This was my second time coming to Champéry, Switzerland, and it’s a place that I instantly fell in love with the previous trip.  There are all kinds of reasons for that.  Maybe it’s the magic views that you can’t stop looking at.  Maybe it’s the people or the venue.  It could be the afternoon activities…  Maybe, it’s the amazing friends that we get to share this with, all the while learning and teaching all things DNN.  (Accompanied by a drink or two, of course…) 

There’s too much to mention, so let’s just agree that it's all of the above and more! 

I know I can’t speak for everyone, but I think we’d be pretty unanimous in collectively agreeing that all of the venues we were at during this year’s conference were pretty amazing.  Whenever I have great experiences like that, I tend to want to try and support them in some way.  For things like this where we’re all tourists (kind-of), giving them a good review can go a long way.  This blog post is meant to help you do that – if you want to.

While a lot of people were doing all of their holiday parties, shopping, and other activities, DNN itself had a little secret... It turned 20 years young! You read that correctly. DNN was released more than 20 years ago, on Christmas Eve of 2022. Since then, DNN has helped millions of developers, business owners, marketers, designers, and others build incredible websites and website applications of all sizes, in all industries.  

DNN Connect was amazing, as usual, hosted for the second time in Millau, France. It was amazing for all kinds of reasons. We got to see each other in-person. We joined each other to chat about all things tech and DNN. We debated other topics, played games, and various sports in the area. Most of all, we networked. Part of what can make networking so much fun is the music you're listening to. This blog post is about that.

As you may or may not have realized, we at Upendo Ventures put up a content bounty last month. We challenged the community to do two things... First, create new content to help promote content related to DNN and DNN Summit. Second, we wanted all of you to spread the word to the rest of the community to help generate the content, but also simply to just spread the good word that is DNN. Here are the results of that bounty.

DNN Summit is right around the corner, and this year it's going to be a hybrid event. Those of us who are willing and able, will be meeting up in Las Vegas, but the majority of the event will happen online again. I wanted to let you know what we - Upendo Ventures - are doing for you this time...

We try to have a contest for any event we're involved in. It helps add another level of fun, and in the case of DNN, it helps us to drive some more community engagement. We're here to not only help promote the software that still makes up the core of our business, but also to keep things fun and light-hearted.

This is the third in a series of blog posts and interviews with Gold Sponsors of the upcoming DNN Summit 2021 conference. In this interview, we speak to Cassidi Peterson of 10 Pound Gorilla. It's always a fun time to chat with Cassidi and she always makes my interviews easy.  

This is the second in a series of blog posts and interviews with Gold Sponsors of the upcoming DNN Summit 2021 conference. In this interview, we speak to David Poindexter of nvisionative. David and I speak about his company, our expectations of the conference, and just banter around with some fun DNN stuff!