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Ever wonder how other people are using DotNetNuke? If so then this meeting is just for you. This month we will be talking about how one development company implements DotNetNuke including all the phases of the DotNetNuke life cycle from: Hosting Environments, Default Configurations (you know those host settings we have to change every time as well as web.config changes), how we develop and deploy skins, 3rd party modules we use as a standard base, the optimizations we do for SEO and performance, Implementation of landing pages for Pay Per Click campaigns and lastly how to maintain sites with some regular house-keeping methods.

How can you make your site more "social"?  Do you want to improve communication with your customers?  Would you like to add more capabilities to your existing community?  Are social tools a good fit for your site, your users and for you?  We will look at what capabilities exist today within DotNetNuke along with administrative and maintenance tasks that you should consider.  We will also  review  what modules and widgets you can easily add to your existing site.  Then we will show how you can interact with other popular social networking tools.  Finally, we will walkthrough how you can leverage DotNetNuke and various modules to build your own social networking site.

Noted DNN SEO expert Tom Kraak was the featured presenter at the monthly Meeting of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group on February 18, 2009.  Tom is a well known speaker and runs a widely respected blog that can be found at seablick/blog/tkraak .  The presentation, “Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with DotNetNuke” included some of the basics of SEO along with the specifics of how to make certain that DotNetNuke (DNN) websites perform well with search engines.
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I have come to a better understanding recently about how crucial IT is to many businesses and the extent to which this is a source of consternation for business owners and leaders! It feels like a sort of a love hate relationship for many people, especially in organizations that are experiencing significant change. One of my goals in business and in this blog is to try make it a little easier for business leaders to understand IT so they can make better business decisions.