1 March DNN Summit 2020 Contest Winner March 1, 2021By Will Strohl | 1 MIN READ 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. We were a part DNN Summit 2020 in Orlando, Florida. Our event occurred just before COVID shut everything down. Literally within a few weeks of it actually. We were very lucky. During this event, we held a promotion where we asked attendees to pose in front of an #IUpendoDNN banner and then include the caption on their favorite social network, telling the world what they love the most about DNN. There were many entries, but we could only accept one. Also, our apologies for the delayed announcement, but we were waiting for a certain someone to release the event photographs. *Ahem* But I digress... We're very excited to announce that DNN Summit 2020's contest winner is Alessandra Davies, also known as DNNDiva! Thank you so much for your continued passion and contributions to the DNN community. Great conference, guys! I love DNN because is gives me a lot of freedom regarding creating themes and plugging in modules to enhance clients’ websites. @UpendoVentures, thanks for the T-shirt! I wear it with pride. #dnnsummit #dnncms #iupendodnn pic.twitter.com/ZCK6seauJV— DNN Diva (@dnndiva) February 26, 2020 Now, for the next contest... ;) Let's Chat! We'd love to work with you. Let's talk about how. Contact Us March 1, 2021By Will Strohl Business, General, Technology Contest, DNNCMS, DNNSummit About the Author Will Strohl Founder & CEO Upendo Ventures Overall, Will has nearly 20 years of experience helping website owners become more successful in all areas, including mentoring, website development, marketing, strategy, e-commerce, and more. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. blog comments powered by Disqus Related Posts Proud Sponsor of DNN Summit 2020 in Orlando, FL I've been using DNN nearly since it launched, which is nearly 17 years ago now. Among my DNN accomplishments is founding the original community-based DNN conference, originally named Day of DotNetNuke and first hosted in Tampa, FL. That was 10 years ago. Things have come full circle now that the DNN Summit conference is going back to Orlando. It's with great pride that I'm announcing we're silver sponsors of DNN Summit 2020. Upendo Ventures Will Be at DNN Summit 2018 in February DNN Summit has a long history. It’s grown a lot since 2009, when I first founded the Day of DotNetNuke conference. Back then, I used to speak at pretty much every user group and conference I could get to. I love public speaking. I love helping people learn something new – or better – helping inspire people to try something they may have never before considered. I took about 2 years off from speaking, and now… I’m back! I’ll be speaking at DNN Summit! DNN Summit Session: DNN Upgrades Made Simple Our second and final session at DNN Summit 2021 was about upgrading DNN. After having upgraded literally thousands of DNN websites over the past 18 years, this session is the culmination of everything I've learned over that period of time. Most of the issues we run into tend to be completely avoidable. DNN Summit Session: Multi-Site DNN Instances and Robots.txt Our first session at DNN Summit 2021 this year was a short introduction to search engine optimization (SEO) and then a deeper dive on how to manage the Robots.txt file in your DNN website. Management of this critical SEO file is easier than ever on DNN 9.8 and newer. This blog post is a follow-up to provide resources for the event attendees. 2 Critical Updates for Your Website Before December 2020 There are always updates throughout the internet that impact your website. Keeping up with them can seem downright impossible for most - even if you're in the industry. There are two major updates this year that you need to be highly aware of though. If you don't adjust accordingly, the availability and discovery of your website could be drastically impacted. The Most Common Mistake in E-Commerce We're nearing a year now that we've all been in various stages of unrest and lockdown in our respective states and cities. With us all being separated, places closed, and looking at our homes and belongings, it's no wonder that e-commerce has grown at such leaps and bounds through 2020. There was one glaring mistake that I kept running into, though, regardless of the size of the vendor.