How to set up a Social Networking site using Joomla
 

If done right, social network sites are self-generating traffic and content machines. Your users create content which attract more users which create more content... you see where this can lead. Here's one guy's tutorial on how to set up a social networking site using Joomla: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/ot...-using-joomla/

Awesome, thanks for the link. :thumbsup

Nice thanks :)

Good stuff as always Gene :thumbsup

JomSocial is a nice script. And that's a great share Gene.

Joomunity is a nice one too.

http://joomunity.org

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wow this is exactly what Im looking for!!

Thanks, man!

Might give this one a shot w/ a spare domain... :thumbsup

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There are also some other great social community scripts that alot of our non adult clients use

http://boonex.com (dolphin)
http://certifiedhosting.com/dolphin-hosting

http://elgg.com/
http://certifiedhosting.com/elgg-hosting

You guys might find these interesting as well :)

Interesting... never tried joomla as social bookmarking site.

Has anyone implemented this and was result better than using wp + buddypress ?

Thanks for the link.

Thread bookmarked.

I've been wanting to play around with Joomla. Thanks.

I use Joomla on my site and have had great results with it

Nice! will take a peek!:thumbsup

Thanks for the link,

Your knowledge sharing is appreciated.

You're very welcome:thumbsup

I would try WordPressMU with the BuddyPress plugin, much easier. I'm blogging about it at http://www.createsocialnetworkingsite.com/

joomla is slow.

We have a whole slew of tutorials available for Joomla http://seo.gotwebhost.com/category/joomla/

Do you ever have an original post or even an original thought in your head?

Don't bother him - he's trying to be the SEO/web development expert of the forum.

What a big business. It's amazing how much traffic sites like Facebook get.

Well, he fails. Watching the GFY masses eating out of his copy and pasting hand makes me want to puke. Some people are really slow.