We are happy and proud to announce that, with the help and support of our talented and multi-lingual staff, the language pack was delivered and released with plenty of time to spare and is now available for use in DotNetNuke Community Edition 6.1.0.

We are also pleased to announce that as of 11/11/2011 the Italian Version of DotNetNuke is available directly from the Microsoft Web Application Gallery (http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/dotnetnukeit.aspx) and/or Web Platform Installer.

We hope that all Italian DotNetNuke users find the language pack useful as well as hope to see new adoptions from Italian web community members who previously shied away from DotNetNuke due to the lack of the Italian language support.

Finally, at Inspector IT we are always looking for ways to improve, and as such we welcome feedback and constructive criticism; Feel free to drop us a note if you have any and we’ll surely incorporate them in future releases.

DotNetNuke and DNN are trademarks of DotNetNuke Corporation.

Taken from Organic’s web site:
We connect with consumers at their emotional core.  Use empathy to understand where our target is coming from, going to, learning their needs, desires, loves and hates. Find the insight that transforms great creative into exceptional experiences that incite action, influence decisions, and inspire consumers to click, engage, shop, share and come back for more. Then measure and learn from the results to come full circle and do it again.

We are truly honored to have worked alongside Organic for past 8 months; their experience in the internet industry, they passion for creativity, attention to detail, and appetite for excellence were key contributing factors to the project’s overall success.
Learning experiences like this one do not come by often – we are truly blessed to have been at the receiving end.

Project Summary

When it comes to digital content and marketing, Organic’s processes and methodologies are very collaborative in nature. Prior to the development of the new system, Organic managed client projects across several self-contained websites, which they referred to as “extranets”. These extranets were setup and configured by Organic’s IT staff and their content was maintained by the project or account managers. These mundane tasks, including user account creation and password resets were all processed manually. While these tasks were extremely simple to do, the solution was not scalable nor sustainable.

The ideal extranet application would present Organic and its customers with an easy to use, centralized, and automated project management solution, customized for the digital marketing business.
Simply put, the new and improved extranet solution would enable the following:

• Automated Extranet creation and management
• Highly customizable user interface, with “white-label” options
• Multi extranet, company, project and role segmentation rules
• A robust, role based access permission framework
• Secure rich media content management and distribution
• Secure video content management and distribution, with CDN (Content delivery network) integrations
• Team collaboration on assets, tasks, milestones etc.
• Flexible and secure and scalable user management , with Active Directory integration
• Integration with Organic’s Professional Services Automation (PSA)
• Robust, segmented and role-based Search across multiple extranets and projects
• Analytics and reporting integration
• Integration with other Organic assets, such as Organic’s blog, threeminds, based on the Moveable Type blog framework

Project Execution

Inspector IT utilized Agile development practices for the project in order to provide functionality in the hands of Organic staff for continuous and frequent reviews. The project delivery timeline was quite aggressive and Agile was a key component that contributed to the on-time, on-budget delivery of the solution.

Inspector IT Project Managers and Architects kicked-off the project onsite, at Organic’s headquarters in San Francisco,  with Organic’s stakeholders and during which time the feature list was reviewed and the high level project backlog was produced. The project back log was distributed across several one month Sprints. At the start of each Sprint Inspector IT and Organic teams would review the Sprint backlog and associated requirements documents and identify any gaps and/or missing information.

Inspector IT delivered the code and performed a thorough demo to Organic stakeholders at the end of each Sprint.  After the third Sprint which which represented a product beta release, smaller bug fix releases were coordinated with the client to provide quicker feedback loops with QA.

Solution

Inspector IT delivered a end-to-end and feature-rich Client Extranet system using DotNetNuke as its base framework.
DotNetNuke provided a few of the required underlying technologies, such as security and permissions, multi-tenancy, theming capabilities and other APIs. In most cases, we improved upon the base DotNetNuke user experience and interface by replacing them with more appealing and easier-to-use implementations.

The bulk of the solution was delivered by designing and developing custom extensions, providers, scheduled tasks and skins.

Inspector IT plans on productizing a variation (Sans Organic’s digital marketing centric customizations) of this Project Management and Collaboration suite for the DotNetNuke framework by the 1st or 2nd Quarter in 2011. Drop us a note if you would like to preview the product in a live demonstration or if you would like more information on the product’s features and capabilities.

In addition to being a sponsor, Inspector IT’s very own Antonio Chagoury is in the speaker line-up, giving a presentation under the “Mobile Development” track. If you are interested in this topic then be sure to attend and hit Antonio up with any questions you might have.

What is “Day of DotNetNuke”?

Day of DotNetNuke® is a free event serving those who are interested in learning about the world’s largest .NET based open source framework, DotNetNuke®.

This event attracts many industry experts who are willing to share knowledge and experience about DotNetNuke® and it creates in-person networking opportunity for community members around the world.

The St. Louis and Chicago DotNetNuke® User Groups have teamed up and are proud to announce the second Day of DotNetNuke® in the U.S and the first in the Midwest region.

About Antonio’s Session

Smartphone-enable your DotNetNuke Apps with jQTouch & jQuery

So you built a great DotNetNuke Module, but now you want to make its data and functionality available to mobile users with a smart-phone device such as an iPhone, Android or Blackberry.

Well, you’re in luck, because in this session Antonio will show you how easy it is to build a mobile web app that consumes REST web services with a little client side scripting, the jQTouch framework and jQuery.

Related articles and resources:

• Chicago Day of DNN website
• Chicago Day of DNN Speakers
• Chicago Day of DNN Sessions
• Speaking at Chicago Day of DotNetNuke
• Nik Kalyani to Deliver Keynote Address at Day Of DotNetNuke Chicago

We are looking forward to meet you in Chicago next month.

This highly interactive product is specifically designed for non-profit organizations that manage their memberships using TMA Resources’ Association Management System (AMS), Personify.

The mobile conference application was initially commissioned by one of the nation’s largest non-profit associations and is now deployed and providing its constituents with mobile access to their upcoming events.

The application gives smart phone users an easy and convenient way to view conference information, particularly before they arrive at the conference and have access to the printed on-site program.
Its main features include:

• Displays professional programs for a selected meeting event
• Displays special events for a selected meeting event
• Displays competitions for a selected meeting event
• Search enabled exhibitor listings
• Area maps, with custom locations*
• Twitter feeds specific to the selected conference*
• and more…

Users of the mobile application can quickly view the program by upcoming sessions, session listing by day, or by track. The application also provides functionality that promotes social networking through twitter feeds and links to the conference’s Facebook group page*. The exhibitors “search by booth” or “by exhibitor” feature enables users to quickly identify the location of exhibitors’ information including their booths on a map of the exhibit hall.

Non-Profit organizations that operate multiple conferences each year in support of its mission and members can, at last, easily enable mobile access to an interactive view of each conference while on the go.  The application currently supports all smart phone devices such as:

• iPhone
• Android
• BlackBerry
• and any other rich-browser based device **

The  Mobile conference application comes in an easy-to-install module compatible with the Personify eBusiness application framework (or DotNetNuke + Personify).

A photo slideshow of the application can be viewed here.

For more information and/or a live demonstration please contact us today.

* Requires Personify customizations
** Some features are disabled based on supported devices

On Wednesday, June 16th 2010 the Capital DotNetNuke User Group will be hosting the second official DotNetNuke Hackathon.

The previous Hackathon held in Orlando last month focused on the DotNetNuke MVP design pattern. This month’s Hackathon in Washington, DC, will focus on developing compelling visual user interfaces and user experiences. The theme is appropriately labeled as "Visual DotNetNuke."

Inspector IT principals and staff will be at the event to meet and greet the great folks of the local DotNetNuke community. Inspector IT is also excited to be the meeting sponsor providing food and beverages.

What is a Hackaton?

Hackathons are developer events with a goal of increasing developer knowledge on a specific technology aspect in a casual, collaborative environment. They are also designed to encourage participation by people who are not familiar with the technology, basically providing them with an immersive quick start.
Hackathon Events are:

• built around a single programming concept (for example: DotNetNuke MVP Pattern)
• encourage participation locally (at event site) and remotely
• broadcast online
• provide materials and dev environment setup guidelines ahead of time
• allow anybody to participate
• are peer-judged by the Hackathon participants
• have one or more winners who earn the title "Hackmaster"
• have great prizes for winners and runners up
• require all submissions to be Open Source with MIT license

Visual DotNetNuke Hackathon

The first official DotNetNuke Hackathon was held in Orlando last month and it focused on building DotNetNuke module using the  MVP design pattern.

Next week, on June 16th, we have a fantastic Hackathon planned, and this time, the theme is "Visual DotNetNuke."

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon focuses on building  modules for DotNetNuke. The launchpad for the event will be the montly meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke Users Group in the Washington, DC metro area.

Developers have an abundance of resources available to help them better understand DotNetNuke module development. Resources such as blogs, videos and books go into great detail on module architecture, the data layer and interacting with the DotNetNuke Core API. However, when it comes to developing DotNetNuke modules with rich, engaging and contemporary user interfaces, the resources are few and far between.

The "Visual DotNetNuke" Hackathon aims to give developers the knowledge and tools to create great-looking DotNetNuke modules that engage users and create a delightful user experience.

You can learn more about this upcoming Hackathon on the official website.

The speakers at this event are Nik Kalyani, Founder and CEO of HyperCrunch and Joe Brinkman, Co-founder and Technical Fellow of DotNetNuke Corporation.

For more information please visit the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (C-DUG) website.

Antonio’s leadership and extraordinary contributions to the IT community, as well as his passion for technology and commitment to innovation and technical expertise is well known to our clients and his colleagues.

“MVPs are technology’s best and brightest, and we are honored to welcome Antonio as one of them.” – Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President, Customer and Partner Advocacy, Microsoft Corporation.

Inspector IT congratulates Antonio on this well-deserved award. We wish all our customers and partners a happy new year and look forward to continuing Antonio’s tradition of professional excellence and community leadership through 2010.

“ZoomSafer is an important milestone for today’s technology in that it recognizes the need for convenience and constant connectivity that we have come to expect while taking into account our safety needs and of others.  As a father, I not only feel safer knowing other drivers aren’t distracted, I also want my kids to know that technology can enhance our lives by keeping us safe while on the road.  As an IT professional, working with the ZoomSafer has been outstanding because the innovators behind this idea are among the top professionals in this sector and the team’s commitment to an outstanding productive is evident,” says Inspector IT CEO Antonio Chagoury.

About ZoomSafer

ZoomSafer is software and services for mobile phones to prevent distracted driving. It’s simple to download and easy to install.
ZoomSafer uses GPS in combination with client software installed on your phone to determine when you’re moving faster than 10 mph. When driving, we activate our safe driving services to minimize distractions and keep you focused on the road.

Passenger in a moving vehicle?  No problem.  Simply turn it off. Watch the video to see a complete demonstration.

ZoomSafer will work on a variety of smartphone platforms starting with RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Google Android.

Go here to learn more about our innovative safe driving solutions.

Inspector IT’s DNN Universal Tag Cloud™ makes your data work harder for you by tapping into your existing DotNetNuke search index to generate highly customizable semantic tag clouds. Tag Clouds are a great way to provide your web users with stylish Web 2.0 navigation components and are highly efficient when it comes to enhancing your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts.
With Inspector IT’s DNN Universal Tag Cloud™ you can create multiple tag clouds, each customized to semantically depict your content listed alphabetically or by importance. With DNN Universal Tag Cloud™, creating and customizing content tag clouds that enable your users to navigate to the right collection of information has never been easier, setup and configuration is snap!

DNN Universal Tag Cloud has been released and is available on Snowcovered and at the DotNetNuke Marketplace.

A few product reviews have already been sighted in the blogosphere; the response thus far is extremely positive. we look forward to improve on the product and publish an aggressive road map that would ensure multiple releases scheduled through the end of 2009, says Inspector IT CEO Antonio Chagoury

A few  quotes from the previously mentioned blog sightings reveal that the functionality exposed by the DNN Universal Tag Cloud has been missing from the DotNetNuke ecosystem and is a welcome addition to Inspector IT’s collection of modules:

A missing “Web 2.0″ element from DotNetNuke is the now-ubiquitous Tag Cloud. Their new Universal Tag Cloud module does most everything you’d expect neatly and easily, says Mamlin of Eguana Solutions.

If you need a tag cloud that has only positive impact on a DNN site, and uses existing technology, this module is definitely the standard one to use, and sets the bar very high.  I can already see all kinds of uses for this module on various types of sites, says Will Strohl of RezHub.com.

Until DNN core blog module adds this in this is a good alternative to rolling your own, which can be a pain. The best part is you can make clouds for any modules that tie into the search provider. So if you are using Ventrian’s articles module you could now easily make a tag cloud for all your articles using this module. Lots of possibilities and lots of ways to use it, says Dylan Barber of CodeMyPantsOff.com

Vienna, Virginia – May 27, 2009 – Inspector IT designs, develops and hosts ZoomSafer.com, a Reston, Virginia company that builds mobile solutions to prevent distracted driving. Press releases about the “stealthy website launch” have been sighted across most common PR websites:

• http://www.pr.com/press-release/155393
• http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200905/1243578009.html
• http://www.zoomsafer.com/news-events/articletype/articleview/articleid/90/zoomsafer-unveils-innovative-solution-to-prevent-distracted-driving.aspx

ZoomSafer is software for mobile phones that automatically detects when you’re driving and reminds you to focus on the road. Features include:

• Custom safety reminders from family and friends
• Management of inbound calls, emails, and texts
• Voice activated messaging for text and email
• Auto updates to friends, family, co-workers, and social networks

The product is currently under development with a beta release planned for August 2009.

“Inspector IT is proud to have played the important role of designing ZoomSafer’s web presence, deploying and hosting it, as well as provided consulting services and guidelines for its search engine optimization strategy (SEO). We look forward to supporting ZoomSafer deliver the world’s first mobile “mash-up” to prevent distracted driving.” said Antonio Chagoury, CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT.

ZoomSafer hosts 2 blogs where they frequently educate people on the dangers of driving distracted, BerryFocused.com and IDriveFocused.com.

• Reach a broad audience with real-time news and information
• Disseminate specific messages to targeted groups with lightening speed
• Elicit feedback and spark dialogue around issues and causes
• Generate energy and demonstrate leadership in a cause
• Make a message personal and fun for every visitor

Offering Personify Integration, Twitter integration, trackbacks and pingback, and search-engine friendly URLs, Blog for Personify brings the power of social media and Web 2.0 to every association in a user-friendly format.  As with all Inspector IT products, Blog for Personify comes with the individualized support clients need and expect in today’s non-profit sector.

In becoming a TMA Resources’ Solution Partner, Inspector IT is proud to provide applications that integrate with Personify through Web service APIs.  Inspector IT is pleased to work with TMA Resources and its clients to develop products that offer out-of-the-box integration with Personify.   Inspector IT is confident this enhanced partnership with TMA Resources will result in new technologies to grow and connect communities, providing clients more of the high quality, efficient and cost-effective solutions they expect for their networking needs.

For more information on Blog for Personify contact info@inspectorit.com or come visit us at the TAUG 2009 Conference.

At this year’s TAUG, Inspector IT will showcase its new Blog for Personify integrated solution for Personify e-Business.  With Blog for Personify, clients have instant access to a seamlessly integrated product that harnesses the power of social media to reach a targeted audience with up-to-the-minute news, information and resources.  Blog for Personify also lets clients elicit feedback and stimulates real time conversations.   Blog for Personify offers Personify integration, Twitter integration, full RSS syndication, MS Word and Windows Live Writer, as well search engine friendly URLs and more.  As with all Inspector IT solutions, Blog for Personify is fully customizable and supported by a team that can offer you superb support services and personal attention to individual clients’ business needs and customers’ expectations.

In addition to offering hands-on demonstrations of the new Blog for Personify, Inspector IT CEO and Chief Software Architect Antonio Chagoury will attend TAUG to work with clients and other TMA partners to share best practices, discuss emerging trends in the non-profit sector, and collaborate on new tools to help associations get the most out of their IT solutions.

Resources: TAUG 2009 Website.

Written by the best programmers in the their fields, Wrox Blox are short informational pieces and code that help other programmers get up-to-speed and keep up-to-date.  Wrox Press and its official website, Wrox.com, is a part of the John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing house, a leading publisher of scientific and technical information.  As a Programmer to Programmer publisher, Wrox Press publications are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems.

When it comes to digital content and marketing, Organic’s processes and methodologies are very collaborative in nature. Prior to the development of the new system, Organic managed client projects across several self-contained websites, which they referred to as “extranets”. These extranets were setup and configured by Organic’s IT staff and their content was maintained by the project or account managers. These mundane tasks, including user account creation and password resets were all processed manually. While these tasks were extremely simple to do, the solution was not scalable nor sustainable.

The ideal extranet application would present Organic and its customers with an easy to use, centralized, and automated project management solution, customized for the digital marketing business.
Simply put, the new and improved extranet solution would enable the following:

• Automated Extranet creation and management
• Highly customizable user interface, with “white-label” options
• Multi extranet, company, project and role segmentation rules
• A robust, role based access permission framework
• Secure rich media content management and distribution
• Secure video content management and distribution, with CDN (Content delivery network) integrations
• Team collaboration on assets, tasks, milestones etc.
• Flexible and secure and scalable user management , with Active Directory integration
• Integration with Organic’s Professional Services Automation (PSA)
• Robust, segmented and role-based Search across multiple extranets and projects
• Analytics and reporting integration
• Integration with other Organic assets, such as Organic’s blog, threeminds, based on the Moveable Type blog framework

For more information about this project please see our blog post outlining the details of the engagement.

“Inspector IT knows how important customer satisfaction is to TMA Resources, and as a company built on identifying solutions targeted to the individual goals of each client, we know our partnership with TMA will be a fruitful one, for our companies and for our customers. We are always happy to partner with industry leaders like TMA since we know our work together will result in groundbreaking innovations for our community,” said Antonio Chagoury, CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT.

Inspector IT will be collaborating with TMA Resources by primarily providing the following services:

• Personify eBusiness Systems Integration Support
• DotNetNuke Training for:
  • Webmaster Administration
  • IT Administration and Optimization
  • Custom Development
  • Custom Skinning

• DotNetNuke Custom Development and Core Extension
• DotNetNuke Custom Skinning
• DotNetNuke Information Architecture and Strategy
• DotNetNuke Maintenance and Support

As today’s leader in member-centric software and the company of choice for professional societies with budgets of $10 million or more, TMA Resources, Inc. specializes in delivering efficient, effective solutions for our customers’ networking needs while moving the entire industry forward. TMA Resources staff are experts in Association Management Software. For more than a decade, they have served the most dynamic and complex membership organizations in the world.

Inspector IT specializes in comprehensive software solutions on the Microsoft® .NET Framework and DotNetNuke (DNN) targeted to the specific needs of individual customers. Its extensive experience in the software and internet industry enables it to deliver products that address the full scope of the customer’s strategic objectives. Inspector IT’s product development expertise ranges from large scale e-commerce applications, social networking and mash-ups components to social commerce, enterprise content management and ERP solutions. Inspector IT’s principals and staff are Microsoft MVPs and active contributors and advocates of Open Source Software. The Inspector IT team is known for its leadership in the DotNetNuke (DNN) community. As active CORE Team members and Team Leads, Inspector IT developers contributes daily to DotNetNuke’s (DNN) architecture and core code which makes Inspector IT the obvious choice when it comes to delivering enterprise solutions and support on the platform.

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Our understanding of the unique culture of the non-profit sector and our unique mix of expertise and knowledge of the TMA Resources Personify platform made us the smart choice when it came to selecting a technology vendor. We are proud to support Toastmasters International’s efforts in overhauling and upgrading their systems anew.

Solutions

Inspector IT brought the right blend of business analysts, system architects, developers and creative design specialists to successfully solve complex problems to a large and tedious ERP upgrade plan. During the entirety of the effort Inspector IT supported and continues to support Toastmasters by providing the following technology solutions and services:

• Strategic and Technical Consulting
• Personify Enterprise Customizations
• Personify eBusiness Development & Customizations
• DotNetNuke Skin Development
• DotNetNuke CMS Development
• DotNetNuke Development Training

Inspector IT’s team of  developers & designers took Concep’s existing design templates and transformed them into DotNetNuke skins. All our artifacts have met all of Concep’s expectations as well as complying  with all modern web standards. “Inspector IT is exactly what we needed for our DotNetNuke solutions and integration with Personify” — Matt Parfitt, Vice President of Business Development.

Inspector IT’s team of software engineers transformed bare ideas into fully functional cutting-edge software. Inspector IT’s leadership in architecture design and development resulted in the successful implementation of Windows Sidebar Gadgets & Outlook plug-ins that consume CloudProfile’s REST APIs enriching its users with delightful user experiences.

The completed Qwest Ordering System solution incorporated a blend of ordering options, including online, telesales, live chat and a pricing back-office management system to boot. It capitalized on proven best-practices, and most importantly delivered a measurable revenue impact for the targeted, and valuable, SMB segment.

ZoomSafer is easy-to-use software that helps ensure safe and legal use of mobile phones while driving. The Inspector IT team developed the ZoomSafer’s website and executed on a meticulous SEO requirements for maximum search engine exposure. The ZoomSafer website is hosted by Inspector IT on its DotNetNuke based CMS platform.

Solutions

Inspector IT brought the right blend of business analysts, system architects, and creative design specialists to successfully launch the ZoomSafer website and by providing the following technology solutions and services:

• Strategic and Technical Consulting
• DotNetNuke Skin Development
• DotNetNuke CMS Development
• DotNetNuke Hosting
• Content Development  & Management
• Search Engine Optimization
• Ongoing Support

The Inspector IT team provided consulting, integration and development services for the AT&T’s Insights corporate intranet application suite. The project consisted of the migration of a variety of existing hybrid and home-grown custom web-applications over to a single DotNetNuke based portal solution. Inspector IT was also instrumental in the reverse engineering effort of a Plumtree portal SDK which was then redeveloped for DotNetNuke to support the overall migration.

Solutions

• Software Architecture Design
• DotNetNuke Module Development
• DotNetNuke Skinning Development
• DotNetNuke SkinObject Development
• Custom .NET development
• IT Infrastructure Design Guidance and Implementation Support

DotNetNuke OpenForce ’08 is the premier North American DotNetNuke event in 2008. Co-located with other top Microsoft technology-focused conferences at DevConnections, this is a can’t-miss conference for serious DotNetNuke developers, users, administrators, designers and vendors.  Conference highlights include 20 speakers, 22 in-depth sessions, panel discussions, networking receptions, an exciting expo hall.

As an added bonus, OpenForce ’08 attendees can also attend sessions at any other DevConnections conference in progress at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, the OpenForce ’08 conference location. These conferences include: Asp.net Connections, SQL Server Connections, Visual Studio.net Connections, and SharePoint Connections. 
Information and schedules on Antonio Chagoury’s talk can be found on theOpenForce web site, as well asDevConnections‘. Here an excerpt:

Done in 60 minutes: Build a Custom Membership Provider

The Provider Model is a design pattern introduced in .net to provide a simple way to extend API functionality.  DotNetNuke uses this architecture to allow some of its core functionality to be replaced without modifying core code.  In this session Antonio Chagoury will give you a high-level overview of the core Membership Provider (ASPNet Membership) and demonstrate how to build and configure your own custom provider.

Inspector IT would like to hear from you and meet you. If you will be attending OpenForce this year, Antonio will be happy to talk to you and discuss the great potentials of DotNetNuke, and how to put it to good use in your enterprise.

The free licenses will be raffled off to OpenForce ‘08 attendees during an evening event (To be announced). 3 product license will be raffled off for DNN Site Map and 3 other for DNN Dock Menu.

Are you coming to OpenForce ‘08? If so, you may be one of the lucky 6 to win one of the two best selling modules.

Inspector IT’s customers have been upgraded  at 12:00am EST from version 4.6.0. The compelling list of enhancements, bug fixes, and security vulnerability fixes were announced on the day of its release.

BT Tradespace is a thriving community with 360,000 members and growing. Tradespace also awards BT a forum to build brand loyalty and to promote its own offers in a non invasive environment. Our relationships influence almost all aspects of our lives, both personal and professional; BT Tradespace redefines the way SMBs aquire and grow those relationships.