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Another EBE Blog in the Wild

The folks over at AMD have been busy getting their message out and they are using the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition to do it! The team developed an EBE theme that goes with their corporate brand. No customizations beyond t ...[Read more]

Published: 8/18/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

CSC 303 Social Networking and User Profiles for Business

Here are the links and code for the talk I gave today. Links My Blog http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew   Social Networking with MOSS http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/488d329d-306a-436d-a9fa-4b1e4037c8a61033.mspx ...[Read more]

Published: 3/5/2008 | 6  Comments | 0  Links to this post

CKS:EBE Is Loose!

Well, after a significant final push the CSK:EBE Team has released version 2.0 of the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition! The details are on the SharePoint Team Blog. After I get my life back after the conference I'll write more ...[Read more]

Published: 3/5/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Building a blog host, Part 4

Fixing the RSS Feed You may or may not have noticed that the RSS feed for our rollup does not work the way RSS should. The Body and Author fields are missing. This post will address how to fix the RSS feed. All the work in this post is based ...[Read more]

Published: 11/24/2007 | 4  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Socially Conscious Spam Prevention

I hate spam, though I love getting comments on my blog. CKS:EBE has a feature for spam prevention using CAPTCHA which works well, though months ago I read this post and loved the concept that spam prevention could be socially beneficial. According ...[Read more]

Published: 11/23/2007 | 6  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Building a blog host, Part 3

In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites and built a Table of Contents with the TOC web part. We still have work to do to finish our home page. Our home page wireframe calls for a Recent Posts web part. In this post ...[Read more]

Published: 11/20/2007 | 13  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Building a blog host, Part 2

In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites. We created the blog sites and have added a few posts to each to prepare for the creation of our blog host home page. Now our designer has provided the requirements for the h ...[Read more]

Published: 11/15/2007 | 3  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Building a blog host

There are many "patterns" in the SharePoint work that I do. Repeatable processes that change little from client to client. One of my favorite patterns is the "Blog Host". A site collection that contains many blog sites. Like ma ...[Read more]

Published: 11/13/2007 | 5  Comments | 0  Links to this post

CKS:EBE Editing Error Resolved

If you have been testing Community Kit SharePoint: Enhanced blog Edition you may have found that, once enabled you cannot edit files in the master page gallery. You get this error: Vince has posted a patch on the CKS site. Worked for me! ...[Read more]

Published: 11/10/2007 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post