Organise your communities into groups

By Nicole on 24. July 2009 in features, update | Comments(2)

With today’s update to mixxt version “boogie”, we proudly present our new and often longed-for “groups module”. When you create your own community with mixxt, the implementation of this module provides entirely new ways of collaboration and organisation in the individual networks.

A community within your community
Within the privacy and rights management of each community, admins were given the opportunity to decide which users – “simple” members, moderators or administrators – are allowed to view or edit certain content. From now on, mixxt offers a module to create groups within these communities. Imagine many sub-communities within one greater community, where e.g. content and modules are visible and editable by group members only.

Configuration and employment of the groups module
Since configuration and privacy settings are based on the general network administration, mixxt users and community hosts will surely get on well with setting up a group.

Administrators can activate the groups module in the features from the admin panel. A new tab called “groups” appears in the menu bar, and a click on this tab leads you to the start page of this new module.

Create a new group
Find a “new group” button on top of the groups start page, click it and set up your first group on mixxt: First enter a few general settings, choose a logo and a description…

… and then decide about the privacy settings:

With the “group manager” we have introduced a new member role. This manager is comparable to the administrator of a community, but in this case responsible for the respective group.

Groups administration and settings
In the current version of the groups module, we integrated forums and images, other features will follow in the near future. Activation and configuration are also based on the common network features’ settings. This screenshot shows the top part of admin panel of a sample group called “Strategies”:

Search
Another highlight – in addition to all the community features – is the search within this module: You can search within one single group feature, but also extend the search to the entire group. This means, you will not only find forum contributions to one particular keyword, but also images or members (and – coming soon – content from other modules as well).

We are really excited about the first implementations in your communities and are looking forward to our customers’ and users’ feedback. As always, questions are more than welcome: Comments are open :)

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Tags: collaboration, community, group, groups, groups module, social network, update