[p2p-research] VERY urgent request for Ning

[Michel Bauwens]

what do other people think about adding social features to the existing
blog, which already has 3,000 subscribers ...

James, what do you think?

Michel




On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:23 PM, magius <gmagius at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/4/19 Alex Rollin <alex.rollin at gmail.com>:
>
> > Buddypress is a neat add-on for word-press.  In general, though,
> Wordpress
> > was created for a blog, and adding additional features can be dangerous
> > compared to a more established CMS platform like Drupal.
> Imho cause actually there's not an app with all the features needed,
> perhaps could be better to have many apps with a shared users'
> database. And perhaps the "center" could be the wordpress P2P
> Foundation blog, where resides the most updated contents. Around
> wordpress is possible to connect the mediawiki users' from the
> existing P2P Foundation wiki (using an integrated authentication
> plugin for wordpress) and also the  community users coming from the
> abandoned Ning.com platform (using the Buddypress plugin).
>
> > That said, the question is are people using 'social features?
> > Has anyone gone back to the Ning site to find friends and send them
> > messages? Is anyone regularly adding Youtube videos?
>
> Exactly. The Ning.com website is not wired with the blog website. Imho
> that's the reason why their features are not so used. Is better to use
> the existing blog, using the community features to connect users with
> the main website, giving them i.e. the feature to comment the
> Wordpress articles through the Buddypress integrated forum, or the
> feature to add videos to be showed on the blog..and soon.
>
>
> > It is possible to import the Wordpress blog into a new Drupal site as
> well.
>
> Sure, Drupal has the most of the features needed, but imho not at an
> excellent level as in the specialized apps like Wordpress and
> Mediawiki. The better thing could be to have "all" on an unique cms,
> also the wiki contents so to easily integrate i.e. wiki pages with
> blog articles.
>
> All depends on how many geeks want to dedicate some time to the P2P
> Foundation ;-))
>
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