Registration - Complete your registration by picking up your lanyard/badge, bag with goodies and any last minute instructions

1st Floor - Lobby

8:00AM - 8:45AM

All Attendees

Breakfast burritos, bagels, pastries and juices served on the 2nd floor Atrium

2nd Floor Large Auditorium

8:00AM - 8:45AM

All Attendees

Welcome, opening remarks and introduction of the keynote speakers

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

8:45AM - 9:00AM

All Attendees

Keynote Address

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

9:00AM - 9:45AM

All Attendees

This session is all about installing DotNetNuke. Most installation documentation assume that you will be installing on your development machine, and even the default settings of DotNetNuke are not optimized for production use. During this session we will go through all the pit falls, from connecting to SQL server, to proper permissions across the board, to performance and security optimized settings. If you ever had to figure out how to best secure DotNetNuke this session is for you.

During this session we will solely use DotNetNuke Community Edition, which means that topics as setting up a webfarm and page caching will not be dealt with.

8th Floor - Room 801

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Administration

Running a community/social style website using the DotNetNuke platform is quick and easy. However, having a site that is responsive and well performing is of utmost importance to keep your users engaged and to make the sharing experience easy. This session will provide guidance on steps that site administrators can take via configuration, module selection, and other means to ensure that their site is performing to the peak of its ability. With a plethora of configuration options and third party solutions out there, knowing the tips and tricks to maximize performance is key.

2nd floor - Small Auditorium

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Administration

A major shift is taking place in the web development world. More and more web applications are being built as “Single Page Applications”. This development model focuses on using JavaScript frameworks, AJAX and web services to build highly interactive web applications which don’t rely on the traditional postback model associated with WebForms development. Even Microsoft is joining the party by including a SPA project template in MVC 4. In this session I’ll go over some of the tools we use in DotNetNuke 6.2 to enable you to develop your modules using this approach and we’ll look at where this development model is appropriate and where the traditional postback model is more applicable. To wrap up the session I’ll build a simple module which demonstrates how you can use this new development approach when building your next module.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Developer

What if you could invest a small fraction of time and money and build not just one project, but 10... or 100? That’s what XMod Pro offers - the ability to quickly create as many custom solutions as you need. And it’s backed by the experience of DNNDev.com which has been producing best-selling dynamic custom forms modules for DotNetNuke since 2004.

• What types of DNN’ers use XMod Pro?
• See XMod Pro examples in action!
• XMP - Module Kits – Get Free Pre-made solutions and demos!
• How do you work within Xmod Pro?
• How much does it cost?
• Learn what people are saying about Xmod Pro

8th Floor - Room 804

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Developer

Just a few years ago, people turned to their phones for basic communications: placing calls, checking email and sending texts. Today we live in a world where mobile phones are no longer just phones. Your phone is a piece of you. It has your personal information, your location, your friends, your pictures, your notes, the things that you like and the ones that you don’t.

You’ve probably heard people say that mobile devices are going to change our lives. Actually, they already have, but they will continue to gain more and more importance in our everyday lives for many years to come.

Doesn’t this sound like we’re right in front of a massive tsunami (a wave would be an understatement)?

Learning Objectives:

• Learn the elements of a strategy: the 50K foot view, the 20K foot view and the 0 foot view
• Learn the key features of a smartphone and what opportunities they bring.
• Review some examples of how some organizations world-wide have successfully implemented a mobile strategy.

8th Floor - Room 806

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Mobile

This session will cover the absolute, basic fundamentals of DNN skinning. Topics covered will be: what skinning is and is not; skin using HTML or .ascx; basic skin objects; packaging your skin. This does not cover styling a skin, just the basics!

8th Floor - Room 805

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Skinning

It’s one thing to know why a community is important to your brand and to the success of your website. It’s a completely different thing to know what you should absolutely do and, more importantly, NOT do when building your community. What have the successful communities learned already? What mistakes can you avoid? What features must you absolutely have? Do you need a community manager? All of these questions and more will be answered in this session. You will leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to successfully deploy your own community website.

8th Floor - Room 802

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Social

Tips and tricks from a DotNetNuke Webmaster with over 400 production installations of DotNetNuke. We’ll hit tactics for successful upgrades and how to recover from a failed upgrade or module install. Basic DNN performance tactics and security concerns related to DNN. Fast and easy ways to separate Portals from DNN Hosts. When to go multiportal vs Single DNN Host and much more.

8th Floor - Room 801

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Administration

Love it or hate it, SharePoint is prevalent in organizations of all sizes. Using the SharePoint connector feature in DotNetNuke, you can leverage linked libraries and document synchronization to your public website. In this session, participants will learn how to configure the SharePoint connector to synchronize documents from SharePoint to DotNetNuke and have an active discussion on use-cases for sharing data and linking functionality across these application boundaries.

8th Floor - Room 802

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Administration

Everyone that has used DotNetNuke in the past, or even those that have done a little bit of research knows that using the framework time and costs to deliver solutions can be greatly reduced. This session takes a deep dive from a business perspective at the true value add of DotNetNuke and illustrates exactly how much impact using DotNetNuke can have on a project. A great session for business leaders, developers, consultants and designers and great information and examples are provided to help sell the platform to users of all experiences and backgrounds.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Business

Knockout JS is a popular open-source library which is now being used in DotNetNuke 6.2 to build very powerful interactive interfaces. The library is characterized by four major features: declarative bindings, automatic UI refresh, dependency tracking and templating. This session will dive into these Knockout features and also discuss the MVVM pattern it uses. We’ll also take a look at how Knockout is used in DotNetNuke 6.2 and walk through a real world example of using the DNN service framework and Knockout JS to build a rich DotNetNuke file browser.

Please note: This session is intended for those with a good working knowledge of JavaScript and a basic understanding of DotNetNuke architecture.

2nd floor - Small Auditorium

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Developer

People visit your site for the content, they want to hear your message. We design to best show off your ideas. Content is the heart of that design. Colors, shapes, emotion; all these things are there to serve your message, or your content. As a designer, you need to have a clear understanding of where you are heading before you depart; i.e. know your content before you design, so that you can design to your content. We'll cover what it means to have a content strategy, why you need content before you design, and how to build better design working with the heart of your brand and message. This strategy is critical to your implementations, whether it's a new site, a mobile re-design, or an implementation that covers multiple devices and media types.

8th Floor - Room 806

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Introduction to DNN

Learn how to create a dynamic interface using jQuery and some of the core DotNetNuke modules. You don’t have to buy 3rd party modules to get the rich experience that many of the top sites use. This session will show you how to create anything from a simple image slider to an advanced portfolio or even add a ContentPane to your mega menu.

8th Floor - Room 805

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Skinning

Cassidi will outline this must have solution that allows end users easy of use when trying to communicate in the social network. With one entry, they can update their website, facebook, twitter and more. Cassidi will outline how to set up and utilize a command central to feed data to all sections of a DNN web portal as well as to facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, RSS feed and your own mobile website. We will illustrate how you can easily create a form with custom fields for all data entry. Next we will show users how to pull part or all of the information to various sections of a DNN portal and control the display which can include facebook like & share buttons, tweet button and email a friend button. Visit  http://www.10poundgorilla.com and click on any item in the news section at the bottom to see examples. Next, we will show users how to feed this information to their facebook and twitter sites as well as how to pull data through an RSS feed. The content can be categorized and feed to different locations based on category, highest rated, most viewed, last updates, last posted and many more. You can visit our facebook page to see feeds. http://www.facebook.com/10PoundGorilla.

8th Floor - Room 804

11:00AM - 11:45AM

Social

Choice of drinks, boxed lunches or salads served on the 2nd floor Atrium.

12:00PM - 1:15PM

All Attendees

DotNetNuke 6.2 has many new features. Some are more obvious than others, but what it’s important that you understand everything that has been introduced in the latest release.  In this session, we will cover all the new features and benefits in DotNetNuke 6.2. We will take a look at some of the decisions behind certain features and what is on the roadmap for future enhancements.  By the end of this session you will be an expert on DotNetNuke 6.2!

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

1:30PM - 2:15PM

Social

Windows Azure is starting to pick up steam. With recent additions to the Azure stack, it is becoming easier and easier to deploy DotNetNuke in the cloud. In this session we’ll look at how to deploy DotNetNuke on Windows Azure. I’ll go over some of the challenges and discuss how to overcome them. We’ll also discuss some of the new changes to Windows Azure which will be announced in May and how they will further improve your ability to run DotNetNuke on Windows Azure.

8th Floor - Room 801

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Administration

This session is for the individual who feels compelled to preach the good news of DotNetNuke. It seems a lot of technical people like to call themselves evangelists today. Sit in on this session and meet called and formally trained evangelist Gifford Watkins, BSC, MA, MDIV. With the advent of DNN 6.2, this session will address the social and ethical issues arising from popularizing the most successful .NET framework to date. TV evangelists are infamous for manipulation, bilking the masses, offering false promises and more recently sexual scandals… so how will you avoid these pitfalls and upon which principles will you build your social platform? How will you maintain your following? How will you saturate your local market while building an international reputation? How will you avoid disgrace and how will you earn and maintain the respect of your peers, your clients, and your flock while financially sustaining your family?

8th Floor - Room 802

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Business

Client-side development using javascript libraries like jQuery, jQuery UI and kendoUI are all the rage in this Web 2.0 world. However, these excellent libraries require developers to directly manipulate the browser's DOM using css Selectors.

This approach requires developers to work closely with designers and does not really support the principle of "Separation of Concerns" which is well established for server-side frameworks.

On the other hand, the Model-View-ViewModel pattern is well-established in Silverlight (including Windows Phone) and WPF UI development, and is an excellent pattern for clearly separating the design (View) and functionality (ViewModel), and this pattern is now available for javascript developers. The KnockoutJS library which is being promoted by Microsoft as part of their new "Single-Page-Application" web application template, is one of these javascript implementations of the MVVM pattern.

In this session, Charles Nurse, Senior Architect for DotNetNuke Corporation will show how KnockoutJS in conjunction with the new Services Framework is used in DNN 6.2 to develop interactive client-side focused modules, and can be used by Module Developers to build their own client-side focused modules.

2nd Floor - Small Auditorium

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Developer

DotNetNuke 6.2 is about more than just social activities and integration, it’s about collaboration. In this session, we will take a look at the new journal as well as the new Notifications API and discuss how and when to use each of them in your own custom modules.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Developer

There are a couple of good Visual Studio templates available, however none of them make it very easy for you to customize the way you package your extensions.
Also, the DotNetNuke extension manifest is still somewhat of an enigma to most people. Sure, a Module manifest is simple, but what about a multi SkinObject package, or an authentication provider.

During this session we will go through a couple of the basics in DotNetNuke extension development, explaining the differences in types of extensions.

8th Floor - Room 804

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Developer

People are looking at your site on all kinds of devices. Not just iPhones and iPads. How can you design to provide the optimal experiences for these devices, while maintaining your desktop strategy, and anticipate new devices and trends of the future. This presentation will review strategies and theory behind designing for multiple platforms. We will go over positives and negatives of "separate site" vs "responsive design", target audience considerations and strategy, as well as common user breakpoints.

8th Floor - Room 806

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Mobile

DotNetNuke 6.1 introduced the Client Resource Management framework to give developers and skinners a central mechanism for managing JavaScript and CSS that needs to be included in your site. The framework enables us to think about our scripts and styles much more logically, and leave the worries of optimizing behind. In this presentation, I’ll introduce the framework, show how and why to use it, and point out some tips and tricks to make it easier to use and manage.

8th Floor - Room 805

2:30PM - 3:15PM

Skinning

The Advanced Control Panel was developed to improve the usability of DNN, taking up less space while adding numerous features which improve your daily administration tasks. Learn why many core team members and community leaders utilize the Advanced Control Panel on all their production sites. You will learn how to unlock the full administration capabilities of your DotNetNuke sites, a demonstration of the most popular features, as well as a preview of what’s in store for the future of the Advanced Control Panel.

8th Floor - Room 805

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Administration

Some of the standard questions about a DotNetNuke site are often answered with a T-SQL Query: Why is my database so big? What table is the largest? How do you get a list of user’s properties? How many visitors came to my site yesterday? Wondered how to use the Host SQL Module to look into the database?

This presentation will focus on the various T-SQL commands that can help improve the day-to-day functionality of a DotNetNuke site. Using standard and free modules, the session will demonstrate helpful T-SQL queries that will answer common operational questions.

Updating your site and wanting to determine what 3rd party modules are located on what pages? This session will help you develop reports to ensure your upgrades deliver few surprises.

The presentation will also help the attendees understand some of the standard data relationships in a DotNetNuke database so that they can use the tools and techniques discussed to develop T-SQL queries of their own.

The presentation will focus on the current DotNetNuke database structures including the audit fields and taxonomy tables and the recent change related to Version 6. However, the majority of the techniques demonstrated can be used on previous versions of DotNetNuke.

8th Floor - Room 801

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Administration

From mobile phones to curl scripts to coffee pots, if it’s on the internet the new DotNetNuke Services Framework will help integrate it in to your web site. And it doesn’t stop there, Services Framework also makes possible new approaches to module development. In this session Scott S, Senior Engineer at DotNetNuke Corp. and the lead developer behind the creation of the Services Framework, will introduce you to the possibilities opened up by the Services Framework. He will show you how to move beyond Web Forms by writing modules entirely in HTML, Javascript and ASP.Net MVC, as well as exploring the many new integration possibilities enabled by the Services Framework.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Developer

Submitting articles to article sites like ezine article and even your Facebook page is a great way to obtain quality backlinks to your site.  10 Pound Gorilla will guide you through the steps of selecting appropriate article sites to submit to, choosing relevant content to write about, finding information on the given topic, and techniques to insert your own voice in to your articles. We will show you how to set up a blog on your DNN website, integrate your articles and have them automatically post to your social media sites.

8th Floor - Room 802

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Introduction to DNN

Smartphones have become a common device that everyone uses these days to access information while on the go. More and more people rely on this little device for both work and play. When visitors access your web properties on everything from desktop browsers to tablet devices to mobile phones, it’s important to deliver a good experience to each of those audiences without breaking your budget.

In this session, we will review responsive CSS frameworks, which allow websites to respond appropriately to the device without replying on specific device detection. That way you can deliver a great experience to all users regardless their screen size.

Please note: this session is intended for those with a understanding of DotNetNuke skinning fundamentals.

2nd floor - Small Auditorium

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Mobile

You’ve heard it over and over again. Social. That’s great, but what does it mean to you? Why should it be important to you? Why does your website need it? If your website does anything to support a brand, product, service, or generate leads of any kind, an online community is exactly what your website needs. You can see it all around you, with websites of all kinds – including brand names that we all know – adding not only social features, but also features that help them build and maintain a community. Learn all of the reasons why an online community should is more important to your business than any kind of advertising. You’ll walk away having the tools in your toolbox to be able to explain to your boss or your clients why they need to build a community on their site yesterday.

8th Floor - Room 804

3:30PM - 4:15PM

Social

While not the traditional realm of DotNetNuke, the world of Manufacturing has a very real need for live, up-to-date information to ensure the daily production goals and targets are met. DotNetNuke provides a perfect platform for presenting and interacting with the plant floor. With the recent enhancements within DotNetNuke Version 6 and especially Version 6.2, DotNetNuke has positioned itself to support the newest plant floor needs.

The new social features of DotNetNuke provide the ability to ensure up-to-date information is placed into the hands of the decision makers, production leaders, and the plant support staff. For example, the new journal feature provides a real-time interaction amongst the various plant personnel with immediate updates, but also provides a historical view of the day’s events.

Truly a different social world, but from DotNetNuke’s point of view, this world is well within the capability and features available. This presentation will look at the different techniques for positioning DotNetNuke to support the Manufacturing world including how to support latest plant floor management tools - such as tablets, touch screen, and smart handheld devices.

The presentation will review methods to provide dashboard displays that provide a summary review of critical information. Additional, the presentation will show how to implement exception reporting to ensure operational processes are within control. DotNetNuke provides various methods to implement such display and reports.

8th Floor - Room 802

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Business

DotNetNuke 6.2 introduces social group functionality along with an overhauled user profile system. These enhancements present new opportunities for module developers as well as site administrators. In this session we will walk through the steps necessary to create your own custom group or user profile modules for DotNetNuke 6.2 or later.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Developer

The topic of client side performance revolves heavily around reducing and optimizing the payload that is sent down from the server to the browser. Making websites faster is obviously something that a lot of us in the web world feel passionately about, and recently there have been some very exciting enhancements made to the DotNetNuke framework in the area of client side performance.

This session will introduce the open-source project Client Dependency Framework (CDF), and the new DNN API (Client Resource Management) based on the project that allow for dynamic JavaScript/CSS combining, minification, caching, and versioning. First introduced in DNN 6.1, this session will discuss the foundational features and also introduce the enhancements made in DNN 6.2.

Please note: this session is intended for a technical audience with a basic understanding of DotNetNuke’s architecture.

8th Floor - Room 804

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Developer

In this session, we will explore the functionality exposed to websites using the multi-portal features in DotNetNuke. Hosting multiple websites within a single installation most notably enables content sharing across mobile and desktop targeted websites, but this isn't the only use for this powerful feature. Explore standardization techniques using portal templates and a model for leveraging DotNetNuke as a software as a service (SAAS) platform in this session filled with real-world examples and gotchas from the trenches.

8th Floor - Room 805

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Introduction to DNN

Use the new DotNetNuke Service Framework to enable your modules and other extensions to power mobile applications and other new and unique workflows. While its always been possible to have various sorts of web services alongside your module, the Service Framework provides a common pattern to enable smart authentication and a clean development model. This presentation will demonstrate what it looks like to use the Service Framework to develop an API that exposes rich functionality to a wide variety of potential clients, including native mobile applications.

8th Floor - Room 806

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Mobile

With the DotNetNuke 6.2.0 release a number of social features were introduced to the platform allowing users to quickly and easily create social experiences using all out-of-the box features of the framework. This session is a full demo of these new features and shows just how easy it is to start from a clean installation and quickly have a fully built site allowing for social interaction and a true community feel. Attendees will leave with a great understanding of exactly what features are available to you with the most current release of DotNetNuke to implement a social experience.

8th Floor - Room 801

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Social

Many popular modules have been updated to take advantage of the key features in DotNetNuke 6.2.   In this session we will take a look at the modules that have already been updated to support DotNetNuke 6.2.  We will walk through the key features of each module and highlight what it means to support DotNetNuke 6.2.  By the end of this session you will have a better idea of what modules are ready for DotNetNuke 6.2 and what to expect from other modules.

2nd floor - Small Auditorium

4:30PM - 5:15PM

Social

Ignites Sessions - 45 minutes of thought provoking chaos!

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

5:30PM - 6:15PM

All Attendees

Final announcements, thanks and raffle of give-aways - don't miss it! You could win some great software, prizes and one of two custom skinned xBox 360s with Kinects.

2nd Floor - Large Auditorium

6:15PM - 6:30PM

All Attendees