Community building and social networking modules

This section contains links to resources for creating your own online community or social network, by enabling or encouraging your site's users to interact with one another.

The Organic Groups module, which enables the creation and management of groups and micro-sites within your site, will also be of interest.

For interactions with third party social networks, consult the Sharing and Bookmarking Service Integrations and the Third Party Integrations sections of the handbook.

Activity

There is also an Activity group with some documentation strewn throughout.

Application Toolbar (Appbar)

This documentation applies only to the Drupal 6 version. The alerts system was removed from the Drupal 7 version.

Author Pane

Author Pane is a block of information about a given user, like those typically found on a forum post, but can be used in other places as

CiviCRM: manage community contacts, relationships, and activities

The CiviCRM module stores information on the universe of people associated with a community and on their interactions such as emails,

Facebook-style Micropublisher

Facebook-style Micropublisher (abbreviated FBSMP), is a module which lets users publish content (links, images, audios, video, etc) along

Family Tree: Record, display, and analyze genealogical data.

The Family Tree module is for recording, displaying and analyzing genealogical data as Drupal nodes.

Flag Friend

Status definitions: (excerpt from http://drupal.org/node/366844#comment-1256322)

Forums and discussions

Discussion forums, sometimes called as message boards or bulletin boards, allow your users to participate in online conversations by posting

Gigya (7.x-4.x) - Configuration & Customization

Configuration

Invite: send invitations to join your site

Invitations are important to create network effects and exponential growth of a community of interest. The Invite module adds an 'Invite a

Question/Answer

Question/Answer module adds a question/answer section for website. Different from other modules, it uses only one node type for question,

Scoville

Scoville is a module which calculates the “hotness” of your site’s content. The hotness score is calculated from the

Sports Pickem

Run a sports pickem league using Drupal. Currently it is setup for the NFL, but it could be used for NHL, College Bowl season, March Madness

Taskbar (communitity builder toolbar)

Taskbar provides a taskbar with AJAX blocks, periodic refresh regions where modules can send updates/status. And more!

Tray

The tray module provides a tray for your Drupal website. This tray acts as a holder for blocks. Once installed, a new region is

User Relationships

The User Relationships module allows users to create named relationships between each other.

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