Our site runs DotNetNuke (DNN) and I am wondering whether there are any platforms that would carry out automation of social media postings from blog posts? I know there are the likes of Zapier, but I am uncertain as to whether these actually support DNN.
Ideally, I would like to have it so that as soon as a blog goes live on our site, we can have it automatically posted on our various social media channels & automated throughout the day.
We, of course, use Hootsuite, but it would be excellent if there was a method that plugged in with this somehow.
I've used the Ventrian News Articles Module with the web service dlvr.it. This allows you to automatically post to social media from pulling an RSS feed. Really you could use any module that will generate rss but this was just always my preference, especially since you can create custom fields and template the rss feed using tokens.
Most blogging platforms come with built-in support for RSS. You can configure Hootsuite to read your blog's RSS feed and then automatically share to social. Check out the Hootsuite documentation for more info: https://help.hootsuite.com/hc/en-us/articles/204585700-Add-pause-or-delete-an-RSS-feed
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Currently we are using DNN to implement and manage our company websites. Therefore we own several websites and one 'head'-website. Each of the sites contains its own DNN installation. For creating news we are using the 2sxc module.
Now we have the following tasks: If a user creates new news in one of the websites, we want to export them automatically to
another installation of DNN (to the 'head'-website)
another system (self developed application)
So is there any opportunity, e.g. an API or another module to realize that?
Thank you very much for your answer in advance!
I would consider doing this another way.
Create a new installation or site in which you create and store all news items. Add an RSS feed or a webapi to this site, and create methods such that other sites can grab news items from this site.
Modify your other sites to use the webapi (or RSS feed) from the news source for their displays. This should be quite easy for the sites that use 2sxc. You'll just need to change the data source to get data from the webapi or RSS feed.
This will eliminate issues of duplicating data, etc.
If you want to reduce development, you could get a copy of DNN Sharp's API Endpoint module(https://www.dnnsharp.com/dnn/modules/custom-dnn-api-endpoint). They have pretty good documentation, and YouTube videos to walk you through the creating of endpoints.
2sxc has everything you need :)
Your best bet is probably the REST API to access the items (see https://docs.2sxc.org/how-to/webapi/webapis.html and https://2sxc.org/en/learn/rest-for-javascript). Just activate some permissions and you can get them from anywhere. Here's a basic recipe to configure the permissions: https://azing.org/2sxc/r/k0YbVYXO
You can also create queries (like to only give the the last 5) and set permissions on that, using https://azing.org/2sxc/r/BE0HbDwA.
This blog post may also help you: https://2sxc.org/en/blog/post/releasing-2sxc-8-10-public-rest-api-visual-query-and-webapi-shuffle-datasource
Let me start with a bit of background: I'm helping a non-profit organization that would like to have a browser-based application that is backed by Salesforce, but has very specific requirements.
I see Salesforce has a REST API that we can call, so we can develop a standalone application to serve the web pages they want and use the REST API to call Salesforce when needed.
I'm wondering if there is a way to host a web application directly on Salesforce; this way we don't have to have a separate application server. Any recommendations or pointers to documentation/open source products is greatly appreciated.
Yes, you can create services that will allow your app to hit Salesforce
Depending on the type of application, yes you can host it on salesforce using the Salesforce Sites feature, also you can develop and host your app on Heroku which is owned by salesforce and can sync data to and from salesforce using Heroku Connect, or you can build and host it on another service like AWS and connect via the REST API. You just need to investigate and choose the option that best fits your use-case. One thing to be aware of is that there are API limits (the number of calls you can make to salesforce in a rolling 24hr period). Depending the the needs of the app be sure to see if those limits will be an issue. Because if the app makes constant calls to salesforce that could be an issue. But there are things you can do to get around that, like caching.
Yes, both Force.com Sites and Site.com features allow you to host webpages on the Force.com Platform. The markup is stored in Visualforce Pages and can use Apex to access records in the Database. I have migrated multiple websites (including our company's www.mkpartners.com) to Force.com using Force.com Sites.
One thing to keep in mind is that you are limited to 500,000 views per month and the rendering of a page with images that are also stored on the platform will incur a single view for the page and a single view for each image. If you already have a very popular website, I wouldn't migrate. If you're a small business or nonprofit, then it should be fine.
Another thing to keep in mind is that dynamic functionality based on records in the database will not work during maintenance windows. There is the ability to upload a static version of your website to be rendered during these windows though.
I'm conducting a vendor analysis for an enterprise level organization. I'm looking for a SDK I can integrate with an iOS/Android application that does the following well:
Location Analytics
Geo-fencing around locations specified by the organization
Push Notifications (specific to geo-fences, time zones, and customer segmentation)
Easy to use console
Doesn't noticeably drain the battery
They also need to be advanced in their field--ideally they'd have some sort of beaconing
capability in their product or planned down the line to support indoor location awareness
Some examples I'm looking at are Geoloqi, Xtify and Urban Airship. Do you have any experiences with those or similar vendors?
It sounds like the proxim.io API is exactly what you are looking for. Here is a quote from the API documentation page:
Proxim.io is a platform for delivering relevant messages to your
application users. Messages that are delivered based on real-time
location, topics of interest, and geo-triggers. Messages can be
delivered to a device via Push, or can be routed to a software system
through an API (Web Events).
I have seen Xtify do most of these. With Push Notification it has support for tags which can help in sending message to subset of users. It has a location API. The console can use used to upload basic credentials, test sending messages and some basic analytic view.
Looks like Leantegra has all you need: there is back end solution; appropriate hardware and mobile SDKs for Android and iOS.
I am planning on making a WAP page to provide a software.
Now i need to find out what mobile phone model the client who logs into my webpage is using so that i can redirect him/her to the appropriate download link.
This is similar to what opera does on their opera mini site. When you log in it finds out your model and sends you to the link
How can i add this to my site.
There are a number of solutions for determining mobile device, based on the UserAgent making the request. (Some solutions use other factors as well.)
Try looking at:
WURFL
MDBF
DeviceAtlas
DetectRight
Volantis
MobileAware
Movila
UAProf
The technology you are using to create your pages will also affect which of the above is the best solution for you.
A great website with some tutorials is mobiforge.com (the people behind device atlas), also plenty of true open source software at wurfl
I'm trying to get some stats on how many of the visitors to our website have Silverlight enabled browsers.
We currently use Google Analytics for the rest of our stats so ideally we'd like to just add 'Silverlight enabled' tracking in with the rest of our Google Analytics stats. But if it has to get written out to a DB etc then so be it.
Nikhil has some javascript to Silverlight tracking to Google Analytics. I have tried this code but Google Analytics doesn't pick it up.
Does anyone have any other ideas/techniques?
In case you missed it, there's a link to a more detailed article as well in the comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffwilcox/archive/2007/10/01/using-google-analytics-with-rich-managed-web-applications-in-silverlight.aspx
Edit: As David pointed out, this article covers the reverse scenario more (how to write your silverlight app so that it plays well with Analytics).
I think you answered it yourself. The page you are linking to does just that: detect which version of Silverlight the user has (not if s/he installs it). From the page:
After a little poking around, I found that Google Analytics has support for reporting a user-defined field.
...
Basically this detects the presence of Silverlight, and if its available, it records the version as the value of the user-defined field. Now your analytics reports will have one of three values: "(not set)", "Silverlight/1.0" or "Silverlight/2.0".
#Vaibhav
The Using Google Analytics with rich (managed) web applications in Silverlight article is very interesing but is more focused on how to get your Silverlight app to send messages to Google Analytics.
#Cd-MaN
Yeah, I thought that too but I have tried running my page with Nikhil's javascript and Google Analytics didn't pick it up. But I could have screwed something up somewhere.
I'm just interested to know if anyone else has managed to do this (track Silverlight-ness) successfully.
I've written a lightweight Silverlight library that helps make it easy to integrate Google Analytics in your silverlight app. You can grab download the code or binaries here.
I think the code posted on Nikhil's blog is out of date if you are using ga.js and not urchin.js.
The use of the global function __utmSetVar() is replaced by the tracker method _setCustomVar()
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApiBasicConfiguration.html#_gat.GA_Tracker_._setCustomVar