Together with Malthe Borch and Lennart Regebro, I developed a small plugin ( collective.contentrules.webservices) that works in conjunction with the Plone 3 content rules which will send updates to Twitter whenever you add a newsitem or event to your Plone site.
We have it working also with Eventful.com and Upcoming.org for easily publishing events that you add to your Plone site to those services. We plan to add support for Facebook and other services as well. I gave a demo of this tool at the Science Tools sprint in Davis, CA last week, and if there are others interested, I could prepare a short screencast to demo the features. Nate On 12/12/07, Aaron VanDerlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think creating lighter weight tools that plug into existing social > networking infrastructure is a good route. It is my observation that > users want to stay in Facebook to do Facebook like activities, but like > being able to reference their affiliations across sites. So it makes > more sense to display or write to Twitter within your Plone site than to > create a Plone version of Twitter (Plitter?). After all, it is about > linking the connections right? > > Aaron > > > > Nynke Kruiderink wrote: > > Thank you Peter Hollands for starting this dicussion and for the > > responses. > > > > We are currently planning a revamp of our iconnect-online.org platform > > so that it can support a web 2.0-ish way of facilitating thematic > > communities/groups. > > > > I am a great fan of Plone but when we were at the brink of starting this > > endeavor I was doubting whether Plone was the right platform for the > > job, or if Drupal would be better suited. I'm still not 100% sure but we > > have decided to try it with Plone based on the following findings, and > > please feel free to let me know if these findings don't match your > > perspective/understanding. I am here to learn. :> > > > > - No open source cms is web 2.0 out of the box. > > - A lot of Web 2.0 is attitude/approach/culture rather than tools per > > se. > > - Plone has a lot of add-ons which do fall within the web 2.0 > > expectations of users today. The ones we are planning to use are: > > * Zwiki > > * Quills > > * Tagging > > * Bookmarking > > * PloneProfiles > > * PloneBookmarklets > > > > We will (try to) encourage a certain protocol with some tags so that the > > thematic virtual folders we will be building throughout the website will > > reflect the content members are adding. Initially we want to minimize > > the editorial management and allow all content published by members to > > be visible by all members. But this is also based on the fact that we're > > not expecting thousands of members, so the community members should know > > one another. We know this is a risk, but it's a risk we want to take to > > increase the sense of empowerment and ownership, vital to community > > building I think. > > > > But indeed, the tools we have available stay close to the core of Plone, > > namely publishing/managing content. In terms of social networking > > functionalities, I am not familiar and haven't heard of > > tools/functionalities which are similar to those as in Facebook for > > instance, which I have been using for 3 months now. Don't get me wrong, > > I don't think Plone should try to be another Facebook. However some > > minimal options such as leaving bilateral messages for each other, or a > > "writing on a members wall" (is that like the commenting system you > > mentioned Jon?), (Twitter-like) status updates, might be a small > > investment with high rewards. > > > > But if I've missed something and someone can point me in the right > > direction in this regard, I would only be grateful. > > > > Again, thank you Peter for starting this discussion and I look forward > > to thoughts of others. > > > > Sincerely, > > Nynke > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Jon Stahl > > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:07 AM > > To: A list for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) using Plone. > > Subject: Re: Plone - Community Plumbing - or Just Content Managment ! > > > > Peter Hollands wrote: > >> Is Plone going to develop into a Community Plumbing Platform ? Will it > > have h > >> as standard the features that Non-Profits nead to build a constituency > > ? > >> > > What is your definition of "the standard features?" > > > > In my opinion, Plone is already a community plumbing platform. > > > > It lets users register, login, create content, comment on other content, > > > > etc. > > > > Does that mean it has every feature you might need to build an online > > community? Of course not! And especially not out of the box. Plone > > (like Drupal, Joomla and most other open-source CMSes) is a "lean core" > > with lots of add-on modules. Which add-on modules exist are solely a > > function of what the community needs and wants... and, most critically, > > is willing and able to pay for! > > > > When I think about building an online constituency, I think that > > constituent relationship management is at the heart of that. Plone > > doesn't do that, and I don't think it should try. But Plone does > > integrate with powerful, inexpensive CRM platforms such as > > Salesforce.com. That's a smart approach that avoids reinventing the > > wheel. > > > > Plone always has room to improve. But just because Plone.org doesn't say > > > > "Community Plumbing" on the homepage doesn't mean it isn't an extremely > > suitable tool for groups of people to work together to create and share > > content and build community. And over the next couple of years, we're > > going to continue building on this amazing platform to make it even > > better at those tasks. > > > > A couple of obvious places I think it would be great to invest some > > money in: > > > > -- The commenting system (building on some great initial work by Tom > > Lazar, Kai Diefenbach and Christian Scholz) > > -- The user profile system (to make it easier to extend user profiles > > with simple custom fields) > > > > > > $0.02, > > jon > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NGO mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo > > > _______________________________________________ > NGO mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo > -- Nate Aune - [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://jazkarta.com blog: http://nateaune.com twitter: http://twitter.com/natea
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