Community building is more than just software, and more than just people. The nature of online communities is changing, no longer defined exclusively by bulletin boards or superblogs.
This is a group for everyone where we can discuss what it is that makes for a rich and robust community -- from the perspective of web developer, designer, evangelist, organization, member ... always with an eye on Drupal.
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Drupal - Asterisk Integration Works
As far as I can tell, our site www.forestlake.ca is currently the only working example of asterisk drupal integration. I would love to be disabused of this notion, so if there are other working sites out there, please let us know.
At any rate you can read about the "Forest Lake Telephone Company" at this posting on drupal .org: http://drupal.org/node/59187 or you can just register and try it out on the forest lake site. Go to : http://forestlake.ca/forestlake/?q=node/466 for instructions on trying it out.
The good news in all this is that I have an asterisk server all ready and working with Drupal. If you want to install and test the asterisk integration module developed by Malthus, you can do so by downloading and installing the asterisk module (http://drupal.org/project/asterisk) on your site. (Important, as far as I know, the asterisk integration module only works so far on 4.6. I do not know what plans Malthus might have to upgrade).
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ok some advice requested re: mlm people on sites
Hello there, everyone :-) -- and I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been struggling with some issues, and have been, up until this point, a bit unsure as to how to move forward with them.
So, I have had to remove two people from my web site, www.ithou.org, in the last several days because they seemed to be each promoting a "get rich quick" multi-level marketing scheme. Maybe I have an unfairly biased opinion about those setups. But it seems like it is a situation in which, at the least, there is not full disclosure.
One of the people who I removed from the web site had been kicked off another forum -- and the other person who I've removed from the web site was listed under "scam.com". So, I have removed these people.
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Best practices anyone?
Hey all, just thought I'd throw my hat in the ring so Laura doesn't feel too lonely up there on the front page.. ;)
What I would love to see come out of this group is some "best practices" documents for people building community sites. Especially sites geared towards online communities where the end user has special needs.
By special needs, I am not only referring to accessability issues, (although that is certainly one concern) I also mean things like ;
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How do you build sites for youth that give them adequate privacy, security and priveleges(spelling?) so they can feel like they own the space, while keeping parents satisfied that their children are safe from online harrassment and stalking?
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How do you provide a granulated set of user roles for a semi-closed group of low-level technophobes without overcomplicating the means to contribute to the site? [not like I've ever had to deal with that or anything ;)]
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How do you explain copyright and copyleft to inexperienced webpublishers and transmit the importance of the issue adequately? Is it even necesary? What are we leaving out if we don't talk about copyright before giving a community a site they can publish to?
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How does a web developer/social marketer do knowledge transmission for community-building online to end-users/ site editors who mostly use analogue technologies to communicate with their constituents.
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When is a community website the solution and when is it overkill? How do you help your client develop a project/product that really fits their needs.
Welcome to....
...whatever this group ends up being. This is a group to talk about -- well, the description above tells it all.
So why not kick of things here by sharing your thoughts? What should we talk about? What makes for a good online community?
Possible starter: The Netsquared conference has been abuzz on community building. Did anyone attend? What was your take?
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