PostNuke

The basic tenet of any promotional efforts is to always keep the product in everyone's eye. Generally, I have come in the habit of regularly signing my name followed by the URL 'www.PostNuke.com'. That's easy.

Another easy one is to always make sure you make www.PostNuke.com into a clickable link when you mention it in text.

Another favorite is to simply write to people that are having trouble with other CMS systems, and inform them of www.PostNuke.com, and to ffer them help if they have any additional questions.

When a reviewer writes about weblogs or CMS, be sure to point out www.PostNuke.com to them; When a reviewer hasn't reviewed weblogs yet, be sure to give him the idea to do so.

The key factor to realize is that it'sa thin line between enthusiasm and SPAM. Definitely, do **NOT** just blast "www.PostNuke.com rules' on every message of a forum, or other such inanities. We can leave that to others, (like the now defunct NukeIndex.).

But enough of that - what other ideas does anyone have?

Harry
www.PostNuke.com

I was wondering if the team would care to elaborate any on the product direction. The vision page gives some general comments, and I've seen rumblings here and there by reading various articles where the team would hint at things. For example, I know that there is a rewrite of the user system either IP or coming up, and the articles system is due for an overhaul as well. Are there any specifics the developers want to share with the community in terms of what the requirements are for any of these items, or has the thought process even gotten that far yet? Any other pieces that are slated for an overhaul?

Now, I would like to take a minute and share some ideas on features you might add to the articles and uesrs systems. First I'll talk about the articles system.

1. I think the article system should have categories and subcategories like links. Yes, we have topics, but if I am running a site with a large number of articles, I might need the ability to drill down further so I don't have hundreds of articles in one category, and so a user can browse to an article more easily rather than having to use the search functionality.

2. For longer articles, it would be nice to be able to specify that a page break is needed so that Nuke will split the article into multiple pages.

On the Users system:

1. Speaking from a community standpoint, it would be cool to be able to set up user types or groups, and allow users to classify themselves into one of these groups. I think this would be very beneficial in the private messaging system. It could also be used in other ways as well, particularly for advertising demographics. Alternatively, you could make the Occupation and Interests fields on the user record code fields instead of freeform and be able to set up occupation and interest codes that users could search on in the user system.

2. Speaking from an advertising standpoint as well, I would like to see some additional demographic information on the user registration--information that would be helpful in promoting your audience to potential advertising sponsors, such as age range, income range, sex, etc.

Anyway, just some thoughts here. Thanks again for producing a great free product.