Social Networking Sites

what do you guys think about that? Plus I am not a tech savvy person.

I'm working on drupal project which is a social network site for glass artists and glass art fans.
The site is "my glass art" http://www.myglassart.org

Please give me some feedback.

Thank you

jung.

I'm looking for someone to build the code for a question and answer site for a small community. I'm currently leaning towards implementing Drupal, but open to persuasion for other base architectures.

Site should include functionality of the ask.metafilter site; developer should be familiar (or familiarize him/herself) with its uses and implementation.

Looking for swift turnaround, with attention to detail and someone with an easygoing nature.

Location does not matter.

Please provide a bid for the project, rather than an hourly rate.

I have already completed a detailed site map and description.

Note: This site is not intended to compete with ask.metafilter, but to service a specific community with narrow interests and expertise.

We have a network of Drupal based blogs and a social networking site. We are looking for a Drupal expert to oversee these sites. Requirements include the following:

• Help with design suggestions and implementations for social networking and blog style sites.
• Implemention of new features (modules)
• Daily management to make sure sites are running smoothly
• Ability to theme a big plus
• Actively interested in green/eco topics a big plus

Sorry for the short notice, but tonight's meetup should be a good one of NYC Tech4Good should be of interest to Drupalistsas and open source folks.

WHEN: TODAY, JUNE 18 at 7pm at the Oxfam International Offices.
RSVP: Click "Signup" link below

WHERE:
355 Lexington Avenue, between 40th and 41st street
3 floor, Conference Room
Women and Development Organisation's offices (WEDO)/Oxfam
Please bring a couple bucks to help with refreshments

WHAT:
Massive self-organizing volunteer communities are developing the best software in the world, but why aren't we seeing this same drive when it comes to online campaigns? While volunteers are giving millions of hours to Firefox, Drupal, Joomla and more, they aren't giving the same efforts to nonprofit endeavors. The most common reason: Nobody asked.

With a few notable exceptions, organizations are not tapping the the web to harness the power of volunteers. Organizations need to learn from the success of the OS model and change how they build campaigns. Campaigning needs to become more collaborative and transparent.

With our special guests we will discuss the lessons from Open Source software development that could be used to create powerful on and offline campaigns. We will include some specific examples and needs, so be ready to get your hands dirty, because this time YOU WILL BE ASKED.

WHO:
YOU
Guests:
Karina Brisby, E-campaigns Director for Oxfam: Karina will discuss their upcoming projects and how other organizations and volunteers can collaborate as well as ask for the groups input on a specific project.

Joshua Wiese, Online Director for EveryHumanHasRights.org, TheElders.org: Josh will talk about the EHH campaign to teach people about everyone's rights under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as we approach the 60th anniversary of the document in December. EHH is using online and mobile tools to invite individuals to sign the UDHR.

Danny Moldovan, VP Strategy and Communications for Change.org: Change.org is a social network dedicated to empowering individuals to create the change they want to see in the world.

P.S. There will be Beer.

Ozmosis (htpps://www.ozmosis.com) is seeking someone experienced in CSS for a contract, or part-time position. We are in the process of a comprehensive theme redesign and the qualified applicant will have the opportunity to theme and develop in a cutting edge Drupal based healthcare community.

Comfort with PHP is a must, but the qualified candidate will be working with and have the support of several experienced Drupal Guru's.

We are based near Washington, DC, so a location near there is great, but not a requirement. Please Feel free to contact me for more information.

Hi, this is a module for implementing Slashdot-style comment display and moderation.
Feedback is welcome.

http://muhsim.googlepages.com/slashcomments.zip

Delf.

We have built a web 3.0 online music property and are hoping to launch once we integrate a few critical improvements to our current site. Startups tend to get a bad rap, I understand this. Logging long hours and being paid with promises is never an easy thing to do. Ironically, this is exactly what we're asking you to do. Our company is in a position to offer equity plus pay you a reduced fee for your contract work that will bring our site to a place we feel comfortable launching with.

We're looking for a Drupal developer to work full time on our project in Amsterdam. Contact us at info@clubcollective.com

Skill Requirements:
- Drupal installation, including Plugins
- ability to apply custom design themes (no actual graphics work needed)
- ability to make custom changes in the Plugins
- ability to understand Drupal core and expand it if needed.

Work Experience: At least 3 years of experience in PHP/MySQL is required for this position, at least 2 years of experience working with Drupal.

Professional Attributes:

Introduction

The Internet has empowered people to share information and ideas in unprecedented ways. It has enabled people to easily and at almost no cost to be both producers and consumers of information world-wide. Nowadays, people are able to have their own channel of information, broadcasting ideas, photos, videos, etc. This is very exciting and brings many opportunities for education, research, business and entertainment. However, it brings many challenges as well.

Problem

Hello,

We are in need of finding an experienced Russian Drupal programmer to assist with building a social networking site in English based on some functionality of an existing Russian web site. Some understanding of theming would also be a plus. Thank you.

• Joseph

Hello there!
If you want to give a user total control over a site (his/her site, area, or whatever you want to call it), what should be better? Creating a group for each user, as in drupal Groups, or creating a multisite installation?

When I say "total control" I mean everything: Blogs, polls, newsletters, have a fan´s group (not buudies, I mean actual users that are created just to enter his/her personal site).

Would multiple sites installations become a huge monster, that no server could manage?

What are your thoughts?

Rosamunda

We are looking for a young self motivated advanced web developer / programmer to help take our test BETA site to a new level of function and operation. You can take a look at our current site to get an idea of what we are doing: http://www.cratediggers.com/section/home/

We would like to get out of the flash and into a clean page design.

If you have the ability to create a facebook and ebay database, social networking, and e-commerce website - then you are what we need. Please contact us to further discuss.

Best Regards,

Michael
323.559.4189
michael@cratediggers.com

LevelTen is looking for a sharp Drupal developer to work as part of a small team developing community music portals. LevelTen is a professional Internet consulting and Web development company based in Dallas, Texas. We specialize in best-in-class website design and online marketing. This is a three-month, contract-to-hire position.

Purpose of module:

This module will implement Twitter-style following functionality for Drupal community websites. On Twitter you follow people you find interesting and people who find interesting follow you. People you are following show up on your home page in a river-of-news format. My proposed module would do the same thing for a Drupal community site. You follow people who's post you find interesting and are followed by people who find you interesting.

I wrote a bit here about how the twitter model is useful.

Hello Friends,

I am working on a new Finance/Stock related social networking website based on Drupal where I will be showing Company details of all companies being traded on NASDAQ and other exchanges.

I need to have a functionality for users to ask questions/offer advice on a particular stock and show all messages related to one stock in a list (kind of forum)

As their are lots of companies on each exchange and the number is not fixed and there will be new companies everymonth, I need advice on how to achieve this functionality.

Hi all, my first instinct was to put this in an Organic Group group, but there isnt one! So this is my second best place to ask for some advice. I will just explain what the site should be able to do, then i hope someone could give me some pointers whether it can be done with existing modules, or if i should start building my own. These are the features i am looking for:

1. A member of my site should be able to keep his own agenda.
2. A member should be able to give another user permission to add events to his agenda, ideally on a 'per-day-basis'

webware.com — Culled from an initial set of over 5,000 nominations, voted on by almost 2,000,000 people, Drupal shines as a premiere platform for social publishing. Congratulations to the Drupal community for your hard work and great success.

Digg it here

We're a nightlife, social networking site in multiple languages looking to have our site upgraded to the latest version of Drupal, we're looking for serious upgrades to our social networking features, usability and SEO.

Send Resume to info@clubcollective.com

Monday May 5, 2008
Moscone Center SF

This is a barcamp/unconference style Drupal meetup for us at CommunityOne! So bring the topic you want to discuss!

Space available in Hall A - section of tables, white boards, wifi (opportunity for it to be very noisy)
- space is available 5/5 from 11a - 8p (reception is held in that hall from 6-8p)

I can see about a projector if it is needed. I will have a camera guy there too documenting.

Please Register so they have enough space, food and such! I believe currently we have room for 40.

My daughter has asked me to create a niche social site themed around her favorite anime character...

I am planning on building the site on Drupal and I already know most of the modules I want to use.

However, I am not sure if there is a module available for allowing the end-user to create customized graphics, backgrounds, or colors on their start page (short of allowing them to change their personal theme for the entire site).

Any help would be appreciated.

Project Summary

Public Allies North Carolina is seeking proposals for a social networking site using Drupal. We anticipate that most of our functional requirements can be met using existing Drupal modules and the Drupal 5x core, but we seek an experienced CMS developer to select and configure those modules.

Preference will be given to developers in the Triangle area, with whom our organization can form a local working relationship.

About Public Allies North Carolina

I am looking into using Drupal for a new social network aimed at professional and collegiate athletes (NBA, NFL, NCAA, etc.) which will allow them to connect with their fanbase which will also have access to the site membership. The requirements (whick my first platform choice, Elgg, did not adequately meet -- which, in turn, led me to Drupal by recommendation) are to have several different user types related to the industry including fans, teams, universities and career managers (or athlete agents, if you will).

Hi all,

I'm totally new to Drupal so I'm still exploring the various modules to see what's available that'll suit my needs.

I need to quickly set up a social network to connect a bunch of people all around the globe. Basically, I need a mix of Ning and Facebook, with the ability to sort people by the info they've entered (location, industry, etc). The reason those two systems won't work is that I don't want there to be a default language...so I have another idea.

Hi.

I'd like to present a local events guide done with Drupal.

At this moment it has 4 main pages , in order to make it VERY simple for the visitors: 1.- (what's on) today, 2.- tomorrow and 3.- after tomorrow and 4.- a 4th page for exhibitions (because they usually last a longer period). Home page is a selection of the events for today and the following 2 days.

Each event is a node, and so is each venue . That's the deepest you can browse in the site. Events to happen over a 3 days time don't show as a link and are locked by a simple PHP query within the node template. You can check 'this feature' by clicking here if browsing before June'2008.

Hello there,

I'm a student Communication Multimedia Design - currently doing a graduation investigation and project about the "Integration of social networking sites in Drupal".

Investigation

My investigation brings me first to a technical question: which current (Drupal 5) modules give an answer to this question?

I did an investigation and found 19 contributed modules that make integration possible for content coming from a typical social networking site into Drupal.

• Activity Stream
• Advogato
• Delicious
• Digg this
• Embedded Media Field

Hi!
I'm going to create a Social Network based on Drupal. It's my first time that I use Drupal and I'm impressed with the high quantity of modules. There are a lot of modules for each subject (i.e. image gallery, blog, etc). Now I've got a problem because I don't know which are the most useful modules to build a Social Network.

Could you tell me which are the indispensable modules to create a Social Network with Drupal? or which is the best module in a concrete subject?

Thanks in advance.

I've activated the buddylist module on my site, and have been racking my brain since whether or not to go with an invite/accept scheme or to allow anyone to add members to their buddy lists as they see fit. My feeling is that, by reaching that decision, I am deciding between two different features which shouldn't be mutally exclusive:

Hello Drupal community,

Who am I?
I'm a 24 year old Belgian student communication multimedia design. I'm a webdesigner, with more graphical skills than technical.
This (scholar) year I combine a 4/5 job with my graduation project.

Graduation project + investigation

http://gigaom.com/2007/12/11/the-next-social-network-wordpress/

I really like the idea of a person owning their own content and then remotely integrating into a social network. Let's keep an eye on what Chris, Will, and Steve are up to.

What would you put in a distributed social network distribution with Drupal?

Moved to official ideas list

The 'mint of the realm' is not the only store of wealth or medium of exchange. Community currencies facilitate trading all over the world.
Such currencies

• are resilient against recesssion and collapse

• do not favour the rich by charging interest
• belong to communities, not to banks
• prefer local goods and services over the globalised economy
• are used for economic regeneration and international development

Hy,
I have make a form to display a table like in UserManagement->Users, but when I press edit to Operations my module do nothing. Can anybody help me with display a form like the user account form when I press edit.

thank's

Summary:
I want to write two modules for Drupal as part of Google Summer of Code. One called meme_tracker and the other called machine_learning_api. The meme_tracker module will use the machine_learning_api to intelligently filter and group content from both internal and external content sources. The module's purpose is to find and display to a community in real time the most interesting conversations and memes within the community as they emerge.

Hello Drupliers. My name is Kyle Mathews. I'm a grad student in Information Systems at Brigham Young University working as a research assistant to several faculty members here. We are studying how and where social software can be used in education.

In the past eight months, I've built a number of classroom websites using Drupal. I've learned a considerable bit about Drupal in the process, became very involved in the community, and am writing a module (writing_assignment -- still a work in progress btw). I've loved most everything about Drupal but have found Drupal is missing an important component for building the perfect social learning website. This itches. So, in the best open-source fashion, I'm applying to Google Summer of Code to scratch my itch.

Drupal provides wide-range of functionalities to build any kind of websites from personal blog to community sites. Usually each person has his/her own blog and also is a part of lots of communities, social networks and so on. Most communities offers a profile page associate to each user just like Drupal do. Have you ever posted entries with some referring to your friends, your colleagues or your family? Do you ever stop a while to choose their profiles to be referred? In addition, we are moving to semantic generation that we should make use of relationship among you and your friends. Social Graph API has been introduced by Google to accomplish this functionalities with least modification using XFN.

Description:

Actually, I mean something like [buddylist][] with standard-based cross site social networking module. In short, it should be named just like "XFN Module". This module will offer essential features to help any users to build social network using XFN.

1. Let user define their own friends and associate relationships as a part of profile. It's not only just friends but also family and many more. See [XFN 1.1][1.1] for more information.
2. XFN-enabled friend list in profile page.
3. Views integration to make friends blocks or pages.
4. XFN filter to help writing article much more easy and fun with your friends. No need to remember their blogs, their facebook, their flickr, and many more.

Project "Give" is a concept for a social networking site that allows users to trade services and goods with other users. Users are rated by their contributions and rewarded by their peers via a wish list.

Key components:

1. Rich user profile and permissions
2. User groups
3. Geo-caching of wish list items as well as services and goods donated to the collective.
4. An auction bidding system
5. User ratings

Special consideration given to those with a secondlife.com avatar.
This IS a PAYING job.

Following up on John's post on his New Community-Powered Drupal Module Review Site, I suggested that we create definitions for the scores associated with each rating attribute.

Below is my initial draft of what those scores might be. Feel free to edit these directly or comment with suggestions/questions.

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Note: If you're at Drupalcon and you're interested in this position, I'm at Drupalcon too and would be love to talk with you about it! Email me at: pnason at dreamfish dot com
Patty Nason, Director of Product Development

Chief Collaboration Officer
Dreamfish
San Francisco

Building the social infrastructure for the global sustainability market space, Dreamfish provides social software as a service, tools and professional services for the triple bottom line of sustainability—healthy environment, healthy social equity and healthy economics.

Note: If you're at Drupalcon and you're interested in this position, I'm at Drupalcon too and would be love to talk with you about it! Email me at: pnason at dreamfish dot com
Patty Nason, Director of Product Development

Job Description:
Web Application Developer, Dreamfish Labs
Dreamfish (www.dreamfish.com)
San Francisco

Drupal Modules is a community-powered Drupal module review system I've been working on for about a year now. I'm happy to announce the site is finally open to the public!

Here's a brief list of what you can do on the site:

• Rate and review any module
• Compare modules to see which has the best features, documentation, etc
• Check how many downloads a module is getting
• Easily search modules and reviews for keywords
• Get automatic recommendations for similar modules
• And more!

I'm building/have built a social networking site, and coming across Twine made me realize that it would be nice to build some kind of "Trust" module, where users could specify what level of trust they attribute to others, and this trust level would affect how content shows up and is organized.

Trust Levels

Specifically, I'm thinking of 5 levels of trust:
* Always Hide - Essentially equivalent to "block user," this would make it so the blocker doesn't see any content from the blocked user

Drupal/LAMP Developer for Business Related Social Network
Drupal developer needed for a Social Network and education site that is tied to a not for profit.

You would lead the development processes and be direly involved in future development and growth decisions.

Experience:
Drupal, LAMP, CSS, and ajax. RoR experince and API familarity with Google apps, ZoHo, or 37signals, would be a plus.

Hi everyone,

I recently stumbled across a couple of live Drupal-powered social networking sites:

www.teamsugar.com
www.icommunity.tv

As someone with no programming experience, I'm eyeing Drupal as a potention solution I can have outsourced for customization into a social networking website. However, I'd like to see additional examples where Drupal has worked well in such an environment. Can anyone suggest other such sites?

Thanks!
Josh

I am seeking a Drupal and/or CiviCRM developer in Alaska to do some contract work on a campaign. We will need someone who is a kick ass Drupal themer and module developer.

The ideal person would have:

* Proven delivery of public websites using Drupal
* Be extremely fluent in developing for/with Drupal, including ability to program modules and implement other customization
* Have experience with Organic Groups and CiviCRM
* Be well versed in developing using API's
* Be an expert in coding websites in a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) environment

Hello

I am looking for experienced Drupal Developer(s) to develop a social networking site similar to www.teamsugar.com

Our site will be much smaller in content and scope, but offer similar features.

If you interested in receiving more information, please contact George at drupal33@hotmail.com

With Best

I am very interested in the state of Social Networking direction for Drupal.
I would also be interested in writing/contributing modules if I knew how they would all fit together.

I propose a Bird-of-a-Feather (BOF) meeting on Social Networking in Drupal at DrupalCon2008 in Boston.

We can get to know all of the people working on Social Networking stuff for Drupal and create a coordinated
plan for making Drupal a top-notch Social Networking platform. (If this plan already exists, please fill me in on it.)

What do you think?

Stephen Adkins

Buddylist2 is ready for testing!

I started developing buddylist2 a while ago, and now I need some feedback and/or serious issues to finish it. After a stable version i will port it to drupal6.

I have written a little documentation to get started. (suggestions for improvement is welcome)

it would be glad to have a stable version soon.

I submitted this within the forums, but I don't think it will get the attention it desires... I think this is an important step in development in Drupals Social Networking... Take a look and see if it is something that will draw the attention and the enthusiasm that it deserves. If it is deemed usable, then I will start working on an API.

I have a consumer information site in a very specific niche. I've got AdSense and Commission Junction accounts today, but I think it would be very feasible to sell CPM ads directly (since this is such a specific niche and I know a lot of the players personally). The question is, using what platform?

My closest competitor uses Open AdStream by Real Media (and they say this on their site!) but their site also happens to be written in ColdFusion so I don't think of them as cutting-edge...

Hi,
I'm using views.module (altogether with some other modules) to run an events site for my town. I'm trying to get some views from the events nodes (CCK content type) but I don't have a clue how to filter them properly.