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@erich73: did you hear about email ?
i want to come back to your first question around the “marketing point of view”. I recently searched about “community manager” and found a lot of answers in the marketing sector. Not what i expected, but suddenly i realised that while we’re playing with BP, some marketers with long teeth are building complicated strategies to conquest markets with social tools. To make it brief, for these marketers, a community manager is a kind of “propaganda staffel” leader, if you understand this expression.
If not and to be clear, i asked holly Google and here is what the algorythm god said to me:
marketing & social networks 119 000 000 -> google.fr results
marketing & strategy 89 100 000
marketing & experts 74 800 000
marketing & teacher 48 800 000
marketing & mass media 41 000 000
marketing & professor 33 900 000
marketing & humor 16 300 000
and the best for the end:
marketing usability 5 640 000
and now let us compare with:
buddypress 2 680 000
buddypress and marketing 601 000
so we can finally enlarge to a more generic request as:
marketing & open source 64 400 000
which lies somewhere between “teachers” and “experts”.
This are funny examples to illustrate what you can expect for your question “in terms of marketing”.
View a brief resume here: https://radiowalker.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/buyit1.jpg
(not intended to offend anybody here)
A community is a group of people, unified around a project, a personnality, ideas and a RICH CONTENT. But it is also a forum (in sense of forum romanum) and naturally a politic placeholder, as a process by which groups of people make collective decisions.
So you don’t need our opinion about why and how to build a community. This is your intimate affair. You have the choice and what you decide, you have to assume.
Requesting the recipe does not cook the potatoes. Giving the recipe either.
I think that the tool doesn’t make the community. BP is just a tool, not a passport for have anything…
If you know your community, the people who make it, their needs in matter of communication , you can choose a tool; Maybe BP, maybe another system…
Don’t think that if you invest a lot of your time and efforts into the tool settings, that you receive immediate feedback from anybody. As a BP user, you’re only the tool builder, a part, a little part of a fresh borned community or an old one, with many subscribers and perhaps plenty years of experience and several internal usage.
Depends also of the age of the public you accept. Sharing with “internet generation” people is not the same as sharing with seniors… Sharing with sport clubs is not the same as sharing in a business company.
I’m always affraid when reading here on the forum, people who ask for enhancement a la facebook ! This is only trend, not long term usage… It’s now, not tomorrow. And maintaining a community or simply a group is not only manage today, it’s essentially manage tomorrow, but also next mounth or more better, next year.
BP didn’t this. And never will do i guess
BP can be a trap if you don’t take care of what people are. Bp certainly brings you some satisfaction if you give people what they want, but this doesn’t give you any waranty that you are right by deciding “now i have my BP community”, because the second question who follows immediatly after is: “where are the people ?”.
Your question above is the evidence of that.
CSS is only a solution for display.
stwc is right.
Did you read this ?
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-fbconnect-usernames-with-foreign-characters#post-25347
there is, maybe, a solution in the post.: a plugin as below to allow non-ansi character account name
typcally a good question for @DJPaul i think….
Hello pictures addict
here’s the fr_FR translation for 0.1.7 of bp-album+
http://bp-fr.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-documents/24/1270141787-languages-fr_FR.zip
A little error on line 156 in bp-album-admin.php currently prevents a correct translation. Replace the word ‘buddypress’ by ‘bp-album’ in the line and it would be ok.
Salut !
