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Telligent Community is a community and
collaboration software product developed by Telligent
Systems. It consists of the Telligent Evolution platform, with
a variety of core applications running on top of it such as blogs, forums, media galleries,
and wikis. Additional applications
from third parties using the API's and REST stack can be installed or integrated
with the platform. Telligent Community is built with ASP.NET, C#, and Microsoft
SQL Server. It is available as downloadable software that can
be installed on a web server or via hosting providers. The current
version is Telligent Community 5.0 which was released on June 23,
2009. The product used to be named Community Server before being
rebranded as part of the 5.0 release.[1]
Features
- Forums
system which can integrate with email discussion lists and news
servers
- Publishing system that manages single and multi-user blogs
- Wiki's with the ability to
link a forum thread and a wiki page
- Media Galleries for publishing photos, videos, and other
files
- Content mirroring (feed resyndication) to enable content
syndication and republishing
- Integrated search across all applications
- Activity streams with user and group status messages and
replies
- Widgets that can customized and dragged to different locations
on the page
- Integrated tagging support throughout all
applications
- User profiles with support for adding favorites, personal
feeds, and conversations and comments
- Search engine-friendly permalink structure
- Extensible with a REST web service stack, public APIs, support
for plug-in modules, widgets, scheduled jobs, and spam rules
- Automatic TrackBacks and Pingbacks
- WYSIWYG HTML
editing
- Control panel with consistent tools for community
management
- Single sign-on authentication modules available for forms
authentication, cookies, Active Directory, LDAP, and Windows Live
ID
History
The software was originally named Community Server and was
created in 2004 from the merger of three widely-used open source
ASP.NET projects: the .Text blog engine, the nGallery photo
gallery, and the ASP.NET Forums.[2] The
people behind those projects (Scott Watermasysk, Jason Alexander,
and Rob Howard) joined together as Telligent Systems and along with
several other developers created Community Server 1.0. Between 2004
and 2009 Community Server steadily grew in scope, features, and
capabilities. In 2008 a second version of Community Server called
Community Server Evolution was created for intranets. On June 23,
2009, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference Telligent rebranded all of
its products. Community Server became Telligent Community, and the
former Community Server Evolution became Telligent Enterprise. The
platform that both run on is now known as Telligent Evolution.
Further, the Community Server reporting and analytics platform
formerly called Enteprise Reporting or Harvest was renamed
Telligent Analytics.[3]
Releases
- Community Server 1.0 - February 20, 2005[4]
- Community Server 1.1 - June 16, 2005[5]
- Community Server 2.0 - February 20, 2006[6]
- Community Server 2.0 SP1 - May 26, 2006[7]
- Community Server 2.1 - August 9, 2006[8]
- Community Server 2.1 SP1 - October 30, 2006[9]
- Community Server 2.1 SP2 - December 5, 2006[10]
- Community Server 2007 - April 16, 2007[11]
- Community Server 2007 SP1 - May 11, 2007[12]
- Community Server 2007 SP2 - June 12, 2007[13]
- Community Server 2007.1 - September 18, 2007[14]
- Community Server 2007.1 SP1 - April 16, 2008[15]
- Community Server 2008 - April 15, 2008[16]
- Community Server 2008.5
- Community Server 2008.5 SP1
- Community Server 2008.5 SP2
- Telligent Community 5.0 - June 23, 2009[17]
Criticism
- The licensing terms for Telligent Community (formerly Community
Server) have changed over the years, becoming more restrictive as
the product evolved towards the enterprise market. The old
Community Server personal, business, and professional licenses are
no longer available in Telligent Community 5.0. The free express
edition may not be used for commercial use and has limits of 15
Blogs, 15 Forums, 10 Photo Galleries, and 250 Shared Files. The
pricing has increased as well, continuing concerns among some
users, mostly small businesses, that the software is becoming less
affordable.
Further
reading
- Preul, Wyatt L; Benjamin Tiedt
(2007). Professional Community Server Themes. Wrox Press. ISBN
0-47018-208-3.
See also
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