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Strategy for Developing Online Communities and Social Networks in Drupal
Drupal offers many options and possibilities for developing online communities, but strategy should involve more than simply implementing every available module.
Those "in the know" about Drupal realize that Drupal is far more than a content management system (CMS) even though it often gets categorized that way. Drupal as a CMS is more like one specific feature or type of use, of many. It's more of a platform, and on Drupal.org it's labeled as "Community plumbing" and an "open source content management platform".
Those "in the know" about Drupal realize that Drupal is far more than a content management system (CMS) even though it often gets categorized that way. Drupal as a CMS is more like one specific feature or type of use, of many. It's more of a platform, and on Drupal.org it's labeled as "Community plumbing" and an "open source content management platform".
Post to Twitter Give Your Users an Onsite Bookmarking Tool
If you have a multi-user site, give your members a way to bookmark content online too instead of only having social bookmarking widgets
The many widgets and tools available today makes it very simple to provide social bookmarking tools for content on websites. This makes it simple for visitors to your site to share your content with various services - Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, and hundreds of others.
And while this can be really useful, it's more geared towards spreading content. It's more about marketing. It's very external-facing. The term social bookmarking is interesting too. While it certainly functions as a bookmark, it's different from other definitions of the term and previous uses of "bookmarking" when it comes to the web.
The many widgets and tools available today makes it very simple to provide social bookmarking tools for content on websites. This makes it simple for visitors to your site to share your content with various services - Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, and hundreds of others.
And while this can be really useful, it's more geared towards spreading content. It's more about marketing. It's very external-facing. The term social bookmarking is interesting too. While it certainly functions as a bookmark, it's different from other definitions of the term and previous uses of "bookmarking" when it comes to the web.
