The document describes the Open Alternative Social Business Software called Commons. It is built on Drupal and provides features for communities, including blogs, wikis, profiles, friending, commenting, status updates, forums, ratings, events calendar, tagging, social networks, and analytics. It includes packaged features that are commonly needed on community sites. Commons allows administrators to better manage users and groups, contributors to efficiently manage content and collaboration, and members to create personalized experiences. It also provides flexibility, customization, and tools for community managers, developers, and innovators.

1. The
[Open
Alternative]
Social
Business
Software
Hernâni
Borges
de
Freitas
Technical
Consultant
hernani@acquia.com
@hernanibf
Sevilla,
1st
October,
2011
#acquia

2. Sorry
for
the
language

3. About
me
• .PT
• Acquia
Europe
• Technical
Consultant
• Drupal*
many
things
• Passionate
about
web
and
communities
• Travel
lover

4. About
us
Drupal
&
open
source
expertise
• Dries
Buytaert,
Drupal
founder
• Gabor
Hojtsy,
D6
• Angie
Byron,
D7
• Many
leading
community
contributors
in
engineering,
support,
and
consulting.
Software
industry
experience
• Cloud
site
deployment
• Professional
technical
support
• Services
delivery

5. Drupal
For
Everyone

6. Acquia
Network
• Communicate with Acquia
Support
• Access network
services
• Automate operations
• Optimized Drupal hosting
• Dev Cloud
• Managed Cloud

7. Helping
Drupal
Adoption

8. ¿
Commons
?

9. Social
Nature
content
users
blogs /
workflow
wikis
forums /
taxonomy
comments
Content
Social
Mgmt
Software
Systems
search
Tools
ratings
RSS
tagging
social
analytics
networks

10. Our
core
is
also
social
 675 000 Community Members
 12 000 Modules
 1000 contributors to Drupal 7

11. Government

12. Government

13. Government

14. Media

15. Media

16. Media

17. Universities

18. Universities

19. Universities

20. Communities

21. Communities

22. Communities

23. Features
Are
Common
Across
Community
Sites
“Core
features
are
now
table
stakes.”
Melissa
Parrish,
Forrester.
Symantec
Blogs
Wiki
Profiles
Friending
Commenting
Status updates
UK Gov
Event calendar
Forums
Ratings
Reputations
Polling
Groups
File sharing
Tagging
SEO
Analytics
Registration
Drupal.org
Intel
etc…

24. Packaged
into
Rapid
Deployment
Package
Site-­‐building
work
can
focus
on
your
unique
needs
-­‐
not
on
the
basics
Symantec
Nvidia
UK Gov
Commons
Drupal.org
Intel

25. Commons
Behind
the
scenes
•
Drupal
6
Core
•
~
60
contributed
modules
• Set
of
optional
features
that
provide
Enterprise
2.0
sauce.
•
No
customizations,
meaning
default
plug
and
play
Drupal
behavior.

26. Groups
Flock
together.
• Private
and
public.
• Features
that
promote
sharing
among
group
members
(activity
streams,
blogs,
documents).
• Features
configuration
per
group.
• Wikis,
blogs,
discussions,
groups,
friends,
event
calendars,
and
more

27. Profiles
Be
yourself.
• Customized
profiles.
• Customized
fields.
• User
badges
and
clear
identification.
• Interests
sharing
and
matching.
• Facebook
status
updates.

28. Share
And
learn.
• Follow
users
in
groups
and
in
the
community.
• Share
activity
and
your
feelings.
• Learn
with
others
activity
and
find
new
people.
• Collaborate
in
common
issues
and
discussions.

29. Enough talk.
Show me the gold!

30. What
Makes
Commons
Unique?
•
Built
by
a
global
community,
for
communities
•
Administrators
-­‐
better
manage
users
and
groups
•
Content
Contributors
-­‐
efficiently
manage
content
and
collaboration
•
Members
-­‐
create
unique
personalized
experiences
•
Community
Managers
-­‐
easily
make
changes
and
produce
analytics
•
Developers
-­‐
innovate
new
social
business
processes

31. Administrators
Can
Create
Custom
Roles
Administrator Authenticated Anonymous
Users Users
Roles authors editors GroupsUnlimited custom
of like users
roles,
Permissions Create Page Edit Page Operations allowed by role
permissions &
views
Views My Posts All Posts Determined by permissions

32. Contributors
Get
Flexibility
of
Drupal
CMS
• No
need
for
separate
CMS
&
integration
• Preset,
and
configurable
content
types
• Self-­‐organizing
or
managed
groups
• Pre-­‐defined
content
views
• Free
tagging
and
pre-­‐defined
vocabularies

33. Members
Can
Create
Personalized
Experiences
Users work the way they want with dashboards
• Personal
&
group
dashboards
• Social
bookmarking
• Curated
content
• Subscriptions
to
content
&
discussions

34. Community
Managers
Track
&
Analyze
Results
• Participation
&
engagement
metrics
• New
Users
• Content
• Comments
• Group
joins
• Variable
date
ranges
• Complements
Google
Analytics

35. Developers
Have
Freedom
to
Innovate
• Extend
Commons
with
10k+
modules
• Open
standards
support:
• Document
management
• Application
integration
• User
access
&
authentication

36. There’s
a
module
for
that!
• Directory
integration
•
Ldap
/
CAS
/
Shibolleth
/
Google
Apps
support
• Integration
with
other
platforms
• Salesforce
/
CMIS
/
File
Depot
• Import/Export
information
• Node
Import
/
Views
Data
Source
/
Feeds
• More
granular
control
on
groups
• OG
User
Roles
/
Content
Access
• Better
control
on
worflows
• Workflow
/
rules

37. Commons Examples

42. More Examples
Symantec
http://symantec.com/connect
Novell
http://novell.com/communities
GSA
http://interact.gsa.gov/
World Economic Forum
https://www.welcom.org/login?destination=home
Nvidia
http://developer.nvidia.com/
Red Hat
http://opensource.com/
PSCU Financial Services
http://www.riskbuzz.com/
Mitt Romney Campaign
http://mittromney.com/
Seventh Generation
http://www.seventhgeneration.com/
Social Media Today
http://socialmediatoday.com/
More case studies at:
http://showcase.acquia.com/taxonomy/term/916

43. Helping
Your
Community
Innovation
Drupal Community Modules 10k+
Upgrades & Releases
Acquia Remote Administration
Support & Maintenance
Acquia Network
Hosting
Acquia Managed Cloud
Training
Acquia Training
Implementation
Acquia JumpStart
Strategy
Acquia Commons Partner

44. So,
before
your
questions.
I
do
have
a
question.

45. So,
before
your
questions.
I
do
have
a
question.
Would
you
like
to
join
Acquia?

46. So,
before
your
questions.
I
do
have
a
question.
Would
you
like
to
join
Acquia?
We are hiring EVERYWHERE!

47. So,
before
your
questions.
I
do
have
a
question.
Would
you
like
to
join
Acquia?
We are hiring EVERYWHERE!
• Consultants
• Support
• Sales
• Engineering

48. QUESTIONS
?