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Drupal 7 Social Networking

You're reading from   Drupal 7 Social Networking Build a social or community website with friends lists, groups, custom user profiles, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516006
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Drupal 7 Social Networking
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Drupal and Social Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs 4. Users and Profiles 5. Enabling User Interaction 6. Social Seasoning 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network 8. How We Can Design Our Site 9. Communicating with Our Users 10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network 11. Easing Growing Pains 12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies Setting up a Local Development Environment Installed Modules Index

User retention


Another important aspect of marketing, is marketing with existing users, keeping them coming back to the site to make the site more useful and relevant for other users.

E-mails for the user's action

Regular e-mails can remind users about the site, if they have forgotten about it, or not had time to visit for a while. We don't want to send them lots of e-mails to nag them into returning, but, we can e-mail them with relevant updates. For example, when someone tries to connect with them on the site, or when they receive a message through the site, we e-mail the user to notify them of this.

This also doubles as a reminder to our users, and if the user connecting with them is of interest to them, it may help members who have lapsed in their interaction with the site to return.

User feedback

By asking the user for feedback, and ideas for improvement, they can feel more engaged and involved in the site. This also gives us feedback to use, ideas to discuss, and new features to implement...

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