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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!
 

November 2024 SoFri: Panel Discussion - Utilizing DNN CMS in 2024

DNN is a robust feature-rich CMS in the .NET ecosystem. In this Southern Fried DNN meetup, we will have a panel of DNN community leaders, developers and guests discuss the state of working within, maintaining, and selecting DNN as an application development platform for their projects in 2024.
 

Oct 2024 SoFri: Ryan Moore - DNN Migration Investigation

In this So Fri Meeting, Ryan Moore with Moore Creative walks through the steps taken to help a colleague troubleshoot a new server move with the issues that they encountered. We review many steps that can be taken to help assess the state of the server environment setup and the next steps necessary to get the migrated DNN instance running!
 

Don’t Throw Away What Isn’t Broken! Real Values of Staying with DNN for Your Website CMS

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When it comes to maintaining and improving your DNN website, there's a lot to consider. You may feel pressure to migrate to a new platform simply because it’s been a few years since your last major update. However, there's immense value in staying with DNN and refreshing your existing site. Instead of starting from scratch, updating your DNN site can provide security updates, performance improvements, and modern design features you need, all while preserving the investments you've already made.
 

Sept 2024 SoFri: David Poindexter - Building a Custom DNN Theme Object

In this meetup, David Poindexter demonstrates development for a custom DNN theme object from scratch. He uses one of the barebones DNN Community starter projects to kickstart development and to keep things simple. You'll see how to turn simple requirements into a feature. The techniques learned here will serve as a foundation for development of other types of DNN extensions.
 

July 2024 SoFri: Marco Alvarado - Keyword Generation Using AI (ChatGPT)

Keyword Generation Using AI (ChatGPT) - Starting new projects with a little AI assistance! In this session, Marco Alvarado uses Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT) to generate a starting and reference point for keyword generation that will certainly help us get our hands faster into new projects.
 

June 2024 SoFri: Marco Alvarado - DNN & SEO in 2024

DNN & SEO in 2024 (from a "Pura Vida" perspective) - Join Marco Alvarado in this session as we explore and dive into today's top SEO topics while sharing his experience using DNN and helping their clients show up at SERP. BTW: "Pura Vida" is a popular Costa Rican term used for almost everything!
 

Jan 2024 SoFri: DNN 10 Preview

DNN 10 Preview - In this Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting, we'll take a sneak peek at DNN 10! In the meetup you'll hear from DNN contributors and strategy leaders Mitchel Sellers, Brian Dukes, David Poindexter, Daniel Valadas, and Peter Donker.
 
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