Build your own social network with Drupal
Submitted by amanuel on May 13, 2008 - 7:58pm.
Session Number:
5
Time slot:
E: Saturday 10:15 am - 11:30 amRoom:
Medium B - 114 (56)Want to create the perfect community? Drupal can help. In this session we will discuss the basic principles of building a social network with Drupal.
Topics:
- Philosophical discussion on what constitutes a community/social network?
- What's the difference between a blogs, forums, and groups? How to choose.
- Which Drupal modules are essential for building a community?
- Dealing with Privacy
- Integration with Facebook
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A lot of Drupal books have
A lot of Drupal books have come out lately. A ... lot. One that I've seen lately is called Drupal 6 - Social Networking and is actually pretty good. It is published by Packt Publishing and written by Michael Peacock. The goal of the book is to provide users who want to build their own social network (think Twitter, Facebook, ...) a step by step guide debt consolidation.
The book starts by explaining what a Social Network is and what it can do for you and your company. It goes then further by installing and configuring Drupal. It provides a nice walk through the most used configuration screen. After following that by introducing you to nodes, blocks, menus, themes and modules you get a nice overview of how Drupal is built up loans.
This lays the grounds to actually building your own (Social Network) site, which is done over a few chapters. You are introduced there to a few of Drupal's modules (to extend Drupal) and how to use and configure them. The start is always a problem/feature for the site which is then solved in the rest of the chapter credit card.
The fact that not everything is possible by default in Drupal isn't passed. A chapter is also added that explains how you can solve problems in Drupal that are not solved yet with a contributed module. A short introduction is given to how you can write these modules yourself. Don't expect a lot of programming lingo here, only the bare essentials are touched. But these give you a nice idea of how simple Drupal development can be. I must admit this is not for everyone. Skip this if you think it's too difficult, but try to read it once to get to know what Drupal development is about. You might like it!
A chapter is also provided where you learn how to maintain your site and optimize its performance. Security is not ignored there too. A few for the SPAM problem (you'll definitely encounter when you release your site and it proves succesfull) are given debit card.
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Social network book
Drupal is great for social networking, although not always that evident. That's why I bundled my thought together as a tutorial ebook: Drupal 6:Ultimate Community Site Guide. This will give you a site like rawvegandating.com (D5) and drupalfun.com (D6).
If you are interested in the modules used, you can take a peak at the table of contents.
Greetings,
Dorien
activity stream module
it looks like there is an existing module that will bring a user's feeds into a drupal-based social network site: Activity Stream. http://drupal.org/project/activitystream i'll be testing it.
thanks for a good session.
/jt
Continue the discussion
http://groups.drupal.org/social-networking-sites
http://groups.drupal.org/contributed-module-ideas
http://groups.drupal.org/distributions
http://groups.drupal.org/usability
http://groups.drupal.org/facebook-api
Modules to get started with
Profiles:
Advanced Profile: http://drupal.org/project/advanced_profile
Friends:
User Relationships: http://drupal.org/project/user_relationships
Activity Tracking:
Activity: http://drupal.org/project/activity
Discussions:
Advanced Forum: http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum
Facebook Integration:
Drupal for Facebook: http://drupal.org/project/fb
Social Bookmarking/Tagging:
Views Bookmark: http://drupal.org/project/views_bookmark
Feed Management:
Feed API: http://drupal.org/project/feedapi
Notifications: http://drupal.org/project/notifications
Content Recommendation Engine: http://drupal.org/project/cre
Group Management: http://drupal.org/project/og
this sounds great
few additional mini topics:
Approaches to creating a user area/profile
User searches
Modules/tools that should not be used for differing reasons
Content recommendation tools
I think that this area of Drupal is still relatively untapped and would be a topic that offers something a little different than most of the other suggestions.