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Community Management System
Create digital spaces that empower your members to share with Open Social's out-of-the-box solution for your online community. Open Social is used by international organisations around the world such as The United Nations, Greenpeace, the European Commission, Scouts and many more.
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Open Social is a great match for knowledge sharing, communities of practice and ideation communities. It's used by NGOs, governments and hundreds of organizations, big and small, to connect to their members, volunteers and customers.
Partners and allies regularly sponsor the development of the Open Social project. Sponsors are UNDP, foraus, The European Commission and many more.
Open Social's Community Experience Platform (CXP) as SaaS
Our platform is also available as a Software-as-a-Service. This includes hosting, support, automatic releases, plus the possibility to get access to all our extensions and professional services.
Contact Open SocialExtensions for the Software-as-a-Service
Open Social offers numerous extensions. Here are some of them:
- Real Time Chat
Chat is a convenient feature that allows people to communicate in real-time with one another without interrupting the tasks they are busy with. - Zoom or BigBlueButton Integration
This extension adds the option to connect a live video room to any open social event. The site manager can configure this extension to use Zoom (if licenses are available) or Big Blue Button as an open-source alternative. With the start of the event, a link to the meeting room is automatically made available for all enrolled members. - Real Time Content Collaboration
This feature allows multiple members to work together on a single document at the same time, make edits, add comments and propose suggestions that can be accepted or rejected. More information can be found over here. - Native App
Reach your members whenever they are on the go with a native app and push notifications and keep your community connected. More information can be found over here. - Dashboard
A dashboard is a tool used for easy information management and simple community intelligence. It’s user-friendly interface provides an at-a-glance overview of key performance indicators relevant to you and your community. More information can be found over here. - Organization Profiles
Create a dedicated space for Organizations within your community. Members can follow or become members of organizations, share organizational content, and promote networking opportunities and initiatives in a structured profile. More information can be found over here. - Resource Library
The Resource Library gives you an easily navigable directory of selected content picked by the community managers (i.e. manuals, research papers, and company news). Click here to see the resource library in action
Enterprise services and support
Open Social provides professional support and Enterprise services to software-as-a-service customers. This is provided directly by our core teams and our agency partners. A few examples:
- Custom extensions and integrations (API)
- (Security) Audit
- Maintenance and Support
- Performance Optimization (with Blackfire.io)
- In-house Developer Training
- Community Building Consultancy
For developers and site managers: roadmap, issue list and documentation
We recommend using Composer to install Open Social. See the download and install instructions at the bottom of this page. Other resources:
- Bug and feedback through issue queue on Drupal.org.
- User manuals for (end) users, site and content managers.
- main documentation for general questions, contributing FAQ and more...
Tools to help spread the word on Open Social
Highlighted projects and showcases
- Open Social success stories: Success Stories
- Beautiful design and great use of landing pages: SDG Philanthropy (drupal.org case)
- Award Winning Software - International Splash Awards 2019: splashawards.org
- Award Winning Software - Website of the Year Splash Awards DrupalJam 2020: UNDP SparkBlue platform
- Demonstrating multi-language capabilities: Open Social in Arabic
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Installation, compatibility and support
For more information on installation, php support and Drupal core compatibility please check the following page
https://www.drupal.org/docs/drupal-distributions/open-social/installing-...