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I know there is a bit of confusion regarding Active Social and Active Profile.  Hopefully this article will clear up the confusion. 

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Active Profile only addresses the user profile aspect of DotNetNuke Social Networking. 

Active Social includes user profiles, groups, messaging, forums and a few other capabilities.  This will provide you with a complete social networking solution for DotNetNuke

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Active Profile allows users to create their own layout and choose which modules they want displayed on their profile page.

Active Social uses a profile layout that is defined by the site administrator.  The administrator controls the entire look and feel of the profile page.  The second release of Active Social will give the administrator the option to allow users to define the profile and/or choose which module will be displayed on the page. 

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Active Profile has an option for you to use the predefined profile fields or use profile fields from the DotNetNuke profile.

Active Social only uses fields from the DotNetNuke profile.

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Active Profile and Active Social have the ability for you to create and mange friends.

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Active Profile has predefined fields for searching profiles.

Active Social allows the administrator to choose which fields are used for the quick search and then choose additional fields for the advanced search.

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Active Profile provides one-way integration with Active Forums.  This means that Active Forums is aware of Active Profile but Active Profile isn't aware of Active Forums. 

Active Social provides full integration with Active Forums.  This means that the profile aspect of Active Social and Active Forums is completely transparent to the end user.

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Active Profile has a closed module architecture.  This makes it difficult for you to create your own modules or leverage third-party modules within a profile.

Active Social is built using dynamic templates.  This means you can create your own modules using ASP.NET/Javascript without the need for source code.

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Please leave a comment if you would like further clarification or feel I have missed something.

Thanks,
Will

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