Following a comment from Randall in the "Why EasySocial V 1.0 Will Help Social Community Managers Succeed?" I thought that I should start a thread for this.
So... Form our perspective groups does not need to be too sophisticated but here what we would like it to have.
1) a group profile that is similar to what you have for users (not essential but a really nice thing to have). Minimally groups need to have a picture, description, name, various flags (public, private, etc)
2) Groups should configurable to be private or public
3) Groups should have public or private discussions (EasyDiscuss) or blogs (EasyBlog) and contributions to either should be shown in the activity stream for the group (and user).
4) Within groups you should see an activity stream that shows what members of the group are doing. Since a user might be a member of multiple groups some though needs to be given to whether events which are specific to one group are shown in another ... For example it a user is a member of 2 private groups (A and B) and he/she participates in a discussion that is private to group A then members of that group should see something in the activity stream but members of groups B should not.
5) The group activity stream should include notifications for people joining or leaving the group
6) if events, photos, and videos are added then groups should have them too. For me these are less important than groups themselves and of the 3 events are the most important.
7) a group file archive would be nice, but not essential
8) there should be a configurable option to allow specific members to approve memberships in the group
9) administrators should be able to designate moderators and administrators and moderators need to be able to remove users, activity entries and perhaps group specific discussions, responses and blog entries
10) there should be several ways to list groups and a way to apply for entry... this is where a configurable profile would be nice. It would allow us to define what information is required for entry into the group.
11) A member profile page should show what groups he is in.
12) a privacy option would be nice so that users can decide whether to show what groups they are in or specifically exclude some of the groups from this list.
13) send an e-mail to all members is nice to have but not necessary.
14) User configurable e-mail notifications to members by mail would be nice
15) some form of group categorization would be nice.
16) report a group to the moderator would be nice. Does Easy Social do this?
98) There should be a way to sync Joomla groups and EasySocial groups... especially since EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss use Joomla groups.
99) ideally it should trigger events on group add, group remove, add member, remove member, etc
That's it for now. I'll post more as I think of it.
Chris
So... Form our perspective groups does not need to be too sophisticated but here what we would like it to have.
1) a group profile that is similar to what you have for users (not essential but a really nice thing to have). Minimally groups need to have a picture, description, name, various flags (public, private, etc)
2) Groups should configurable to be private or public
3) Groups should have public or private discussions (EasyDiscuss) or blogs (EasyBlog) and contributions to either should be shown in the activity stream for the group (and user).
4) Within groups you should see an activity stream that shows what members of the group are doing. Since a user might be a member of multiple groups some though needs to be given to whether events which are specific to one group are shown in another ... For example it a user is a member of 2 private groups (A and B) and he/she participates in a discussion that is private to group A then members of that group should see something in the activity stream but members of groups B should not.
5) The group activity stream should include notifications for people joining or leaving the group
6) if events, photos, and videos are added then groups should have them too. For me these are less important than groups themselves and of the 3 events are the most important.
7) a group file archive would be nice, but not essential
8) there should be a configurable option to allow specific members to approve memberships in the group
9) administrators should be able to designate moderators and administrators and moderators need to be able to remove users, activity entries and perhaps group specific discussions, responses and blog entries
10) there should be several ways to list groups and a way to apply for entry... this is where a configurable profile would be nice. It would allow us to define what information is required for entry into the group.
11) A member profile page should show what groups he is in.
12) a privacy option would be nice so that users can decide whether to show what groups they are in or specifically exclude some of the groups from this list.
13) send an e-mail to all members is nice to have but not necessary.
14) User configurable e-mail notifications to members by mail would be nice
15) some form of group categorization would be nice.
16) report a group to the moderator would be nice. Does Easy Social do this?
98) There should be a way to sync Joomla groups and EasySocial groups... especially since EasyBlog and EasyDiscuss use Joomla groups.
99) ideally it should trigger events on group add, group remove, add member, remove member, etc
That's it for now. I'll post more as I think of it.
Chris