Introduction:
BuddyPress is a plugin for the WordPress blogging platform that allows you to create an online social network. BuddyPress enhances your standard WordPress blog to support common standard features of an online community service like Ning: customizable member profiles, blogs, a discussion forum, photo galleries and videos. By using one of the many WordPress plugins available you can also add a shared calendar to BuddyPress and track group activities and events. Other core features of BuddyPress include: activity streams, file sharing and private messaging. To style your BuddyPress-powered social network you can choose among several readily-available templates and assign your social network a unique domain name for a small fee.
Licensed: BuddyPress is completely free and open source.
Link: http://buddypress.org/
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GroupSite is an online social collaboration tool that you can use to create your own social network. GroupSite tries to take the best out of social network applications and collaboration services while merging the best of the two worlds: customizable member profiles, group blog, discussion forum, photo galleries, videos and shared calendar are all standard features. Other core characteristics that make GroupSite stand out are: file sharing, members endorsement, analytics, permission controls, readily-available templates, email digest and more.
Licensed: Free to use (but ad-supported) or starting from $29 per month
Link: http://www.groupsite.com/
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Grou.ps is a social application platform that allows you to create and manage an online group. Grou.ps has all standard features that you would expect to handle your online group: member profiles, blogs, discussion forum, shared calendar, photo galleries and video. Also, you have other features like file sharing, chat, permission controls to specify precisely who can access your content inside the group, the possibility to create a wiki and much more. Distinctive features of Grou.ps are a location-sharing option to visualize your group members on a shared map and the ability to aggregate your social media and post updates from services like Twitter, Facebook or YouTube inside your own group.
Licensed: Free for the first 100GB of data transferred, you will be charged 0.90 credits (dollars) per additional GB of storage used.
Link: http://grou.ps/
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Spruz allows you to create free websites enhanced with social networking features. Blogs, video sharing, photo galleries, forum discussion, shared calendars and member profiles are all standard features of Spruz. Advanced features include: file sharing, permission controls, readily-available templates, chat, analytics, and much more. Your website will also be completely customizable with a drag-and-drop interface and greater control over the appearance of your social site. To ease the transition for former Ning users, Spruz offers a migration script that allows you to transfer your Ning community to a brand new Spruz website.
Licensed: Completely free! You can create and use your website for as long as you like for free.
Link: http://www.spruz.com/
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ThatsToday is an online service that lets you create an online group where you can gather your friends and fans to collaborate on common projects, exchange files, videos, photos and run a multi-author blog. Here are in more detail the main features of ThatsToday: Member profiles, blog, photo-sharing, video-sharing, discussion forum, shared calendar with built-in Google Maps support. Other distinctive characteristics of ThatsToday include Facebook and GMail integration, private messaging, file sharing, RSS feeds and the ability to integrate all your social network profiles.
Licensed: Completely free to use
Link: http://thatstoday.com/
1 comments:
I don't really think these tools are truly helpful when it comes down to knowledge management, since they are somehow isolated and not embedded in a bigger set of tools (like a knowledge management intranet)
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