Wednesday 26 December 2012

Drupal Helps in Developing Social Media Integrated Projects


The content that is being shared in social media sites is enormous and it keeps growing every second to second. According to statistics on an average a Social Media user posts around 70 posts thus making online content grow immensely in a very short time.

Managing content of this size by administrators is made comparatively simple when it is developed using Drupal. This platform has been touted as one of the best and most efficient content management systems available today. Such huge amounts of data can seem impossible to manage for businesses but when one wants to manage a content sharing platform this becomes a task which needs to be take care and this is where Drupal developers come in handy.

The coding that used to be involved when customizing a Drupal portal into a community sharing portal and this included a lot of effort for the Drupal programmer to invest. But with the latest available options the Drupal programmers can efficiently integrated content sharing with social media without writing much code but by tweaking the configuration settings efficiently. Using these options the website that is getting developed can have social media based modules which makes interaction between users simple which will develop the chances of the popularity of the website to increase.

Using these Drupal plug-ins users visiting the website can invite their friends easily within a single click using the network they are connected through. By doing this users need not use a mail client to share the information instead they can simply choose the service such as Facebook, Twitter etc to post the information they intend to share. The time and effort this saves increases the users’ interest in sharing information. By engaging users by assigning them roles also evokes interest in them to be more than just a visitor. 

By assigning roles and titles to visitors the website admin can convert them into users. By giving relationship roles to the users the admin can engage the user with various tasks which are simple and interesting. This also allows the admin to give chances for the users to bring in more users by availing the invite option. And other advanced features such as email notifications and private messaging can be provided to such elite users which will give a feel of sophistication to the users.    

Drupal developers can also integrate the option of Organic Groups to the website that is being developed. As the name goes Organic Groups option allows users to form their own individual groups so that they can post threads and queries in the forums available in the website to share information and solve queries regarding the website and the services that are being provided. Such integrations can be done according to the nature of the website and the services that are provided by it which can be decided by Drupal developer too. With such efficient advancements which can be made using Drupal it becomes simple for the user as well as the admin to make the site easier to navigate and manage.

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