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What's The Best Way To Set Up An Online Society?

by John Taylor
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OK, so I'm thinking about setting up a society or club
in a specific niche market.

I want to offer each member the opportunity to...
  1. Set up personal bio/profile pages
  2. Set & post to their own blog
  3. Network with/friend/follow other members
  4. Join specialist groups/sub-groups

The site should be capable of offering membership
at multiple levels (Free & paid) and integrate with
an autoresponder (preferably aweber)

I'd also like to be able to offer link/banner ads.

So, is there a platform/script that would do all that?

Thanks

John
#online #set #society
  • Profile picture of the author Mark Hess
    Hey John, you may want to check out what Joomla has to offer when it comes to building these types of sites: Communities - Joomla! Extensions Directory

    I was using Joomla all the time before I sold out and went to Wordpress. One of the benefits is since it's open source many times you can find developers (on the cheap) to customize things for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
    Thanks Mark,

    Doh! When I think about it... Joomla would
    be an obvious choice. I guess we've all got so
    used to using Wordpress we forget that there
    are lots of other platforms out there.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author vok
    I think vbulletin allows you to do that. Maybe check them out too.
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Ning is a community platform that allows you members to setup their own blog, I had a little group left stranded when their basic service was no longer free. It might be a bit too simple and easy to operate but they have some plugins to add functionality.

    One guy I have seen speaking at conferences is Tim Schmidt, who created a concealed weapon carry association and has taught some courses on setting up membership sites, I recall he went into some detail on creating an association in a promo-presentation, one course he did a while ago was Tribal Formula System.
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  • Profile picture of the author Agz21
    you can also look for free social networking script...you can have like a friendly facebook type society going on...

    there are free scripts so I'd say building a social networking site would be very effective.

    agz
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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Shane Roe
      Originally Posted by Agz21 View Post

      you can also look for free social networking script...you can have like a friendly facebook type society going on...

      there are free scripts so I'd say building a social networking site would be very effective.

      agz
      There is a free open source script available that goes by the name "dolphin". Might check it out.

      Has the flexibility to build sites like myspace, facebook, youtube and much more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    This script knows a lot... have seen used by other warriors:
    Elgg - Open Source Social Networking Engine.
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