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Buck's Visit With Kelly Ford

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:46:54 GMT

Kelly doesn't know it yet but I have a surprise waiting for him in Minneapolis, Minnesota...

Connecting With Your Customers - Even Microsoft Finally Figured It Out

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:16:11 GMT

Do you remember when everybody claimed the Internet was the great equalizer? Where even a small, home-based business can appear to be equal to even the largest companies. Well, hold on to your hats folks as I reveal the secrets of persuasion and how personal connection with your prospect will increase your sales...

Ask The Xperts Launched at fatgeorge.co.uk

admin@fatgeorge.co.uk — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:21:17 GMT

The aim of ATX is to build up a library of solutions and answers for the DotNetNuke XMod community.

Weather your are an XMod newbie or a seasoned xpert we all need help with our developments at some point, the normal place to do this would be in the forums, they offer a wealth of knowledge and advice from XMod users old and new.

But we see the same questions being asked again and again, usually when new users join the XMod community.

Most times the question has already been answered, sometimes more than once by different people!

Are forums just too difficult to search for the answer?

Do users trust the answers they find?

If they find multiple answers to their question which is the best one to follow?

In an attempt to provide an easier way to find an answer to your XMod query fatgeorge have created Ask The Xperts; the premise is simple you have a problem or query:

You first search for questions like yours using a combination of categories, tags and the XMod search
If you find a similar question to yours you view the answers, if they have been rated they will be sorted in descending order so the top rated answers are at the top of the list.
If you like the answer you rate it and optionally add your comments

You cannot find an existing question which matches your problem

you post your question.
Xmod Community members post an answer, (you get an email to tell you your question has been answered.)
you click the link in the email to view your question and the answers
if you like an answer rate it and comment on it.

ATX is intended to complement the XMod forums, please be honest with your ratings and comments the aim is to help your fellow XMod users.

ATX is a parent/child style application created using XMod 5.1, fatgeorge Tag Cloud for navigation and filtering

, fatgeorge Form Utilities (not released yet) , fatgeorge HouseKeeper (not released yet) to maintain Parent/Child relationship between Question/Answers and uses the Rater Updater technique to allow sorting and filtering by rating.

I had to look behind myself........

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:31:37 GMT

When I got the email from Kelly informing me of MVP status I had to resist the urge to look behind myself to see if there was someone else he was talking to! :)

Buck's Tip - How To Get Your Name In the News - In Five Minutes or Less

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:57:45 GMT

Although I try to keep blog postings related to XMod subjects, sometimes I need to share the fun. How difficult is it to have a network news story created about you? Learn how in less then 5 minutes...

Buck's Tip: HELP! The Spam Jerks Have Taken Over My Form

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:25:53 GMT

I was recently asked the question, "Buck, I have been getting a ton of spam to my emails via my contact forms on some of my sites. Any suggestions for eliminating this problem? I do not have my email on the sites for the spammers to get."

My Wife Kicked Me Out...

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:24:24 GMT

Out of the cubicle that is. The other day as I explained to my wife, Mara, the virtues of living a life that did not involve the cubicle mentality, she stopped me in mid sentence and said...

Buck's Tip: The Most Important Lesson I have Ever Learned

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:36:19 GMT

As a result, when I discovered DotNetNuke, and later XMod, I quit what I was doing. I left my Corporate job as Senior Web Developer, and spent several years learning all I could about these wonderful products and trying different things with a new approach. And that's when my new business mantra was presented to me...

Buck's Tip: The Secret is to SERVE

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:57:09 GMT

I recently sat in on a meeting with one of our project managers who was having a tough time motivating his team. His team was working on several large DotNetNuke projects that involved several custom XMod applications. Their project timelines were way behind and customer satisfaction was being affected...

Urgent: Test Your DotNetNuke Site Now for Numerous Security Vulnerabilities

buck@dnnprofessor.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:56:49 GMT

According to Tony Valenti, CEO of Powerdnn.com a leading DotNetNuke hosting company, PowerDNN technicians have just discovered numerous security vulnerabilities in DotNetNuke core software...