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Open Source Software: Drupal

Are you or one of your team members savvy with programming, but on a tight budget? If so, then Drupal is definitely the answer you are looking for. According to Drupal, it is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. These are the fundamental actions that a community website needs to offer in order to create an environment where people…
May 22, 2008
Marketing

Powering Your Online Community

Over the past few months we have covered different theories and strategies for building and designing online communities. We’ve talked about everything from discovering the reason for interaction within your community to creating a user-centric design that empowers the community to collaborate and engage. Now we’ll explore how to put the right technology behind that strategy. All companies have differing levels of technological capability that shape the decisions they make for choosing software. The key for developing any successful online…
May 22, 2008
Marketing

Community Software Spotlight: Ning

Don’t have the resources to create an online community from scratch, but have a need to? Build your own in the Ning network and have all the available community technologies right at your fingertips for a fraction of the price and time. Ning is a free social networking platform that gives offers all kinds of online community tools in an easy to use interface. Depending on your skills, you can also create new tools or integrate any existing technologies you…
May 22, 2008