Congratulations to this months DotBlock Connect winners!
William Hudson – Twitter
Matt Katzenberger – Google+
Erich Haubrich – Facebook
Every month we pick someone from each social network to receive a free month of service, so be certain to follow/friend us on all three.
Our Minecraft stack now comes pre-installed with McMyAdmin 2.1.1.4 Enterprise Edition!
New features:
Compatibility Changes:
Feature Enhancements:
Security Improvements:
You can read the full Release Note details here.
We are pleased to announce the release of 5 brand new stacks to our DotBlock Marketplace!
In our never ending effort to provide our clients with top of the line FREE software for their servers, we have made a massive effort to implement the following programs for your use!
- Support Incident Tracker, also known as SiT!, is a web based application for tracking technical support calls and emails. SiT! gives you the ability to manage contacts, sites, technical support contracts and support incidents in one place. You’re also able to send emails directly from SiT!, attach files and record every communication in the incident log!
More info here: http://sitracker.org/
- Feng Office is an Open Source collaboration platform developed and support by Feng Office and the OpenGoo community. Feng Office Community Edition’s main features include project management, document management, contact management, e-mail and time management. Text documents and presentations can be created and edited online. Feng Office also allows files can be uploaded, organized and shared, independent of file formats.
More info here: http://www.fengoffice.com/web/
- ERPNext is a full scale ERP for small and medium businesses. It covers many business functions including accounting, inventory management, CRM, purchasing, project and task management, human resource management and manufacturing. ERPNext is used by companies all over the world, easy to setup and ideal for self-implementation.
More info here: https://erpnext.com/
- Group Office is well known as the “complete online groupware”. Share projects, calendars, files and e-mail online with co-workers and clients. Easy to use and fully customizable, Group-Office groupware takes online collaboration to the next level! Group-Office is a PHP based dual license commercial/open source groupware product developed by the Dutch company Intermesh.
More info here: http://www.group-office.com/
- PmWiki is a wiki-based collaborative creation system for maintaining websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an “Edit” link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. You do not need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Page editing can be left open to the public, or restricted to small groups of authors. PmWiki is written in PHP and distributed under the General Public License.
More info here: http://www.pmwiki.org/
- DotProject is a web-based, multi-user, multi-language project management application. It’s Open Source, so its free for any and all to use, and is maintained by an open community of volunteer programmers. dotProject aims to provide the project manager with a tool to manage task, schedules, communication and sharing.
More info here: http://www.dotproject.net/
As always, we strive to maintain our client’s ease of access to the most relevant and user friendly software available. Please do not hesitate to contact us to request a specific stack, we love hearing from you!
Congratulations to Daniel Sharpe (Twitter), Steven Miller (Facebook) and July Csar (G+) for winning this months DotBlock Connect contest! Each person receives a free month service credit from DotBlock. Enter yourself up to three times a month by following DotBlock on each of these social networks!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/dbnoc
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DotBlock
Google+: https://plus.google.com/104176331359503858777
We are in the process of working out an arrangement with R-1 Soft to get their high end backup solution integrated into our customer’s server management portal. We are very excited about this, as it will mean a faster and more seamless backup system for our clients. We will hopefully have this rolled out within a week or two once things are finalized. Updates will be posted here on the blog as they are available.
We are pleased to announce version 2.0 of the DotBlock control panel interface!
You will find that you now have more seamless control directly from the main ‘Control’ section of the panel to administer your VPS quickly and easily.
We are always open to customer feedback to help further improve your experience, please drop us a line at feedback@dotblock.com with any comments or suggestions!
We are happy to announce ‘DotBlock Connect’, our social media outreach program which is intended to help keep our customers informed of upgrades, features, product enhancements, and system maintenance. We now have a presence on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+, as well as our company blog.
We are launching the program with a year long promotion, during which one customer from each platform will be selected each month to receive a free one month service credit! You can sign up for the contest by following us on Twitter, liking us on Facebook, or following / +1′ing us on Google+. Each individual like or follow counts as an entry, so check them all out!
Our account information for each social media platform can be found in the lower right-hand corner of http://www.dotblock.com, or in the top right-hand corner of any internal page of our site. If you have any questions regarding the promotion, please send them to us via any of these social media platforms.
We look forward to connecting with you!
All,
We are happy to announce that Omeka Web Publishing has been launched in the DotBlock Marketplace!
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
Omeka may be easily downloaded and installed on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server. Each installation is equipped with an unqualified Dublin Core-based archive; 4 basic design theme templates that may be configured with different styles sheets to produce up to 9 different looks; an exhibit builder offering 12 basic page layouts and 4 different themes; tagging for items and exhibits; an RSS feed for new items; and COinS plug-in making all Omeka content readable by another CHNM-produced and IMLS-funded project, Zotero; and an easy way to write and publish simple web pages.
Omeka can be found here.
All,
We are very excited to announce that Zurmo CRM has been launched into the DotBlock Marketplace.
Zurmo is an open source CRM application written in PHP utilizing jQuery, Yii Framework, and RedBeanPHP that uses a test-driven methodology for building every part of the application. This means you can create and maintain a custom-built CRM system with the assurance that future updates are not going to break your installation. Zurmo is an easy-to-use, easy-to-customize CRM application that can be adapted to any business use case.
Zurmo CRM software can be found here.
We’ve added two new people to the DotBlock marketing team this month, Alyssa & Erin. They will be working specifically on search engine optimization, so if you have any questions related to that feel free to ask for them! If you’re in need of a make-up artist in the area, Erin does that as well, check her out! Albany Makeup Artist.