This is our monthly DNN Awareness meeting where we converse about our goals over the past month and set expectations for the next month to help raise awareness of DNN across all ecosystems. Want to join us and help? https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community/participate/advisory-groups/awareness-advisory-group

1. DNN EAG - AWARENESS
A DNN Ecosystem Advisory Group

2. ATTENDEES
• Will S.
• David P.
• Don G.
• Ernie L.
• Francisco P.
• Jay M.
• John S.
• Clint P.
• Scott K.
• Thompson K.
• Waldo M.
• Jeremy F.
• Mark B.

3. AGENDA
• Review Primary Goals
• Progress Since Previous Meeting
• Set Goals for Next Month
• Review Long Term Goals
• Open Forum

4. PRIMARY INDIVIDUAL GOALS
• (Co-)Champion something
• Do at least 2 things a month
• Generate a snowball effect
• Keep in constant contact

5. CHAMPIONS: UPDATES
• Community Dashboard
• Speaker Program
• User Group Program
• Increase Social Activity
• Blogs
• YouTube Videos/Tutorials
• Training Course
• Curriculum
• New/Updated Extensions
• .Com & .Org Website
• Theme Creation

6. COMMUNITY DASHBOARD
• Mission: Create a dashboard that measures & shows the community
activity, trends, and health from across mediums
• Champions: Jay M., Jeremy F., Will S., Francisco A.
• Jay
• Same update as last month
• We still need to make the output available for review (on .org?)
• It’s in the (new) Trello board as a task
• https://trello.com/c/Qfc3MB89/24-51-community-dashboard
• Trello: https://trello.com/b/n5ZgQFSn/dnnsoftwareorg

7. DNN .COM & .ORG WEBSITE
• Mission: Update DNNSoftware.com to highlight community and
apply consistent DNN messaging across the website
• Champions: Jay M., Don G., Jeremy F., Thompson K.
• Jay
• Discussed at DNN Summit & round table
• Trying to still get more people to pitch in with time on tasks
• Trello board exists with tasks:
• https://trello.com/b/n5ZgQFSn/dnnsoftwareorg
• Will begin meeting 2x per month
• David
• Are we planning on meeting to discuss strategy

8. DNN .COM & .ORG WEBSITE (CONT’D)
• Thompson
• At DNN Summit he heard about the DNN community .org domain
• Found searches for specific domains that aren’t DNNSoftware.org may have
higher value for getting visitors through organic search
• Marketing and actual domains don’t have to be the same
• Community domains should be owned by DNN Association or DNN-Connect
• Discussing this in the #goals-dnn-websites Slack channel (JOIN US!) 
• Clint
• Plugging this effort in DNN community newsletter this week

9. INCREASING SOCIAL ACTIVITY
• Mission: Increase the number and quality of social channel
interactions related to DNN
• Champions: David P., Clint P., Will S., Francisco A., Kelli K.
• Still needs a champion?
• {Crickets…}

10. BLOGS
• Mission: Increase the number of DNN blog articles everywhere
• Champions: Clint P., Will S., Don G., Francisco A.
• Still need a champion?
• Will
• upendodnn generator
• https://upendoventures.com/Blog/save-hundreds-of-hours-building-dnn-modules-
and-other-types-of-extensions2
• DNN Summit summary blog (later today)
• Don
• DNN Summit summary

11. VIDEOS/TUTORIALS
• Mission: Increase the number of videos available that show people
how to be successful with DNN
• Champions: Don G., David D., Aderson O., John S.
• Will
• upendodnn generator (see blog)
• David P.
• Still doing more videos in the nvQuick(video) series :D
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUdwFd0hs-3imdNXV-
eHEVMXPKxyjoYDW

12. VIDEOS/TUTORIALS (CONT’D)
• Don
• Continues to do the “DNN Does That” video series (Bell Racing)
• Asking for more DNN website examples for videos
• Examples: e-commerce, membership, personalization, community, etc.
• David
• Clint mentioned DNN documents (no videos) in the comments :D
• Clint
• In preview mode right now
• Anyone can make pull requests to update the documentation

13. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS
• Mission: Increase the number of new/updated open source extensions
• Champions: John S., Jay M., Vicenç M., Jeremy F., David P., Francisco A.
• John
• Did a RFC to discuss how the DNN Store integration is tied into the product
• Clint
• Hammond: HammerFlex theme
• 2sic: Razor Blade, 2sxc Content
• Mandeeps: Live Visualizer
• Jeremy
• Aderson about to release TADUG video about 2sic’s release

14. NEW/UPDATED EXTENSIONS (CONT’D)
• Will
• Daniel V. taken the effort to rebuild the DNN Forge
• Already have a DNNCommunity repo
• Received sample from DNN Corp

15. CURRICULUM
• Mission: Create a reusable curriculum that can be deployed to
various types of schools worldwide to introduce DNN to kids
• Champions: Loukas B., Clint P., Will S., Don G.
• Still need a champion?
• ?

16. TRAINING/COURSES
• Mission: Create at least one training course for DNN on external
learning platforms
• Champions: Will S., Tracy W., David P., Don G., Loukas B.
• Tracy is in a client meeting right now.

17. THEMES
• Mission: Increase the availability & quality of open source DNN
themes in the ecosystem
• Champions: Tracy W., Loukas B., Francisco A., Waldo M.
• Tracy is in a client meeting right now.
• David (nvQuickUpdate)
• Nothing to talk about here. ;)
• HammerFlex!!! 

18. SPEAKER PROGRAM
• Mission: Create a program where speakers & user groups can match
w/ each other, including session resources
• Champions: Joe C., Tracy W., Loukas B., Will S.
• In need of a champion again?

19. USER GROUP PROGRAM
• Mission: Create a user group program w/ tools to help user group
leaders start, run, and grow DNN-based meetings
• Champions: Will S., David P., Jon B., Don G., Mark B., Daniel V.
• Will S.
• Still waiting on me

20. AWARENESS: MONTHLY GOALS
• Next Month
• 5 blog articles published
• 8 YouTube videos/tutorials
• Q1 2019
• 1 training course
• 8 new/updated open source extensions

21. AWARENESS: LONG-TERM GOALS
• 1H 2019
• 18 new blog articles
• 24 new tutorial videos
• 2 new training courses
• 14 new/updated DNN extensions
• EOY 2019
• 37 new blog articles
• 48 new tutorial videos
• 4 new training courses
• 28 new/updated DNN extensions

22. OPEN FORUM
• No one has anything to say. :D
• Clint
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdHb08l154