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16 December 2010
Jomsocial is the #1 community/social network extension for Joomla. JomSocial is an Ajax-powered Joomla extension that offers a long range of advanced, engaging social networking features. Jomsocial will run on any Joomla 1.5 website. It can be installed by someone with moderate Joomla knowledge but if you want a highly functional Jomsocial website I would advise finding a Joomla developer such as Tech Guy Web Solutions.
Member Profiles
Create completely custom profiles for each of your members. What you show on a users profile is completely up to you. It can be as simple as an image and a few fields such as name, city and hobbies or it can be a mega profile with videos, images, photos, Facebook style walls, friends/connections and more. There are tons of 3rd party integration plugins and applications as well. For instance if you have a Sobi2 business directory on your Joomla site you can install the Jomsocial/Sobi2 plugin and all of that particular users Sobi2 listing info will show and be linked in their jomsocial profile.
Media Sharing
Jomsocial allows members to post images and videos on their profiles. Not only will the media show on the profile but you can also create a gallery view so every image or photo that a user uploads will be placed into a gallery page on your website. Images and videos also have commenting and social sharing capabilities.
Groups
Jomsocial Groups are a great way to have your website users interact with one another. You can enable group creation so users can create groups or you can create the initial groups for users to post discussions. Users can share images, videos and other files within the group. Some webmasters prefer to use a standard forum. You can install Kunena forum for Joomla and download the plugin to integrate Jomsocial with Kunena as well.
Modules & Plugins
There are TONS of Jomsocial modules,plugins and applications. Here are just a few popular ones..
- Latest Members
- Most Popular Members
- Latest Photos
- Latest Videos
- Featured Photo, video, members
- Birthday Module
- Search Users
To view a full list visit http://www.jomsocial.com/download/addons.html
How Much is Jomsocial?
Unfortunately Jomsocial is not free. There are 3 packages on the jomsocial site. $99, $149 and $499. The professional ($149) is the most popular and recommended unless you have multiple sites that you want to run Jomsocial. You can purchase Jomsocial here.
