What was it about the DotNetNuke project that drove you to accept the position as CEO?
NN: The key factors for me were the passion of the founders to ensure DotNetNuke left a strong imprint in the software industry; the thriving community that is DotNetNuke; the massive adoption of the software; and, the size of the addressable market.
CC: What other activities does DotNetNuke Corporation partake in? Is there any involvement with other projects outside of the CMS arena?
NN: The company’s sole, razor sharp focus is on ensuring the success of DotNetNuke as a product, as a project, as a community, and as a company.
CC: What is your company's primary target market and why?
NN: Our primary target market is companies that have greater than 100 employees and for whom their DotNetNuke web site is mission critical or very important to the success of their organization. We sell to a broad range of industries, with no vertical market making up more than 15% of our total sales, with key markets that include government, education, financial services, and technology. Our customers are worldwide and use DotNetNuke for public web sites, extranets, intranets, and web applications. Our customers share a common need for a feature-rich, robust, stable, easy-to-use, and extensible WCM platform to build their web sites and web applications.
CC: What advantages does your platform offer?
NN: We provide all the features that excellent WCM solutions provide today such as a content approval workflow engine, granular user permissions within an extensive security model, extreme scalability, web controls using Telerik, document management, rich taxonomy and folksonomy systems, advanced support for Google Analytics, and distributed caching with web farm support. However, what makes us different and better is essentially two things:
Extensibility – The ability to plug-in and remove add-ons to your web site or web application quickly and inexpensively.
Our Vibrant Ecosystem – A vibrant and rich ecosystem of ISVs who provide thousands of commercially supported add-ons at a low cost, hundreds of System Integrators who can help you custom build your web site whether your requirements are simple or complex, and numerous hosting providers who specialize in hosting DotNetNuke.
CC: Why should people consider using DotNetNuke for their next project?
NN: For Microsoft shops (of which 46% of companies worldwide are according to Forrester Research) which are building a web site or web application on ASP.NET, DotNetNuke provides tremendous advantages. The reasons DotNetNuke is such a great solution include:
First, the product provides a feature-rich web site straight immediately upon installation and is easy to deploy and  maintain.
Second, even if you have features that are not available out-of-the-box, your first option is to buy commercially supported features for a few hundred dollars from the more than 8,000 software add-ons available on our online marketplace, Snowcovered.com.
Third, if your requirements are so complex that your specific feature is not available online, our WCM platform is also a rich web application framework with a published API that makes it easy for you to custom-build and plug-in your own add-ons to add features.
Fourth, some of our customers report up to a 600% reduction in development time using DotNetNuke versus developing a web site directly in .NET.
CC: What specific features does DotNetNuke have that separates it from other popular open source CMS products on the market today?
NN: We are the leader in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem.  We power over five times more web sites worldwide than the next biggest .NET based WCM product.  We have the largest and most vibrant open source community in the .NET ecosystem with nearly 800,000 registered members.
The big reason for our success is we are an extensible platform with more than 8,000 commercially supported add-ons that plug into our platform.  The add-ons are available on our marketplace, Snowcovered.com, and are commercially supported by the nearly 800 ISVs who developed them.  While, there are other add-ons on other stacks with extensibility, none come close to having 8,000 commercially supported add-ons on their platform.
In addition, we make it easy to plug-in and remove add-ons, essentially giving a user the ability to switch on and switch off features or change the appearance of their web site easily.
CC: Can you provide some examples of popular sites that are powered by your product?
NN: We currently power more than 600,000 web sites worldwide. One is the Australian Football League (AFL) which gets about 2.5 million unique visitors a month. DotNetNuke also powers the web site of The Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest tower and the web site for Microsoft’s Open Source Foundation, CodePlex.
Pfizer launched Robitussin using DotNetNuke and ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy), a US Government agency funded to research and promote advanced energy technologies, uses DotNetNuke. The United Nations Public Administration Network is also built on DotNetNuke.
If your readers are interested in learning more about sites that use DotNetNuke, they can download case studies about ExactTarget, York County, Virginia, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and Green Resources by visiting the DotNetNuke case studies page. They may also be interested to see the winners of our Community Choice Awards, which include Rehab, The Silkroad Project, and Sake Social.
CC: Of the number of current installations of DotNetNuke, what percentage would you say are running on your Professional Edition?
NN: There are well over 2,000 installs of the Professional or Elite Editions of our product.  Given that this is just our second year of commercialization, our business traction has been phenomenal.
CC: What type of support offerings does DotNetNuke Corp. offer?
NN: We currently offer two versions of our product: the DotNetNuke Professional Edition, which comes with web-based support, and the DotNetNuke Elite Edition, which comes with both web-based and phone support.  More details are available at:
<a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/EditionComparison.aspx">http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/EditionComparison.aspx</a>
These Editions also have product features such as a content approval workflow engine, more granular user permissions, a document management system, a developer license for Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, and enhanced web farm support that are not available in the open source version of our product.
CC: We often find it interesting to hear about the different ways that the term “Content Management System” is defined by the people directly involved in the CMS market, how do you define a CMS?
NN: Linguistically, it means any system that helps you manage content – creating, storing, indexing, archiving, publishing, and distributing content.  I think both ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and WCM (Web Content Management) are content management systems.
There is a distinct difference between the two today.  ECM is what is internal to an organization. It is about managing information and processes inside a company. It is about document management and records management.
WCM is about managing the publishing and distribution of information.  In one sense, WCM is about revenue and ECM is about net profit or the bottom line.  WCM is about maximizing reach, while ECM is about internal process efficiency.
However, as people use web applications and portals for managing internal information such as document repositories and Web 2.0 tools such as wikis for collaboration and content creation, it is possible the lines between the two systems will blur over time.
CC: Of the various programming platforms available, what makes .NET the best choice in your opinion?
NN: .NET is the most mature, scalable enterprise development platform available. Microsoft has made a large investment to ensure they provide a complete solution stack including a rich programming API, a highly functional IDE, a database engine, a web server, and more. On other platforms it is common to have to source components in the development stack from multiple parties, resulting in greater integration challenges and life cycle support complications. Although the .NET framework is over a decade old now, Microsoft continues to innovate and enhance it with the latest industry development techniques and practices. We are especially excited to see the introduction of the WebMatrix beta which offers a great toolkit to get Microsoft web site developers up and productive quickly.
CC: What are the future plans for the DotNetNuke project?
NN: Our objective is to ensure that DotNetNuke remains the first choice as a web content management system and web application development framework for users and developers in the .NET ecosystem.
We are investing heavily in further enhancing the richness of our platform with more advanced features so we are attractive to both end users and developers.  We are making a big push in content localization to meet the needs of our users in Europe, Asia, and all areas of the world where multi-language support is critical.  We will also be adding features that are important for running larger and more critical web sites such as content staging, SharePoint integration, and enhanced management tools.
In addition, we will be making a strong play fairly soon in the cloud, in other words, providing on demand web sites and web applications.
Finally, we continue to work with Microsoft to further simplify the ‘install and deploy process’ of our application so we can attract users and developers from outside .NET to embrace DotNetNuke and the Microsoft stack. For example, we worked closely with them on the introduction of the Web Application Installer and the Web App Gallery to ease the download and installation of DotNetNuke.
CC: What can we come to expect from the next major version? Are there any major enhancements that are being worked on?
NN: You will see the next major version in a few weeks.  The major enhancements we are working on are in the areas of Content Staging and Content Localization.
CC: How can people contribute to the project should they choose to do so?
NN: There are many ways to contribute to the DotNetNuke project, depending on an individual’s skill set and interests. At the non-technical level there is always the ability to write documentation or provide assistance in the community discussion Forums. There is also the ability to provide content and feedback through the many community services offered such as blogs, issue tracker, feature request manager, or the open source Forge. For more technical individuals, they can submit an open source extension to our Forge, they can become a team member on an existing Forge project where they can contribute source code and development assistance, or they can develop and sell their own DotNetNuke add-ons on Snowcovered.com.
CC: Thank you for your time.
If you are interested in learning more about DotNetNuke, you can do so on their website: <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">http://www.dotnetnuke.com</a>

Interview with DotNetNuke Corp. CEO Navin Nagiah

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DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind one of the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for the Microsoft .NET Framework, today announced the release of the DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.4. The release includes new document management capabilities that target the needs of organizations sharing documents within intranets or extranets at a fraction of the cost of existing Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions. DotNetNuke Corp. has partnered with Xepient (Murcia, Spain) to add the document management technology in Xepient Open-DocumentLibrary to the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions.
The 5.4 release of the DotNetNuke platform is fully compatible with Microsoft ASP.NET 4, which launched in April 2010. The DotNetNuke open source core in the 5.4 release is the heart of the DotNetNuke Community, Professional and Elite Editions.
News Highlights
<ul>
<li>Available today, the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions 5.4 exclusively feature a new document management capability that is perfect for organizations sharing document libraries across an intranet or extranet. The document management features include:</li>
<li>The ability to create hierarchical document folders based on multiple document characteristics with tight controls over user access and editing rights.</li>
<li>Document versioning and a powerful document moderation workflow engine.</li>
<li>Automated document library synchronization with existing document libraries.</li>
<li>Document usage reporting.</li>
<li>The 5.4 release of the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions are fully compatible with ASP.NET 4.</li>
<li>The open source core of the DotNetNuke Professional, Elite and Community Editions version 5.4 includes a new folksonomy feature that allows end users to enter free form tags for pages and modules. Attributes are stored in a common content store, which provides new ways to aggregate and publish content.</li>
</ul>
Navin Nagiah, CEO of DotNetNuke Corp.
“Organizations that need to share documents on their intranet or extranet will find the new document management capability in the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions 5.4 is a very cost-effective alternative to existing ECM solutions. Our solution is much more cost-effective for mid-size organizations or departments of large organizations and can be deployed much more quickly.”
Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Platform, Microsoft Corp.
“Microsoft is pleased that the DotNetNuke Community, Professional and Elite 5.4 Editions are fully compatible with ASP.NET 4 and are being released in unison with ASP.NET 4. The collaboration between the Microsoft Web Platform team and DotNetNuke has truly helped provide DotNetNuke users with a better Web content management experience.”
Andreas Di Palma, Founder of Xepient Solutions:
“We are very pleased to partner with DotNetNuke Corp. to bring our document management technology to the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions. Customer interest has always been strong in our DotNetNuke document management solution. I believe DotNetNuke Corp. can leverage its marketing capabilities to expand adoption of our solution by organizations running critical business applications on the DotNetNuke platform. We look forward to working closely with DotNetNuke Corp. as we collaboratively expand the capabilities of our document management technology.”
About DotNetNuke Corp.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional, Elite and Elite Premier Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com where users purchase third party software add-ons. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and UV Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">www.dotnetnuke.com</a>.

DotNetNuke Corp. Launches Version 5.4 of the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions

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DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft® .NET, today announced the release of the DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.3. The release includes new tools targeting the needs of business-critical web sites including page level content change approval workflows, new tools for editing pages, and a new ribbon bar control panel. The DotNetNuke platform, which is the core of the DotNetNuke Community, Professional and Elite Editions, includes new features in version 5.3 such as a sophisticated taxonomy system, a new messaging capability and API, and an enhanced social media user profile feature for richer online user experiences.
News Highlights
Available today, the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions 5.3 exclusively feature:
<ul>
<li>Page Level Content Change Approval Workflows – Administrators can create custom workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers. Workflows can be set at the page level to require approval for any changes to any module on a specified page. Workflows can also be defined at the module level, requiring approvals for changes to content changes in an individual module.</li>
<li>Ribbon Bar Control Panel – The new ribbon bar control panel provides content contributors with more editing options in a highly convenient format, allowing users to create pages, install new modules, edit content, and preview pages more quickly and easily than ever before.</li>
<li>My Editable Pages – This new editing feature provides links to all of the pages and modules in the site that a content contributor has permission to modify, enabling more efficient page editing.</li>
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New features in the open source core of the DotNetNuke Professional, Elite and Community Editions version 5.3 include:
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<li>Taxonomy – A sophisticated taxonomy system allows a web site administrator to create an unlimited number of vocabularies of terms to associate to pages or modules in a site. These attributes are stored in a common content store, which provides new ways to aggregate and publish content.</li>
<li>Social Networking – A new, rich user profile forms the basis for advanced social networking applications. It supports templates for simple layout customizations and allows users to upload photos so they can easily personalize their identities.</li>
<li>Messaging Capability – A new message repository and API allows messages to be delivered in a variety of ways including real-time and batch. An inbox provides users with a view of the messages they have received and sent, as well as administrative tools to manage the messages.</li>
</ul>
Shaun Walker, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of DotNetNuke Corp.:
<blockquote>“Our customers will be very pleased with the 5.3 release. The Professional and Elite Editions include valuable new features that will help users with business-critical web sites achieve more control over their web site content and more efficient content editing. The new features in the open source core including the taxonomy, messaging, and rich social media profiles will delight all users of the DotNetNuke platform who wish to extend the capabilities of their web site to create more engaging experiences for site visitors.”</blockquote>
About DotNetNuke Corp.
DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional, Elite and Elite Premier Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com where users purchase third party software modules and skins. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and UV Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.
For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">www.dotnetnuke.com</a>.

DotNetNuke Corp. Launches Version 5.3 of the DotNetNuke Professional and Elite Editions

PackFlash specializes in developing modules for the web content management system DotNetNuke. Their impressive list of modules include: News &amp; Blogs, Video, Image Gallary, Slideshow, Events, Mega Menu, Comments, Friendly URLs, and Events.
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While these modules and the functionality they bring are very desirable to any CMS, where PackFlash really shines is how they bring these together in their Constellation Suite. This suite takes these 8 modules and tightly integrates them together. The result is a seamless flow of functionality. In their own words “Constellation is one system to manage all content.”
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<h3>What is new with Constellation?</h3>
A couple new features recently added to the Constellation Suite are the ability to share data between sites/portals and automatic detection of duplicate content and assignment of canonical URL. Wow! Those words sound so nice, but what are you talking about? Lets take these features one at a time.
<h4>Data Sharing Between Sites</h4>
“Why oh why would I want to share content between websites?” Pretend for a moment that you built your site to look beautiful only on your typical browser. You did not have the foresight to make it mobile friendly so all those many thousands of tablet and smartphone users have to zoom and scroll or send your articles to a Read It Later app to keep from squinting. So, being the smart person you are, you make a mobile version of your site. Wouldn't it be nice to “share” the content from your regular site to your mobile friendly site? Wow! That would be great! That is just one example of what this “sharing” feature will allow.
<blockquote>“When shared, the content is treated like it is part of the new site instead of taking the user back to the original website. This is to make sure that the shared data doesn’t take the user off the site that they are currently browsing, prioritizing engagement on the existing site. Administrators that have permission to see all of the sites are allowed to choose what websites can share data with each other, while website administrators have the ability to decide when to use the data from another website on their particular website pages.”</blockquote>
<h4>Duplicate Content Detection</h4>
The problem that may arise is duplicate content with all this sharing going on. PackFlash has this issue covered with the update to their Friendly URLs module.
<blockquote>“Version 3.2 of the PackFlash Constellation DNN Modules also offers significant functionality upgrades to the Friendly URLs Module to support the multi-site portal data sharing. This functionality includes automatic detection of duplicate content and management of the canonical version of the URL across all of the websites that are sharing content. This will provide comfort to the website owners that they will not realize a search engine penalty that might arise from duplicate content across their web properties.”</blockquote>
Sharing content across different sites can come in to play also when a company wants to aggregate content from child sites to a parent site. Example: Newspaper main site with content shared from multiple child sites (op-ed, sports, news, etc).
<h4>Benefits</h4>
Time savings come to mind right away when thinking of the benefits of this functionality. Really anything that makes content management easier bring multiple benefits.
<blockquote>“‘Multi-site data sharing is a huge time-saver and greatly improves coordination for mobile site and micro-site development that leverages existing content. Any website that wants a quick way to leverage all of their content on a mobile site would immediately benefit from this approach. This is particularly true for any organization that plans to use DotNetNuke’s new mobile features in DNN 6.1+.' claims CEO of PackFlash, Chris Risner.”
“Other improvements to the Constellation software include improved preview capabilities that follow the page/template hierarchy rules of the system, image resizing options for “best fit”, provided ability to specify a 404 error page per website rather, as well as many others.”</blockquote>
Dive deep into these features and more at http://www.packflash.com/

PackFlash updates their Constellation Suite for DotNetNuke

A new release of the DotNetNuke is upon us, but this one is a bit different from previous releases in that it offers a redesigned UI and some impressive new features.
Check out these screenshots showing off the new look:
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Some of the highlights from the release announcement:
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<li>For the first time ever, the DotNetNuke Store (Snowcovered.com) and the Extensions Forge<a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Extensions-Forge.aspx">,</a> with over 10,000 application extensions, are directly accessible from within the core DotNetNuke platform. The tight integration simplifies the process of finding, purchasing and installing DotNetNuke apps</li>
<li>DotNetNuke 6 delivers a platform that is fully compatible with Windows Azure Hosting and provides cloud service integration with the addition of the new Windows Azure Storage and Amazon S3 folder providers. DotNetNuke 6 provides a great foundation for moving to the cloud, whether you need to your whole site to live in the cloud or just your content.</li>
<li>DotNetNuke 6 Professional and Enterprise includes a great new eCommerce module that empowers organizations to quickly add eCommerce capabililities to their website. The new eCommerce module is designed for organizations seeking to deliver a small portfolio of digital goods and services to their end users and is built from the ground up with simplicity and customer experience in mind.</li>
<li>vailable exclusively in the DotNetNuke Enterprise Edition, the Microsoft SharePoint Connector for DotNetNuke enables fast, secure publishing of documents stored in Sharepoint to public web sites, extranets or intranets. Organizations can securely manage their document library within SharePoint and selectively publish those documents using the flexible, cost effective DotNetNuke platform.</li>
<li>DotNetNuke 6 has gotten a major new platform upgrade as the result of a complete conversion to C#. This language change will make it more accessible to a larger development community and allows us to leverage many development tools which have always had strong C# support. The C# version of DotNetNuke has been available for the past year and starting with DotNetNuke 6, it is officially the primary development language of the platform.</li>
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Official announcement: <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Blogs/EntryId/3137/Announcing-DotNetNuke-6.aspx">http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Blogs/EntryId/3137/Announcing-DotNetNuke-6.aspx</a>

DotNetNuke 6.0 now available, offers simplified interface

My choice for Best CMS for SMB (small to midsize business) for 2012 (and the one that will be my #1 recommendation in this category until next years awards) is <a href="http://www.dotnetnuke.com">DotNetNuke</a>!
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Congratulations to everyone at DotNetNuke for their awesome work. DotNetNuke is an open-source project and one of the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for building websites and web applications on Microsoft .NET.
Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic websites, intranets, extranets, and web applications.
The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community Edition and the subscription-based Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition with an Elite Support option. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates the DotNetNuke Store where users purchase third-party software apps for the platform. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.
As my choice for this year, when asked to offer suggestions for the best CMS for SMB, I will point to DotNetNuke. They will receive my recommendation from now until next year’s winner is announced. Congratulations!

Critic's Choice for Best CMS for SMB (Small to Midsize Business) is...

This year’s winner of the People’s Choice Award for Best CMS for SMB (Small to Midsize Business) is <a href="http://dotnetnuke.com">DotNetNuke</a>!
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Congratulations to everyone at DotNetNuke for their awesome work. It was a hard fought battle with Liferay for first place but DotNetNuke took over in the end and won this year with the most votes.
DotNetNuke is an open-source project and one of the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platforms for building websites and web applications on Microsoft .NET.
Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic websites, intranets, extranets and web applications.
The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community Edition and the subscription-based Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition with an Elite Support option. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates the DotNetNuke Store where users purchase third-party software apps for the platform. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif.
Our runner up for this year was <a href="http://liferay.com">Liferay</a>, which fought a hard battle and did a commendable job of making Oxwall work for their win.
This isn’t the end of the awards, however, as the Critic’s Choice portion of the awards which will be selected by CMS Critic will be announced soon.
<ol>
<li>DotNetNuke</li>
<li>Liferay</li>
<li>Umbraco</li>
<li>Composite C1</li>
<li>Kentico</li>
</ol>
Thanks to all for really driving hard for the votes and don’t forget to stay tuned to our site to find out which of our five shortlisted competitors below takes the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/cms-critic-awards/">Critic’s Choice Award</a>, to be announced soon.

People's Choice Winner for Best CMS for SMB (Small to Midsize Business) is...

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