Posted by gattica28 on January 19, 2013 at 5:07pm
Hi! My name is Michael Lagrimas, I just joined WIDT! I would like to find out if anyone has any resources, experience on using social media functions using Drupal? I am new to using Drupal and would like to use it to build a website that will use social media functions. Your input, suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
--Michael
Comments
Define "social media functions"
Hi Michael - could you define "social media functions"?
There's a great newly updated distribution of Drupal called "Commons" which provides a community site out-of-the-box:
http://drupal.org/project/commons
Define "social media functions"
Hi Steve! yes, I am basically looking for features much like some existing social media sites, and past ones. For instance, the "status update" on Facebook, a profile "Bio" of a person, a person's "Favorite" section, their favorite things e.g., songs, movies, places, food, etc. The ability to upload photos, create albums or upload videos, and have a video section or even place a video in the comment section for a relevant topic. Is this all making sense? I would like the functions to achieve these features on a website I'd like to create using Drupal. It will be a Login type website but free. This "commons" that you mentioned, might it offer any of these features? Or maybe a different concept?
--Michael
Yes
Yes, Commons has many of those functions, it's in beta version at the moment but I have it up working nicely over at http://drop.coop. There's not much in the way of media uploads yet, I believe that's being discussed on the issue queue.
You can always build one from scratch if you have specific requirements - check out things like the 'media' module http://drupal.org/project/media.
There's 20,000+ modules for Drupal to build pretty much anything you want, see http://drupal.org/project/modules/categories
There's also more distributions http://drupal.org/project/distributions, for example PushTape which is for musicians http://drupal.org/project/pushtape
HTH
Steve
Commons
Wow! Thanks a bunch Steve! I will check out those resources you referenced! So, you created Commons? This is a great start! Thanks for responding to my inquiry! Looks like I came to the right place for ideas!
--Michael
Community
Nope, the Drupal community created Commons!
Enjoy,
Steve
Community
Oh...ok. Thanks.
--Michael