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August DNN Show & Tell at 6:30 PM Eastern

Written By Jeremy Farrance

2026-08-02

Tues, Aug 4th, 2026 is the next DNN Show & Tell Meetup. Join us at 6:30pm Eastern (EDT, UTC/GMT -4). Either sign up to attend via our Meetup page or, on Discord**, the direct Zoom link to the online meeting will be posted at least an hour before the meeting starts.

Reminder: don't be late, we always start the first demo within 5 minutes.

What is it?

The DNN Show & Tell meetup is a fast paced series of demos by DNN enthusiasts. Centered around short, useful presentations of anything DNN-related and always followed by Q&A.

Stay for the after-party? After the last demo and wrap-up, the recordings are stopped... and we have a casual (un-filtered) community chat. So far we've seen praise/thanks for people present and not, accidental comedy, and in-depth discussions about the demos as well as ideas for future Show & Tells.

Planned demos for July include 2sxc Image Libraries and Metadata, using EasyDNNnews as a custom Glossary database, using Evotiva DNN Backup to restore a site to a different server, and the importance of your DNN site's Domain Authority!

You can check out videos from our previous meetings on our YouTube channel: @DnnShowTell.

**A working Discord Invite link is on the home page of this (DNN Community) site.

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2026-08-02

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Jeremy Farrance

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