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The home page has to be a clean design, easy to navigate, informative and easy for members to register for the community. Home page would include, logo, nav bar, community description, themes, slider and footer (as per the wireframe)
The registration/login process is via the nav bar. The registration can include some or all of the information that is included in the user profiles. (see profile breakdown below)
Newsletter registration can also be integrated as part of the registration process, i.e. Mailchimp (free up to 2,000 contacts). Clients have the ability to pay monthly for extra features or contacts that go over 2,000.
Newsletters can be used for members, public or both. Registration can also include polls/questions asking users what information they would like to see on the site. This information is recorded as tags within Mailchimp. This information can also be used for news posts within the site or discussion groups.
A public blog can help drive traffic and show the latest news to the public. The Blog could included latest news, categories, maps, videos, search etc. (in terms of Google analytics interaction with the site can decrease the bounce rate)
Leave this user a hierarchical navigation ability back through web pages with simple breadcrumbs.
Having the ability for people to comment on posts, metadata, and more could be functionality that would help us engage the user audience.
Image/post slider can show the latest news, events etc.
FAQ, About, Copyright, Licensing, Privacy Policy, Contact us (via webform), Governance, social networks either links or feeds.
Communities can be become cluttered, layout and navigation has to be clean and easy to navigate. The main page should be displayed after log in or registration, this page can be a dashboard layout where the user can easily navigate the hub.
Name - Name upon registration/Username
Email - Email upon registration
It would be nice to be able to build profiles for subject matter experts that exist under communities or attached to certain content types.
Advanced User profiles after registration or during
Social Profile(s) - Facebook, LinkedIn Etc.
Photograph - Upload photograph, Jpeg format
Department - Dept/company of the user/company
Title - Title/posting of the users
Phone Number - Contact phone number
Areas of Interest - Area of Interest
Global Calendar/Events - Global calendar for the hub, this could be for the public, hub side or both
Forums - Forums can drive a lot of the engagement for the community, users will have the ability to create forums and topics.
The ability to upload/share images. Videos to be shared via a 3rd party, I.E Vimeo, YouTube. Pdf's and other documents should also have the ability to be uploaded and shared via the forum.
Audios can be directly uploaded into WP or amazon3, audios can be tagged beforehand for metadata for easy cataloging for users.
Social Media Plugins/feeds users can share content via social media, images videos.
FAQ builder - A FAQ section will be developed, some plugins may already deal with the design and rollout of this options.
Search Function - The ability for users to search for the forum, topics, forum posts, tags etc.
Community blog - An ability to create posts for up to date news on the hub. Search function would be available for the posts.
Google Maps - An ability to add maps to pages/posts/events.
Security - Jetpack can be part of the core build, this is for added security.
Google analytics - Plugin to add Google Analytics code for tracking visitors to the main landing page and to track goals
Activity Streams - This shows the latest activity amongst the groups
Team Members - A page to show the team members, can be public or on the hub side.
Social Media plugins - Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc… Could include Follow Us buttons, insert social media posts and feeds
Text - Frequently asked questions, acts and laws within this domain, Mission statement, clear benefit proposition, what is the problem being solved, description, vision statement, value added proposition, use, technology, methodology, certifications and awards, publications etc…
Videos - Videos for informational purposes
Logos - Easily allow logos to be added to layouts for the community and partners
Testimonials, reviews or comments - Another way to build a brand is by communicating positive feedback from users, media or received emails allowed to be publicly posted.
Charts/visualizations - organizational charts, governance charts, graphs on statistics.
Committees - Information about committees and what they are responsible for.
Slide share - Presentations to be shared with the community or about the community
Map/Data/Services Gallery - Offer a gallery of products offered by the community, possibly imbedding the viewer for map display
Resources - Links to resources pertaining to the community
Messaging/chat - a chatbot, or the possibility of users to contact each other via live messenger or email.
Media Libraries - Create a global gallery for the site.
Polls - To create polls for the hub.
Wikis - It depends on how advanced this would be and what content could be updated by users.
Further security - 2 step Authentication
Enhanced Galleries - These can involved a paid license for extra features
- https://www.buddyboss.com/ (buddy boss has a ton of extensions that can be free or paid)
- https://bbpress.org/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-member/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/our-team-members/
- https://mailchimp.com/