Integrating og_group with group's social networks accounts

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miromarchi's picture

Hi everybody, I'm new to the group, a beginner to drupal, non programmer... Still, I have a good question (I guess):

How is it possible to associate a social account to an organic group in drupal 7?

In the website I am working on there will be og_groups (nodes) for different organizations (which are associations, cooperatives, social enterprises, citizens' committees, ethical purchasing groups, ... of the city I live in).

Hence it would be very nice to associate to these og_groups the various social accounts which organizations already use: lets say the facebook account for instance.

The features needed can be:

  • content syncing: it would be useful to import/export posts or events from these social accounts to og_group homepages and viceversa.
  • per group "follow us on..." links
  • any other idea?

I have searched for this but I didn't came up with a solution, yet.

  • I know that users can behave as groups, this maybe a good route for associating accounts to groups (the group is a user) via drupal social contrib modules (e.g. HybridAuth Social Login;
  • Social share modules (e.g. social media) which allow to have links on a drupal site, targeting social accounts, i.e. "follow us on ..."; these could be extended to be configurable not only for entire site, but per og_group; I've found a related issue: Social Media Links for nodes as Fields.
  • I have the idea that RSS feeds can play a role for importing/exporting/syncing content per groups.

Anybody is interested in this feature? Anybody already did it?
Thanks

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Social profile field

miromarchi's picture

I've found a module that seems perfect for the task of creating social media links per node (per organic group): Social profile field.

It is super simple, just a link field with autorecognition of social media from the url, which autoselect the right icon.

At the moment I see these networks are auto-recognized:

facebook
linkedin
youtube
blogger
blog.billsbills
ncbankruptcyexpert

but I believe it is easy to add others.

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