[p2p-research] VERY urgent request for Ning

[Samuel Rose]

Personally, would recommend not using Buddy Press, which is fraught
with bugs and problems in my opinion.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 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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