Create a digital project space for a Drupal 7 website
This is a case study that explains how to create a digital project space for a group of people that need a digital shared space.
Table of contents
Drupal projects discussed in this chapter: Anonymous Publishing.
Introduction
Competitors
Slack
Slack is an acronym meaning "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge".
- Slack offers many IRC-like features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups and direct messaging.
- All content inside Slack is searchable, including files, conversations, and people.
- Users can add emoji buttons to their messages, which other users can then click on to express their reactions to messages.
Slack teams allow communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team admin or owner. Although Slack was meant for organizational communication, it has been slowly turning into a community platform, a function for which users had previously used message boards or social media such as Facebook or LinkedIn groups. Many of these communities are categorized by topics which a group of people may be interested in discussing.
Public channels allow team members to communicate without the use of email or group SMS (texting). They are open to everyone in the chat, provided they have first been invited to join the client. Private channels allow for private conversation between smaller sects of the overall group. These can be used to break up large teams into their own respective projects. Direct messages allow users to send private messages to a specific user rather than a group of people. Direct messages can include up to nine people (the originator plus eight people). Once started this direct message group can be converted to a private channel.
Final word
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