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DNN is a secure website platform, but no CMS stays secure without regular updates. A cautionary tale and what you can do to protect your website from being hacked.

In January 2020, Engage acquired SMB Creative Group, a digital marketing firm that helps small to mid-market organizations grow through online initiatives, website development, and support services. Fast-forward just shy of one year, and a new division has evolved from the marriage of the two skill sets: Engage Digital Services.

Associations everywhere have suddenly found themselves struggling to pivot their plans for their in-person, live events into digital experiences on platforms like Zoom.

Engage AMS continues to improve with releases 7.13, 7.14, and 7.1. The system can now check for duplicate memberships, auto-approve applications, support one person holding multiple membership types, and allow for company-based memberships instead of only individual memberships.

YAY! You just got a new member! Hopefully, she’ll acclimate and find her place and stay with you forever.

Engage Software’s Jason Stone recaps the association trends and technology discussed at AMS Fest - Fall 2018, Washington D.C.

"I Don’t Know What an AMS is and at this Point, I’m too Afraid to Ask." Association TRENDS fields the question: "What is an AMS?"

Amanda Kaiser provides 5 tips when researching your next association management software.

Engage Software’s Jason Stone shares tips on how associations can improve online member engagement.

Engage Software’s Jason Stone recaps the association trends and technology discussed at AMS Fest- Summer 2018.

Engage is excited to announce our recent inclusion in Clutch.co’s research as a top website designer and developer in St. Louis. Clutch.co is a Washington DC-based ratings and reviews site that shows distinguished companies in different fields. For each firm on the site, there is an intensive research process, which examines over a dozen unique factors. Chief among these factors are Clutch’s conversations with clients. In interview-style phone calls, clients delve into the services offered, results of the engagement, and the project management of the firm.

Like a new car, a website starts to decay and lose value the day it launches. While it is a best practice strategy to have a maintenance plan in place for keeping it up to date, most companies do not have the time or resources, causing them to wait until their site is not meeting their needs before revisiting its design and functionality. So, how do you know when it’s time to update your website?

Lynn Campbell and I have just returned from our Engage AMS product launch at ASAE Tech. This is my second year attending the conference, and I must say I liked it better this time around. I attend the conference to meet with prospects and fellow vendors alike, but I found the thought leadership in presentations to be equally valuable (when I could sneak away from our booth to attend them).

DNN Software's security team has discovered a vulnerability in a set of 3rd party components that are used in DNN. This post includes information for sites on DNN Platform (open source) and DNN Evoq (Content Basic, Content and Engage) v 7.1.2 and higher.

Inspired by an AMSfest Chicago 2017 Block & Tackle session on 3rd party integrations, here are 5 things associations (and businesses, too) should keep in mind for a successful 3rd party integrations to your core software.

Planning web development that's to occur in the 4th quarter can be a tricky proposition. It pays to be informed on the potential hurdles you could face with your web development firm.

In a recent DNN Community Blog post entitled, "DNN 9 and the Future of the DNN Platform," DNN VP Technology & Community Relations, Joe Brinkman, shared that DNN 9 is en route and due for delivery by the end of 2016. True to his word, DNN 9 is here.

Ideal for anyone who manages, directs or collaborates on an association website, our Association Best Practice Webinar Series will provide expert advice for engaging members, delivering positive user experiences and much more.

Engage's latest trip to Washington D.C. was a well worthwhile as client after client racked up Protech Fusion Wow! Awards.

Jason Stone shares his thoughts on DNNcon 2016 as well as his presentation on using Google Analytics to help get the most out of your web redesign project.

Whether you’re looking for a complete website overhaul, a migration to a new content management system, or just revamping your design, your budget can be just as important to you as the final product. And, when dollars are the top priority, you’ll undoubtedly want your web development firm to provide you with an accurate estimate up front. Unfortunately, sometimes that’s just not feasible.

While many inherent challenges come with developing and designing a website, some surface time and time again -- for associations in particular. Here are the 5 most common challenges in a website project and a look at how to overcome them.

A review of the latest report from BuiltWith®, the popular website profiler, reveals that the greatest migration of CMSs to the DNN platform is from Joomla to DNN, which may explain why you are reading this blog post. The answer to the question "How do I migrate from Joomla DNN" -- as is the case with most good questions -- is "It depends."

In an albeit quiet, but official announcement Microsoft has shared that "SharePoint Online Public Website" is no longer available. New customers who subscribe to Office 365 won't have access to it. Old customers have less than 2 years to migrate to another platform.

Website’s improved accessibility, streamlined content management, and integration with association management software is helping the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) better serve members

In the perfect pairing of two worlds we do business in - franchising and associations - we had the pleasure of attending the International Franchise Association’s #IFA2015 Convention, and it was a great conference!

Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) to enhance user experience, drive site traffic and increase visitor engagement with DNN’s Evoq™ Engage Social Online Community Solution.

DNN's Evoq 8 is now out and it will change the way you see the platform.

Finding odd domains traffic in your Google Analytics or getting unusual, no time on site, one-page, high bounce traffic? That's likely bot traffic. Here's a simple tip from Google on how to hide that annoying data.

Though your website may look great and house infinite amounts of information about your association, are you really maximizing its potential? Here are some best practices that today's most forward-thinking associations and nonprofits are employing to improve their websites and offer the best-possible member experience.

DNN 7.5, Evoq 8.0, Evoq Social 3.0 are coming in early 2015. Time to feel the "energization!"

Protech Fusion is a chance to meet several happy Engage association clients face-to-face and all at once. I love that.

DNN CMS inherently offers a great base for optimizing your site for search engines once you have an understanding of where the priorities of SEO lie.

We understand not everyone could make the trip to West Palm Beach, but for those of you who couldn't make it, we wish you could have -- organizers and sponsors of the event pulled out all the stops. 

Introducing Evoq Social from DNN. Your time is valuable, so why read about the power of Evoq Social when you can watch? Here's a quick (2:45) video from DNN Software that hits the highlights of why you should take a closer look at DNN's Evoq Social.

When we talk about DNN's core strengths, we frequently point to its extensibility, flexibility, and scalabity. Now that DNN has introduced an Azure-hosted solution in Evoq in the Cloud we can add redundancy and reliability to our list of reasons to love the platform.

Today DotNetNuke has undergone a dramatic and long-awaited brand relaunch. DotNetNuke is now a thing of the past, enter DNN Platform, Evoq Content and Evoq Social. DNN Corporation Co-Founder and CTO, Shaun Walker, shares his insights.

How do you migrate a large, static HTML site to DotNetNuke? NACADA asked Engage that very question and we were happy to oblige them with an answer.

The folks at DNN Social competitor NewsGator have released the results of a survey of 200 of their existing clients at Fortune 1000 companies. The results, while biased, are intriguing.

Brian Dukes and I have returned, fully recovered from the clanging of cowbells, shouts of "yee-haw!" and shots of moonshine from yet another successful Day of DNN, Charlotte's Southern Fried DNN weekend.

CHADD approached Engage with a simple question about our DNN training programs and wound up with a long-term development partner. We have worked closely with CHADD to relaunch an aging website that had become too cumbersome and dated for its members to use effectively. If the increase in traffic is any indication, the new site is a hit. Congratulations CHADD!

Partners and past attendees to DotNetNuke Worlds were sent a note recently announcing the next DNN World has been slightly postponed. We've been assured this is good news, and that the 2014 event "will be nothing short of stellar and worth waiting for." In the interim, Engage is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the upcoming Southern Fried DNN event in Charlotte, NC, April 12-13, 2013.  

Companies pay substantial license fees to use Enterprise 2.0 software, building their own communities on platforms like Jive, Yammer, Telligent and Mango Apps, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that DotNetNuke, the leading ASP.NET CMS has made a foray into social business software -- a $1 billion arena.

There is an urban legend about a Harvard (or sometimes Yale) study that showed 3% of grads outperformed the remaining 97% combined by simply writing down their goals. The study is a myth, but even if the value only lies in the simple exercise of thinking about what you want from the year ahead, that's enough for us. Here's some of what we're looking to get out of 2013.

It’s official. The new Little Caesars web and mobile site is now live at www.littlecaesars.com.

This year’s winner of the CMS Critic People’s Choice Award for Best CMS for Small to Midsize Business is... DotNetNuke!

VisitYellowstoneCountry.com was suffering under the weight of an older design, broken data feeds, and technological limitations that were preventing the site from living up to user expectations. Engage created an entirely new site, and brought home some bling from DNN World as a result.

Engage is a top-tier technology firm. Though we're among the very best DotNetNuke developers in the world, our passion doesn't end at coding. We love being partners to our clients. We love to think alongside them about getting the best results from their projects. We love calling on our past experiences as marketers, business owners and ad agency creatives. And sometimes for all our efforts and all our energy we get emails like this one... 

In case you missed it all, Engage launched our iheartdnn campaign for the DNN World 2012 Conference. iheartdnn captures the Engage brand beautifully. We’re all about DNN. DotNetNuke is the only CMS Engage works with. If you're looking for an enterprise-level, DNN-centric development team, we're the guys. Simple as that.

By sheer coincidence Google released "hot off the press" results from a new research study yesterday, the same day we announced our successful launch of True Value's mobile project. The study covered what users really want from mobile sites and concluded today's users want and demand mobile-friendly sites. Engage is happy to oblige.

True Value Company, one of the world's largest retailer-owned hardware cooperatives, has built an agile business platform for its network of thousands of individual stores using DotNetNuke® as a foundation. Leveraging DotNetNuke and an easy-to-use site management front-end built by Engage Software, each local store owner can instantly provision and update a customized website tailored to meet the needs of that store, while taking advantage of national marketing efforts and content. More than 3,000 individual store websites are now running on a single instance of DotNetNuke, making the job of coordinating branding, product information, seasonal content and marketing promotions simple and effective for True Value's central marketing team.

Move over Zuckerberg, every DotNetNuke client now has the power to take their site social.

A productive trip to DNN World in Orlando left us ready for a big 2012...