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DNN 5.4.2 supports VS2010 and VS2008

Thu, 20 May 2010 17:57:00 GMT

In the latest release of DNN 5.4.2 you will find there is now a VS2010 solution and a VS2008 solution file. The VS2010 one is the primary solution that we use internally to build DNN. If you look in the module projects folders you will see there are two proj files for each project now. The one with .VS2008 in the file name gets opened when you use the VS2008 solution.

Golamac, Inc to present at 2010 AFP Conference in St. Louis

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:57:00 GMT

Golamac, Inc is partnering with O'Donnell Communications to present at the AFP St. Louis 2010 Biennial Conference:

When:
AFP St. Louis Biennial Conference
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Sheraton Clayton Plaza Hotel
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m

About AFP:
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents nearly 30,000 members in more than 205 chapters throughout the world, working to advance philanthropy through education, training, mentoring, research, credentialing, and advocacy. The association fosters the development and growth of fundraising professionals and promotes high ethical standards in the fundraising profession. For more information or to join the world's largest association of fundraising professionals, visit www.afpnet.org.

About O'Donnell Communications:
Founded in 1992, O’Donnell Communications is a full-service communications consulting firm, dedicated to the success of each of its clients. Its goal is to bring its clients corporate quality and expertise at freelance rates.

The Presentation:
E-Marketing 101: Basics and Beyond
Simple and easy tips and techniques you can use in your e-marketing campaigns to translate into donations for your nonprofit. >> Click to download presentation materials

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Golamac, Inc becomes accredited with the BBB

Thu, 20 May 2010 16:52:00 GMT

Golamac, Inc recently became an accredited business with the Better Business Bureau, St. Louis Region.

May is Water Safety Month

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:58:00 GMT

By: Jill Myers

Even though the Red Cross Aquatics team is busy throughout the year, it’s true that there is an increased sense of awareness from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That’s when most public pools open their gates, and kids around St. Louis flock to the water slides, diving boards and deep ends. And since May is Water Safety Month, we thought it might be a good time to blog about the importance of water safety and our annual Lifeguard Event, presented by Ekon Benefits.

Jakob Nielsen’s Findings on iPad Application Usability

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:04:00 GMT

Cross posted from DotNetNuke blog - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/825/default.aspx

By: Jenni Merrifield

Jacob Nielsen, one of the foremost practitioners of Usability Testing and author of several excellent texts on the subject, has taken a first stab at studying the usability of iPad applications and posted his results as the April 26, 2010 article of Alertbox, his online column about usability. His conclusions, unfortunately, suggest that despite the hype the user experience on the iPad is far from ideal:

Summary: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.

I’m not terribly surprised by these results – as he says at the top of his article, an iPad user interface shouldn’t be a scaled-up iPhone UI, and yet, probably because it’s the easiest approach to take for application developers who wanted to convert iPhone apps over, it is what the majority of iPad apps exhibit. Hopefully, as time goes on, both Apple and the i* application development community will take note of the differences between the two form factors and the iPad OS and the applications on it will move towards an interface that is more usable at the larger iPad scale.

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