Telligent Community

Telligent Community

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File:TelligentCommunityBusinessGroup.png A group on Telligent Community web site
Developer(s)	Telligent Systems
Stable release	Telligent Community 5.0 SP1 / September 4, 2009
Platform	ASP.NET / Microsoft SQL Server
Type	Collaborative software, Blog publishing system, Forum Software, Wiki, Social Networking
Website	http://telligent.com

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 SP1 which was released on September 4, 2009. The product used to be named Community Server before being rebranded as part of the 5.0 release.

Features

• Forums system which can integrate with email discussion lists and news servers
• Publishing system that manages single and multi-user blogs
• Wikis 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. 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 Enterprise Reporting or Harvest was renamed Telligent Analytics.

Releases

• Community Server 1.0 - February 20, 2005
• Community Server 1.1 - June 16, 2005
• Community Server 2.0 - February 20, 2006
• Community Server 2.0 SP1 - May 26, 2006
• Community Server 2.1 - August 9, 2006
• Community Server 2.1 SP1 - October 30, 2006
• Community Server 2.1 SP2 - December 5, 2006
• Community Server 2007 - April 16, 2007
• Community Server 2007 SP1 - May 11, 2007
• Community Server 2007 SP2 - June 12, 2007
• Community Server 2007.1 - September 18, 2007
• Community Server 2007.1 SP1 - April 16, 2008
• Community Server 2008 - April 15, 2008
• Community Server 2008.5
• Community Server 2008.5 SP1
• Community Server 2008.5 SP2
• Telligent Community 5.0 - June 23, 2009
• Telligent Community 5.0 SP1 - September 4, 2009

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; Keyvan Nayyeri, José Lema, and Jim Martin (2007). Professional Community Server. Wrox Press. ISBN 0-47010-828-2. http://www.professionalcommunityserver.com. 

• Preul, Wyatt L; Benjamin Tiedt (2007). Professional Community Server Themes. Wrox Press. ISBN 0-47018-208-3. 

• Narayanaswamy, Anand (2006). Community Server Quickly: A Concise and Practical Guide to Installation, Administration, and Customization. Packt. ISBN 1-84719-087-1. 
• Press Release for Community Server Hosted Edition Beta

See also

• Telligent Systems
• Weblog software
• Comparison of Internet forum software
• Collaborative software

External links

• Official Telligent Community product site
• Telligent Community Group
• Telligent Evolution Platform Developer Community
• 2008 in.Telligent Conference, Oct.20-22, Dallas