Community Builder beyond social sites

Community Builder beyond social sites

@ J and Beyond

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A short story …

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Our profiles:

Beat B. Nick A.

‘nant’ on forums Athens, Greece MS EE, MS CS Telecom / CIO “Good engineers don’t

need tools, bad ones also have no use for them”

‘beat’ on forums Lake Geneva,

Switzerland MS EE/CS, PhD CS Internet security /

web-apps “Make it as simple as

possible, but no less”

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Presentation Agenda Social networks Community Builder™ Extending CB and CBSubs™ Strategy – vision – future Hosting and managing communities Summary

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Social network … what is it? People interacting

Two ‘types’ of people interactionsFriends type (more personal)Community type (more public)

Searching for candidatesCommon interests Invitations (public/open and private/direct)

InteractionsEstablishing contactCommunicating (internal, external)Sharing (internal, external)

A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called "nodes," which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, common interest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_structure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdependency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige


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Social network … what is it? Examples of social networks on the web

www.facebook.com (CB on facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7809086610 )

www.linkedin.com(CB on linkedin: www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=72919&trk=hb_side_g )

www.myspace.com www.ning.com Joomla enables you to have your social network on

your site A good Joomla tutorial about building online

communitieswww.compassdesigns.net/joomla-tutorials/building-on

line-communities-with-joomla

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http://www.facebook.com/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7809086610

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=72919&trk=hb_side_g

http://www.myspace.com/

http://www.ning.com/

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-tutorials/building-online-communities-with-joomla

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-tutorials/building-online-communities-with-joomla


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Social network … what is it? Relationships are mutual trust and knowing each

other User management

Registration, approval, workflow, subscriptions, etc.. Connect users

Adding "friends" network exploration relational, etc.. Profiles

Images, information, fact sheets, applications, etc. Search

Lists, Advanced Research, by shared interests, location, etc.. Communication

Private messaging, email, forums, blogs, reviews, etc.. Groups

Management, moderation, privileges, etc..

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Social network … why? Why should I let my users interact on MY site? Will it help my site? How to implement? Is this here to last? Concerns? Integrate? How to follow?

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Social network … when to use? The member brings to your site:

Life credibility openness enthusiasm ideas and valuable feedback their friends, their recommendations Bring people closer to you collective intelligence (of which you are part of!)

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Social network … how? External controlling interest (there anyway):

Facebook, Linked-in, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Buzz, ...

Outside with limited control and data relocated: Ning, Google Groups, Wave

Internal to your site: Without Joomla: Elgg, ...With Joomla: Community Builder (CB) “CBE“ Jomsocial Jomunity (tuiyo) Anahita

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Community Builder™

People

and numbers

Technical

Strategic Historic

CB

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Community Builder™ People perspective

Team

Workgroups

Community

Facts and Key points

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Facts and key points Leading social networking solution for Joomla and

Mambo Most popular extension on JED 2+ million installations from 300.000+ registered

members 180+ CB extensions Stable (first beta release Aug. 2004 ~ Mambo

era) Secure (only 2 vulnerabilities reported in its 6

year history – last one was 2 years ago) Robust and tuned for performance (5000

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Community 300.000+ registered Joomlapolitans Supporters “Documentation subscribers” (35 € /

year) Many third party developers (hundreds of

extensions)

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Community Builder™ Work-Groups CB Team

3 dedicatedprofessionals full-time(Beat, Nick, Kyle)

A dozen volunteershalf-dozen contractors

CB Testing

GroupJive

CBSubs™

Translation

Third-party developer

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Community Builder™ Technical

ArchitectureCore

Functionality

Plug-ins

Features

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Core key social networking features:Registration and approval workflows (4)Membership data gatheringProfiles organized in fields (many types) and tabsMember interactions called “connections”. 16 workflows 1-

6 degrees.Community moderation tools (“reporting”, “banning”,

“blocking”, image moderation)Users listing and searchingAdditional core functions integrate with the underlying CMS

and key extensions (forum, PMS, newsletter[L], blog[L])

Core key social networking features:Registration and approval workflows (4)Membership data gatheringProfiles organized in fields (many types) and tabsMember interactions called “connections”. 16 workflows 1-

6 degrees.Community moderation tools (“reporting”, “banning”,

“blocking”, image moderation)Users listing and searchingAdditional core functions integrate with the underlying CMS

and key extensions (forum, PMS, newsletter[L], blog[L])

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Community Builder™ features

Core functionality

CB Team add-ons

3PD CB extensions

Registration/approval (4)

Profiles (fields and tabs)

ACL for tabsProfile templatesFields (12 types)Connections (16 wf,

1-6 d)Moderation toolsUser lists and

searchingCMS integration

(articles)Key extensions

integration(forum, PMS, ...)

Registration/approval (4)

Profiles (fields and tabs)

ACL for tabsProfile templatesFields (12 types)Connections (16 wf,

1-6 d)Moderation toolsUser lists and

searchingCMS integration

(articles)Key extensions

integration(forum, PMS, ...)

GroupJiveCaptchaPrivacyProfileBook (G+B+W)ProfileGallery

(Quotas)Ajax File fieldRating fieldAjax text fieldAutowelcomeLatest visitorsFacebook / Twitter

connectContent moduleAdmin module

GroupJiveCaptchaPrivacyProfileBook (G+B+W)ProfileGallery

(Quotas)Ajax File fieldRating fieldAjax text fieldAutowelcomeLatest visitorsFacebook / Twitter

connectContent moduleAdmin module

Over 180 listings on JED

Almost every Joomla extension has CB integration features

Published API enables third party development of clean extensions

Over 180 listings on JED

Almost every Joomla extension has CB integration features

Published API enables third party development of clean extensions

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New CB API doc!


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architecture

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CB 1.2 API examples Get unique User handle:

$cbUser = CBuser::getInstance( (int) $user_id );

Get user’s profile data (raw): $user = $cbUser->getUserData();

Get user’s profile field, rendered in html for display: $html = $cbUser->getField( 'avatar' );

Get user’s profile field, rendered as exportable data: $data = $cbUser->getField( 'avatar’, null, ‘csv’ );

Get a given tab of the user profile: $html = $cbUser->getTab( (int) $tab_id );

Get all tabs rendered of a given position on the user profile: $html = $cbUser->getPosition( 'center' );

Get all positions rendered, indexed: $userViewTabs= $cbUser->getProfileView();

Render whole profile using CB template: $html = HTML_comprofiler::_cbTemplateRender( $cbTemplate, $user,

'Profile', 'drawProfile', array( &$user, &$userViewTabs ), $output );

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Strategy perspective CB is GPL and FREE Funded by Documentation subscriptions and seek

other financial support to keep CB FREE and GPL. High quality and secure releases Support other GPL projects when possible

(Joomla, Simpleboard, Joomlaboard, Fireboard, Kunena, UddeIM, Yanc, GroupJive, …)

Be “Community” aware (still support our Mambo users)(after all this is a “community builder” project)

Sound framework instead of quick add-ins (+/-) Provide the best forum support possible with

available resources

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More Community Builder™ historic

view Mambo era

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More Community Builder™ historic

view Joomla era

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Extending CB and CBSubs™ The CB Team has been providing its own CB

extensions: CB Team add-ons (Profilebook, ProfileGallery,

Captcha, Privacy, AutoWelcome, Last Visitors, Facebook Connect, Twitter Connect, Rating field, Ajax text field, Ajax, File field, etc.)

GroupJive – a group management extension now supported by CB Team. GroupJive 1.8 stable makes extensive use of CB API.

CBSubs™ - the most powerful Membership Subscriptions Solution for Joomla.

Templates – the 2 fastest packages for Joomla with CB templates included (MyCommunity and Coolness)

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CB Team plug-ins CB has API and can be extended cleanly and

future proof with plug-ins: Profilebook (guesbook, blog, wall for profiles) Profilegallery (simple image/file gallery for profiles

with quota) Privacy (apply privacy to any field or tab – even on

3PD tabs) Captcha (apply challenge to CB forms – can be used

elsewere) Ajax text field plugin (adds a new fieldtype for

frontend edits) Ajax file field plugin (fieldtype for file field in profile) Rating field plugin Autowelcome Authentication plugins (Facebook, Twitter, more to

come …) Many more in poc phase – need to find way to

share earlier …

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CB Team plug-ins: ProfileBook

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More CB Team plug-ins:

ProfileGallery

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CB Team plug-ins: Privacy

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CB Team plug-ins: Rating field

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Facebook/Twitter

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Visitors,Captcha,AW Latest visitors Captcha AutoWelcome

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More CB Team plug-ins: Ajax text

fields

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More CB Team plug-ins: Ajax file

field

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More CB Team plug-ins: Admin

module

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Templates Templates: MyCommunity and Coolness

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MyCommunity template

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Coolness template Joomla template CB template

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CBSubs™ membership subscription solution

CBSubs™ is a “special” plugin created for “our need” and commercialized to support FREE CB

Turn your Joomla website into a subscriptions based service that protects any Joomla content element:

article, category, section, component, module, … based on “subscription plans”. Has built-in access control mechanism

Clean, robust, no hacking solution CBSubs™ has its own API and can have its own

“plug-ins” CBSubs™ 1.1 will have a payment gateway API

and 1.2 will further open API for other integrations.

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CBSubs™: Architecture

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CBSubs™: Payment center Payment center shows nice overview of last 7 day

activity: Number of transactions, Completed payments, New

Registrations, Upgrades, Renewals

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CBSubs™: Main Panel

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CBSubs™: Architecture

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• PrivilegesCBSubs

™Plan A

Joomla

• Joomla 1.0.X

• Joomla 1.5.X

• Joomla 1.6.?

Joomla Extensions

• CB• DOCman• Remository• Jawards• Jevents• VirtuMart• GroupJive• Alphapoint

s• Pap4• Idevaffiliat

e• AcyMailing• SOBI• Mostrees• JoomGaller

y• Kunena• many more

CBSubs™

• Settings• Currency• Gateways• Plans• Baskets• Payments• Notificatio

ns• Subscriptio

ns• Donations• Merchandi

se• Statistics• History log


™Plan B


™Plan C


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CBSubs™: Protection (ACL)

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STRATEGY – VISION – FUTURE

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Incubator Initiative Goal: to push CB Team

‘poc’ ideas and work to users and inspire common working think-tank process.

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What need / goal? The CB Team has many “proof-of-concept”

implementations that have not been released We would like to share this work with

community members in order to inspire and operate in a “think-tank” type of

environment. Who and how?

“Incubator” forge project area that will contain its own forums for discussions and idea sharing.

Can other developers also participate? The longer term goal is to find a mechanism to

allow others to participate and share their project “p-o-c” builds.

Currently we have 12 “p-o-c” projects to share!

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Community Builder 2.0 New look and feel New MVC template

system New built-in

functionality by CB Team

To be released this year!

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2.0 Key concepts

Extensive use of the CB API power (demonstrated and fine-tuned in CBSubs™ product)

More field types, more built-in plug-ins New look – new MVC templating system Ajax frontend Activity plugin and extended ACL

Get involved! Community designers will be able to

propose what the new CB 2.0 profile will look like!

Use case discussions will be opened to community to make sure that included functionality can support as many use cases as possible out of the box.

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CB 1.2.x for Joomla 1.6

We are ready, is Joomla?

POC work already done!

Demo anyone?

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CBSubs™ 1.1 In workgroup testing* Has Gateway API 2checkout support

included Fully translatable Partner developer

program

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Key features Support of Authorize.net new silent calls

for auto-recurring payments Can support compatible payment

gateways 2Checkout payment gateway support

included Backend now fully translatable via

language plug-in Bug fixes of course

In CBSubs™ workgroup for testing*, to be released in June.

CBSubs™ 1.2 will have: Open API for other integrations (plug-ins,

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GroupJive 2.0 100% CB API usage Installed as CB plugin In workgroup testing

(b7) RC to be released in

June

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Gro

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Jive 2

.0 Key features GroupJive 2.0 is now a CB plugin Categories – moderators Groups – moderators Open, private, by invitation Group bulletin board Integration with forum Fully translatable (backend and frontend)

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GroupJive 2.0

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CB Connect (incubator)

Google friends connect Gadgets as fields!

Facebook opengraph Facebook apps as

fields! Opensocial API

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CB Connect (incubator project)

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More CB Connect: Friends Connect

Comment

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Google Comment Gadget

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More CB Connect: Facebook

LiveStream

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Hosting and managing communities Technical issues

Initially Mambojoe.com and Joomlapolis.com were hosted on shared environments. As volumes increased, problems did also. So we decided to start using dedicated environments and we have now created a Joomlapolis Hosting service for our community members.

Human nature related issues We have been managing a very large community

for a long period and have learned a lot about day-to-day issues. There is a fine line that separates self-moderation and external control. We would like to share this concept with you.

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Hosting communities JP Hosting Service: We have developed a professional

hosting service with the following characteristics: Server clustered and optimized for CB / Joomla /

CBSubs Highly Secure Very high availability, clustering, fail-safe, incl. RAID

Network Intercontinental data-centres Automated Network Management & Off-site backups Very high performance clusters:

2.4 Gbit / s LAN1000 Gb Internet8 terabytes disks32 Gb RAM

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Managing Communities

Tips and tricks for the "perfect Community Builder”: Content, products and quality services Honesty Fairness Modesty Respect and help others Admit mistakes and limitations Thank, reward, empower, build Do not delete / censor unless behavior rules

transgressed You do not own, but are simply a member Finding the right business model takes time

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Summary

The Community Builder project has the strategy, the tools, the infrastructure, the track record and the community to keep CB at the cutting edge of social networking frameworks.

Thank you ….

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Community Builder beyond social sites

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