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Drupal Goes Social, a South Carolina Perspective

Hello all, we are crankin away here in Rock Hill on some great new Drupal projects, can’t wait to show them off. As you know 99% of our development and website builds are done in open source technologies like Drupal (these are full feature content management systems and so much more). Today I wanted to give you a glimpse on the ability Drupal has for creating a social experience.

Anyone that uses Drupal currently know that you can set different permission levels for “members” to your website and allow them to have different capabilities. Not unlike some of the other Open Source technologies that allow multiple users this comes in the base set-up of Drupal, all you have to do is define their ability’s and they are off to the races. On WordPress you can have multiple bloggers that can log on and create posts of even be assigned administrator duties. This gives your website some great functionality and allows different members of your team to contribute to that oh-so-important content production task.

Well Drupal developers have put together a great new selection of plug-ins that allow your developer to create social profiles to create a facebook like enviroment that can promote some great interaction and community participation. Lets take a look at a few and then I will give you links to the whole list of potential components to create your very own social community.

Show Group Memberships & Events

The front module displays a customized front page for a user showing their group membership and events. This is useful for social networking and online group site that wants to help users participate in events and engage in group activities. If users are not logged in then a custom text message can be configured in a text field.

Facebook Style Statuses

This is a module which provides each user with a microblog where they can write what they’re doing, how they feel, or anything they want. With permission, users can also post messages on other users’ profiles. This helps build a community and make your users feel more connected to your website.

Advanced Profile Kit

This kit provides building blocks for putting together fancy user profile pages like those commonly found on social networking sites. It is meant to work with CTools and Panels, but the provided pieces can be used independently as well. The provided instructions are meant to get you up and running with a nice looking profile with no coding and no theme changes but are only one example of how this module can be used. Because it is a kit module, the idea is to provide some essential pieces and a base to build on. While the “out of the box” profile is usable, it is only intended as a start.

These are just a few modules that can be used to create an outstanding online community. For more information call 803-389-7778 or have us contact you.

http://jasonbroadwater.com/ Jason Broadwater

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http://jasonbroadwater.com Jason Broadwater

Drupal is a leader. they are / we all are doing great things.

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