February 17, 2010 Welcome to the February 17, 2010, Community Update.  As you know, we had a big product announcement two weeks ago around v10.3 of the Workplace Suite and v1.6 of the Toolset.  However, just because we’ve released these products doesn’t mean we’ve been taking it easy.  We’ve been working so you can now access your apps and information in a variety of ways—on your mobile device, RSS modes, across the firewall, or through micro-communities.  Read more about these below. News and Events Community Updates Now Posted to the Web – In case you’ve missed some or want to revisit something, all the Community Updates are now available on the CorasWorks website.  Click here to access them. CorasWorks Goes Mobile – Read our recent press release.  Now you can access your CorasWorks apps from anywhere…the Office, the Cloud, or on the Go! Most Popular Apps – Which apps are people downloading from the App Store?  Read our recent release and see what the most popular apps are. Webcast: Apps Across the Firewall – Sign up for our live webcast on building apps that cross the firewall to leverage your external workforce. For more information on any of these, email info@corasworks.net. Community Highlights Remember to Login to see all information and access contributor features. Click here if new to community. Business Applications Group Blog Service v1.1 – This new app from App Publisher Spirit EDV-Beratung makes it easy to deploy "many-to-many" communities of users to contribute, comment, collaborate, and communicate.  Its new distributable UI and Virtual RSS Mode enable you to create distributed micro-communities that enable people to participate from wherever they work.  See the blog about Idea Central and Project Guild, two examples of micro-communities based upon this app. Site Help Service –The CorasWorks Site Help Service uses SharePoint’s document storage and management features to organize and deliver context sensitive help content for users of SharePoint sites and applications. Resources White Paper:  Intranet-Extranet Integration Scenarios on SharePoint – Read our latest white paper on leveraging CorasWorks for apps that cross the firewall and leverage your external workforce. Videos:  Integrating Your Intranet/Extranet – We’ve published several videos that provide examples of applications that cross the firewall to allow your employees and external workforces to work together.  You can access the videos through our online Learning Center.  Scroll down the page to find the list of videos. Snaplet Configuration – We’ve published a new Snaplet Configuration guide showing you how to configure, distribute, and use Snaplets in your environment.  We also have 3 supporting videos that show the business value of distributed app functionality, how to do it, and how to make changes centrally that instantly update distributed Snaplets. Blogs & Forums Intranet to Extranet Integration on SharePoint (William’s Blog) – This blog post contains a bunch of good information on apps that cross the firewall.  Includes links to a white paper, videos, and more. Micro-communities:  Distributed Collaboration Across SharePoint Sites (William’s Blog) – Read how the Group Blog Service v1.1 app enables micro-communities that cut across your SharePoint environment.  The post describes the usefulness of distributed micro-communities and look at one example—Idea Central—through a “day in the life” video.  Also see the blog post on Project Guild – a micro-community for distributed project environments for another example of micro-communities at work. App Publisher Spotlight:  R3 Business Solution’s Knowledge Base (Applications Blog) – This guest article is from Michael Friedenberg of R3 Business Solutions, a CorasWorks App Publisher. In addition to describing their Knowledge Base application, Michael mentions their use of the new Dynamic Filtering feature of the Workplace Suite. Very good stuff. Implementing Site Templates on SP2010 (Adam's Blog) - This extensive blog post walks you through the steps for uploading, activating, and deploying site templates (now .wsp solutions) on SP2010.