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Dawn Foster

Welcome to the Jivespace Developer Community!

Posted by Dawn Foster on Jul 18, 2007 2:22:00 PM

Welcome to the Jivespace Developer Community: the place for developers to learn about and collaborate on Jive products!

 

Here you will find documentation, developer kits, plugins, and much more. I encourage you to ask questions, discuss ways to approach development, best practices, tips / tricks and more with your fellow developers. We are also looking for feedback on ways to make the community even better! Feel free to post suggestions and ideas in the Jivespace Lounge discussion.

 

I'll also be hanging out in the community (that's just what we community managers do), so let me know if you run into any issues.

Tags: community, jivespace


Jul 19, 2007 12:51 PM John Troyer John Troyer

Thanks for launching this! Our main problem right now is that we're in crunch mode and don't have have time to watch the videos.

 

Looks good so far, and I always advocate eating your own dogfood -- I know Jive uses its Clearspace internally, but adding external users is always an adventure.
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Jul 19, 2007 1:10 PM Dawn Foster Dawn Foster

Eating our own dogfood is always an enlightening process. 

 

By the way, start with the bag day video.  It's less than 2.5 minutes long, and it's hilarious.  You get to see co-founder Bill Lynch at his best

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Jul 20, 2007 3:00 AM Magpie Magpie

Great to see that you have exposed Clearspace to widen the community. Given the domain of use, it is really the only credible course.

 

We'll try to be gentle, but it should certainly accelerate not only features but more importantly best practices in setting up and operating a community of practice.
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Jul 20, 2007 3:03 AM Magpie Magpie

It is interesting that you have added header naviations to this Clearspace community. Can you explain the rationale?
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Jul 20, 2007 8:32 AM Dawn Foster Dawn Foster

The header navigation was added to make it easy for people to find some of the key features of the developer community (documentation, plugins, video, etc.)  It also provides consistent navigation with other portions of the developer website at dev.jivesoftware.com

 

We've noticed that many companies make this same customization adding a navigation bar to maintain consistency with the rest of their website (you will also notice that we made similar changes to the footer for the same reasons.) It is fairly easy to add a navigation bar to the template.ftl file for companies who want to make this customization.
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Jul 20, 2007 8:47 AM Magpie Magpie

I agree this type of customization is useful to integrate into an existing website and/or style. You will always need specific customizations for this.

 

I'm really driving at the 'need' for supplementary navigation. This is not wrong in itself, websites have multiple ways to find and highlight content.

 

There has been a number of threads on the subject of introduction pages/content for spaces and the home page. Various custom workarounds have been suggested. However, I think this all points to a generic need to provide an admin application configurable capability to set-up a community portal that has these types of features.
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