So far, we have talked about getting in touch with either an individual user, all of our user base, or users of a specific mailing list they signed up to. Another scenario is that we might want to remind our inactive users about our site. The inactive_user
module allows us to send reminders to users who have not been active within a certain period of time. This is made possible because Drupal records the time a user was last active. With this module we can hopefully entice some of our more inactive users back to the site. Unfortunately, this module is not yet ready for Drupal 7, though a development version is available. The module website should be periodically checked for updates or alternatives as they are developed, at http://drupal.org/project/inactive_user.
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Overview of this book
Drupal is ideally equipped to serve as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook or MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking websites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature.
Drupal 7 Social Networking provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users, to marketing, to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you choose!
Starting from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking, right through to more complicated aspects, you will progressively learn how to add to and expand your social networking site and add more features. You will learn how to secure your social network, deploy it on the Internet, and keep it running and well maintained. As social networking sites rely on the participation of their users, this book helps you to structure your site in such a way so that users can easily and enjoyably contribute, thus creating a powerful social network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Drupal and Social Networking
Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site
User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs
Users and Profiles
Enabling User Interaction
Social Seasoning
Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network
How We Can Design Our Site
Communicating with Our Users
Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network
Easing Growing Pains
Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies
Setting up a Local Development Environment
Installed Modules
Index
Customer Reviews