Membership / Association Website Building

Designing and implementing a website for a membership organization can sometimes become challenging. We all strive for the best in us to create the best possible website, but often hit a road block and hoped to find some first class resources from other Drupalers to keep us going.

I am creating this Group with the vision to unite like minded people to share their best practice examples, give tips, provide resources for people looking to create an outstanding membership website.

Some ideas and key components of a well developed membership website should include (please add to the list), but are not limited to:

• Newsletter Sign Up
• Different Level Member Registration Forms with Payment Processing
• Member Center or Account Management for Users

• Member Networking (Forum, Blog, Messaging, File Upload, Video Sharing, Groups - something a la Drupal Commons - but with Single Sign On)

• Membership Directory for Public Search (we are actually working on an integrated Google Map View to show front end users the location of the member within their profile - if anyone has done some work in this area or has some good examples, please post)

Back-end:
- Member Management (payment processing, automatic invoicing, automatic renewal reminders, member reports, automatic member upgrade to different member level, etc)