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Next Meeting: December 19 6:30 PM - (Eastern)

The SoFri Year End Party is coming up soon! Make sure you join us for all the fun / info on December 19 at 6:30 PM!

Come Play DNN Jeopardy!

We cap the year with our holiday party to celebrate the DNN Community, friends and fun! We'll have the SoFri community members testing their knowledge of DNN in this favorite fun gameshow.

Are you attending? Let us know at the Southern Fried MeetUp Page!

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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!
 

April 23 SoFri: Helpful DNN Tools & Utilities

The SouthernFried DNN User Group! This meeting's topic, a shared collection of Tools and Utilities for DNN shared by the SoFri DNN Community members!
 

Dec 2022 SoFri: Gameshow Night - DNN Pyramid

SoFried's DNN-themed gameshow enthusiast Ryan Moore challenges you to join us and play DNN Pyramid the game where two teams will compete in lightning word match rounds. These game meetings are always fun. Come party with us and test your DNN knowledge!
 

Dec 2021 SoFri: Southern Fried DNN Holiday Party - DNN Jeopardy

Come and join SoFri and celebrate the holiday season DNN style! Feel free to dress for the occasion (or not - it's a judgment-free zone)! In this Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting, they are celebrating the holiday season and discussing various DNN activities and achievements. They also mention the upcoming DNN Summit 2022, which will be a hybrid conference with both in-person and online sessions. Additionally, there are updates about new releases and templates for DNN development.
 

CloudFlare + DNN + SoFried

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At this month's Southern Fried DNN meeting, Ryan Moore and David Weinstein lead a discussion about the uses of CloudFlare for DNN sites. Ryan introduces CloudFlare concepts and a look at CloudFlare SSL pros/cons and setup steps, individual CloudFlare settings, and the Cloudflare rules which benefit DNN sites. David discusses using CloudFlare for disaster recovery and migration scenarios.
 

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.
 

November SoFried Meeting - Module Dev Best Practices, Managed.com Control Suite, Mandeeps.com Live Exchange & Live Forums

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IN this meeting we discussed and reviwed Module Dev Practices with Will Morgenweck, the Managed.com Control Suite demoed by Ryan Moore, and got a preview of Mandeeps new modules Live Exchange and Live Forums. It was another great meeting. Thanks to the team at Managed.com for sponsoring this month's meeting!
 

SoFried September Meeting - URL Redirects + What's Next with nvQuickSite + DNN Corp Webinar Post-Game

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URL Redirects We all have the need for URL redirections whether we recognize it or not. Perhaps we need shorter, more easily memorable, URL’s or maybe we’ve gone through a site migration and need to implement redirects to maintain existing SEO results. Regardless of the scenario, we all leverage the ability to redirect URLs. In this session Ryan Moore of Moore Creative Company will lead a discussion around URL redirects and DNN. He will discuss and review DNN modules and tools used to handle redirects in different ways along with discussing real world scenarios they’ve encountered in the past. If you’ve ever wondered about what’s possible with URL redirection in DNN then this is the meeting to attend. What’s Next With nvQuickSite? Have you ever had to install DNN? Did you do it with nvQuickSite? If you didn’t then you may have taken longer than needed. nvQuickSite is a great tool for installing DNN created by our very own David Poindexter of nvisionative. The DNN Community loves nvQuickSite and uses it all the time to help make installing DNN more efficient. In this brief session David is going to lead the discussion and give us a preview of what’s just around the corner for nvQuickSite. We are excited to hear and see what’s on the roadmap for nvQuickSite.
 

SoFri June Meeting - DNN Security With Ash Prasad & Ryan Moore

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In this meeting we focused on security and DNN. With the recent attacks on DNN sites, security is definitely a current topic. During the meeting Ash Prasad of DNNCorp and Ryan Moore of Moore Creative Company discussed the recent attacks, the new Security Analyzer Tool, and security horror stories from the real world...
 
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