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Meeting This Week: March 20 6:30 PM - (Eastern)

The Southern Fried DNN (Topic TBD) is almost here! Make sure you join us for all the fun / info on March 20 at 6:30 PM!

Southern Fried DNN User Group Meeting - Update, Next Meeting 3/20/25

A brief note to let everyone know that we'll have our next SoFri meeting the third Thursday in March. This gives us time to recoup from DNNSummit travel, workload, and prep for discussions on DNN 10 and recent community updates! Please be sure to join us online!

March 20 SoFri Meeting Info
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Southern Fried DNN Blog

Southern Fried DNN User Group (Formerly Queen City DotNetNuke User Group QCDUG) blog covers DNN topics addressed by the usergroup at meetings, conventions and for the DNN community for North Carolina, South Carolina and the DNN community at large!
 

Let Your DNN Shine With Events & Hooks

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August 2020 SoFri Meeting - In this meetup, we're joined by DNN MVP Mike Smeltzer to give us some amazing insight, with code examples and all, into various Events and Hooks within DNN. Wanna take your extension development to the next level? This may be just what the doctor ordered! Mike also gave us an update on the latest updates to DNN Shine - a modern control panel extension for DNN Platform websites.
 

July 2020 - Mitch Sellers + 2-Factor Authentication

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Mitch Sellers presents to us a new module for simple setup of Two-Factor Authentication for DNN.

With security a huge concern in modern time for all users, Mitch Sellers and Iowa Computer Gurus introduce a new Simple 2 Factor Authentication Provider for DNN. This authentication provider works to replace the standard DNN Login process and introduces 2-Factor Verification to secure login.
 

SoFri April Meeting - DNN Good Practices - DNN Instances, Security, Backups and Hosting

Ryan Moore leads a review of common sense, good practices relating to care for DNN instances. This will include backup practices, updates, upgrades, and more.
 

SoFri October Meeting - DNNSharp's Plant An App

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Bogdan joined us this month to show off the exciting new App Builder from DNNSharp. The App Builder module orchestrates DNNSharp modules to build web applications in a simplified and robust way.
 

Changing Web Analytics...WHY and WHAT To Do!

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Web analytics is about to change. Understand why and what to do about it! Firefox blocking analytics by default. Apple preventing tracking with ‘unintended impact’ for analytics. European regulators making analytics an explicit opt-in feature. All these developments are going to significantly reduce the quantity and quality of data available to web professionals wishing to understand and optimize websites. In this session, James will explain the thought process behind the changes, before providing ideas on how to respond. One thing is for sure, digital marketing is going to need to be rethought. About Speaker James Rosewell founded 51Degrees in 2011. Now deployed on over 1,500,000 web sites it is embedded into SItecore V9 and above. With 25 years experience operating between business and technology James' can talk your language. He's spent time founding start-ups, and commenced his career working for global blue chips including Vodafone, Lloyds and Barclays
 

DNN Connect 2019 Recap + DNN Docs Working Session

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DNN Connect 2019 Recap + DNN Docs Working Session Join us this month for a recap of the amazing European DNN conference, DNN Connect 2019. You will not want to miss hearing about all the great things that came out of this conference! Also, we'll be having a live hands-on working session for making updates to the DNN Docs (https://dnndocs.com). If you are interested in helping make DNN documentation better, this session is for you, and you don't need to be a GitHub wiz!
 
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