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Masaryk University • Faculty of Informatics D r u p a l C o m m o n s i n P r a c t i c e : S o c i a l B u s i n e s s a n d S o c i a l N e t w o r k Master's Thesis • Bc. Matej Sabo • Brno 2015

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The Question Can the Drupal Commons enterprise social business SW be beneficial for communities around non-profit and social business companies?

The Investigation ● Research and comparison of the solutions for social business networking – Jive – SharePoint/Yammer – WordPress: Buddypresss – Joomla: JomSocial, and Community Builder

Characteristics of DC ● Zero cost of free and open source ● Development through configuration ● Support of the huge developer community ● Exceptional extensibility, flexibility, customization ● Steeper learning curve

The Real-World Assignment ● T ● Theory of Constraints wo community – Minimum resources centers around self- – Flexible requirements development, ● Get the maximum of DC educational and – DC features experience events – Drupal contributed modules ● Social network and – Developer community social business site to support their wider communities

Practical Work ● Design of content ● Strategy types and ● Requirements customization of UI analysis ● Implementation: ● Study of modules configuration and and features of DC customization of and Drupal modules ● Refinement of ● Slovak translation of requirements for MVP DC

The Key Features ● Overview of the community centers, leaders and events ● Community platform – Activity streams, friending, messaging, groups, blogs, email notifications ● Event management

Contribution of the Thesis ● Thoughts and discussion on the concept of Social Business from an interdisciplinary perspective ● Investigation of the possible benefits of using DC in the area of community social business ● The comparison with other solutions ● Implementation of a community website with the prospect of providing services to a number communities and community centers ● A plan for future development of the site, its user- base, social business and promotion activities

The Answer Although DC can greatly shorten the development of a social business site, a start-up of an Internet social business is, nevertheless, a very complex task not feasible for a small non-profit company, unless it devotes all its means towards this direction.

Thank You

Questions?

Why is the website WBS missing? ● The thesis task list (p. 9) to an extend overlaps with the project WBS

Why aren't the products compared to each other? ● Focus was on DC, an extensive cross comparison was out of scope ● T o some extent it was done in the form of comparison tables, but without round- robin evaluation (p. 18) ● Reader is referred to further resources (p. 19) Acknowledgement: Source of the background graphic: Drupal Commons theme. The logos and icons are from the corresponding company websites. The illustration on the slide “Key Features” is my own work. The website screen-shots were taken by myself.